Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Alice is celebrated both for its satire and as Dodgson's escape, in the guise of Lewis Carroll, from the repressions of his era and personality, Producer Bunin plays hob with the facts to picture the children's tale as a virtual allegory of the author's difficulties. To point up a tenuous parallel, he not only rigs the prologue but also changes such characters as the King of Hearts and the White Rabbit, who becomes a comic villain...
...Beaton, like those he makes with his Rolleiflex, shows such a dazzle of limelight about the subject's head that at times he seems not merely Beatonized, but beatified. Nevertheless, his book is a charming tattletale about the semiprivate life of a sort of celluloid Cellini; and the tale is adorned with plenty of gossip about the rich and famous people Beaton has photographed...
...ever hear the tale...
...downright dull as three months on a raft. But after Mr. Grauer's hyperbolic foreword, "Kon-Tiki" luckily avoids the perils-of-the-deep, the yoicks-man-overboard, and the eek-it's-a-man-eating-shark, episodes that seem presaged by the opening. It becomes the tale, always unusual and often rather scientific, of life in a strange new world, where parrots bite radio aerials and a waiting breakfast is picked off the decks at daybreak. Unless you are the squeamish type who shrieks at the sight of a whale, you will enjoy "Kon-Tiki" well abaft...
...century yarn about a cocksure, middle-aged Maine farmer who goes around unsuccessfully hunting a second wife. All the time his capable, attractive housekeeper (Billie Worth) silently yearns for him, though-except for the fact that he is Joe E. Brown -there's no telling why. The tale has little substance and less suspense, and has to pad out its skimpy plot with a lot of courting among the younger...