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BRATTLE: Last day for Vittorio De Sica's excellent GENERAL BELLA ROVERE, a film based on Roberto Rossellini's story of the conversion of an Italian pimp to patriot. Starts tomorrow: AND QUIET FLOWS THE DON, another war picture, this one Russian, and about as good as they come. Evenings at 5:30, 7:30, 9:30. Weekend matinees...
General della Rovere is a technically perfect movie, a marvel of skillful photography and acting. But its overall effect is nowhere near as moving as director Roberto Rossellini would have us believe, and at times it is hollow and dull...
...Major league baseball attendance was down 5.6% in 1961, but other statistics were impressive. Detroit's Norm Cash (.361) took the American League batting championship. Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente (.351) won the National League crown. Top American League pitcher was New York's Whitey Ford (25-4); big winners in the National League were Cincinnati's Joey Jay and Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, with 21 victories each...
...that opens one of the gloomiest and loveliest volumes of European legend. Translated to a Mexican setting by B. Traven, a mysterious recluse (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948) who lives in Mexico and writes masterly proletarian novels and short stories, the legend has been transformed by two gifted Mexicans, Director Roberto Gavaldon and Cameraman Gabriel Figueroa, into a fragile but profound little picture that abounds and delights in the black-and-white magic of the magic lantern...
Angola newspapers hailed the announcement with banner headlines, but, from the safety of the nearby Congo, Angolan Rebel Leader Holden Roberto snapped that the offer came too late, adding: "But it shows we are winning-this is Portugal's first reform in 500 years." His guerrillas, armed with muzzle-loading flintlocks and a few modern weapons captured in ambushes, confidently await next month's rains, when the roads will be impassable to Portuguese armor and the isolated army outposts can be surrounded and picked...