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Returned to the Brattle this week is a shoot-em-up called the "Magnificent Seven" about life on the frontier in feudal Japan. With good taste and a vivid sense of the possibilities of photography, director Akira (Rash-omon) Kuosowa has told a lusty story of seven samurais who, skilled in fighting and adept in Zen, organize a little farming village against an annual bandit raid...
...Actress Wright studied her sub:ect thoroughly, mastered the cramped, stilted gestures typical of Parkinsonism. The part of LIFE Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, whose firm support helped see his colleague through her time of trouble, was well played by Actor Eli Wallach. Although the "living color" was a little too vivid in the script as well as on the screen, the total result was effective...
...forcing the high notes and of holding them too long. That trials are proverbially good theater is no accident: theater minds and legal minds equally highlight and soft-pedal to a purpose, equally employ shock and diversionary tactics. And they can equally breed doubts while scoring points: often vivid, Levitt's play does not really satisfy as a whole...
...Mattingly's The Armada, a rare, readable example of historical scholarship. To offset The Stolen Years, which cashes in on headlines about the recent murder of Prohibition Gangster Roger Touhy, and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers, a flight of amateur and secondhand sociology, there is a vivid re-creation of D-day in Cornelius Ryan's The Longest...
...President of the U.S. flies homeward this week from his eleven-nation world trip, he brings back snapshot recollections of vivid ceremony and unaffected friendliness. Dwight Eisenhower, the world's best-known, most respected statesman, lifted personal prestige and national influence to new highs from Rome to New Delhi to Paris. But equally as important as the President himself was the backdrop of popular reaction to his visits. His trip was a success because the American idea is a success; he had once and for all destroyed the myth that anti-Americanism prowls the world. The roaring welcomes defined...