Word: wynter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shake Hands with the Devil (Pennebaker; United Artists) turns a heap of expensive ingredients-James Cagney, Don Murray, Michael Redgrave, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Dana Wynter, Glynis Johns-into an everyday Irish stew. Taken from a 1934 novel by Rearden Conner, the plot concerns a young American (Murray), a medical student in Dublin just after World War I, who finds himself innocently involved in "The Trouble." Pursued by the Black and Tans, he is spirited away by one of his professors (Cagney), who turns out to be a high officer in the Irish Republican Army. Grateful and idealistic, he joins...
...lovely women and handsome men. bright-eyed before the topmost awards: the "Oscars" that signify which of them, in the opinion of their peers, have talent, too. There were so many stars in view that nothing anybody could do-neither an uncivil singing satire by Angela Lansbury, Dana Wynter and Joan Collins, nor some oddly tasteless quips by Bob Hope-could keep the movies from running off with television's highest rating of the season, and some 85 million viewers...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-1 p.m.). Dana Wynter and James Donald in The Wings of the Dove, Henry James's famed tale of young love and old prejudice in turn-of-the-century England and Italy...
...plot-derived from a 1957 novel, The Big War, by Anton Myrer-it is the usual panoramic, cram-it-all-in, move-over-Tolstoy sort of thing, with a plural hero (Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter, Bradford Dillman) who has any number of women (Dana Wynter, Hope Lange, Sheree North, France Nuyen) in his composite life. Nothing happens that has not happened a hundred times before in other war pictures-except perhaps an unusually large number of sincere but badly misdirected performances by promising young cinemactors. All of them, as Producer Jerry Wald proudly points out, have been carefully nurtured...
...marquise, porcelain-cheeked Dana Wynter, whose "lovely hands drooped down like lilies on either side," coped with blackmail and adultery with equally exquisite calm. Far flashier was Director John Frankenheimer, whose busy directorial conceits-trick angles, mirror shots, closeups to the pore, camera peeps through iron grilles, even the little photographer's aperture-often upstaged the work itself while accenting its hollow passion. Sometimes the tricks of the director, working in tandem with the star-crossed lovers and their rococo surroundings, were more attention-catching than the story...