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...most startling exhibit was put up by the Redemptorist Fathers: a stuffed anaconda from the jungles of Brazil, where the congregation operates missions. "It's a great crowd-stopper," explained Father John Morton, who takes the 20-ft. serpent with him on his cross-country pursuits of vocations. "Everybody has a gimmick. This is mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Selling Vocations | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...book all this horror, like a walking death, is veiled in a ghostly winding sheet of luminous Jamesian language. Nothing is clear; anything is possible; evil like a serpent glides unseen beneath each gliding sentence. In the film, necessarily, the spectral prose is replaced by spooky images and scary noises. Some of them are eerily effective: Sheffield Park, the gorgeously rotting old Georgian mansion in which the film was mostly made, is a demon's dream house, and Director Jack (Room at the Top} Clayton, sensitively seconded by Cameraman Freddie Frances, has filled every coign and corridor with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Evil Emanations | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

Loss of Innocence. Rumer Godden's novel The Greengage Summer becomes a charming thriller of sensibility, in which Susannah York provides a memorable impression of what Eve was like when the serpent first began to whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dec. 22, 1961 | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

Loss of Innocence. Rumer Godden's novel, The Greengage Summer becomes a charming thriller of sensibility, in which Susannah York provides a memorable impression of what Eve was like when the serpent first began to whisper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dec. 15, 1961 | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

Gordeyev tells the tragic story of a morally sensitive, socially conscious young Russian merchant (Georgy Yepifanstev) of the last century who asks himself: "Is a man born only to make money?" In an episode of shuddery weirdness and God-haunted irony, the sanctimonious serpent (Pavel Tarasov) who serves as the hero's guardian, glassily indifferent to the vast icon of Christ that looms behind him, replies: "Eat or be eaten. That is the law of life." Unable to accept such a law, unable to find a better one, unable to love a good woman (Alia Labetskaya), the hero plunges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Polyglut | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

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