Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...classic Rashomon. At worst, it is a clear case of Occidental death. In remaking Director Akira Kurosawa's 1952 Oscar winner, the producers have added a bumper crop of cactus, presumably hoping to repeat the success of The Magnificent Seven, a western based on Kurosawa's epic tale of the samurai. Assigned to this prickly task are Star Paul Newman, Director Martin Ritt and Photographer James Wong Howe, all covered with pay dirt from their triumphant collaboration in Hud. The result this time is a slick, shallow olio of rape, murder and violence...
GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. A skillful British director, Desmond Davis, and a superlative British actress, Rita Tushingham, transform this rather banal tale of a young girl's affair with a middle-aged author (Peter Finch) into a movie of unusual warmth...
...kind of movie that leaves viewers wishing they had seen the play instead. On the screen, it is little more than a melodrama. On Broadway, as an unforgettable vehicle for the Lunts in 1958, Friedrich Dürrenmatt's drama drilled annihilating satire into a spare, pitiless tale of vengeance and greed...
...Angelina Hughes, a beautiful hoyden in love with Blaine, disguises herself as a soldier and fools everyone but perspicacious Sam, who stumbles upon her bathing nude in a river. Among the good guys are O'Hara, an Irish sergeant with a heart of gold; Hobbs, a sly, tall-tale-telling frontiersman; Spie-buck, a 6-ft. 4-in. Shawnee guide; and shrewd, Lincolnesque Colonel Alex Doniphan. The bad guys are legion, ranging from scoundrelly Mexicans to brash American bullies who never learn -they always pick fights with Elaine and end up flat on their backs...
...WOMAN. Italian Director Marco Ferreri fashions a superb parable of man's inhumanity from this squalid tale about a fast-buck promoter who meets, marries and makes a freak show of a girl (Annie Girardot) covered from head to toe with brown silky hair...