Word: sidney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oasis. Television has George Schaefer. Now that Playhouse 90, the Alcoa Hour, Kraft Theater and Studio One have gone, Schaefer's Hallmark Hall of Fame is virtually the only greenery left. The other directors spawned in the golden days of live and tape television-Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer, et al.-have all gone to graze in the lusher pastures of Broadway or Hollywood. Only Schaefer still does business at the same old stand. For him 60 feet of studio space still offer acres of opportunity and fulfillment, as he proved with last week's Inherit...
...deserts her waif roles to play a strident Teddy girl, sexwise and pound-foolish. Partly because housewifery sounds easier than getting a job, she marries a boyish motorcycle enthusiast, Colin Campbell. Their formal wedding, with cyclists revving up outside the church, is a travesty of gracious living. And Director Sidney J. Furie (The Ipcress File) weaves lively, sharp-eyed observation into a rowdy reception followed by the couple's honeymoon at a dreary resort...
...glance at the footnotes in any critical edition will show you that almost every character in the play recalls a dozen others. Prospero, you learn, springs from a long line of irascible magicians. And Ferdinand, it appears, could have stepped out of Sidney's Arcadia. But even if you have dutifully read the appropriate criticism, unraveled the separate strands of Renaissance thought, gotten up the puns, you still won't resonate to everything in the play--or at least, not the first time--simply because you aren't Elizabethan...
Though The Ipcress File is certainly not another Third Man, director Sidney Furie has turned out an entertaining yarn, a spy film that's more than just a series of hair raising events punctuated by bullets and judo chops. Michael Caine seems perfect as third man, childishly impudent yet amazingly tough, and Sue Lloyd makes an attractive girl Friday. While you're waiting for Thunderball, you can't do much better in the way of vicarious adventure...
...thirst for the kill as he trails his prey, determined to force the snoopy sub to surface for air and identify itself. The clear thinking is done for the Good Guys by a former German U-boat commander (Eric Portman) on advisory duty, and by a Negro reporter-photographer (Sidney Poitier). The man to watch, though, is a jumpy young officer (James MacArthur) with all that ASROC firepower at his fingertips...