Word: burtness
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...shows than he cares to remember. His face, at least, was memorable-a rubber stamp for Marlon Brando's. But his name did not become a household word until last spring, when he posed in the hirsute buff for Cosmopolitan magazine. Now, unliberated housewives shamelessly tape Burt Reynolds' sinewy centerfold to their refrigerators the way their hubbies paper tool sheds with "Playmate" pullouts...
...result is probably the most concentrated attack on this brand of religious Americana that has ever been filmed. Robert Mitchum may have been sinister as the "love-hate" preacher in The Night of the Hunter, but he was at least demented. Burt Lancaster may have been a tainted exploiter in Elmer Gantry, but that was at least fiction. Marjoe is very real and very chilling, an unholy innocent who seems to see himself as nothing more than a Peck's Bad Boy, a flimflam man of God who gives good service in return for his dollar. Marjoe believes...
...down to his white socks and rumpled plaid shirt, is required at one point to shoot himself in the foot with his police special, an ancient bit of business that he contrives to make fresh. The hero of the film, if there is one, is Burt Reynolds, who displays an enviable sense of comic timing and a shrewd sense of self-parody. One scene in which Reynolds and his partner (Jack Weston) attempt a cross-examination while dressed in nuns' habits is so funny that it be longs in another movie...
...three of the four men, the trip into the wilderness is something of a lark. For Lewis (Burt Reynolds) it is a ritual and a trial. He tells his best friend Ed, played by Jon Voight: "Machines are gonna fail. The system's gonna fail. And then-survival...
Each of the four lead performances is exceptional, none more so than Burt Reynolds' beefy, supercilious Lewis...