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...scene between the reformer and his Church superior, Martin Luther hits at the audience's intellect rather than emotion. Luther spells out his doctrine with force and drama, but his fervor is always under control, and his heated voice never tries to add potency to his words. Rather is Niall MacGinnis, as Luther, remarkable for his restraint. At the scene of Luther's trial before Emperor Charles V, when Luther is offered safety if he will recant his theses, MacGinnis is superb. His voice and mouth tremble as he seems on the verge of tears, so passionate is his devotion...
...Hollywood's inclination to see every religious picture as de Millennium. Documentary-minded Louis de Rochemont (Lost Boundaries) likes authentic outdoor sets and on-the-spot extras, and Producer Lothar Wolff sent him to western Germany to get plenty of both. To play Luther, Wolff chose British Actor Niall MacGinnis, surrounded him with a varied cast, and began to shoot scenes in 12th century Maulbronn Cloister, Eberbach Cloister and the castle at Eltville (instead of Luther's Wittenberg, which is in Russian hands). Even more impressive than the authentic sets are the intense, characterful faces of the extras...
Theirs is not an easy relationship. Glamourous Maria is the illegitimate daughter of a lusty old singer whose tender renderings of songs such as Ah, Moon of My Delight caused whole cities to burst into loud sobs. She is in love with sensitive Niall, who is the illegitimate son of the singer's wife, in her own day a popular dancer. The only legitimate fruit of the muses' union is daughter Celia, who is as sedate and unromantic as a registered ccw-the invariable fate, in such fiction, of those unfortunate enough to have been born in wedlock...
...Died. Niall Diarmid Campbell, 77, tenth Duke of Argyll, hereditary chief (Mac Cailean Mhor, a rank created in 1286) of famed Clan Campbell (green, black, navy blue tartan); at his castle in Argyll, Scotland. A crotchety, feudal-minded bachelor, the multi-titled duke (Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, Marquis of Lome and Kintyre) regarded the modern world as a personal outrage, once threatened to toss bureaucratic "snoopers" into his dungeons...
...people," said Niall McPherson of Dumfries, "are accustomed to their oatmeal, and they must have it." But the pleas were in vain. Like a stiftnecked English nanny who knows what's best, the Parliament sustained the oatmeal ration...