Word: portrayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sica's role is compounded by the fact that Rossellini and his three script writers do not seem sure whether Bardone is more to be pitied or more to be censured. Rather than mingling in cowardice and loneliness in one man at one time. Rossellini and his writers inconsistently portray first a coward, then a pathetic outsider, then a coward again with the result that the parts are clear but the whole...
...Thunder of Drums, the best western so far in 1961, is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like...
...Thunder of Drums. The best western so far in 1961 is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like...
...Thunder of Drums (M-G-M), the best western released so far in 1961, is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like-a hideously silent war of wits with a subtle, cruel enemy who was seldom seen until it was too late...
...designers. Crews scouted the Umbrian landscape for inspirational vistas, and cameramen photographed yards of Giotto frescoes on which to superimpose the screen credits. With all the activity, it was natural that everyone forgot about St. Francis-not Actor Bradford (Compulsion) Dillman but the gentle mendicant he was supposed to portray...