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John Patrick's screenplay is almost identical to his play, an effective satire of the attempt of the U.S. Government and Army to bring American democracy and values to the inhabitants of Okinawa after the war. Thanks to Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Cinema scope, and Warnercolor the movie is better than the play...
Much of the pre-release speculation about Teahouse concerned the casting of Marlon Brando as the buffoonish Okinawan interpreter and village philosopher. All doubts of his ability to play the part should be dispelled by Brando's charmingly engaging performance, even though his enunciation is about as good as that of a prizefighter swallowing his mouthpiece. Also excellent is Glenn Ford who plays the ineffectual (ex-humanities instructor) American captain assigned to bring the blessing of democracy to a village more interested is sitting in the pine grove to watch that evening sun go down and building a teahouse than...
...received a good many recent productions, and comparison thus becomes inevitable. For another, it has become pretty thoroughly identified with the ultra-naturalistic school of acting developed by Elia Kazan and the Actors' Studio in New York, one graduate of which is the play's original star, Marlon Brando. The reasons for this identification are more than a historical accident--Williams had the school's work in mind when he wrote his drama...
...Teahouse of the August Moon. Menu: tee-hee (scented with sociology) and a side dish of red-white-and-blue-striped slapstick, charmingly served by Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford. Machiko Kyo (TIME...
...Teahouse of the August Moon. Menu: tee-hee (scented with sociology) and a side dish of red-white-and-blue-striped slapstick, charmingly served by Marlon Brando, Glenn Ford, Machiko Kyo (TIME...