Word: sorel
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...steeped in the conventions of boudoir farce knows that her next line has got to be: "What happened last night?" Instead, Debbie gives Tony a hearty, hail-fellow look and asks: "Don't you know me? Look at me, George. I'm Charlie. I'm Charlie Sorel...
...dense cinematic trickery are Jurgens' wife Alida Valli and daughter Susan Strasberg. Among the more perceptive waiters hired for the revels is Hero Renato Salvatori, who abruptly exclaims: "What a house-lonely, sad, mean and rotten!" Salvatori heads home to Milan, only to find more moral chaos. Jean Sorel is so alienated that he goes to a party and seduces his own wife, luscious Antonella Lualdi, who clearly prefers Host Louis Jourdan. But Jourdan prefers a young man called Bruno, Salvatori's friend. Then, trying to get his mother out of the poorhouse, Salvatori meets a kindly, supposititious...
What could be done is what the producers did: they hired Lilli Palmer to play the actress, Jean Sorel to play her callow paramour, and Charles Boyer -that great screen lover of yore-to play the cuckolded husband. In a secondary role, Boyer deftly blends temperament and tolerance to contrast against the beautiful worthlessness of Sorel. But Julia becomes most adorable when Actress Palmer wriggles into character to show all the charm, vanity, insight, ego, witchery and wit of a woman who would rather have top billing than top cooing. Enjoying a last fling at youth, Julia tucks away...
...villain is war. Director Nanni Loy, a 37-year-old Sardinian whose two previous pictures attracted little attention, set out to record a mass movement, and he has done so with stunning force and skill. Few professional actors appear in the film, and those few (among them Jean Sorel and Lea Massari) are not credited; most of the performers were found in the mazes of the Vomero, and many took an active part in the events the film describes. They really are what the picture says they are, and they mightily enforce the illusion that the picture really is what...
...wife's cousins, fleeing famine in Sicily, enter the U.S. illegally, go to work on the docks, come to live in the stevedore's cold-water flat. One of the cousins is a sober married man (Raymond Pellegrin), but the other is a charming gio-vanotto (Jean Sorel) who soon falls in love with the niece. Disturbed, the stevedore at first makes fun of the newcomer, but the niece falls in love with the boy anyway. Desperate, the stevedore resorts to slander: "He marry you he gotta da right be American citizen." Indignantly, the girl decides to marry...