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Actor Beatty is the latest cinemale to step into the late Jimmy Dean's blue jeans, and All Fall Down is largely a description of how Berry-berry Willart gets his kicks. As the film begins. Berry-berry conks a floozy with a spittoon and lands in the frost in Florida. Bailed out by his teen-aged brother (Brandon deWilde), he thumbs a Caribbean cruise with a yachtsy-totsy (Constance Ford). "Don't you have a husband?" he wonders. "Yes," she muses, "but he wouldn't appeal to you." When the cruise is over, Berry-berry moves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Attack of Berry-berry | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...Hustler. A young pool shark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust on the Cloth of Green. In the hands of Director Robert Rossen, the uncouth theme rings as true as a struck spittoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 27, 1961 | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...Hustler. A young pool shark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust on the Cloth of Green. In the hands of Director Robert Rossen, the uncouth theme rings as true as a struck spittoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 20, 1961 | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...Director Robert Rossen makes an uncouth theme sometimes ring true as a struck spittoon." See TIME LISTINGS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 13, 1961 | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

...Hustler. A young poolshark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust of the cues on the Cloth of Green. Director Robert Rossen makes an uncouth theme breathe with a smoky poetry and sometimes ring true as a struck spittoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oct. 13, 1961 | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

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