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Widely celebrated in Greece, The Fear has not traveled well. Veteran viewers of French and Italian peasant dramas need not be reminded that the pastoral scene contains as much violence as the city. Writer-Director Costas Manoussakis includes several countryside shots as primitive and beautiful as a cave painting, but most of the time his grossly photographed story seems less written than plowed; his actors are rarely given more to do than grunt and stare emptily at the fallow land. In this case, its dramatic surface has barely been scratched...
Mayor Teddy Kollek's municipal government has lifted the nightly curfew, and cool jazz echoes once more through cobbled alleyways from the Cave du Roi and Les Caves discotheques...
...leave. At 4 a.m., before the horrified host, the guests loosen their jackets, gowns and coiffures and abruptly bivouac on the floor. The next morning they discover that somehow they cannot leave the room. Days go by. Their amusement becomes annoyance, then terror. Like miners entombed in a cave-in, they first cry out, then slowly sink into apathy. An old man dies; a young couple commit suicide. Occasionally someone screams to break the clamorous silence...
Disguised Footprints. At first, Itō and his fellow stragglers ate raw breadfruit and coconuts and lived in a cave. None of them was a woodsman, and none had gone through even a basic survival course in the Imperial Army. (Itō was the son of a well-to-do farmer and had an eighth-grade education.) Slowly they learned to adapt themselves to jungle life, and their habits changed...
...that they occasionally managed to kill. They kept an eye on the U.S. base -and on its garbage dump, which they sometimes raided for supplies. Using discarded tools and old tires, they fashioned round, oversized sandals that both protected their feet and ingeniously disguised their footprints. Deciding that a cave was too obvious a hiding place, they slept under rudimentary lean-tos in jungle thickets, constantly changing locations to avoid discovery by the one enemy who knew the jungles as well as they did: Guam's native Chamorro tribesmen, whom the Americans had assigned to clear the island...