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...wine merchant, Martin (Ian caroms from mistress to wife, only find that Mrs. Wine Merchant (Lee Remick) plans to run off with her (Richard Attenborough). Wife shrink plan no abandonment of Martin; instead they demand his love and understanding, which they will return interest. Indeed, they are so that eventually Martin apologizes them for his "piece on the side." make a long story unendurable, piece eventually takes up with brother, and Martin falls in with the doctor's half sister. Honor Klein Bloom), an exotic cabalist on the of Charles Addams' Morticia...
...uncanny command of stagecraft, that arsenal of small gestures and bits of business that an actor uses to establish his character for the audience. In the final scene of a 1962 production of The Merchant of Venice, Scott, playing Shylock, held a handkerchief belonging to his daughter Jessica. The production was staged outdoors, near a lake in New York's Central Park, and every night a gentle wind blew across the stage. To signify Shylock's loss of Jessica, Scott simply released the handkerchief, and the wind carried it away. In O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms...
High-Priced Muscle. A onetime merchant seaman who was born in China to American parents, Crum began as a liquor distributor to PXs in Korea in 1950. By 1960, he had expanded into a major supplier of goods to military installations throughout the Far East. He was twice investigated by military authorities on suspicion of paying kickbacks and smuggling, but in both cases the investigations were dropped. Crum's secret of success was no secret at all. "Everyone has a price," he was said to have claimed, "whether he be a private or a four-star general." True...
...that allegiance. As Edmund Burke put it, these were ties "which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." In a moment of difficulty or danger, a man's British citizenship could easily be his most valuable possession. In 1849, when Don Pacifico, a Jewish merchant of Malta, was refused compensation by the Greek government for injuries he had suffered at the hands of some of its citizens, Lord Palmerston, Britain's Prime Minister, sent the British navy to blockade Piraeus. British subjects the world over, Palmerston told the House of Commons at the time...
These scenes, surprising in their candor and spareness, merely show up the longueurs of the rest of the film. The Last Valley wanders into confusion. Caine leaves Sharif in charge of the town, and Sharif, too "humane" to kill the priest and the merchant, falls prey to their machinations. A cogent ambivalence is presented but finally discarded: Caine has advocated the burg's destruction during the spring thaw, feeling that its inhabitants were under the thumbs of their traditional leaders, and that it would merely become a refuge for future foes. Sharif-perhaps enchanted by the mere physical beauty-opposes...