Word: cliff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...During the run down the river, all four men nearly drown in the rapids. Lewis Medlock breaks a leg in a spill from a canoe. The mutual-fund salesman is raped in an act of sodomy by two mountain people who beset the city slickers. Gentry tumbles from a cliff with the body of a mountain man whom he shot with a bow and arrow while defending himself. The final score: two mountain folk dead (by arrow shot), one canoer dead (from ambush rifle fire), three bodies secretly and horribly buried or sunk to avoid trouble with the police...
...Cliff-Hanger...
...Greenwich Village, an edgy "queen" named Michael (Kenneth Nelson) throws a birthday party for his intimate enemy, Harold (Leonard Frey). The guests are all various shades of lavender. They range from muscular stud to the outrageously effeminate Emory (Cliff Gorman), who arrives with a "present": a $20-a-trick midnight cowboy* (Robert La Tourneaux). All of the people at the party bring hang-ups along with their gifts; one man has left his wife and children for a promiscuous partner; a Negro labeled "the queen of spades" suffers for his skin and his psyche; the host himself is a much...
Throughout the film is strengthened by the work of the cast, all of whom played their roles in the original off-Broadway production. These are all great character actors, but particularly outstanding are Cliff Gorman's Emory and Leonard Frey's incredible Harold, "the pock-marked Jewish fairy" birthday boy; Mr. Frey does more with a phrase like "Turning on" than you could possibly imagine...
Scientists have somewhat lamely avoided the question by suggesting that Pteranodon plunged off high cliffs in order to build up sufficient air speed for its gliding flight. But if it could not regain altitude in flight, how did it climb back to the cliff top again on its woefully inadequate legs? And how did it take off from the water after fishing...