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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transformed into a postulant-a snappy little Spanish teen-ager with an Irish face (Carroll Baker) and something of a Bronx accent. The Tempter appears as the usual dashing dragoon (Roger Moore). The Reinhardt visions are reduced to a banal catalogue of wide-screen wonders, filmed in what is apparently intended to be glorious Goyacolor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 23, 1959 | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...Speaking the lines of the invisible fourth tempter in a movie version of his own religious drama, Murder in the Cathedral, is poet-playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATIONAL AFFAIRS,WAR IN ASIA,INTERNATIONAL & FOREIGN,PEOPLE,OTHER EVENTS: The President & Congress | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

London will get to see the film next month, the U.S. whenever Hoellering completes distribution plans. Moviegoers should have a special interest in the lines of the invisible and diabolical Fourth Tempter, who urges Thomas à Becket to court martyrdom and the eventual reward of sainthood. The Fourth Tempter: T. S. Eliot himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Becket on the Screen | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

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