Word: butcher
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...geniuses when we dream, the butcher the poet's equal there...
Worse, there isn't even much entertainment unless you're radical enough to want victory by one side or the other. The good guys and the bad guys alternately butcher each other bloodily until John Wayne is practically the only survivor. This could be a happy or a sad ending depending on how you choose to think...
...butcher named Bedřich (Vladimir Menšík) has been executed for practicing his art on his wife, whom he found in bed with her lover. The back-to-front story of the trial, his discovery, the murder, his jealous suspicions, the happy honeymoon, the wedding, their first meeting, etc. is made brain-bendingly complicated by being worked for ironies on three levels. First, the narrative of the butcher's life in conventional chronology is matched to the action in reverse chronology (he tells about graduating from school into the world while the camera shows him emerging...
...years after Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, thousands of small private businessmen continued to eke out a living, operating pushcarts or running groceries, bars, butcher shops and laundries. Up to last month, more than 55,000 such businesses were still struggling along, accounting for 25% of the island's $250 million worth of goods sold annually. Last week, capping a month-long campaign, Castro's government announced that this last, lonely bastion of capitalism has been all but wiped out and the dispossessed businessmen put to work in fields and factories. Cried the official newspaper Granma...
...lonely business, isn't it?" Commendably long on documentary detail about police procedure, Madigan is refreshingly short on sadism. Henry Fonda is at his uptight best as the up-from-the-ranks commissioner, so righteous that as a cop on the beat he sent back the butcher's Christmas turkey. Richard Widmark is engaging as the detective who lives "on the arm"-accepting all "police discounts." The skillful, dramatic use of Manhattan-indoors and out-should gladden the heart of Mayor John Lindsay and further his campaign to put a movie crew on every street in Fun City...