Word: silvana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Homer. In fact, talk is one of the picture's major flaws. It was filmed in the Mediterranean with a French, Italian and American cast, and most of the parts have had to be dubbed in English. The dubbers dubbed the job. In the opening sequence, where Penelope (Silvana Mangano) holds off her importunate suitors, the synchronization of words and lip movements is particularly awry, but this should bother only the churlish few who concentrate on Silvana's lips instead of Silvana entire...
...adventures themselves retain the timeless quality of myth: the gigantic Cyclops is chillingly acted by Umberto Silvestri, and his howls of frenzy at the loss of his eye are enough to shatter cliffs; the immortal and immoral Circe (also played by Silvana Mangano) can call up tempests or turn men into porkers with equal ease. The screen writers have added one imaginative touch to the incident of the Sirens' rock: as his galley is rowed past that bone-littered shore. Ulysses, bound to the mainmast, is driven to frantic despair by the pleading voices of his wife...
Mostly, the cast is one that Homer might have approved. In her revealing classical finery, Silvana Mangano is as provocative and enticing as a Tanagra figurine. Rossana Podesta plays the abandoned Nausicaä with all the sad airs and graces of a bereft princess. In the role of Penelope's leading suitor, Anthony Quinn shows a wily nobility, and young Franco Interlenghi as Ulysses' son gives real substance to his role of a stubborn adolescent. Kirk Douglas is more at home in the acrobatics of his part than in its subtleties, and occasionally seems tempted to reach...
Mambo (Ponti De Laurentiis; Paramount) is offered as "the exalting story of a slum girl who attains integrity through her experiences with men and her love of the dance." Still, it might be advisable to have a look at the picture before showing a print to the kiddies. Giovanna (Silvana Mangano) is a Venetian shopgirl. In the daytime she displays her glamorous glass for the customers; at night she is ready for broader interests. But Mario (Vittorio Gassman), her boy friend, is primarily interested in a phony buck, any way he can get it. When Silvana meets a no-count...
Among the exhibits: the U.S.'s busty Rhonda Fleming, Italy's chesty Silvana Pampanim, Greece's buxom Irene Pappas and France's bosomy Corinne Calvet...