Word: clarks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convincing as the title character, a sullen, ducktailed counterboy with vague cowboy dreams of glory. TV's Hal Linden, playing Grant's stuffy suburban husband, makes some thing fresh out of a stereotype, as does Faracy. Unfortunately, these performers must share the screen with Grant and Candy Clark, who turn already hysterical women into harridans. "Filth! Filth!" Grant screams at Gortner, in one of the movie's many unwatchable moments...
Michael T. Clark '79 said he was disappointed that the first trial did not lead to public action to make the Combat Zone safer...
Then, as a final insurance against any misunderstanding in this film, Clark brings in some Famous People in Bit Parts to match his stereotyped characters with stereotyped actors. Donald Sutherland plays the weird guy; Genevieve Bujold, the beautiful child-woman-victim; David Hemmings, the man who is not quite what he seems; and the Prime Minister, is of course, John Gielgud...
James Mason as Dr. Watson is Clark's one brilliantly original bit of casting. Never has there been a Watson more long-suffering and tolerant of his friends' foibles, yet Mason projects a self-confidence and determination unknown to Nigel Bruce. He also provides the only comic relief in this overly melodramatic film...
...CLARK'S B-MOVIE ORIGINS are obvious in this film. His psycho-killer Black Christmas clearly inspired the lurid murder scenes in Murder By Decree. And while one expects a little blood and weird goings-on in Sherlock Holmes' pursuit of criminals, such attention to violent detail is unnecessary...