Word: casted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poor pulchritudinous Elizabeth Ray, 36, the only aspiring actress who was ever non-type-cast. Ray went into show biz after flopping as a non-typist for powerful Ohio Congressman Wayne Hays. Both Ray and Hays lost their jobs following revelations of their great and good friendship. Ray has tried since to make it in the theater. Last week she opened at Manhattan's Riverboat in a nightclub act that was, just possibly, worse than her typing...
...case of Hawks, useful only to the degree that they could become one of the boys. Again excepting the versatile Hawks, they had trouble-as Wayne himself did-in making persuasive films when they moved away from open spaces and distant times. Half of Wayne's later films cast him in roles that had nothing to do with cows and horses, Indians and gunslingers...
...peasants are permitted only predictable reactions to clichéd situations. Nor does Olmi allow his characters the chance to talk, however inarticulately or apolitically, about the matters of life, death and love that perpetually confront them. Presumably he has no idea what they would say. Since he has cast inexpressive non-actors in the roles, the faces on-screen do not fill in the thoughts and emotions that are absent in the script...
Quite apart from Dale, this is a top-hole cast. There are some problems inherent in the play. Peter Nichols (Joe Egg, The National Health) has really scrambled three plays here- a sequel to Oh! What a Lovely War, a sequel to The Boys in the Band and an indigenous British product of the past quarter-century that might be called Britannia Rues the Waves. This is a form of retroactive remorse for colonialist sins that one no longer possesses the power to commit. If Maggie Thatcher succeeds in turning England around, she may sound taps for a generation...
Director Arthur Hiller (Silver Streak) keeps the cast in tight control, and that is all he does. He misedits the slapstick sequences, bathes every scene in pasty white light and seems incapable of placing the camera in its proper position. Then again, maybe it is just as well that there is not a first-rate film maker behind The In-Laws. Had someone directed this movie for all it is worth, the audience might never get up from the floor...