Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American wife (Jean Fenn) who loses her inhibitions under the Mediterranean sun. Sail Away is sometimes too reminiscent of the first Noel, and much of it seemed wooden to Boston critics. But Elaine Stritch, as the cruise hostess, is full of verve. Joe Layton's choreography is superb, and the lyrics are delightful, as when they ask the ultimate question on tourism...
...Philip's name to it and in the note leaves Philip's entire estate to the mistress. Tom then seduces the mistress, who insists that he live with her-in Philip's apartment, on Philip's money. The Eastmancolor photography by Henri Decaë, a superb young craftsman who rode the New Wave (The Four Hundred Blows, The Cousins) to success, bathes all this in an innocent holiday light that makes the crime seem the more hideous by contrast, like a big hairy spider crawling slowly across a travel poster...
...admiration is the suspicion that the film also profits by its lack of clever camerawork, imaginative direction (Alexander Singer, a former producer of television commercials, is responsible) or well-plotted story. In this almost total vacuum, there is nothing at all to get in the way of a superb job by Lola Albright, a 37-year-old blonde known chiefly for having played Peter Gunn's girl friend on TV, and a performance almost as good by Marlowe, a 23-year-old TV actor. They play their parts-she has had three bad marriages and knows the wild luck...
...first player elected to baseball's Hall of Fame (he received 222 votes to 215 for Babe Ruth), Cobb was a superb athlete. But, like the hero of a Greek tragedy, he had a fatal flaw: his compulsion to win was too strong. Cantankerous and mean, he was heartily hated by his Tiger teammates-particularly during his six-year hitch (1921-26) as player-manager-and got involved in countless brawls. He fought a bloody battle with Umpire George Moriarity, once stormed the New York grandstand to attack a crippled heckler. His two marriages ended in bitterness and divorce...
...best of the confessions involves the superb farceurs of Smiles and Lessons. Gunnar Bjornstrand, tall, reserved, marinated in dignity, is a corporation president, and pillowy, blonde Eva Dahlbeck is his wife. Coming home from a formal-dress party, they get stuck in a self-service elevator. Frantically he stays calm. She laughs. He rages. She twits him about his reserve: is he that way with his mistresses? He blusters, then grows suspicious: has she had lovers? "Of course," she says prettily. The lights go out; she clutches at him; his top hat is mashed. The lights go on; she mocks...