Word: cameos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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COLUMBIA--The Lions had an outstanding team of international talent last fall and still failed to make the Ivy first division. Gone is All-American Len Renery at midfield and also gone are cameo stars Rocco Commisso, Omar Chamma and Mike Vorkas...
...charm so winning, that it is not difficult to see how she could be so many things to the men and to Leo. Alan Bates is an earnest Burgess (similar to his shepherd in Far From The Madding Crowd); Edward Fox (James's brother?) puts in a fine cameo as the scarred Trimmingham. The young Dominic Guard is suitably discomfited and ruddy as Leo. All are bathed in photographer Gerry Fisher's impeccable lighting, while Michel Legrand contributes an appropriate formal--and lovely--musical score...
...performers. Al Pacino, a New York stage actor making his movie debut, is good, although he has yet to scale down his stage mannerisms to the closer dimensions of films. Kitty Winn performs with meticulous naturalism, and there is a gallery of strong secondary performances, including a nice cameo by Alan Vint as a tough, low-key narc. But even such sensitive, finely observed acting cannot provide the depth of insight or sympathy that The Panic in Needle Park so badly needs...
Sophomore Tony Herdemain has made several flashy pick-ups at shortstop, although he has blown seven throws to first. And if you prefer cameo performances. Tony Kubek's cousin, Joe, will be in the Springfield bullpen...
...precisely the kind of independent, deeply personal project that American film making badly needs. Wanda is at moments telling and moving, but unhappily it is unsuccessful overall. It lacks a point of dramatic focus and a forcefulness that would have made it into a memorable character study in cameo...