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Aphrodite, goddess of love, is said to have first set foot on solid ground at Cyprus, but obviously she has not visited her favorite island in recent years. Last week hate again ruled Cyprus as an eruption of the old feud between Turk and Greek caused an estimated 200 casualties. Absent diplomats were hurriedly recalled to their posts in Ankara, Athens and London. Fortunately, neither Greece, Turkey nor Britain wanted the trouble to continue. Nor did bearded Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, or his Turkish Cypriot Vice President, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk...
...personality alone. As the would-be immigrant, Stavros, he is all boyish, self-effacing smiles when his father sends him off to Constantinople to invest his family's meager fortune and thereby save them from Turkish persecution. Everything goes wrong. Stavros is robbed and humiliated by a roguish Turk, whom he finally murders. He slaves as a hamal, hauling back-breaking burdens on the Constantinople waterfront, only to be robbed again by a prostitute. He is shot and left for dead after falling in with a band of insurrectionists. One compelling scene shows the rebels' bodies being flung...
...whim. Like sable-jowled Novelist Donleavy himself, he is dark, saturnine, aloof from human contact. The rich tremble before him; only a few poor whom he selects to honor know his great heart. Contemptuous of woman when lured into sex he is more potent than the Grand Turk. He commanded a regiment in a foreign army...
...Sellers Syndicate, as students of cinema crime are well aware, long since wrested control of London's underworld from the Lavender Hill Mob. Smart Alec Guinness went south for his health, and a report from Arabia indicates that he has moved in on the territory of the Turk. Now it is Sneaky Pete Sellers' turn to meet some cheeky competition. In this cops-and-robbers comedy from Britain, some unspeakable gorillas from Australia put the muscle on the great man, and he is not one bloody little bit amused...
...MARION S. TURK...