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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longueurs of the rest of the film. The Last Valley wanders into confusion. Caine leaves Sharif in charge of the town, and Sharif, too "humane" to kill the priest and the merchant, falls prey to their machinations. A cogent ambivalence is presented but finally discarded: Caine has advocated the burg's destruction during the spring thaw, feeling that its inhabitants were under the thumbs of their traditional leaders, and that it would merely become a refuge for future foes. Sharif-perhaps enchanted by the mere physical beauty-opposes him. Caine is finally ambushed, which would have proved him correct...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Movies The Last Valley at the Gary | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...little boy was timorous, overattached to his mother, and the victim of two badgering sisters. Now, say academy staffers, he is "quite a tiger." (A few days before socking his father, he had flailed away at a sister.) The transformation is typical of changes wrought by Sumner ("Mike") Burg, an unpretentious man whose lack of professional credentials has not kept him from winning the respect of psychoanalysts and psychiatrists. Using his remarkable rapport with insecure children and adults, Mike builds their self-confidence by teaching them to use their bodies more effectively in individual and team sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Therapy in the Gym | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

...Richard Burg helm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The New Season: Perspiring with Relevance | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...first production is entirely self contained except that a Brecht play is being used. A foot is in the door here too. The music was written by Bradley Burg. who is presently writing a musical with Eric Bentley; it is Mr. Bentley's translation of A Man's A Man that is being used...

Author: By Michael B. Wallace, | Title: Theatron: A Novel College Theatre Concept | 2/24/1970 | See Source »

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