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...frontiersman's traditional snake bite remedy came in a bottle, and was shown, years ago, to be bad medicine. Alcohol increases the blood flow in the extremities and thus helps to spread the poison. Now a Florida surgeon suggests that the currently fashionable technique, combining a tourniquet with crosswise incisions and sucking out the venom, may not be much better. His recommendation: cut out a piece of flesh at the bite site...
Miami's Dr. Clifford C. Snyder got interested in the toxicology of snake venoms after his prized dog died of a rattlesnake bite. In the laboratory he extracted snake venom, purified it, laced it with radioactive iodine-131, and injected it into the hind legs of dogs. Most of the venom stayed in the immediate area of an untreated wound for about 20 minutes, Dr. Snyder found, but with a tourniquet around the leg it stayed in place almost twice as long. Crosscutting and suction removed very little venom, so Surgeon Snyder decided that the most effective...
...whimsy is flimsy in this filler thriller, but the bulldog idea never quite lets go, and the last scene has real comic bite. When the Kremlin finally twigs the Trojan dog, poor Stanley is captured by some nasty-looking Russian agents and, while still in a coma, transformed by Russian surgeons into history's first Trojan jackass...
...beyond the comprehension of innocent minds. Mark Twain and Grimm succeeded by stressing the differences between the child's and the adult's world. Disney perhaps would have been incapable of tackling such subjects without diminishing in some measure-as he did with Mary Poppins-their hard bite of inner reality. He stressed the sameness of the two worlds, ignored or abolished the differences, reconciled the generations. If at times the results were mawkish, Disney scarcely gave it a thought. He saw his own role as the fantasist animating the warm dreams that men and children refuse...
This, Wilder's 20th movie, both climaxes and redeems a career that has produced such diverse films as The Lost Weekend and Some Like it Hot. It embodies all that is best in Wilder: the polish of Sabrina, the bite of Ace in the Hole, and the sentimentality of The Apartment. Plus it adds a new brick to Wilder's pile: understatement...