Word: tamblyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sets the tone as the crusty old Thane of Skandia, a bankrupt shipbuilder with a voice like a rockslide. Searching for the legendary Golden Bell, a thing of booty "as tall as three men, and cast by the monks of Byzantium," Homolka's sons Richard Widmark and Russ Tamblyn steal the Norse King's funeral ship as well as his shapely daughter (Yugoslavia's Beba Loncar), and head south. All that stands in their way is a mutinous crew, a maelstrom and Sidney Pokier, a Moorish prince. He, too, dreams of the golden "Mother of Voices...
...viewer is stereophonically there at the Battle of Shiloh, with charging infantry, rearing horses, rumbling guns. Afterward, Peppard, thirsty, dazed and lost, is drinking water from a stream when he encounters a grizzled young Rebel (Russ Tamblyn). "Tastes funny?" asks Tamblyn slyly. Just then a rocket flash reveals the reason: the water is pink with blood...
...apparently have their doubts: in the period just before and just after the show opened, the stock lost more than a fifth of its value. To begin with, the blurbs for Wonderful World are black with big names: Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom, Buddy Hackett, Terry-Thomas, Yvette Mimieux, Russ Tamblyn, half a dozen others. The show offers also an album of snapshots, each one approximately the size of Liechtenstein, that dramatically itemize South Germany. And it offers, inserted at intervals in the story, three full-length fairy tales (The Dancing Princess, The Cobbler and the Elves, The Singing Bone...
...exception to prove the rule is Mr. Lottman's review of West Side Story, in which he, having personally enjoyed the film, attempts to APOLOGIZE to his readers for NOT finding bad performances by Natalie Wood and Russ Tamblyn, or NOT finding poor direction, or NOT finding bad photography, and hence NOT being able to confirm what Mr. Lottman considers his readers' preconceived "shudders" over Hollywood's of the play...
Miss Wood as Maria, Richard Beymer as Tony, and Tamblyn as Riff are all surprisingly good. But the star of the movie is Rita Moreno, as Anita. Her performance in the duet "I Have a Love" with Maria is all by itself worth the rather steep price of admission...