Word: solidated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FROM THE MADDING CROWD. Director John Schlesinger and Scenarist Frederic Raphael, who collaborated on Darling, now join in bringing Thomas Hardy's Victorian novel vividly to the screen-with the help of solid performances by Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Peter Finch and Terence Stamp...
Since the publication of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest on February 1, 1929, the best crime novels have not offered much in the way of escape or solid, mindless entertainment. Nowadays, even the casual student of the American pathologies, public and private, may find the fiction of mayhem crucially disturbing and very much worth the reading. The worst examples of the genre present the symptoms of our virulent malady in pure form, and a new Mickey Spillaine is not pleasant going, precisely because it has roughly the same significance as a fresh mass murder. The best books of the type...
Peter Jaszi, the American ambassador, gives a brassily expansive and delightful caricature of the Yankee diplomat, and Jim Woods' Proteus, the harried prime minister, is generally solid...
...grassy, sheep-grazing county of "Wessex" - England's Dorsetshire -lives Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie), a typical calamity-prone Hardy heroine. Willful, flirtatious, she is pursued by men with names as solid as a Chippendale sideboard. They are Gabriel Oak (Alan Bates), an impoverished sheepman; Boldwood (Peter Finch), a strange, eroded landowner of whom people whisper, warns Bathsheba's servant girl, that "he has no passionate parts"; and Troy (Terence Stamp), a seducer-soldier who has his way with any lass who meets his come-hither eyes...
...solid theory that audiences are now accustomed to spectaculars that come with stereophonic sound on wide, wide screens, the studio has gone to great lengths to contemporize its classic. The print has been widened to accommodate 70-mm. screens, which unfortunately destroys the symmetry of Director Victor Fleming's compositions -notably by cutting off Gable's face above the hairline in closeups. Required to brush up the fading color on the original print frame by frame, studio technicians have done their job well, although there is still occasional blurring. Composer Max Steiner's original magnolia-lush score...