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...palace. Then, as tanks and armored cars of the former Arab Legion rattled through the streets and ringed the palace, the young general was arrested and packed off by car for Syrian exile. Nabulsi and other leading leftist politicians were placed under house arrest. The palace announced that a "vile attempt" to take over the army had been frustrated, and Major General Ali el Hayari, 38, one of the top Arab Legion commanders in the days of the British Glubb Pasha, and a strong supporter of the King, had taken over as Jordan's new army chief...
...Sullivan plays the vile Moor, Aaron, with stunning force. Pride and pure villainy radiate from his posture and face, and his voice grasps Shakesperean lines with brilliant skill. James Matisoff, playing the Emperor is impressively curt, hoarse, and pouting. Michael Sugarman makes a most fitting brother to the emperor, but Abigail Sugarman is not always at ease in the crucial role of the emperor's vengeful wife. Her face and voice do outstanding work for her difficult part, but her gestures and postures float detachedly or rigidly. As Lavinia, daughter to Titus, Susan Howe is intense and haunting. After...
...prepped in Kansas City and Montreal before putting on a Brooklyn uniform to become at 28 big-league baseball's first Negro player. To prepare him, his mentor Branch Rickey called him into his office one day, cursed him, swung at him, then spat at him a particularly vile name. "What do you do now, Jackie?" Rickey asked. Robinson replied: "Mr. Rickey, I guess I turn the other cheek." For the next couple of years he played superlative baseball while snaffling his hot, competitive temper under the taunts and slurs of his opponents and even some of his teammates...
...knew now . . . how God must hate the vile and shameful flesh...
...appears, was a big-moola blackmailer. Mitchum chases (and is chased) all over Europe before he even digs up this sore-thumb fact, while the blackmail victims-quislings who never quisled because Hitler never got around to invading their countries-earnestly try to bump Mitchum off their vile, traitorous scent. In all, Foreign Intrigue rates as the murkiest black-and-white color film of the year, lacking only a chase through sewers to lend it a more poignant aroma...