Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brilliant Macbeth, starring Anthony Quayle and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. The two-hour, two-record production was followed by Othello, with Cyril Cusack and Frank Silvera; and The Taming of the Shrew, with Margaret Leighton and Trevor Howard. Early next month: Sir John Gielgud's The Winter's Tale...
...plot of the picture seems at a glance no more than a reroast of an old chestnut: the tale of the reformer reformed. The hero (portrayed by Director Dassin himself "because I couldn't afford to pay an actor to play the part") is an intellectual Boy Scout from Middletown, U.S.A., who takes a trip to Greece in the wide-eyed expectation that in the cradle of Western philosophy he will "find the truth." He finds instead a warmhearted, disrespectful prostitute (Actress Mercouri) who tumbles only for the men she likes, charges only what they are willing or able...
...names Midshipmen and Engineers are no laughing matter for the Crimson. Although Ford and his cohorts out-sailed the Coast Guard and M.I.T. last Saturday, Sunday's tale was somewhat tragic...
Voyage is the work of Albert Lamorisse, already known for his prizewinning shorts (Bim, White Mane, The Red Balloon) and probably the most original moviemaker in France. Echoing the consensus, Le Monde's Jean de Baroncelli, dean of Paris film critics, wrote: Voyage is "a tale of a dream realized. Pure cinema. Above all, a ravishing spectacle." Wrote Author André Maurois: "A film for poets and philosophers...
...until in enormous numbers they were sent "East" and fiendishly robbed of life, explodes its horrors over and over again. Its nightmares are vivid upon the stage; the mere sight-through the smoke of gunfire-of the Wall speaks volumes. But what power The Wall commands comes from the tale rather than the telling, from scattered incidents rather than a sustained whole, and comes a little, also, from the memory as playwright...