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...Tender Is the Night (20th Century-Fox) is a good movie that had every reason to be bad. The novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald on which the film is based is a miracle of literary chic; it reads as if written in expensive perfume on the stationery of the Ritz. But literary style can't be photographed, and in other respects the novel is sort of a mess. The plot is often gappy and sometimes sappy; the characters are superficially silly and fundamentally unreal. The intellectual apparatus of the tale-a compendium of cocktail party chatter about psychiatry...
Like most Hollywood movies these days, Tender Is the Night is too long (2 hr. 26 min.). Like the book, it is too slick: the color work, for instance, is lovely, but at times Director King lets scenery overbear significance. But the sense persists that something serious is going on, thanks importantly to Actor Lukas, who gives a remarkably evocative imitation of the Wise Old Man of Zu rich, the late Carl Jung; thanks principally to Actor Robards. Robards has all the quick intelligence and liquid charm the author wrote into his hero, but he has something more...
...counsel. But in cross-examination of a hostile witness, the lawyer will move close to the witness stand so the jury can closely watch every reaction in the duel between two adversaries. During crossexamination, the witness should be held under tight rein and not be given an opportunity to tender more than yes or no answers. It is the sign of a bad cross-examiner, says Nizer, if he must ask "Why?" or "Will you explain that...
BALLAD OF A SOLDIER. The best Russian movie since World War II: Director Grigori Chukhrai's tender, sentimental, humorous, passionate, imaginative story of love without benefit of Lenin in a Russia without time for love...
...turned out to watch Local Hero Henry Cooper tune up for a title fight with Patterson by fighting the U.S.'s seventh-ranked Zora Folley-whom Cooper had beaten in 1958. Folley had other ideas. Trimmed down to a rock-hard 194 lbs., he sliced Cooper's tender face with slashing jabs in the first round, split open his nose and left eyebrow. In the second round, blood streaming from his wounds, Cooper fielded a right with his prominent jaw and sank to the canvas like a tired swan. "It was a good punch," Cooper said later, when...