Word: schell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Germany's famed Maria Schell (TIME, Dec. 30) makes her American TV debut in Word from a Sealed-Off Box, a play about four prisoners in Nazi-occupied Holland; the story is from the book The Walls Came Tumbling Down, by Henriette Roosenburg. Also in the cast: Jean Pierre Aumont, Betsy von Furstenberg...
...will be pleased to find him unchanged in his role of Dmitri in The Brothers Karamazov. His head is still bald; he still struggles with his emotions with the expressionless face of a man who has just sat through an elementary Hum. lecture; and his mien while watching Maria Schell (Grushenka) shake voluptuously through a rather fiery dance sequence in a Russian-style sin-den is not unlike the beaming countenance he displayed while greeting his numerous children each morning in The King...
...which ruined Graham Greene's The Quiet American when translating it onto film--does not have the same effect on The Brothers. It is a new story, but not a bad one. All the parts of this new tale are acted better than competently--especially by Cobb and Miss Schell, and although the title would perhaps be more accurate as True Love Triumphs in Old Russia, the movie should still make good watching for escapists--that is everyone...
...separately through the screenplay until they converge in the fatal conclusion. Brando, his hair bleached for the occasion, plays a sensitive German lieutenant who hates killing, but justifies it as the only way to bring lasting peace to Europe. He resists the attempts of his superior officer (Maximilian Schell) to make him "a creative soldier"; resists the military dictum that "when you become a soldier you contract for killing in all its forms"; resists the friend who tells him that despite all the corpses "nothing really changes"; resists the Frenchwoman (Liliane Montevecchi) who pleads with him to desert because "there...
Gervaise. The harrowing whole of Emile Zola's L'Assommoir is pretty much reduced to the sum of its amatory parts, in which Maria Schell is most appealing (TIME...