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...most intriguing Janus program is the pair of French gangster films Casque D'Or (1952) and Pepe Le Moko (1936). Pepe unabashedly imitates American films like Scarface, but period piece Casque set in the Belleville district of Paris in 1898, has golden-haired Simone Signoret as well as a guillotine to set it apart...
BAKER LIBRARY, Ship of Fools, directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Vivien Leigh, Oscar Werner, Lee Marvin, Simone Signoret...
...Ship of Fools. Although the shoe fits, this is neither the story of U.S.S. Pueblo nor a rowboat full of Stanley Kramer devotees. A brilliant cast including Simone Signoret, Oskar Werner, Vivien Leigh, and the diminutive Michael Dunn nearly succeed in saving the sinking vessel, but there are too many of them and Kramer does not know how to keep them out of each other's way. Dunn's last scene is a masterpiece of monologue, and only this effort keeps both cast and audience from leaning over the side in unison. Channel...
...problem is that Gerard is only as lifelike as Montand makes him; his wife (played by Simone Signoret, Montand's real-life wife) is relegated to the unhappy role of two-dimensional superfluity. Indeed, Costa-Gavras' style is to present characters as metaphors for life forces, rather than as people. That was fine for Z, which was sustained by the suspense of its whodunit framework. Confession fails as a film because it is at base a stenographic document, meticulously recounting the liturgy of political confession without regard for its drama...
Tuesday, Aug. 26 (NBC, 9-11 p.m.): GAMES, with Simone Signoret and Katherine Ross. For those who want more...