Word: right
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Orson-Welles, no mean prestidigitator in his own right, relishes every minute of Cagliostro's swashbuckling career. Rolling his eyes like an end man in an oldtime minstrel show, he charms crippled aristocrats right off their crutches, ogles a beautiful blonde into marriage against her will, beetles and bluffs his way into the court of King Louis XV, then meets his death in a prancing duel atop a tower high above Paris, with Marie Antoinette at his side...
Between Welles and the camera hardly a trick has been left untried. At one point the screen blacks out entirely except for Welles's bulbous eyes, which go right on revolving in the dark like a couple of off-center marbles. Basking more or less uncomfortably in Welles's reflected flamboyance is a cast of thousands, headed by Nancy Guild, Valentina Cortesa, Akim Tamiroff and Stephen Bekassy, and draped in 70 million lire worth of costumes. As a brutal assertion of quantity over quality Black Magic exerts a kind of hypnotic fascination; otherwise it is chiefly remarkable...
Willie made out all right. In The Saracen's Head, London Daily Express Cartoonist Osbert Lancaster thrusts greatness upon his unwilling hero in a bland satire that good-naturedly kids the iron pants off the whole profession of medieval arms. Written as a juvenile, it is the kind of literary fare that parents will gobble up if they can get it away from the kids. The Saracen's Head can be read in an hour, but in that brief time Willie runs his shaky lance through El Babooni, the infidel champ, is knighted by King Richard I himself...
...right down to it, the thing that broke up the Gregory marriage was the death of F.D.R. John Gregory, for ten years a devoted New Deal bureaucrat, felt "as if this death were a sword that he must take to his bosom, slowly, inch by inch." John's neglected wife Ellen suffered no such heroic tortures. A rich woman who had married John when he was a poor college instructor, she called Roosevelt "That Man." Her grief was of another kind. The Gregorys' son Timmy had been killed in the war and for that tragedy she split...
Which cause in San Marcos, or in the world, was most nearly right? What should an honest man do? Carlos was not prepared to judge; he was still thinking...