Word: clericism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasional Roman Catholic," she is "convinced that, once married, they would be better integrated in life, more capable of solving problems which surround them." By no great coincidence, the actress's next film is The Priest's Wife, in which she falls in love with a handsome cleric played by Marcello Mastroianni...
Lickerish Cleric. Not all of Peckinpah's devices work so well. An engraved face on a $5 bill waggles its eyes suggestively and needlessly as Cable ponders spending the money on Hildy. But such isolated faults seem insignificant alongside Peckinpah's larger virtues. Even his rambling lends the story a leisurely lyricism rare in films today...
...actors all perform immaculately. Jason Robards gives the screen performance of his life. Stella Stevens is cynical and wistful with equal facility, and David Warner is wonderfully funny and moving as the lickerish cleric. Together with Peckinpah's usual stock company of Martin and Jones, they make the old desert as real and recent as yesterday. With this film, Peckinpah unmistakably becomes the successor to John Ford, not only as a director of westerns but as an American film artist...