Word: lusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand. His strong surgeon's hands were steady, his greying, close-cropped hair neatly brushed, his handsome face marked with confidence and a seeming eagerness to tell his story. With that eager telling last week began the climax of a remarkable murder trial, concerning, as most do, lust and money, but also involving such elements as wife swapping and credit ratings, such characters as a self-styled lady killer, a brash mistress and a hysterical maid, such props as a "do-it-yourself murder kit" and a gift Cadillac-and centering around Finch's wife Barbara, found dead...
...pessimistic, Pernod-flavored judgments on mankind, The Deadly Game has both its moral and its theatrical merits. Few men tried at Duerrenmatt's Court of the Unconscious would escape whipping; in the unconscious of the very men who stage the trials there may lurk as much blood lust as love of law. They, with their icy, refined, half-mad sense of justice, and the American, with his coldhearted dog-eat-dog view of life, face one another with contrasted inhumanity; the space between them seems nothing less at times than all groping humanity itself. But the play...
...this picture. The love scenes, though beautifully played and photographed, will seem to U.S. eyes a snuffling intrusion on the soulful mood-obviously stuck in for their shock value. To the French, who perhaps understand these things better but who certainly sentimentalize the physical side of love, the lust of the lovers is full of spiritual beauty. The picture has had a strong impact in the small towns of France, where apparently a Madame Bovary is still born every minute, and the heroine, who will seem to U.S. audiences no more than a roundheeled dunce, has become a national heroine...
...personal relation between Solomon (Brynner) and Sheba (Gina Lollobrigida) is mercifully accomplished in a clause: "And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, what soever she asked . . ." In the film version this statement is generously translated into two hours of full-color, wide-screen lust, in which all of Solomon's love affairs are lumped into one. In the case of Solomon (700 wives, 300 concubines) this makes quite a lump, but Lollobrigida does her breasty best to fill the part...