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...then, there is the case of another filmmaker, a generally unknown AIP director by the name of Larry Buchanan. Mostly Buchanan's directed bike pictures-thinks called Hell-Raiders -and crime stories-like A Bullet for Pretty Boy. But after a long lunch, he will take you back to his office-cutting room and ask your opinion of his dream project, a film tentatively called The Rebel Jesus...
...does the film equal its pictorial quality. But perhaps Wuthering Heights was, like its principals, frustrated from the start. Its distributors, American International Pictures, saw it as "a youth-oriented picture," suggesting groovy moors and Now people suffering Then hang-ups. Its significance is, finally, not aesthetic but historic. AIP, former king of motorcycle and beach-blanket flicks, has become a leader of the romantic backlash. In one fell swipe, it has disavowed its sleazy origins, bypassed the grind houses and landed the distributors' dream. Wuthering Heights will open at the ultimate Temple of Memory, Radio City Music Hall...
Beyond the simple history and mild comedy that its twin bill offers Hoffman-Voight fans, American International Pictures deserves an additional salute from the industry. Eyes fixed on the rear-view mirror and hands planted in the cash register, AIP has devised a unique way to greet the '70s, ringing in the now by wringing...