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Word: cameos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...portrayal of humiliation.) The film has a great deal of violence, and a long, agonizing sequence in which Voight tortuously scales the face of a cliff. But ultimately "Deliverance" is most upsetting in its suggestion that civilize man has lost his primitive self-sufficiency. James Dickey has a chilling cameo as a small town sheriff; and yes, this is the movie that made "Dueling Banjos" a hit. (Though purists will note that the duel is actually between a banjo and a guitar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Cinema of Paradise: Carne, Bogart, Astaire ... ... Woody, Dustin, and Deliverance-- from finals | 5/4/1978 | See Source »

...theater group has an advisory board of faculty and administrators. W.C. Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen and one of the board members, said yesterday he believes "Shakespeare is something we should have here." Young has a cameo role in "Measure for Measure," playing a drunkard...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: Shakespeare Group Plans for Premiere | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Reiner probably knows what a wet noodle movie he's directed, and in a cameo appearance in Oh God! (as a guest on the Dinah Shore Show where Denver's character is being interviewed about his encounter with God), Reiner is reduced to making a series of funny faces into the camera, a pitifully desperate attempt for laughs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: To Hell With It | 1/11/1978 | See Source »

...portrayal of humiliation.) The film has a great deal of violence, and a long, agonizing sequence in which Voight tortuously scales the face of a cliff. But ultimately, "Deliverance" is most upsetting in its suggestion that civilized man has lost his primitive self-sufficiency. James Dickey has a chilling cameo as a small town sheriff; and yes, this is the movie that made "Dueling Banjos" a hit. (Though purists will note that the duel is actually between a banjo and a guitar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From Astronauts to the Executive Washroom | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...there cannot-and that is why Shaffer stalls his inevitable denouement by padding the film's doctor-patient scenes with flashbacks that detail Alan's past. Despite a nude appearance by Jenny Agutter and cameo performances by such fine actors as Colin Blakely, Joan Plowright, Harry Andrews and Eileen Atkins, Equus' digressions are little more than excuses to fetch popcorn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Horseplay | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

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