TWO SENSELESS FILMS SAVED BY GOOD ACTING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01365R000300030006-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 29, 2004
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: May 31, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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BY SAM LESNER
Acting
Claudia Cardinale 'pops up in two films this week, both
times as a helpful sister to have . around, whether you're an
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th ...cU?$ Alain Delon and Anthony Quinn in "Lost Cowntand."
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the business of diverting an audience without really trying to I ~4'bLn ?.Quinn'S )utit to re?zctit :il. lLt Ic i q.'
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make any sense. of. ch,uacters, for service.; in Alger?> it is discovered that Lit{
"Lost Command" with a little more care in relating` its adsl Pltihidi is now, the leader of a farmitlublt band! of gucrrillasil
determined to drive the French out of Algeria:.
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"LOST COMMAND" "BLINDFOLD" MMtlliidi's sister is none other than M.ivs Cardinale, who is brut
s+.? Produced and directed by Mark Produced by Marvin Schwartz, di- ally cuffed, about by the jotmcriy 1'oni titlic Delon sshen hC!
Robson from a, screenplay by 'Nelson. rested by Philip Dunne from a Ica1?115 that she's involve(! In her brother Mabidi's. terrorist;
Gldding, based on the novel, "The screenplay by Dunne and W. H. Mep.,
Centurions," by Jean Lorteguy, photo- gar, based on a novel by Lucille ctivities.
..-graphed on locations. In Spain by Fletcher, photographed by Joseph Mac. { Indochina, Algeria and Claudia are written oft in a blazinli
Robert Surtees; presented I at the Donald; presented at the state Lake
woods Theater. Theater. two hours of war, with love playing only a very minor role.
THE CAST I THE CAST But I believe you'll remember flashing Claudia and coolly:
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AnihonY Quinn as U. Col. Raspe9ur. Dr. Bartholomew Sno Rock Hudson
.?? Vicky Vlncentl Claudia Cardinale magnificent Michele Morgan, who helps Quinn get back hit
0, lain Deas Captain Esclavler Fitzpatrick Guy Stockwga command more than ou will the assorted brave French ara
George GeorSegalegal as Lt. Mahldl General Prat Jack V (ardan ' y p
Michele Motean as Countess do Claire. Harrigan Drad Dexter , troopers who arc familiar war drama stock characters.
fons Smltty Ann Seymour'
Maurice RRonet as Captain Bolsfeuras Arthur Viucenti Alrlandro Rey Dien Bien Phu clearly led to Viet Nam today but you'd nevi
'Claudia Cardinale as Aicha Capt. Davis Hart. Rhodos
guess it from
"Lost Commilnd "
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venture drama to the present agonizing crisis in Viet Nam easily; , "BI INDFOLD, Miss Cardinale, its a Manhattan night
could have been turned into an informative. and valuable pieco chub chorine who aspires to better things, throws herself angrily;
of cinema history. at Rock Hudson. in Central Park. But Hudson, as a New York;
Instead,-however,'we,have Anthony Quinn as a soft of Sgti;socicty psychiatrist, is on a horse, and Claudia sustains such if
Quirt of a French paratroop unit. He portrays a lieutenant" badly. bruised knee that Dr. Hudson has to carry her to his!
fancy offices
colonel who doesn't stand on military formalities in getting his ,
doomed unit to inflict maximum casualties upon , the sneak} It turns out that Hudson has been pressured by U.S. inlclli
gence agents to secretly treat a mentally disturbed young Italian;
enemy. (,scientist who is ripe for defection with a head full of American;
Defeated in Viet Mum, captured and subsequently repatriate secrets,
to France, Quinn's unit is dishaiided. The fellow is Claudia's brother and she's hopping mind over,
AMONG 'i I t1 MORE l'orcetlil Iit kiting men in Quinn s unit 'shit she thinks is a kidnapping of the young man by Hudson.
anti CIA.
averc Alain Delon as a?. captain tvllo 'clings to a shred of moral.'
jt in wit ("It turns melt into animals!"), Maurice Ronet as act 'I?IiIS IS ItI!:Af.Y too silly to summarize any further, but
officer who 'prefers to kill the enciuy first and account for hiAI "`Rlnull'old" is deftly balanced between spy spoof and straight'
faced oiclud;'ama. with bursts of impudent humor in the most
actions later, aiid very impressive George Segal. as Lt.1 Mahidi,1
unexpected places.
an Arab. by birth, who returns to Algiers rather than to France," Ailigiltor-infested Florida swamps background much of the
but a French soldier whose bravery and loyalty could not btu ,lotion and the excellent supporting cast (keepyout eye on Guy.
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