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...Leopold and Richard Loeb) are wealthy, brilliant young law students at the University of Chicago. Straus-Loeb, as portrayed by Bradford Dillman, is the spoiled-rotten son of a socialite mother. At 18, he is already a vicious little sadist. Steiner-Leopold, as Dean Stockwell interprets him, is a motherless young genius whose IQ is too high to be measured by any known intelligence test-essentially a gentle boy who has been completely mesmerized by the animal magnetism of his evil companion. Straus-Loeb is the superman, Steiner-Leopold the "superior slave" in a private world of post-Nietzschean fantasy...
Then the Japanese attack, and for the rest of the movie, Bergman drifts among the battles like a montage of Brünnhilde and Florence Nightingale-until she turns, toward the end, into Mrs. Moses, and marches about 100 motherless children across miles of rugged country, through the enemy's lines, to safety with the Chinese forces...
...According to Webster's: "After S. A. Maverick (1803-70), a Texas cattle owner who did not brand his calves, 1) An unbranded animal, esp. a motherless calf; 2) a refractory individual who bolts his group and initiates an independent course." Garner's own definition: "A sort of freewheeling slick...
...Hole in the Head (by Arnold Schulman) possibly originated as a kind of problem play-as something that should tackle the situation of a roughneck Jewish rolling stone left to bring up a twelve-year-old motherless son. That, in any case, is substantially how-after lots of Miami-hotel atmosphere and Jewish-family antics-it concludes: far from anything being straightened out almost nothing in A Hole in the Head has been explored...
...Touch of Frost. Of all the queens in Rome's market, none was tougher or shrewder than a tall, thin, hard-jawed woman in her late 20s known as Nannarella. Left motherless at five, Nannarella worked the market with her father for years, and when he went off to war she carried on alone. Nannarella had an un canny ability with figures, and an innate feel for market values. A touch of frost on a dark morning in Rome was enough to tell her that the first strawberries would be meager and command a high price. By the time...