Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1961)

For fuller reviews see photoplay for the months indicated. For full reviews this month, see page 86. (a— adult f — family) ALAMO, THE — U.A.; Technicolor, Todd-AO: Producer-director-star John Wayne turns a frontier legend into an epic as hulking and likeable as his screen self. He’s Crockett; Widmark is Bowie; Frankie Avalon sturdily tries to hold the fort, too. (F) January ANOTHER SKY — Harrison: As a reserved Englishwoman arriving in Marrakech, Victoria Grayson becomes infatuated with a young Arab and plunges into a strange world. Slow-paced and poetic; filmed in Morocco. (A) December BREATH OF SCANDAL. A— Paramount; Technicolor, VistaVision: Old-style Vienna romance between princess Sophia Loren and Yankee businessman John Gavin. Chevalier has the charm the film needs. (A) January BUTTERFIELD 8— M-G-M; CinemaScope, Metrocolor; Liz Taylor does her strongest acting in this bitter case study of a New York party girl, who hurts not only herself but her married lover (Laurence Harvey) and her despairing friend (Eddie Fisher). (A) December DARK AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS, THE — Warners, Technicolor: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, teenager Shirley Knight portray warmly the problems of an average family in Oklahoma of the 1920"s. (A) November G.I. BLUES — Paramount. Technicolor: Love troubles plague Army pals stationed in Germany, and — oh yes, one of ’em is that guy Presley, better than ever! His gal’s Juliet Prowse. Laughs, ten songs. (A) January GENERAL DELLA ROVERE— Continental : The Italian movie at its best, with director Roberto Rossellini, actor Vittorio de Sica in top form. As a debonair con artist in wartime Italy, de Sica is forced by Nazis to impersonate a hero. (A) January HIGH TIME — 20th; CinemaScope, De Luxe Color: Amiable campus musical casts Bing Crosby as a fifty ish freshman, Fabian as bis roommate, Tuesday Weld as a kookie coed. There’s one switch on the old college comedy: These students actually study! (F) December I’M ALL RIGHT, JACK— Columbia: Those sly British turn labor-management relations into a laugh-loaded shambles. As a shop steward, Peter Sellers creates a deadpan masterpiece, Ian Carmichael's a bumbler whose honesty starts a riot. (A) July INHERIT THE WIND— U. A.: Two great old pros, Spencer Tracy and Fredric March, argue over teacher Dick York's fate in a robust fiction version of Tennessee’s “monkey trial’’ of the 1920‘s. Reporter Gene Kelly covers a hot story — that still sizzles. (F) December LET NO MAN WRITE MY EPITAPH! Columbia: James Darren scores in a sordid but sentimental slum drama, as Shelley Winters’ son. Derelicts led by Burl Ives strive to save the boy from crime. (A) November MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE— U.A.; De Luxe Color, Panavision: Yul Brynner looks at home in a picturesque western, leading fellow gunmen Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz to gallant Mexican adventure. (F) January MIDNIGHT LACE— U-I, Eastman Color: Doris Day looks lovely and scared stiff in an eye-soothing, nerve-frazzling mystery. As wife of London financier Rex Harrison, she’s badgered by threatening phone calls. Myrna Loy’s her American aunt. (F) December NEVER ON SUNDAY— U.A.: Spirited Melina Mercouri dominates this saucy comedy as a Greek seaport trollop who’s happy with her work — until stuffy tourist Jules Dassin tries to reform her. (A) January SONG WITHOUT END— Columbia: CinemaScope, Eastman Color: Dirk Bogarde’s romantic good looks suit the role of composer-pianist Franz Liszt, whose life is seen as a piano concert and costume pageant, with stormy personal drama on the side. (A) September SPARTACUS— U-I; Technicolor, Super Technirama 70: Powerful, intelligently made saga of ancient Rome. Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis join leader Kirk Douglas in a slave rebellion against the corrupt empire symbolized by Laurence Olivier. (A) January STUDS LONIGAN — U.A.: Honest but not too well-organized realism. In Chicago of the 1920’s, young Christopher Knight keeps evading adult responsibility. (A) January SUNDOWNERS, THE — Warners, Technicolor: Happy, satisfying jaunt across Australia ranch country, with wandering sheepherder Bob Mitchum, wife Deborah Kerr, son Michael Anderson, Jr. (F) January SUNRISE AT CAMPOBELLO— Warners, Technicolor: Intimate closeup of the Roosevelt family during his battle with polio. Ralph Bellamy, as FDR, and Greer Garson, as his wife, give fine emotional performances — and accurate impersonations. (F) December SURPRISE PACKAGE— Columbia: Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor, as an American gangster and girlfriend exiled to a Greek island, breeze through a talky, funny thriller. Noel Coward's a witty unemployed king. (A) November SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON— Buena Vista; Technicolor, Panavision: Disney jazzes up the juvenile classic, as castaways John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, Jim MacArthur meet pirates and Janet Munro. (F) January 3 WORLDS OF GULLIVER, THE— Columbia, Eastman Color: Swift might not approve doctor Kerwin Mathews’ travels, but kids’ll like this mild fantasy. (F) January WHERE THE HOT WIND BLOWS— M-G-M: Sensation-filled, grimly amusing (for those not easily shocked). In a decadent Italian fishing village, Gina Lollobrigida evades Yves Montand’s clutches. 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