Word: manns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a little bit of luck, Groovy Kind will pay back Donnie's investment, and perhaps make a few bucks for the authors. With a lot of luck, they might join the seven Kirshner teams earning big money. The luckiest team right now is Barry Mann, 26, and his wife Cynthia Weil, 24, who wrote Soul and Inspiration as well as Kicks (No. 10 on the Hot 100) and Magic Town (No. 32); the Manns have just signed a five-year $1,000,000 contract with Kirshner...
Telemark is a palm-dampener when exiled Norseman Kirk Douglas and Richard Harris first parachute into the white northern wastes and go whooshing silently across the slopes, pursued by a gunner in a light plane or spectral Nazi ski troops. Director Anthony Mann (El Cid) makes the rest of the action, and the acting, seem quick-frozen. Too often chased indoors, Douglas confronts his ex-Wife Ulla Jacobsson, who appears eager to forgive his intervening philandering, and her kindly Uncle Michael Redgrave, who lends a touch of headmasterish solemnity, as if to prove that the Allied cause is just...
During long debates about love, war and marriage, the drama loses any sense of immediacy. One situation-ethics crisis concerns whether or not to give London the go-ahead for a bombing raid that may destroy a village of 6,000 people, but Director Mann, curiously enough, makes a greater issue of blowing up a ferryboat. Since no movie can ultimately create real suspense about who won World War II, the only pertinent question becomes How. Tele-mark's answer is to pit Douglas and his right-makes-might pals against a Nazi elite force so inept that...
...full of beauty. Red Desert is the best parallel I can think of for its consistently dazzling composition. Mann's use of Western landscape has won him the adulation of French critics, some of whom vote his Man of the West one of the all time greats. In Telemark, he is working with snowcapes, and he proves his versatility beyond question...
...have eyes, you don't much mind the visual digressions Mann makes from his threadbare plot. Themeless though he would appear (by contrast to Antonioni, whose images contribute so much to characterization), and gratuitous though his beautiful compositions may be, Mann has done an exceptional piece of work...