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...former crime reporter, now become a freelance crime buster, St. Ives toils away at being a novelist in his spare time. He has more of that commodity than he can handle, however, so when his attorney finds him an odd job, St. Ives snaps it up. An old richie up in Holmby Hills named Abner Procane (John Houseman) has had some journals stolen. St. Ives is commissioned as middleman in the trade-off of big bucks for large books, whose precise contents remain a mystery. As the caper proceeds, however, it becomes increasingly clear that whatever is in the books...
There were dog-eared screen magazines, antique baseball cards, some Beatles T shirts-and one genuine prewar space hero at New York's Second Annual Nostalgia Convention. Buster Crabbe, better known as fearless Flash Gordon since he filmed the 40 or so movie-serial episodes in the 1930s, was the top attraction at the three-day gathering of memorabilia hounds. A taut-looking 68 and the author of a new physical-fitness book called Energistics, Crabbe now pushes prefabricated swimming pools in Arizona, but he would not mind getting back into the flicks. Yet today, he says...
...tearjerker about a Southern construction crew does not sing on the page. Bourjaily lovingly describes the eventual performance as a smash success; yet it is impossible to imagine how a "solid, bass boom" of a voice could save the line: "I'll see you in the morning, Buster. Pleasant dreams...
Modestly ambitious. Lifeguard concerns the folkways and seductions of the California beach life. It means to be funny and a little sad, but Director Daniel Petrie (Buster and Billie) and Writer Ron Koslow share a point of view that slides and shifts like the tide. Their hero is a lifeguard named Rick (Sam Elliott), a 32-year-old beach veteran who gets most of what he requires out of life by patrolling along the water's edge. When Rick thinks he may want a little more than fresh air, sunshine, the chance to meet a few new girls...
...would have turned good drama into banal mush. Byrum hints that The Boy Wonder was not able to work in the talking pictures, and there is a nagging suspicion that The Boy Wonder must have been modeled on an actual Hollywood figure. The character recalls the Billy Brights and Buster Keatons of old Hollywood--the great talents discarded in their twenties and thirties, broken by the studio system--who ended up wasted and poverty-stricken...