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Except for an occasional landscape such as "Montalban," which shows the same decorative and emotive technique applied to nature, Matisse devoted himself mostly to the nude, for, as he explained, "it is through it that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have toward life." The variety of works in this exhibit concerning the nude provide in themselves an excellent insight into the development of Matisse's style...
When Gloria DeHaven and Ricardo Montalban take over from their dancing colleagues, the play shows little noticeable improvement. Certainly, few actors could appear rational in a dialogue such as the serious conversation about atheism which they must carry on in a sewer, but it would hardly be excessive to ask the stars of a musical to be able to sing. As the chanteuse Diane, however, Miss Miss DeHaven reveals only a rather light voice which requires amplification, while Montalban, cast in the role of Chico the sewer-cleaner, is content to speak rather than sing his lyrics. Neither gets much...
...many moviegoers are of looking at them. Using plenty of stock shots and operating on a low budget, the film goes on a foot-dragging Technicolor pilgrimage through 13th century Italy, with a side trip to the Holy Land for one of the skimpiest Crusades in filmland history. Ricardo Montalban plays the peasant hero who does battle with evil barons, cruel Saracens and assorted charmers, including Betta St. John and blonde Carolyn Jones, a graduate of TV's Dragnet. Despite the costumes, the atmosphere is more that of the Middle West than the Middle Ages, just as the plot...
...midstory, the film creakingly moves to Brazil and is taken over by the Rio de Janeiro chamber of commerce. In between plugs for the heady Brazilian climate, Lund falls off polo ponies and Lana exchanges passionate glances with Ricardo Montalban, who plays a bare-chested rancher with a coyly devilish grandfather (Louis Calhern). Since the plot offers no clear reason why the movie should run 104 Technicolored minutes, Scenarist Isobel Lennart has thrown in such extraneous items as a funnyman from the U.S. Embassy (Archer MacDonald), a brace of psychoanalysts (fast replacing mothers-in-law as Hollywood's stock...
Sombrero (M-G-M), an excessively picturesque romantic drama with a Mexican setting, seems to have just about everything in it except Quetzalcoatl and Pancho Villa. Among its ingredients: three love stories involving three sets of dashing caballeros (Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Rick Jason) and beautiful señoritas (Pier Angeli, Yvonne de Carlo, Cyd Charisse), a bullfight, a cockfight, a feud between two villages, bastardy, incurable illness, a fiesta, a beauty contest, a contested will, gypsy witchcraft...