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...smile of the Mona Lisa...
...years ago, even a child could tell: the American tourist was the middle-aged fellow in the sponge-soled shoes, the one who had not come to Europe to share his bathroom with a whole hotel and was not about to leave until he got a snap of the Mona Lisa, and not behind glass either. These days, however, the camera-carrying, sports-shirt-wearing crowd is more likely to hail from Munich or Marseille...
...Pierre Brasseur. She has recently disposed of her wealthy husband, neatly pinned the murder on his nurse-mistress. But things aren't working out according to plan. "I wish I hadn't bothered with the serum," she pouts. Then, "Oh well . . . next time." As a girl whose Mona Lisa face masks the soul of a Borgia, Actress Vlady almost turns Devil into an elegant spoof of French justice. Brasseur, too, seems drolly aware that Justice is a lady who can barely make it from bed to bench. The examining magistrate, dryly played by Bourvil, upholds...
...those people who believe that museums are not sim ply repositories and that masterpieces should not be condemned to immobility. They belong to all mankind." Minister of Culture Andre Malraux agreed. "To take a simple example," he said. "In Washington, poor women came with their children and approached the Mona Lisa with their eyes lowered, raised them to see it, then went into the crowd and came back again, as if seeing icons...
...drama by Emlyn Williams. The original movie was a deftly understated exercise in terror, starring Rosalind Russell, Dame May Whitty and Robert Montgomery. Now Albert Finney plays the psychopath who moves into an English country house with a hatbox containing a severed head, and Susan Hampshire and Mona Washbourne are the women he victimizes...