Word: montalban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Massive Betrayals. All this allusiveness nearly swamps Rosales' story. Moreover, Day often falls into a "Hey, meester" rendering of how Spanish might be written if it were English; the result sounds like Ricardo Montalban reading aloud from the works of Ernest Hemingway. By inserting (for flavor) so many Spanish words and (for sense) their English translations, Day sets up a rhythm with all the verve of a language primer. Characters talk as if they were constantly flipping back to the glossary to check their meanings...
...devil, Edward Mulhare is an urbane charmer, and Paul Henreid's Commendatore and Agnes Moore-head's Dona Ana are all that could be asked. In the title role, Ricardo Montalban is superb, no libertine at all, but Shaw incarnate, with his puritan passion for exposing hypocrisy and cant. If all our minds are freer of the pollution of smug platitudes, it is because Shaw, with his Jovian laughter, helped to clear them. -T.E.Kalem
...Juan in Hell. Without benefit of props, costumes or scenery Paul Henried, Ricardo Montalban, Edward Mulhare and Agnes Moorhead sizz'e through George Bernard Shaw's intellectual chatter in an uncommonly brilliant production of "Man and Superman's" long third...