Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games to one, and playing in St. Louis? The Cards didn't even pack for the return trip, remember? Hadn't Lonborg stopped them twice before on only one run and four hits? If anyone could win it for us today, it was Jimmy, Jimmy. But no, the fairy tale would have no happy ending...
...MOTHER'S HOUSE. Out of a modern-Gothic tale of innocence and evil, Producer-Director Jack Clayton (Room at the Top) has created an adult morality play with the aid of seven children, each an accomplished scene stealer...
Natural Arena. Styron calls The Confessions of Nat Turner not a historical novel but a "meditation on histo ry." There are echoes in it of Melville's Benito Cereno, a tale of a Negro slave rebellion at sea. Like Melville, Styron is fascinated by the evil of slavery and its inevitable connection with violence and corruption. The novels of the Puritanical giants of the 19th century were propelled by the driving force of implacable fate; so is Nat Turner. But here Styron makes his own departure. In Melville, Hawthorne and Twain, there is always at least a memory...
...CITY. Satyajit Ray has taken a simple tale of six people living in a Calcutta tenement and fashioned an eloquent testimonial to the courage of ordinary people facing ordinary problems...
...Mother's House is a modern Gothic tale of innocence and evil that takes place in a penumbral pile of Victorian architecture somewhere in a London suburb. In her darkened bedroom lies Mother, mortally ill, the heart and guiding hand of seven boys and girls ranging in age from three to 16. The film begins at "Mothertime," the family's daily sunset gathering around her big brass bed for Bible reading and counseling. As the children arrive, Mother dies...