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...detests everything Howard stands for, uncovers new evidence of the pariah's probable innocence and rallies Eliot and a few conscience-nagged colleagues with a cry of "justice for the enemy." As he rounds up the necessary votes for retrial, Eliot encounters the various motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, selflessly decent-that sway all would-be judges of men. How all-too-human such motives can be is suggested with delightfully doddering comic precision by Edward Atienza as an ancient Senior Fellow who believes that he is being bypassed on suspicion of senility. The retrial exonerates Howard...
...examined the forms and varieties of eros, so The Seventh Seal probes the modes and species of fides. Every form of Christian faith seems to be present here--what Kierkegaard prayed for and what made Nietzsche gnash his teeth. Gunner Bjorstrand as the jaded, worldly squire voices a despairing stoic atheism that sounds perhaps too contemporary for the middle of the fourteenth century. Nils Poppe as the peasant Jof, on the other hand, accepts his visions of the Virgin and Child with the same simplicity and sureness as he does the goodness of being alive: doubt could not arise...
...Patient Stoic. The man with the best chance and with most at stake in the outcome is a 6-ft. 3-in. blueblood who has not lived in Spain for 31 years. He is Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, 49, Count of Barcelona and Pretender to the Spanish throne, which he and his monarchist supporters are certain will be restored when Franco goes. Until that happens, he can only wait restlessly in self-imposed exile at Estoril, Portugal's glittering resort, or take the handsome yacht Saltillo for endless cruises in the Mediterranean-an embodiment of his country...
...part of his strategy to leave the succession question in the air. In public, the Pretender is patiently stoic, pretends that no succession problem exists. Newsmen always like to see the situation as a football match, he comments cheerily to visitors. The whole matter, he adds, has been "exaggerated." But he speaks more freely in private. When aides keep assuring him that all important factions in Spain are for him. he will mutter: "If everybody's so monarchist, then why the hell am I in Estoril?" New Middle Class. Whoever runs Spain next will inherit a country slowly, painfully...
From scene to scene, Henry Fonda visibly erodes with stoic dignity. A trifle over-animated, Olivia de Havilland nonetheless grows in gallantry and warmth. But as the play empties into the bowl over which the hero slits his wrists, it seems to leave behind it no revelation, only a stubborn ring of illusions...