Word: sensuality
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Kwamina tries to dance and drum its way out of its plotty doldrums and deadweight writing. Thanks to Choreographer Agnes de Mille, it sometimes does. Sinuously quivering shoulders and hypnotically swiveling hips make the stage thrum with barbaric force and sensual splendor, most notably in Mammy Traders. But the dances are less show builders than clock stoppers. Between them, the wordy worthy talk ticks on. The interracial love affair is played with such fastidious good taste by Terry Carter and Sally Ann Howes as to be flavorless...
...Kojiro Hongo-will only appear in the flesh during the first segment of the film. After that, he becomes a ray of light, a murmur of thunder. The script even avoids mentioning the birth of the Enlightened One's child, but otherwise spares nothing: the cartoon bevies of sensual maidens who surround the young prince, the rape of his wife by his malevolent cousin Devadatta, the visions of seminude sorceresses who tempt him to turn from the way of the spirit. There are also human sacrifices, torture, man-trampling elephants, death plunges, demons, ghosts and imps. Beyond that...
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect...
...lift the sense of doom, Author Uris relies not on comic but on sensual relief. Andrei carries on a years-long affair with a Polish Catholic girl of disconcertingly bobby-soxish ardor ("Isn't he yummy?"). And the grand passion of the book involves a Jewish mother of two and an Italo-American journalist who deices her frigidity. Throughout, Uris' dialogue conjures up hours of bad movie time...
...feel the Lord's name burning in your throat?" asks Preacher George Hamilton of Salome, who has lost her speech in infancy and "grown up wild." Well, then, "Believe! Believe and say 'God!' Say it! Say it!" Salome, swept away by George's oil-slick, sensual emotionalism, says it-"God!"-again and again "in humility and gratitude and ecstasy." George runs a traveling caravan that swizzles bourbon with its brimstone, and Salome, or Angel Baby, as they call her, hooks up. Brother George was long ago spliced to Mercedes McCambridge, a twisted, Bible-quoting shrike...