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Word: abourdiet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a year after it opened and ignominiously folded across the country. Then it was touted as a companion film to Steve Spellberg's Sugarland Express: both rural road movies with a fifties atmosphere, both by young and unknown directors. Spellberg's film, which was lighter and more abourdiet, was a success, and Spellberg has just made the biggest box-office movie of all time. Terry Malick, who made Bedlands, would have submerged again but for somehow flanging this re-lease, and no doubt being pleased that a bally of critics have sung its praises to the skies upon...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: THE SCREEN | 8/15/1975 | See Source »

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