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Show Seare By Jim The Oscar" "The Ten Commandments Actually this movie should get four stars, it's so bad it's good. At either end you are treated to all the flaming splendor and pageantry of the Academy Awards ceremony. In between the treats are of a different nature. Stephen Boyd is the dirty rat star who claws his way to the top leaving behind a string of broken hearts as long as the Kansas Turnpike. Vivid characterizations from all concerned as the movie descends with lightning speed into hilarious self parody. ickick Excellent krkk Good irk Fair Poor If dont you want a good time m'ss it. StueUo Weekend at Dunkirk kk "366,000 allied soldiers trapped with the sea on one side, German armies on the and a beachhead of not since between The Longest Day has a mo tion picture recaptured such a dramatic moment of courGet the age and glory. The picture? Longest Day still holds the distinction for being the world's longest other hell in . . -- . . . newsreel. Its true, Weekend at Dunkirk cant approach that, but they try. Jean-PauBelmondo, a fine actor, is wasting his time here and l Catherine Spaak is there for name only. Those were trou bled times all right, and theres plenty of action to prove it. (Z&fiitcl-'TKot&'i-'l- In a national survey ducted by the con- J. Wood Research Company, 14 of people queried rated The Ten Commandments as the greatest motion picture of all time. If nothing else, its the all longest picture of all time . other movies may take more of your time but nothing has yet to equal The Ten Commandments when it comes to sheer dragged-oulength. Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Edward G. Robinson lead a cast of thousands through a movie grimly based on the . t holy scriptures, "and other ancient and modern writ- - Soutkatf 'nSs- The Birds A. Madame X If you cried at Stella Dallas youll sob your heart out in Madame X. In Madame X you get catharsis like mother used to make poor Lana Turner is abused and abused until youre sure that no further indignity could be conceived that they could heap on her. Thats where youre wrong, those good old fashioned abuses never stop. . . (Remember when Lowell Lillian Gish Sherman kicked out of the house in Way Down East . . . remember how you rememcried and cried how ber everything worked out in the end . remember . . . . . Madame X.) You may like The Alphabet Murders and Marnie irk The Birds is probably Alfred Hitchcocks worst movie. If it wasn't for The Birds the honor would be held by Marnie. Together they make for a pretty disappointing night at the movies, if you like Hitchcock. Noneof Hitchcocks clever touches can be in found in either one fact Marnie looks like it could have been made by Otto Preminger. But stay, theyre still worth seeing. Hitchcock flat on his face is still something to s w . 'Kti-gedu- Hd . it. kkVi Cat Ballou 'j Cat Ballou has a lot of fun making fun of westerns. It's a movie that consists of gag lines . . . the time between spent setting up the next one. The gags, fortunately, are magnificent . Lee Marvins . . staggering drunk into a funeral, shouting "happy birthday, and proceeding to blow out the candles, ranks as one of the funniest scenes in movie history Marvin, who bagged the Academy Award for his efforts, leads a fine cast including Jane Fonda and Dwayne Hickman. The horse is good, too. ieUto-iUa- The A.BC. Murders was one of Agatha Christie's finest mystery novels. It's too bad that Frank Tashlin decided to climb aboard the spy burlesque bandwagon and made a comedy out of Randall is new comic Hercule Poirot and Robert Morley his bumbling assistant. Neither come off too well. Morley especially has to wrestle with some of the dullest lines ever written. This movie could have been it. Tony . a lot . . better than it is. ud u. the guide, may 12, 1966 page 18 |