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Point Blank is one of those forgettable movies in which only the settings change-the violence remains the same. The first setting is deserted Alcatraz, where Lee Marvin lies in a cell, badly wounded and flashbacking like mad. Lee, his wife (Sharon Acker) and a friend have just hijacked a helicopter load of cash that some criminal syndicate had tried to deliver, for obscure reasons, to the abandoned prison. Friend and wife, however, have cut Lee out of the deal by pumping him full of lead -but not enough lead, apparently, to interfere with his swimming to the mainland...
...Rock." The term has been a designation for many places by men suffering from civic disability-Alcatraz, Guam, Oahu-but the old original Rock was Gibraltar, that whale-headed monolith that was a minor prize and major symbol of the British Empire in its grandest days. Mocked the anti-imperialist Catholic poet Chesterton: "Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain, and attached to its base is the district of Spain...
SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m. to conclusion). Bird Man of Alcatraz. Burt Lancaster plays Robert Stroud, a convicted murderer whose 43 years of solitary confinement were spent studying and writing about the habits of caged birds...
...hours to 40, raised average pay from $1,680 a year to $6,000. Armed guards are giving way to a higher proportion of specialists in remedial reading and vocational training. Overcrowding has ended with 14 new institutions, including camps and reformatories. Last year Bennett closed grim, antique Alcatraz, replacing it with a far more efficient installation in Marion, III., which embodies the best in prison architecture, a subject on which Bennett has written the only available book...
...Best Actor: Burt Lancaster for Bird Man of Alcatraz, Jack Lemmon for Days of Wine and Roses, Marcello Mastroianni for Divorce-Italian Style, Peter O'Toole for Lawrence of Arabia, and Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird. Peck has been nominated five times, but he has never won an Oscar. Mastroianni is the first foreign actor ever nominated for best actor for a performance in a foreign-language film...