Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This doublebill at the RKO Keith might lead one to believe that Hollywood is still bitter about what the North did to the South in the Civil War. In mistitled Love Me Tender, a new star from Tennesse, Elvis Presley, who looks like a cross between Estes Kefauver and Rudolph Valentino, takes up the battle for the rebs and symbolizes his resentment in several awkward gesticulations with his thighs...
...mother, and shoots his brother. It is a difficult role for inexperienced Presley and everytime he tries to act, he muffs the part. And, as often happens in big-name productions, the stars are overshadowed by a minor characer who plays his part to perfection. In Love Me Tender the spotlight is captured by an unknown named Jethro, who plays the part of the village idiot...
...Love Me Tender (20th Century-Fox). Is it a sausage? It is certainly smooth and damp-looking, but who ever heard of a 172-lb. sausage 6 ft. tall? Is it a Walt Disney goldfish? It has the same sort of big, soft, beautiful eyes and long, curly lashes, but who ever heard of a goldfish with sideburns? Is it a corpse? The face just hangs there, limp and white with its little drop-seat mouth, rather like Lord Byron in the wax museum...
...emerges. A rusty foghorn? A voice? Or merely a noise produced, like the voice of a cricket, by the violent stridulation of the legs? Words occasionally can be made out, like raisins in cornmeal mush. "Goan . . . git . . . luhhv . . ." And then all at once everything stops, and a big, trembly tender half smile, half sneer smears slowly across the CinemaScope screen. The message that millions of U.S. teen-age girls love to receive has just been delivered...
...this tender story was revived by a Spanish author, José Maria Sanchez-Silva, in the form of a novel not yet published in the U.S. Now it has been converted by Ladislao Vajda, a Hungarian director working in Spain, into a film as simple and sincere as a child's tear. The actors, especially Marcelino (Pablito Calvo) and Brother Cookie (Juan Calvo), play with an easy matter-of-factness that makes the transition from natural to supernatural almost disappear. The hard Spanish land and the bare Spanish sky clamp the mystical theme between them, as in a vise...