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...devilish--and, although Hitchcock never really wrings the full terror out of it, terrifying. Cary Grant plays a Madison Avenue smoothie with a doting mother and a life of business luncheons who gets taken (figuratively, and literally) for a spy. "Nice play-acting, but it won't wash,' his abductor, a chillingly villainous James Mason tells Grant when he tries to clear up this misunderstanding. Grant breaks free, then does some romantic interluding with a seductive Eva-Marie Saint. But she turns out to be Mason's agent (although ultimately a double agent) and the persecution continues. Scary enough...
...although the touching ballad "Try to Remember" came from this show--and a sappy script spoil this simple parable before it can get off the ground. But with over 7,000 Off-Broadway performances and still counting, who's gonna argue with success? Overall a decent production, although narrator-abductor E1 Gallo hasn't got the voice and rakish looks the part demands. November 3, 4, 5 at 8 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...never given enough punch to be truly funny. We notice the humor, but we don't experience it. Similarly, the film as a whole is too inhibited to be exciting. Even an old-fashioned swashbuckling scene--Holmes dueling on the top of a train with Devereaux's abductor--lacks suspense. It's played for camp. The Seven Percent Solution is a study in half-tones; Ross apparently feels that nuance is more important than color...
Later that day, irrefutable proof of Murphy's capture arrived at the Constitution-in much the same form that the Hearst kidnapers have used to communicate with the world: a tape recording of the victim's voice. Speaking in clear and controlled tones, Murphy reported his abductor's motivation as the man, the only one who ever spoke during his long ordeal, had depicted it: "The A.R.A., as I understand it, feels that the American news media have been too leftist and too liberal. They intend to do something about that. That's the cause...
...nickname used by more than one radicalized black. The original Cinque was an African who in 1839 led a revolt aboard the slave ship transporting him to the U.S. The New York Post noted last week that the plot of Black Abductor, a novel of politics and pornography published in 1972, closely resembles the Hearst kidnaping. In the book, an heiress-coed named Patricia is held for ransom by a racially mixed group of radicals in America's "first political kidnaping...