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...better than some of his more popular work. The cast for this laconic look at class conflict in the rural South includes Marlon Brando--playing the archetypal Southern sheriff--and young versions of Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. It's playing with G-Men, a film in which Jimmy Cagney switches from hood to FBI agent. Well, out of the pan and into the fire...
Serpico, playing at the Harvard Sq. this week with The Friends of Eddie Coyle, is the best police movie to come out of American studios since the days of Cagney and Bogart. It has its requisite amount of action and violence, but it also has more than its share of intelligence. The most amazing thing about the movie is how much Al Pacino (who's very good in the title role) looks like the real Frank Serpico. Serpico flew in from Switzerland a few months ago to endorse Ramsey Clark's Senate bid in New York and had people wondering...
...Sunday as part of the Welles's continuing "Heroes and Rebels" series. On the Waterfront is a marvellous bit of social reconstruction and Brando is at his best as the young fighter working on New York's racket-corrupted docks. Angles is a cliched period piece, certainly not near Cagney's prime...
There was nothing of Tweedledum, Tweedledee in the choice available to Pennsylvania voters last week for the Democratic nomination to the U.S. Senate. Indeed, reported TIME Correspondent Don Sider, it was more like Robert Redford v. James Cagney. Facing each other from opposite ends of the state were Pittsburgh Mayor Pete Flaherty, a lanky, blue-eyed charmer with an engaging grin and earnest air, and former state Insurance Commissioner Herbert S. Denenberg, a cocky, abrasive professor whose "Shopper's Guides" to buying insurance, legal-aid and medical services have made him a consumers' hero. In the end, Redford...
...Bride Came C.O.D. [1941]. A James Cagney-Bette Davis comedy. Ch. 56, 11:30 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...