Word: piers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...coast of Europe and into the English Channel moved the tiny Galeb, beneath an umbrella of R.A.F. planes. Tito transferred to the Port of London launch Nore, passed up the Thames under London's bridges (closed off and guarded by armed police) to Westminster Pier for a grade A reception by Prime Minister Churchill, Foreign Secretary Eden, the Duke of Edinburgh, a 166-man brass band. Then a War Office armored Rolls-Royce with bulletproof windowglass whisked Tito and Churchill off to No. 10 Downing Street...
EQUILIBRIUM is a melodramatic vignette about a French aerialist (Kirk Douglas) and his partner (Pier Angeli). Although it has some fine, dizzy trapeze shots, its high-flying theme is mostly grounded in earthbound dramatics...
...individual performances of its three lovely leading ladies. Red-haired Ballerina Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer dances gracefully and acts appealingly as the tragic heroine of The Jealous Lover. Leslie (Lili) Caron brings a fresh, bright-eyed personality to the role of the young governess. And pensive Pier (Teresa) Angeli, with her child's face and Garbo-like eyes, gives the part of the trapeze artist a passionate sensitivity that is only vaguely hinted at in the script and direction...
...says. His name in Spanish means "wolf"-"lone wolf," he explains with relish. Evenings, he says, when the last of the day's 500 cables have been answered, "I like to walk alone from my office to the harbor. There I can sit on the edge of a pier, gaze at the lapping waves, and think about the future of sugar...