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...this tortured soul, two buddies (Wendell Corey and Mickey Rooney) play what turns out to be a disastrously impractical joke. On a four-day pass, they bribe a pretty little Italian whore (Nicole Maurey) to teach "The Preacher" about the birds and the bees. She asks him to her room. He does not realize what she is suggesting. Like many people who suffer guilt in imagination, he is pathetically innocent in real life. She takes him on a picnic instead. He drinks buttermilk while she drinks vino, shyly confesses that she is the first girl he ever took...
...managed to make ideas as well as characters come clear, and when the lines are especially good, his actors tactfully subordinate themselves to what they are saying. Don Taylor and Wendell Corey play neatly in tandem as the cowardly hero and the heroic coward, and France's Nicole Maurey does something rare in dramatic history. She makes a believable human being of the sentimental prostitute. But it is Mickey Rooney who brings off the best scene: a crap game so shatteringly funny that it almost breaks up the picture. And at the end, as he staggers across the battlefield...
...Constant Husband (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC). First release of new film, starring Rex Harrison, Nicole Maurey...
Such realism is a passion with the Grand-Guignol. The stop-at-nothing tradition was established by Founder Max Maurey, who died last week. It was carried on by the late Andre de Lorde, "Le Prince de la Terreur," the man who wrote the two favorite plays and many other Grand-Guignol classics. Says an old De Lorde fan: "He was a mild, sweet little man, always smiling...
Died. Max Maurey, 77, French playwright and founder of Paris' famed Grand-Guignol (see THEATER) ; in Neuilly, France...