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...first scene of the movie, a well-known Italian writer (Marcello Mastroianni) and his wife (Jeanne Moreau) arrive at a hospital in Milan to visit a dying friend (Bernhard Wicki). Leaving the friend's room some minutes later than his wife, the writer is accosted in the hall by a mental patient, a nymphomaniac. Impulsively, he enters her room...
Such a tale would have power, even if clumsily told; but here it is narrated with control, economy, taste. Director Bernhard Wicki simply sets the brutal facts in a clear light, lets the audience look at them, makes only one laconic comment: "The events in this story happened in 1945. Two days later the warm Europe ended...
...grim choice: help us or follow him. The decision tears Helga in two, not because she fears execution, but because she must measure her narrow patriotism against her involvement in all mankind, her diminution by any man's death. "I always believed," a partisan chief (Bernhard Wicki) tells her, "that to a doctor, wounded enemies are also human beings." Placing humanity before country, Helga sets to work with all her strength. But her lifesaving chores bring her no sense of exaltation, no expiation, no liberty pass from the anguished no man's land that lies between her warring...
...wrote (1908) Take Me Out to the Ball Game (with Lyricist Jack Norworth), reputedly did not see a baseball game until 20 years later, also turned out Heart of My Heart, I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time and Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo; in Los Angeles...
...platform, had a stuffed monkey set up in front of the drums with electric lights for eyes and a baton that waved automatically. Popular tunes when the Dixieland first went North were Pretty Baby, They're Wearing 'em Higher in Hawaii, Oh How She Could Yacki Hacki Wicki Wacki Woo. Soon the metropolis was cavorting to the Dixieland's own tunes, which have since become jazz classics: Tiger Rag by La Rocca, Clarinet Marmalade by Shields and Ragas, Sensation Rag by Edwards, At the Jazz Band Ball by La Rocca and Shields...