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...Establishment young. Three years ago last week, a protest demonstration over whether the park belonged to the University of California or the street people and students erupted into an appalling melee between students and police. One man died, another was blinded. The university covered part of the plot with asphalt and bounded it with an 8-ft.-high fence...
This sleazy remake of John Huston's fine The Asphalt Jungle is cast primarily with blacks, but the men who made it-Scenarist-Director Barry Pollack, Producer Gene Gorman-are white. Their interest is not so much in reaching the new-found black audience (TIME, April 10) as in exploiting...
...Asphalt Jungle was a taut and precise study of the way a robbery went wrong as a result of the psychological quirks of the perpetrators. In Cool Breeze, the gang is given a vaguely altruistic motive (the money from the job will go to start a "black people's bank"), which once proposed is rapidly forgotten. Pollack's script uses this political ploy as a kind of sop, an attempt to make the gang not merely crooks but criminal revolutionaries...
...Beaucoup hot," said one trooper, looking at the heat waves rising from the asphalt highway, which was pitted and cracked from the mortar shelling...
More Realism. Prompted by the success of the original, most of the studios are going blackface with adventure films. Parks and company are now shooting Shaft's Big Score for MGM, which just released Cool Breeze, a black version of The Asphalt Jungle. Warner's, with Charleston Blue in the works, is planning a series of black "active adventure comedies." Universal and Fox will contribute their own versions of the black private-eye story. A bit more imaginative, Columbia has a black western, Buck and the Preacher, ready for spring distribution; it is directed by Sidney Poitier...