Word: mastroiannis
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...anyway." She certainly is no nag, and Clay Felker, the editor of the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine, very broadmindedly decided he didn't mind having his wife, Actress Pamela Tiffin, 23, acting in briefs like that. Besides, even though Pamela thinks indolent Italian Marcello Mastroianni is the best actor she's ever acted against, "next to James Cagney," their parts in this picture, something unwholesome called Paranoia, have Marcello very neurotically trying to sell Pam into the harem of a lecherous sheik. Feet of Clay, no doubt...
...Hill makes it on dramatic tension alone, and sometimes a dramatically vacuous one like Red Desert makes it purely on pictorial grace. Sometimes a movie like Elio Petri's The Tenth Victim, with Ursula Anbuild-up that fools people into seeing redeeming graces gets a publicity dress, Marcello Mastroianni...
Gimmicks dominate characters. One has the constant sensation of being on a movie set. Where Bond carries a pen-sized aqua lung, Miss Andress calls a crane to kidnap the beach-house Mastroianni is sleeping in. The gimmick is bigger than she is. The whole set, the whole movie, become one tiresome gimmick...
What should offend more movie-goers is his misuse of Mastroianni's fine acting ability. In a blond crew' cut, playing an action part, the actor is doubly out of his element, neither the suave cosmopolitan of his Fellini roles nor the credibly tough SPECTRE assassin he may be modeled after...
...chief acting burden naturally falls on Christopher Plummer as Pizarro and David Carradine as Atahuallpa. Both performances are stunning. Now there are two kinds of excellent actor. One molds each role into an extension or variation of his own marked personality-like Gielgud, Hawkins, Mastroianni, Robards, Fonda. The other, and greater, is able to obliterate the self and mint an entirely fresh being-like Chaplin, Jouvet, Oliver Guinness, Brando. Plummer belongs to the second type. Having recently seen his Hamlet, Arturo Ui, and Pizarro, I just can't believe they were all played by the same...