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...ZORBA THE GREEK. The heart and soul of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel are brought roaringly to life by Anthony Quinn, as the wicked old brute who teaches a timid essayist (Alan Bates) to put away his books and plunge into real trouble...
Usually Greeks don't gripe in movie theaters. But last week in Athens packed houses were howling, hissing, booing and whistling in disgust. Zorba the Greek was having its first showings. What the audiences took most unkindly to were scenes that portrayed the people of a small village in Crete uniting to support the knife slaying of a young widow outside church and the robbing of a harlot on her deathbed. "Cretans should do something. This is disgraceful," declared Athens' daily Estia. The Pan-Cretan Union in Athens declared the film monstrous and insulting...
...ZORBA THE GREEK. An uproarious Bacchanalian bash out of Nikos Kazantzakis' novel, superbly acted by Anthony Quinn as the wild old goat whose life is a series of total disasters...
...ZORBA THE GREEK. An uproarious Bacchanalian bash based on Nikos Kazantzakis' novel and superbly acted by Anthony Quinn as the wild old goat whose life is a series of total disasters...
...book ends as the Englishman learns of Zorba's death. In the film both of them rediscover life. Their mine has failed, and their projects for hauling down wood ended in disaster. The women they have made love to are dead. The two men join hands and dance...