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...measures taken to put down the uprising, decided on religious grounds to side with the rebels. So did the nun and her two priest friends, who met one day in November with a guerrilla leader in the village of Escuintla. When the Maryknoll superior in Guatemala, Father John M. Breen, heard of the meeting, he ordered the missionaries to stay out of politics or return to the order's headquarters in Ossining, N.Y. Instead, Sister Marian and the Melville brothers flew to Miami and then apparently doubled back to Mexico-where they have since been joined by their student...
That Sinatra is no Bogart is hardly news. What is more to the point is that neither Screen Writer Richard Breen nor Director Gordon Douglas affords him much opportunity to be Sinatra, an attractive enough role under proper auspices. Instead, he sleepwalks through the baroque entanglements of a plot involving a millionaire's daughter in hot water, some jewelry stolen and forged, and a veritable menagerie of dope addicts, lesbian strippers, crooked nightclub owners, exasperated cops and good-hearted lushes...
Tony Rome is the best thing Frank Sinatra has ruined since Mia Farrow. As in her case, though, it isn't all Sinatra's doing. Richard Conte, Jill St. John, Simon Oakland and Gena Rowlands, among the cast, plus screenwriter Richard Breen and director Gordon Douglas, have given Rome their...
Screenwriter Richard Breen establishes his nowness with lines like "That's one thing you can't blame on Lyndon Johnson" (Sinatra to Oakland, whose jewels have been stolen) and "You interested in acid, pot or banana peels?" (a character called Fat Candy who's a prostitute...
What makes the screenplay really inferior is not its dialogue but its structure. To Breen's credit, he has spared no violence and omitted no possible crime; but the script completely lacks a sense of pacing (a lack that is suitably reinforced by director Douglas, and finalized in the cutting room). Following Sinatra's fast, complicated search for villains becomes practically impossible, because the leads from one day's work to the next are always contained in inaudible, or highly forgettable, bits of dialogue...