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...faced with the topman cliché: "You're all alone, Sammy Glick." As Sammy, Steve Lawrence moves with the wary savage grace of a jungle cat, and when he claws, he claws. Bernice Massi, the banker's daughter Sammy marries, matches him in velvety ferocity. In a subplot romance, Robert Alda and Sally Ann Howes seem to be going through motions rather than emotions. The two best songs in the score are sexy: A Room Without Windows ("a room without doors") and The Friendliest Thing ("two people can do"). Too many of the lyrics sound like alliances between...
Corie's mama (Mildred Natwick) drops in earlier. So does Victor Velasco (Kurt Kaszner), an average Continental charmer. This sets a zany subplot in motion: Can a lonely New Jersey pill popper who sleeps on a board find enduring happiness with an ebullient Hungarian gourmet who sleeps on a rug? It takes an uproarious culinary trek to Staten Island and several draughts of ouzo, the Greek tequila, to resolve this dilemma. Meanwhile, Corie and Paul have a lallapalouzo of a spat. Corie's mother primes a happy last-act curtain with some classic advice on how to hold...
...main plot is arch, the subplot is fallen-arch. A coolheaded, busy, busy, busy Macy executive (Janis Paige) has been burned on the matrimonial altar and has sworn off men. Her next-door neighbor is an ex-marine (Craig Stevens) who has sworn off women in favor of his true love, the law. Fortunately, Divorcee Paige has a little daughter, an agnostic city tot who does not believe in Santa Claus. Lawyer Stevens undertakes to cure her unbelief. Does anyone hear those jingle bells turning into wedding bells...
...Crucifixion, the Resurrection. Unfortunately, many of these episodes are shamelessly scanted and most of Christ's miracles-certainly the most dramatic moments of his ministry-are inexplicably omitted. The time thus saved is devoted to two bombinating battles that never actually took place; to a wildly unhistorical subplot that exaggerates Barabbas (vaguely identified by the Bible as an insurrectionist) into a sort of George Washington of the Jews, and makes Judas merely a bewildered Benedict Arnold; to a number of incidents in the life of Christ -among them a dramatic death-cell confrontation with John the Baptist-that...
...slow death. The setting is a scorched plain, blazing with light. Throughout Act I, Winnie, the so-year-old heroine, is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth; throughout Act II, she is buried up to her neck. So much for action and plot. For subplot, her husband Willie scuttles in and out of a hole behind the mound, and, keeping his back to the audience, leafs through a yellowed newspaper...