MAMBO
(Ponti-De Laurentiis) A Cert. | OOKING for brilliance which some | big names promise, you'll find that Mambo is not even, as some other Italo- | American productions have been, a very | interesting failure. Silvano Mangano, | whose beauty I’m always ready to ad- | mire, makes little of the girl who leaves | Venice to join the Katherine Dunham | dancers and, coming back, tries to choose | between Vittorio Gassman and Michael Rennie. As neither of these does much to improve on his reputation, the out- | come seems likely to be unhappy, and | is. Shelley Winters does well enough as| manager of the Dunham troupe, and_ Eduardo Cianelli (memorable in The | Stranger’s Hand) appears briefly; but only the radiant Miss Dunham and her dancers really catch fire. Director of | some fine films, Robert Rossen made this one from a script in which several writers had a hand. Later, I gather, it was extensively cut by someone elsewhich might not have been such a ae idea.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 15
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160MAMBO New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 15
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