Word: chieftains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...civilization, and the topsy-turvy quality of its life is caught so expertly by the author that terrifying and absurd events come to seem fully logical. Studding the story are keenly observed individual portraits, among them a witch doctor frantically clinging to a waning authority and a self-important chieftain who | wears European khakis under his tribal robes...
Along the way, lives conveniently intertwine like braids. The frustrated newlywed groom sleeps with a nubile teenager, and gets her pregnant. A wild shot in the dark kills a prowling Indian boy. His father, a Sioux chieftain, demands a life for a life, and the leader of the pioneers (Kirk Douglas) hangs the offender-who happens to be the adulterer-with his own hands. Widmark's son nobly proposes marriage to the teenager...
...struggle that continues despite the signing of an armistice in 1965. Though he has lost some 5,000 Egyptian troops, Nasser vows to "stay in Yemen 20 years if necessary." Monarchist guerrillas, garrisoned in mountain caves, are not budging either. "We live here," says their military chieftain, Prince Hussein bin Ahmed. "We are prepared to fight for 50 years to keep Nasser out, just as we did the Ottoman Turks...
...Enemy: Bureaucracy. True to its ideal of detachment, the Voice avoids the excesses of partisan politics. Though it supported the Democratic reform movement in its battle to overthrow Tammany Chieftain Carmine De Sapio, it has derided the reformers for their self-righteousness. It backed John Lindsay for mayor, but does not hesitate to criticize his "waspishness." And the paper that claims to have discovered the New Left has recently discovered a New Right, rebelling against the upper-class gentility of Bill Buckley. To the Voice, individuality of any shade of Village opinion is to be cherished. The major enemy...
...bony structure of the very best westerns. But in this film, a mulish scenario puts a frustrating checkrein on the excitement, and it is slim pickings for Marlon Brando, playing a saddle tramp whose dream is to become a horse breeder, and John Saxon, portraying a Mexican bandit chieftain who has a girl (Anjanette Comer) up for grabs in his lair...