“Will you teach me to dance?” asks Basil (Alan Bates) of Zorba (Anthony Quinn) in Michael Cacoyannis' immortal “Zorba the Greek.” And not even Fred and Ginger have tripped the light fantastic more effectively, more convincingly than this unlikely duo--a young English writer and Zorba, a local Greek islander, who is more filled with the love forliving than anything else (except for the ouzo he drinks, perhaps)! Smooth, slick, crude, the gregarious Zorba convinces Basil to invest in a mining venture, which, of course, proves disastrous, financially and otherwise. Along the way, however, young Basil learns more about life, about love, and, yes, even
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