Word: caan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents, she begins her odyssey. Calling her husband from a gas station on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, she announces that she is frightened, confused and pregnant. She loves him but wants time to think. So she drives slowly through a Pennsylvania autumn, picking up a hitchhiker named Kilgannon (James Caan) who turns out to be a retarded college-football player with a plate in his head. He has been promised a job by the father of an old college girl friend, but the girl's family greets him with ridicule. Another job as a handyman on a reptile farm falls...
This may not have been precisely the way Producer George Edwards and Director Curtis Harrington produced the twelve-page story outline they gave Scriptwriter Gene Kearney, but it is about the way things worked out. Old Pro Signoret walks handsomely through her part. Youngsters James Caan and Katharine Ross walk woodenly through theirs. Estelle Winwood makes an all-too-brief appearance as a nutty ailurophile. About the only fun in Games is the eye-beguiling set-supposedly a Manhattan brownstone at 11 East 64th Street, equipped with penny-arcade machines, fun-house mirrors, pre-Columbian sculpture, a pearl-inlaid...
After the races, there are indoor sports at a Holiday Inn motel, played by a cast of hopefuls whose faces radiate the glossy anonymity of people in television commercials. Confusion is compounded by the fact that nearly every actor resembles someone else. James Caan, as a jealous driving champion, idles along in the Beatty-Newman-Brando tradition. Marianna Hill plays the Leslie Caron part, a French waif passed along to Caan by his track rival James Ward, who is a ringer for Doug McClure, who looks like Troy Donahue. Both on the track and in the sack, Red Line...