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Congratulations. Your Nov. 9 cover story on Senator Stuart Symington was the most masterful exercise in subtle poisoning since the Borgias went legit. A truly fascinating blend of lux, veritas and hogwash...
...Anatomy of Love (Lux Film Cines; Kassler), an Italian film that tells five short stories, is at its best in the two that star Vittorio De Sica: as a count who has lost everything but his nobility ("I'd decided not to outlive my youth no matter how rich I was"), and as a Naples bus driver, a laughing hedonist who has developed a talent for catching and lifting girls' skirts in the bus's snapping-jaw folding doors. Since it is the bus driver's conviction that the routes of heaven...
...Tailor's Maid (Royal; Trans-Lux) presents Italy's suave Vittorio De Sica as a rich tailor who loves to wrap his charms around female customers. "A tailor," he suggestively tells a pretty matron, "is like a doctor, dear lady...
...Roof (De Sica; Trans-Lux) is one of the few memorable films produced in almost a decade by the once-daring Italian movie industry. In ailing postwar Italy, cinema was briefly practiced as a kind of social medicine. But the would-be healers prescribed such a bitter pill-neorealism -that the public refused to swallow it; most of the famed Italian films of the late '40s won rave reviews but lost money. In this picture, made in 1956, the ablest of the neorealists-Director Vittorio De Sica and Scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, who together produced Shoeshine and The Bicycle Thief...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (Cocinor; Trans-Lux). There is no hedging, no photographic euphemism. In the delivery room the head, the shoulders, the torso and finally the legs of an aborning infant come into view, and seconds later the mother gathers the baby in her arms. In the first completely undisguised commercial filming of a woman giving birth to a child, French Writer-Director Jean-Paul Le Chanois recorded a scene that would seem guaranteed to outrage maiden aunts, set 15-year-olds to snickering aloud, and increase the watch-and-ward membership twelvefold. Instead, the moment...