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Movie Critic Review: Zorba The Greek (1964)

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" All right, we go outside where God can see us better." Alexis Zorba "God has a very big heart but there is one sin he will not forgive; [slaps table] if a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go. I know because a very wise old Turk told me." Alexis Zorba --------------------------------   Zorba (Anthony Quinn) with a lascivious look lays the gentle order, ' Two beds Madam. Without bugs! ' Mme Hortense defiantly tilts her head and answers proudly, ' Mme has not THE bugs! ' Anthony Quinn The bookish intellectual Basil  (Alan Bates)  who  has appeared unaffected  by  the collective vertigo experienced on the boat taking them to Crete,  did not seem interested in this outward  and stimulated first-time exchange between his newly-found companion, a robust natural philosopher named Alexis Zorbas and this old  lady who rushed  Lila Kedrova to offer them her  hospitality services in her own ( Marriot ) of a d...