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With Bonnie and Clyde, Beatty's chance to tell a story in his own way arrived. He didn't fool around. "He bund the script and brought it to me," says Director Jenn. "He put together the financing and did the casting jointly with me. Warren is a great fighter. Warner Bros, didn't like Bonnie and Clyde and released it poorly. Warren got in there and reorganized the advertising and the release pattern. He made himself a real pain in the ass to the people at Warner's. 'Why do we have to deal with this good-looking actor...
...against seagoing megalomaniac who captures nuclear subs belonging to both East and West and plans to destroy world: shades of Diamonds Are Forever. Lots of underwater stuff: Thunderball. Also skiing: On Her Majesty 's Secret Service. (Think about: Curt Jurgens, as megalomaniac, pronounces O07's name Bund. This hint he's crypto-Nazi? Farfetched, but can anything be too farfetched in a film like this...
...someone giving up coke, and Duvall's Watson resembles a vaudeville Englishman, all jowls and bluster. This excess is echoed in the accents of Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave (who plays the abducted actress) and Georgia Brown (Frau Freud), who sound as if they are revving up to address a bund rally. Joel Grey also appears, but so briefly that he accents nothing. The ace in this poorly shuffled deck is, no surprise, Olivier. He has not often done comedy on screen, but his extravagantly funny Moriarty is a creation of wit and invention...
...Howe suggests, opened them to the socialist organization brought by radicals arriving from Warsaw and Vilna after 1905. Socialism became for the Jews a belief, as idealistic fervor, which, the immigrants hoped, would bring the actuality of their American world closer to their original vision of it. The new Bund leaders snatched their chances in the shirtwaist makers strike of 1909 which made of a brave but undisciplined group of female shopworkers the members of a recognized ILGW union and a year later, in the cloak-makers strike which transformed the unionists of the men's clothing industry into...
...proclaimed on October 1, 1949--a gorgeous vast expanse of people chatting or walking in the summer evening. In Shanghai there had been the early morning crowd of exercisers, and at night people playing cards or talking in the middle of the street, and the couples standing on the Bund watching the river, and sometimes boys shouting "Hello" or "Okay" because that was all the English they knew. In the countryside there had been the chickens and the children. But in Canton, for the first time, I got lost...