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...Hill director Bo Widerberg commits the worst of all artistic crimes: dishonesty towards his subject. In what purports to be a dramatization of Joe Hill's history, he has invented, deleted, and rearranged the life and times of the IWW bard. Such exploitation might be forgivable in the name of dramatic license, but Widerberg turns his liberties in no particular direction. The editing (which Widerberg also did) muddies the development of theme and plot with arbitrary shifts in scene. The script (again his work) offers no possibility for growth or awareness in the characters. The film's tone is soft...
...especially successful in entertaining while filling out Widerberg's obscure motivations. Still, nothing could save this movie from the apathetic response it deserves. A film about such repression should move one to anger and tears; Joe Hill moves not at all. Hill said "Don't mourn for me," but Bo Widerberg slobbers all over his memory. It is dishonest biography and a worse film. Joe Hill...
Team members taking the trip are seniors Dave Sawyier, Pete Sutton and Bo Weisheit; juniors Gene LaBarre, Bill Mahoney; and sophomore John Canady, Steve Carr, Dave Fellows, Steve Row, Rick Smith and coxswain Dave Weinberg...
Working with these fragments of folklore and history, Swedish Film Maker Bo Widerberg has fashioned them into a touching tribute but an only intermittently successful film. 70e Hill works best in its early, New York City episodes. Joe falls in with an immigrant ragamuffin nicknamed "The Fox"-an Italian version of the Artful Dodger -who gives his friend harsh glimpses of life in the New World, where it is often necessary to steal food just to stay alive. Joe also meets a soft-eyed refugee named Lucia. They huddle together on the fire escape of the Metropolitan Opera, listening...
...London, commented somberly: "Over the past few years, the U.S. free-trade lobby has been very successful, generally speaking, in holding back the protectionist tide. That tide has now overtaken us temporarily-and we have to ask how long 'temporarily' will be." Belgium's Count Boël suggested: "I think the U.S. will remain faithful to a doctrine not of free trade, but of fair trade, to gain equality. We and the Americans recognize that the world has changed, that a new approach has to be made...