Word: scene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distasteful beans in New York City, where he lives and works as the U.N.'s Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs. In outlying Forest Hills, Bunche's 15-year-old son had been casually invited by his tennis instructor to join the famed West Side Tennis Club, scene of the biggest U.S. tournaments and within walking distance of Bunche's home. But when Ralph Bunche, a Negro, tried to arrange the light-skinned lad's membership with the club's president, a Manhattan public relations man named Wilfred Burglund, he got a blackball response...
...almost singlehanded repels the invading Volscians, later is rejected by the fickle people he saved, vents his contempt by joining the enemy to turn on them. At the close, Sir Laurence dangles headfirst from a ten-foot rostrum while he is stabbed to death in a blood-drenched mob scene that is powerfully-and consciously-reminiscent of the battering of Mussolini's body...
...grim effort to be a perfect nun and instead becomes a perfect nurse, she leaves her convent. The conflict as to "why" is not stressed so strongly in the film as in the book; the audience is left to ponder the "why." Her confessor in a darkened confessional scene tells Sister Luke that she is too hard on herself. It is difficult for her to accept a change in assignment from Belgian Congo to convent headquarters. It is difficult for her to love the enemy that has killed her father...
...Sanders Theatre. High up, Lester Polakov (whose costumes add much to the general lightness and brightness) has affixed a number of white, stylized orange-tree tops. And by having spikes driven into the poles, Berghof has enabled people to scamper up to a third level. In the garden scene where Malvolio discovers the faked letter, Berghof has a whole crew of people costumed as animals and perches them in the treetops with all manner of animal noise-makers to razz Malvolio (one of them even hits Malvolio with the contents of a water pistol...
...cold-voiced Malvolio, Fritz Weaver is adequate. His best moment, though, occurs when he is speechless: in his cross-gartered scene he brings along the forged letter and, misinterpreting Olivia's question, "Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?," drops it on the ground in stunned amazement. William Daniels' Sebastian leaves a favorable impression. Frederick O'Neal looks the part of the sea-captain Antonio, but his Shakespearean diction is woefully deficient...