Word: ursula
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Sometimes a pretty ugly movie like The Hill makes it on dramatic tension alone, and sometimes a dramatically vacuous one like Red Desert makes it purely on pictorial grace. Sometimes a movie like Elio Petri's The Tenth Victim, with Ursula Anbuild-up that fools people into seeing redeeming graces gets a publicity dress, Marcello Mastroianni...
...central implication of The Hunt is tediously obvious from the opening shot of luscious Ursula Andress ducking bullets: what if a Hunter falls in love with his official Victim? Every hack science-fiction film I've seen since the 50-Foot Woman has provided less predictable dilemmas...
...secret is that she carries over to the screen the grand hauteur she learned as a haute couture model, then plays her glacial poise for laughs. Not even the antics of Peter O'Toole and Woody Allen could persuade the Pussycat to purr, but fanciers, fatigued with Ursula Andress as an alley cat and Romy Schneider as a kitten, applauded Capucine's purebred Siamese and gave her a bigger share of laughs in a Sellers market. In Panther, she kept a straight face while she slammed the door on the nose of her cuckolded husband. When he asked...
...professor; and Job, their comic but loyal batman (Bernard Cribbins) in a gentleman's gentleman's derby and a lower-class accent. In almost no time at all, Leo has been abducted by ruffians with gold medals bearing his profile and dragged before the blonde and beautiful Ursula Andress...
Come perils, throughout which Leo is 1) rescued by a beguiling girl called Ustane (Rosenda Monteros) and 2) sustained by spirit-reviving visions of Ursula Andress. Comes the crucial choice between the adoring Ustane ("I can but offer you my heart and unending loyalty") and the prospect of Ursula and a kingdom-with immortality to enjoy them in. Leo chooses as anybody would in his right mind. He is punished, of course. And so is Miss Andress, who with the help of a makeup man has to demonstrate at the fadeout what a 2,000-year-old woman really looks...