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...anger over illegal immigrants comes from racist rednecks? If a candidate comes up with a plan for strict control of immigration, he or she will be patriotic, not racist, and might get elected. I hate to watch this great country turn from a welcoming nation to a naive one. Yordan Yordanov, WEST YARMOUTH, MASS...
...epic for the '60s. Actually, he exploited the popularity of other people's late-'50s Biblical spectacles ("The Ten Commandments," "Ben Hur") to acquire financing for grand frescos of national heroes ("El Cid") and collapsing monarchies ("The Fall of the Roman Empire") in smart, stately films from screenwriter Philip Yordan and ace auteurs Nicholas Ray and Anthony Mann. Ray's "King of Kings" has Jeffrey Hunter, who was gorgeous and effusively manly in "The Searchers" a few years before, as a Jesus with star quality to spare - which the original must also have had. In orange hair and what looks...
ALFRED BARNES YORDAN...
General Francisco Pizarro (Robert Shaw) was, the way Screenwriter Philip Yordan tells it, obsessed by his own bastardy. As in the case of T. E. Lawrence of Arabia, the burden of his illegitimacy weighed so heavily that it drove him to deeds of improbable and even reckless heroism. In the bizarre personage of King Atahuallpa (Christopher Plummer) Pizarro encounters a man of his own kind, an implacable and almost superhuman force. Atahuallpa gives short shrift to the rabid Catholic missionaries in Pizarro's party and, looking into the explorer's eyes, says tellingly: "Their...
...begin with, Philip Yordan has written a screenplay that makes an educated exegesis of the legend and plenty of dramatic sense. For the first few reels. Yordan pretty much follows the plot of Corneille's play. Don Rodrigo (Charlton Heston), betrothed to Jimena (Sophia Loren). is forced by the code of chivalry to kill her father in defense of his own father's honor. Jimena. in turn, though she loves Rodrigo madly, is forced to seek revenge. So much for Corneille. From there out, Yordan collects vivid scraps of incident from the teeming, demi-mythological Matter of Spain...