Word: moll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, a telescoped, tidied-up version of Daniel Defoe's bawdy 18th century classic, brazenly tilts its skirts toward Tom Jones. It begins with a cheeky protestation that "any similarity between this film and any other film is purely coincidental...
...Moll Flanders has the high spirits and Hogarthian texture of its ribald predecessor, but lacks Tony Richardson's slashing satire and bold cinematic style. Nonetheless, Director Terence Young (Dr. No, From Russia with Love) proves that the beast in men brings out the best in him-and in Kim Novak as Moll. Her performance as an easy-to-bed beauty for whom the flower of virtue lies ever beyond a thicket of thorny vices is not so much well played as well endowed, but it does reveal untapped energy in one of Hollywood's most marketable natural resources...
More than 20,000 odometered miles later, the Rolls turns up in Genoa. Climbing aboard are a U.S. gangster (George C. Scott) and his moll (Shirley MacLaine), both battling Scenarist Terence Rattigan's notion of dialogue for ugly Americans. "So it leans," cracks Shirley at the tower of Pisa. The fun picks up when Scott returns to the States to eradicate a business associate, leaving his two snazzy chassis in the care of Bodyguard Art Carney. On a swimming expedition, Shirley and the Rolls are left unguarded just long enough to entertain Alain Delon, utterly persuasive as a gigolo...
Married. Kim Novak, 32, Hollywood's oft-courted, never terribly interested bachelor girl; and Richard Johnson, 37, British actor and her leading man in the forthcoming Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders; he for the second time; in a civil ceremony; in Aspen, Colo...
ALCOA PREVIEW (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Behind the scenes with Kim Novak on the set of her new movie, The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, Tony Bennett at a recording session, and a preview of Anthony Newley's new musical, The Roar of Greasepaint-The Smell of the Crowd. PERRY COMO'S MUSIC HALL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Tonight's guests are Danny Thomas and Shirley Jones...