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...until the morning." On Saturday nights he toured the cafes with a bunch of the boys?Milhaud, Auric, Poulenc?and helped popularize their music, as well as that of his friends Debussy, Saint-Saens, Ravel and Heitor Villa-Lobos (whom he had discovered playing the cello in the pit of a Rio de Janeiro movie theater...
Ignorant Texans are the targets, and Scenarist Hellman blows the lid off a snake pit of contemporary evil when the town's bad boy, Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford), escapes from prison and heads home to settle scores among a scroungy lot of drunken, wife-swapping, white-collar workers who carry their pistols to parties of a Saturday night. "Shoot a man for sleepin' with someone's wife?" cries a roundheeled young matron, Janice Rule. "Half the town 'ud be wiped out." Poor Bubber's Mama (Miriam Hopkins), cast as Parental Guilt, hysterically accepts blame...
...display of excellent musicianship. The costumes are almost humorously incomplete. Courtiers and musicians wear long robes and sometimes tights, but polished black shoes, horn-rimmed glasses and short haircuts keep the costumes from seeming really medieval. When Daniel is thrown to the floor to be dragged off to the pit of lions, we can see loafers and white blue jeans underneath his white robes. He could have at least worn sandles. The lion's costume was perhaps the most ludicrous of all. Wrapped in curling yellow fur, he looks more like a toy teddy bear than a snarlng beast. When...
Miles and Co-Driver Lloyd Ruby to cover each lap in exactly 2 min. 4 sec., averaging 110 m.p.h., while the other Fords maintained a slightly slower pace. At that rate, Shelby figured, each of the Mark Us would need new front disc brakes during the race. So his pit crews practiced until they could change both brake units and four tires, fill the sump, pump in 42 gal. of gas and clean the windshield...
...destroy a village of 6,000 people, but Director Mann, curiously enough, makes a greater issue of blowing up a ferryboat. Since no movie can ultimately create real suspense about who won World War II, the only pertinent question becomes How. Tele-mark's answer is to pit Douglas and his right-makes-might pals against a Nazi elite force so inept that its final defeat looks suspiciously like a snow...