Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Washington gazes benignly out from the $1 bill; Abe Lincoln graces the $5; Alexander Hamilton the $10; and even Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, lives in the eyes of Americans-though not too many of them-on the $10,000 bill. Thomas Jefferson has had a deuce of a time. Since 1869, his face has adorned the $2 bill, but folks have never really warmed up to the twosies. In the days of freewheeling ward politics, a $2 bill was often taken as a sign of a bought vote; shopkeepers found them increasingly bothersome...
...adamantine that Jennifer Jones broke her hand slapping his face in a scene from Ruby Gentry. Furthermore, it is a virtuous, earnest face that most women would not want to slap. In his films, he is usually too busy dabbing away at a Sistine ceiling or chasing chariots to chase girls...
...Scenarists Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove (who wrote the 1962 Broadway musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) dress hip gags in a graceful English manner, and their wayward humor brightens train wrecks, horse-and-buggy chase scenes and a hearse-to-hearse search for missing bodies. Among the grimly gay daguerrotypes at hand are Peter Cook and Dudley Moore as a pair of craven city cousins. Peter Sellers, as a sawbones who specializes in questionable cases, looks like a depraved caricature of Benjamin Franklin, while Wilfrid Lawson all but steals the show as a loyal...
...chase that Hitchcock milks for suspense fails because the audience's attention is allowed to wander from the heroes, Paul Newman and Julie Andrews, to the previously unseen leader of an underground group. Also, the suspense menace (another pursuing bus) is not made convincingly menacing. The climactic theatre sequence where Newman and Andrews avoid the East Berlin police by creating a fire disturbance shows Hitchcock efficiently going through his paces--he has filmed variations of the same scene in four earlier pictures--but without his usual inventiveness. The final ocean-liner scene, where the fleeing physicists are found hiding...
...Torn Curtain ultimately fails because the conflicts between Newman and Andrews are neatly resolved at the halfway mark. Once Newman has his formula, Torn Curtain becomes blatant chase melodrama. There is no more characterization and the emphasis switches from Newman and Andrews to the supporting characters involved in the escape from East Berlin: the leader of the Resistance bus, a Polish ex-countess with problems, a villainous ballerina...