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...flood stanched with the arrival of talking pictures in the late 1920s. Hollywood saw the Babel of exotic accents as one more earnest of its cosmopolitan reach. And so Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer brought their suavity from France; Marlene Dietrich (Germany), Hedy Lamarr (Austria) and Ingrid Bergman (Sweden) helped Garbo flesh out the fantasy of the European woman. From south of the border Carmen Miranda brought her fruity headdresses, Gilbert Roland his purring machismo. Half of England, it seemed, played cricket every Sunday in Griffith Park. And with bitter thanks to Adolf Hitler, Hollywood welcomed hundreds of refugees from...
...shake things up, it took another wave of immigrants: the influx of sophisticated foreign films in the late '50s and early '60s. Soon every young Hollywood hotshot wanted to make movies just like Fellini's, or Bergman's, or Francois Truffaut's. A picture's subject could be uniquely American, but its style would be self-consciously "artistic" (read European). Two Hollywood hits of 1967 strikingly assimilated these international trends: Bonnie and Clyde, originally offered to Truffaut to direct, and The Graduate, in which Berlin-born Director Mike Nichols ransacked the mannerisms of a dozen art- house auteurs to tell...
...characters. Rick Blaine, for example, was born in Omaha in 1900. Before Casablanca and the Cafe Americain, he played football at the University of Nebraska, organized farm workers in California, fought against fascism in Spain and played the black market in Paris. There he met Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman), a language teacher and daughter of a bankrupt Swedish count, who will survive the war to subtitle Ingmar Bergman films, model for Edward Hopper and become Dag Hammarskjold's assistant. She died with the Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1961 when their plane crashed in Africa. Blaine, a probable...
...Writer Bergman has a million of these one-liners, and Actor Chase, whose funniest movie this is, has a way with them that is very ingratiating. He falls about a bit in his patented manner, but basically he keeps surprising ) with the competence that lies just beneath his disarming air of distractedness. In the classic dramas of private investigation, the cheeky quip is the tough guy's challenge to toughness. In Fletch the quick, smartly paced gags somehow read as signs of vulnerability. Incidentally, they add greatly to the movie's suspense. Every minute you expect the hero's loose...
Saves--s, Tom Nims, 14. H, Mike Bergman...