Word: mostel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Zero Mostel, and a wildly improbable storyline, The Great Bank Robbery seems all set to snipe away at an inviting target-the standard western heist. Unfortunately, amid leathery gags and uninspired parody, the guns jam early and often...
...bogus preacher, Mostel, who has been long applauded as a light-heavy with all the graceful moves of a bantamweight, is restrained from dipping into his repertoire much beyond an occasional grimace and a few eye-pops. His performance is perfunctory; he may well have been bored. Kim Novak, one of his seedy band, wearily remarks of herself at the outset: "Sister Lyda's ass is draggin." Indeed, she bestirs herself only for the strategic seduction of Clint Walker, who has no trouble at all playing an oafish, one-dimensional Ranger. Despite The Great Bank Robbery's pretentious...
...elegant white woman; irrepressibly, she grabs a microphone and begins warbling a song, White Like Me. But before she has finished, all the skin has been stripped away, and in a manic Mahalia Jackson finish she delivers a jolt of straight soul in the most brilliant transformation since Zero Mostel became a rhinoceros...
Great Catherine--Peter O'Toole is wonderful in this movie that goes wildly and badly off track about five minutes after it begins. Jeanne Moreau and Jack Hawkins do what they can to help things along, but Zero Mostel turns in a performance that is too undisciplined, qrotesque and awful to be believed. At the CHERI 3, Dalton St. in Prudential Center...
Great Catherine--Claims to be derived from Bernard Shaw's obscure one-actor, with Jeanne Moreau, Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel. At the CHERI I Dalton St. in Prudential Center...