Word: brawls
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...once, a director has been able to deal honestly with the life of a working-class woman, using neither pathos nor piquancy. Widowed by a beer brawl and left with two children, one illegitimate, Norma Rae is trapped in a one-industry, sexist little shitbox of a southern town. Her plight evokes far more sympathy than that of many recent feminist heroines like Erica from An Unmarried Woman or the French nymphets in One Sings, the Other Doesn't. While directors no longer trumpet forth about making black films, many still want to make women movies. Ritt escapes this well...
...that remained in the game was a brawl between Alan Litchfield and Cornell's John Olds--each received roughing majors and highsticking minors. All that remains in the season, fortunately, is a week and a half...
...into the ring, McDoniels is cheered on by his buddies. "I got 250 on you, Randy!" yells someone in the crowd. But Slaymaker takes the bout more seriously. Recently released from Arizona State Prison, where he served five years for manslaughter-he killed a man in an unscheduled barroom brawl over a pool game-Slaymaker kisses his friend McDoniels on the cheek before helping him into the ring. To no avail. A minute into the first round, the wild-swinging, grabbing McDoniels is in trouble. His opponent, Tom Salas, 30, steadily moves in, jabbing, and connects with a left cross...
...lowangle shots of Gregory Peck as the evil doctor, his camera set-ups are standard and static, the editing choppy and unrhythmical, the use of select German symphonies and thundering crescendos at the sight of Peck ludicrous. The pace is non-existent until the last twenty minutes, a bloody brawl between Peck and Laurence Olivier as an old Nazi-hunter, when it may be labeled "slow." The old men resort to biting each other, and the graphic shredding of Olivier's ear and Peck's hand detracts aesthetically from the suspense...
...Texas town (with a population of 34,000, v. 21,000 on the Arkansas side) is also the scene of a Keystone Kops brawl between the county sheriff and the district attorney, supported by the entrenched establishment. It might be amusing if they were not playing with a hefty amount of U.S. taxpayers' money...