Word: orson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of them, delay invites disaster. Heroine Taylor is "eloping" to America with Louis Jourdan, and delay means that Hero Burton, the violently jealous millionaire the heroine is married to, will surely catch up with them. Orson Welles, a celebrated film director, has tax problems, and delay beyond midnight means that about ?300,000 will be legally lifted out of his pocket. Rod Taylor, a tractor tycoon, needs a financial transfusion to save his corporate life, and delay means debacle...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11:30 p.m.). The Roots of Heaven, the story of a one-man crusade to save Africa's elephants, with Trevor Howard, Errol Flynn, Orson Welles, Eddie Albert, Juliette Greco. Color...
With his latest motion picture, Orson Welles resumes his old position as one of the finest filmmakers at work anywhere in the world. The Trial is not a great movie, but it is a very, very good movie, but it is a very, very good one. It suffers by comparison with the classic Citizen Kane, Welles' best picture and possibly the greatest feature-length movie ever made. But that comparison, though inevitable, is not completely fair. Certainly The Trial can stand with any one of the other "quality" films of recent years...
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long. Unexpected fatherhood at 60 turns Paul Ford's face into a contour map of morose grimaces, the mere contemplation of which sends audiences into typhoons of laughter. Orson Bean mirthfully adds to the fundemonium...
...appears, and Marian is conveyed to a gloomy, candlelit stone pile inhabited by a coven of skulkers who might have been left over from an Orson Welles production of Wuthering Heights. There is the hulking, rock-silent retainer, Scottow, a homosexual. There is the mad hag, Violet Evercreech. And there is the young mistress of the manor, Hannah Crean-Smith. It develops that there are no children for Marian to oversee; she has been hired, rather slyly, to read La Princesse de Cléves to Hannah. And what is wrong with Hannah? She is a prisoner, that...