Word: tamblyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...script, like the fairy tale, tells a tall story about a short boy (Russ Tamblyn), but in the film the Grimm realities -which were tiresomely unimaginative anyway-have undergone all sorts of pleasant Palliations. There is a marvelously mushy love story, goofed up just enough to give several million adult-dominated wider-twelves a swell chance to hoot and cackle at the well-known foolishness of their self-styled superiors. There is a sackful of the usual peculiar but amusing Pal puppets. There is one of the jolliest holler songs (The Talented Shoes) since Whistle While You Work. There...
...small role as the old maid schoolteacher without whom no small town is complete. But there is much to be said for Arthur Kennedy as an unfortunate rapist ("I never had nuthin' I ever wanted"), and for Lloyd Nolan as the town doctor. Others involved are Russ Tamblyn as Miss Varsi's boy friend and Lee Philips as Miss Turner's. They maintain the film's standard without exceeding...
Cool, blonde, 19-year-old Diane Varsi, starring in her first movie role, does an excellent job with the sulks and enthusiasms of a moody high school girl. When she and Russ Tamblyn, a good teen-ager at 22, shamble through a scene in which each confesses to the ownership of one of those books that come in plain wrappers, the result could be mawkish, instead is both funny and touching...
...Deck (MGM) also has its distinctions. It is the only Hollywood musical about the U.S. Navy that has been released this week. As usual, the sailors (Tony Martin, Vic Damone, Russ Tamblyn) are assigned to watch not foreign straits but domestic curves (Ann Miller, Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds); and they dance so well it makes a taxpayer wonder if ballet lessons are now part of boot training. The dialogue offers few surprises. "I worship the ground you walk on," says Tony Martin. "Now he's talking real estate," says Ann Miller. The songs are old too. Somebody even sings...
...against some forceful battle sequences that make use of authentic stock war footage is a cast of not-so-authentic stock characters. Among them: a hardboiled, softhearted colonel (Frank Lovejoy);* a boy who becomes a man under fire (Rusty Tamblyn); a retread captain (Richard Carlson); and, for laughs, a Southern marine who wisecracks during the Korean action: "This is one war that makes sense-North against the South...