Word: lumet
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Scenarist Paul Dehn, who also wrote the script for Spy, this time too often jumps the main track of the tale to lollygag along a branch line, and Director Sidney Lumet (The Group) has either miscast or misdirected some of his principals. Mason and Signoret, however, are pathetically impressive as a couple of mice wandering in a maze designed for rats. And as a whole, the film convincingly elucidates in a modern instance why Dante consigned traitors to the very pit of hell. Le Carre similarly perceives treason as a spiritual attitude underlying the political act. His traitors are liars...
...several pictures, has studied the editing, dubbing and scoring processes, has even sat in on a contract-haggling session in the William Morris talent agency. Between rubbernecking tours, he has picked some of the best and least complacent brains in the business-George Stevens Sr., Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet. His homework has included not only the autobiography of Jack Warner but / Lost It at the Movies, Critic Pauline Kael's bristling broadside on what is wrong with Hollywood. (Valenti underlined the most compelling passages with a yellow felt-tip pen for future reference...
...GROUP. Mary McCarthy's bitchy bestseller about Vassar's class of '33 retains its period flavor in this movie version by Director Sidney Lumet, with eight captivating young actresses as the grads going forth to seek fulfillment of one kind or another during the Roosevelt...
...GROUP. Mary McCarthy's bitchy bestseller about Vassar's class of '33 retains its period flavor in this movie version by Director Sidney Lumet, with eight captivating young actresses as the grads going forth to seek fulfillment of one kind or another during the Roosevelt...
...Countess from Hong Kong with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren. Francois Truffaut is just finishing Fahrenheit 451 with Julie Christie and Oskar Werner. Roman Polanski is making a horror satire called The Vampire Killers. Robert Aldrich is starting up a war film called The Dirty Dozen, and Sidney Lumet is working with Maximilian Schell, James Mason and Simone Signoret in The Deadly Affair. For the past several weeks, Michelangelo Antonioni has been prowling the streets of London, looking toward making a film on-of all things-the swinging London scene. His cryptic testimonial to what he has seen: "London offers...