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Julius Caesar. Joseph Mankiewicz's production remains the best filmed version, with excellent performances by Marlon Brando as Antony, James Mason as Brutus, John Gielgud as Cassius -- but the battle scenes are overdone...
...real suspense the awards achieve these days, however, lies not in who will win, but who will accept. Two years ago, George C. Scott refused the best actor award, and there was speculation that Marlon Brando, the odds-on favorite for his role as the godfather, might do the same this year. When he failed to reply to its telegrams and phone messages, the academy glumly assumed Brando would not even be present. Hopes brightened when his secretary phoned for his tickets the morning of the presentations-and quickly dimmed once again when an aspiring actress who said...
...film again the same evening, and on second viewing it was -- like any complex film -- even more alive, more intense, more involving. Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider lead compressed lives -- lives that burn out almost in an instant. Brando's scream in the film's brilliant opening scene declares an existential wound -- later filled, if only for an instant, by Brando and Schneider's sudden and passionate coming together. During their short-lived ecstasy, Brando declares that "everything outside of this place is bullshit...
Relflections in a Golden Eye (1967) Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor in Carson McCullers's sordid tale of seething sexuality on an Army base in Italy. CH. 7. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...Wild One. Stanley Kramer production with Marlon Brando leading a motorcycle gang --the film that made Brando a star. His tempestuous temerity formed a strong image that influenced tough blue-jeaned teens...