Word: wynter
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...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...
...harder-hitting best-seller about the white British versus the black Mau-Mau in Africa. Laudably, the complex issues are not oversimplified; and both sides are properly shown to be at fault. Superlative performances by Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller and Juano Hernandez. Even Rock Hudson is good; and Dana Wynter's appearances are fortunately brief...
...proud, desirous" Dexter Green and the cashmere-on-the-golf-links security of Judy Jones, whom Dexter saw always "in a soft deep summer room," peopled with the men who had already loved her. Talented young (28) Director John Frankenheimer extracted an extraordinary piquancy from British Actress Dana Wynter, who as Judy was a haunting re-creation of the ideal girl of Fitzgerald's generation. And TV's John .Cassavetes made a winning Dexter, "unconsciously dictated to by his winter dreams" of glittery things. Fitzgerald said Judy always "looked as if she wanted to be kissed...
...that, this picture seems to suggest, all that the other millions of guys had to do was to jump over Taylor's half-dead body and be careful not to fall in the Elbe. Back in London, Soldier Taylor gives a curt goodbye to an English girl (Dana Wynter)-whose heart breaks in a nice, quiet English way, like a crumpet-and ships back to the little woman and the big house in Connecticut, where he clearly intends to trade in that olive drab for a grey flannel suit...