Word: beau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, what we have here is a little miracle of perseverance, all the more effective for the good-humored manner in which the story is presented. Beau Bridges does a pleasant turn as a white driver who becomes Scott's friend and, later, mechanic. Pam Grier, up out of the unlamented blaxploitation pictures of a few years back, is patient and supportive as Scott's long-suffering wife. Director Schultz, as he demonstrated in last year's Car Wash, has a loose, uninsistent style that gives the picture the quality of a yarn being retold on someone...
...LAST REMAKE OF BEAU GESTE...
...kidney pie of the Victorian detective romance in Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother year before last. Now we must somehow come to grips with another Brooks star turning director-writer in'order to send up a formerly beloved movie form in a show called The Last Remake of Beau Geste -which it probably...
...miliarity with the social usages of his na tive England and the accumulated non sense of the medium in which he works that generate the affectionate, and effective, contempt animating the first portion of Feldman's film. Even when he and it move further afield, following the disgraced Beau into his North Af rican exile as a legionnaire, there's some amusing game afoot. Peter Ustinov, as a sadistic sergeant, is equipped with a movable scar - not unlike Feldman's shifty hump in Frankenstein - and the director has given Ustinov and his horse matching peg legs...
...with only one. Tom Cadillac, so christened for his feat, was accidentally shipped in a Cadillac chassis from the U.S. to Australia-a seven-week trip at the time-and was still alive on arrival. He had eaten the engine grease and the car's instruction manual. Chat Beau, a four-year-old male, found his human family in Texarkana...