Word: versions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday, October 25 THE KING AND I (ABC, 7:30-10 p.m.).*Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical...
...Gentle into That Good Night, had Melvyn Douglas shunted off to a nursing home by his grown children. ABC, in Johnny Belinda, showed Mia Farrow, in a waist-length wig, playing a deaf-mute who is raped and framed for murder; and an updated version of its 1966 documentary, The Long Childhood of Jimmy...
...filled with coincidences, fateful encounters and cataclysmic sexual passions, which lash the participants with an implacable frenzy. Of his 14 novels, Far from the Madding Crowd, with its relatively happy ending, is probably the most adaptable to film-and, indeed, it went through two silent treatments. In this version, Screenwriter Frederic Raphael has managed to preserve the book's broad vision while clarifying its bucolic speech. His most valuable ally is Director John Schlesinger (Darling), who displays the best sense of Victorian time and place since David Lean in Great Expectations, alternating his stars with a brilliant cast...
Brando as usual plays with vocal characterization, coming up with his version of the clipped speech pattern of a southern army major. Brando's performance comes off well, his face mirroring the tensions of a man first discovering then stoking an attraction for another man. The enlisted man (Robert Forster) doesn't say much more than two words during the entire film. He spends most of the time riding around naked on an old mare, and the rest sniffing Miss Taylor's clothes in her room at night while she lies sleeping nearby...
...filming of Finnegans Wake required a Joycean energy from Producer-Director-Scenarist Mary Ellen Bute, 60, an American whose previous movie experience has been confined to short ; subjects. Almost inevitably, her brave effort suffers by comparison with Joseph Strick's recent version of Ulysses (TIME, March 31). Part of the problem is in the size of the task undertaken. For all its mythic dimensions, the huge superstructure of Ulysses is based largely on a single classic theme. But Finnegan cosmically takes on all history-Critic Frank O'Connor shrewdly accused Joyce the agnostic of egoistically revising...