Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RAILROAD MAN. Made in 1956, this minor drama owes its vitality to a major talent. Director Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style, Seduced and Abandoned) who also takes on the leading role as a hell-for-leather railroad engineer brought to a dead end by family problems...
...successors may still be called cafe society by some, but they have definitely moved out of the cafes and are more often called the Jet Set. Their haunts now are more likely to be art openings, opera-house lobbies, fashion shows, charity balls or dinner parties of their own. Talent, cleverness and achievement provide their own entree, and the new Jet Set no longer needs Billingsley's imprimatur to distinguish the In people from...
Karate Chop. Get Smart! began as a product of groupthink when Talent Associates saw The Man from U.N.C.L.E. rising on the ratings and shrewdly suspected that the Bondwagon had room for one more. They commissioned Old Pro Mel Brooks (The 2,000-Year-Old Man) and Young Pro Buck (TW3) Henry to hack out a script about a fumbling hero. Instead, Brooks and Henry decided to make him a bumbling zero. Brooks recalls, "I was sick of looking at all those nice sensible situation comedies. They were such distortions of life. If a maid ever took over my house like...
...espionage here appears as an unromantic, ethically dubious business, transcated by people of limited talent and honesty. A vestigial branch of British intelligence, large and powerful during the war but fallen into genteel desuetide, receives a report that the Russians may be assembling a missile base in East Germany. A charter-plane pilot is induced to veer off-course to photograph the countryside and a middle-aged courier, sent to Finland to retrieve the film, is run down by an automobile on the way to his hotel. His death may mean that the Russians really are up to something...
...where former friends awkwardly welcome him back to the company of men. All of it seems familiar, all of it quickened by a thorny sense of truth. Railroad Man lacks the robust, abrasive humor of his later films, but it demonstrates that in 1956 Germi was already a major talent...