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With the exception of one callow actor, the picture's youngster is Kirk Douglas, 54, playing with an outrageous auburn hair rinse and grinning like a Steinway with 88 white keys. He and the rest of the over-the-hill gang try to bust out of a federal pen presided over by Warden Henry Fonda, a lame graybeard with advanced ideas about penology. These notions are the only flickers of intelligence in the film...
...cellblock C at Brushy Mountain Penitentiary n Petros, Tenn. But Warden Lewis Tollett keeps a special eye on the man who is serving 99 years for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and vows that he will never escape. Indeed, Ray, 42, would need a miracle to bust out of Tennessee's only maximum-security prison, a stark structure of white stone in the rugged Cumberland Mountains, where inmates used to dig coal round the clock for 25? a ton. Things are far better now, but only a masochist would try to get away...
During his short tenure, law students reacted with varying degrees of intensity to controversies over grade reform, the University Hall bust, the disciplining of black law students and the invasion of Cambodia...
...after the bust of University Hall in the Spring of 1969, for instance, he said, "This is the saddest day in my life. It's terrible to see the community you've been involved in all your life turned on its eats." He reportedly joined three other deans the night before in asking President Pusey to reconsider his decision to call in the police...
...Mankiewicz made his last movie, an updating of Volpone called The Honey Pot, in 1967, but this new western finds this American director in the same cynical place he was when he left off. Crooked Man is about a bunch of convicts in a western territory who try to bust out of jail. The point of view here is jaundiced to say the least; no one is to be trusted. Everybody is in the cast and everybody does well. Among them are Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Arthur O'Connell, Hume Cronyn, Burgess Meredith, Warren Oates, and Lee Grant. The screenplay...