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...groped around and finally found a candidate in Robert Morris, a McCarthy era witch hunter who heads a nearly defunct Texas college and came to the convention as a newspaper columnist. But Morris was not equal to the task of creating a "New Majority," and the rank and file AIP members prevailed with one of their own, someone who had "labored in the vineyards," former Georgia governor Lester Maddox...
...genre as well as a generation. All the details are here, from the do-whop music and lovingly customized cars to the slang, which hovered between Ivy League and street gang, and the clothes, which seemed, like the time, both shapeless and confining. Even the jokes come straight from AIP: "How'd you like a knuckle sandwich?" inquires a hood of a nervous, bespectacled sad sack outside the local hamburger drivein. "No, thanks," says the sad sack. "I'm waiting for a double Chubby Chuck...
Graffiti was shot in Techniscope, a wide-screen process that yields the authentic sandpaper grain of the AIP pictures, implying low budgets and quick takes. The vital difference is that Graffiti was photographed by Haskell Wexler, that most subtle and agile of cameramen. Most of the action takes place at night under harsh light and neon, a landscape that Wexler turns into extravagantly impressionistic honky-tonk images of glaring, insistent beauty...
...chronological, end of the 1950s-Graffiti provides a series of vignettes of the last night of summer. On the following day two of the local boys (Richard Dreyfuss and Ronny Howard) are set to leave for college. Howard and his girl (Cindy Williams) are surrogates for AIP's Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello, the straight-arrow guy and his girl, the latter a believer in early marriage and eternal obligation. Comic relief is provided by Charlie Martin Smith as the sad sack, and a glimpse into the classic cruising style by Paul Le Mat, who slides down the street...
Back in the Hollywood dream factory, AIP, the company responsible for all those beach-blanket movies, motorcycle epics and Vincent Price horror shows, is cashing in on the trend in its own way. Black Director William Crain recently completed shooting the first all-black vampire movie: Blacula...