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Peter Falk is the one delight in the cast. He has a strong career ahead as "the man you love to hate." Miss Winters is atrociously miscast as a madam, and the motley assortment of psychotics, prostitutes and morons that round out the acting credits will go better unmentioned...

Author: By Charles S. Whitman, | Title: The Balcony | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

...nose--and get into something roomier than the shockingly indecent tights he has been asked to wear. Carol Schectman gives us a plump-cheeked, milkmaid, Putney-girl Isabella and somehow makes a two-dimensional part seem barely one-dimensional. Jacqueline Winer transforms Mistress Overdone into an inaudible New Orleans madam of the steamboat days; the accents of W.D. Hart's Provost are alternately refined and repulsive; Alfred Guzetti is a childish Elbow; Stanford M. Janger an exhausted Lucio. There are also an Escalus and a Barnadine...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Measure for Measure | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Balcony. Jean Genet's allegory of life as a bawdy house where men buy illusions at the price of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam who knows what her customers want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 26, 1963 | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

...Balcony. Jean Genet's allegory says that life is a bawdyhouse where men buy illusions at the price of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam who knows what her customers want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 19, 1963 | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...Balcony. Part burlesque, part Black Mass, Jean Genet's shocker argues that the world is a vast brothel run by an allegorical madam who panders illusions to her customers in return for the surrender of their masculinity. Shelley Winters is the madam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 12, 1963 | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

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