Word: yul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Film Critics (10 to 6 for the film on a preliminary ballot) and the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Their mutual choice as best director: John Huston for Moby Dick. In other categories they differed. Best Actor: Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life (Critics), Yul Brynner in The King and I, Anastasia and The Ten Commandments (Board). Best Actress: Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia (Critics), Dorothy McGuire in Friendly Persuasion (Board). Best Screenwriter: S. J. Perelman for Around the World (Critics only). Best foreign film: La Strada (Critics), The Silent World (Board...
...actors, in general, make good use of their melodramatic opportunities. Yul Brynner is gloweringly glamorous as the villain. Helen Hayes is effective as the Empress, but her work, like much about this picture, has been scanted by the inept direction of Anatole Litvak. Director Litvak made his worst mistake in connection with Ingrid Bergman. Her acting is competent, but only now and then toward the end of the picture, almost as if by accident, can the moviegoer see what he probably will want most of all to see on the screen: the fact that, seven years after her abdication...
...acting in these romantic scenes as well as in the rest of the film is very difficult to evaluate. Beside the two principals, the picture displays some actors who have in the past shown much competence, including Yul Brynner as the villainous Pharaoh, Sir Cedric Hardwicke as his urbane father, Judith Anderson as a sinister royal servant, and John Derek as Joshua. But their performances here are hampered by the dialogue, a cheap sort of rhetoric that is meant to be elevated and "Biblical," but sounds only like ridiculous affectation. Nor does deMille's work as a director help...
...version of The Ten Commandments down to Samson and Delilah in 1949, he has made a lot of hay in the religious field. But DeMille has not been content to trust merely in God. He has crowded the giant Vista Vision screen with such stars as Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner. Anne Baxter. Edward G. Robinson. Yvonne de Carlo, Debra Paget, John Derek, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Judith Anderson, Vincent Price. Moreover, DeMille spent ten years in planning the picture, three years and $300,000 in research. After that, he spent almost three months in Egypt and the Holy Land, shooting...
...lived. Yet what he has really done is to throw sex and sand into the movie goer's eyes for almost twice as long as anybody else has ever dared to. He throws it very cleverly indeed. The dancing girls are numerous, nubile and explicitly photographed. Yul Brynner. as the Pharaoh, swaggering barelegged across the screen, will delight his millions of feminine admirers. Even Moses, a part in which Charlton Heston is ludicrously miscast, looks less like a man who staggers into the desert to find God than one who flies to Palm Springs to freshen...