Word: busters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pictures in which the dynamic duo were ripped out of their natural Edwardian environment and improbably set to chasing Nazi spies during World War II-they never abandoned the expert standards they set in this, the first of their pairings, now re-released along with the great Buster Keaton silent Sherlock Jr. and an oddly touching interview with Conan Doyle...
...technique since his earliest films. The only plot that ever concerns him is the one in which he will be buried. His persona is still the kind of man whose profile should not be painted but wallpapered. His situations continue to bear traces of two Keatons. In this case, Buster is the right source; Diane is not. Allen's longtime companion is saddled with Lines that make her Groucho in bombazine ("Thank you, your grubbiness"). Because she cannot generate a style of her own, Keaton soon draws attention to the film maker's weakness: his movies, populated solely...
...ever be called wasted--he is our funniest actor, and when he is harnessed properly, one of our best. This Richard Lester movie comes close to using him correctly, and besides, it has three other extremely talented comedians working for it: Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and a battered depleted Buster Keaton. It never gets into the high gear which is part of its promise, but like all of Lester's work, it has a disciplined rambunctiousness and a feeling of fresh air. If Lester had been more comprehending of his actors' talents and given them the showcase they needed, instead...
Beckett's peculiar genius is to set up such Hobson's choices while squeezing them for all the farce they will yield. His is a Buster Keaton, deadpan humor that shrivels in the explaining. Mercier and Camier is as hilarious, in gasps, as anything he has written. The novel's coolly mannered prose disguises outrageous statements until the instant they land. There is also cruelty in Beckett's method (Mercier is comforted briefly by the sight of a dead and bleeding wom an) and surprising moments of compassion. When Mercier and Camier part, they lose...
...Drug Buster. Last week Governor Thomas Salmon was contemplating an extraordinary letter from Francis Murray, the Chittenden County (Burlington) prosecutor, asking him to pardon all 600 of those convicted on Lawrence's testimony. Lawrence, the prosecutor pointed out, faced up to 16 years in prison after being found guilty of turning in false arrest affidavits and giving false information to a police officer. The big drug buster apparently arrested anyone he was suspicious of, often supplying the narcotics evidence himself and claiming he had made a buy from the alleged pusher. Judges, and in a few cases even juries...