Word: yore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even Hollywood's greatest epics of gore can hold a candle to those monumental battle paintings of yore. Every schoolboy knows General Wolfe breathing his last on the Plains of Abraham, the redcoats storming up Bunker Hill, or Washington crossing the Delaware...
...Night Walker is a lukewarm bloodbath, but it does afford Veteran Horrorist Barbara Stanwyck a chance to unleash her hysteria as of yore...
Belting it out are a group of rugged country cousins to the College Swing types that used to save the varsity show in Hollywood musicals of yore. These kids swing in an unfinished Moscow suburb called Cheremushki, "where skies are blue, and dreams come true," and where an empty flat gets heat in the summertime. "Don't worry, in the winter it'll be cold," quips Boris, a lumpish, curly-topped blaster on the construction crew. With everyone's dream swaddled in Red tape, and keys to the new flats hard to come by, Boris waltzes around...
Iacavazzi and McKay even dress for the part. With their high-topped shoes and striped-sleeve jersies, they look like backs of yore as well as act like them. Football at Princeton is strictly Neanderthal, but the team doesn't seem to realize it. It's up to Harvard to convince the Tigers of the folly of their ways, a hard lesson to teach indeed...
What could be done is what the producers did: they hired Lilli Palmer to play the actress, Jean Sorel to play her callow paramour, and Charles Boyer -that great screen lover of yore-to play the cuckolded husband. In a secondary role, Boyer deftly blends temperament and tolerance to contrast against the beautiful worthlessness of Sorel. But Julia becomes most adorable when Actress Palmer wriggles into character to show all the charm, vanity, insight, ego, witchery and wit of a woman who would rather have top billing than top cooing. Enjoying a last fling at youth, Julia tucks away...