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Chabrol again proves that he is a master of brutal counterpoint. Corpse No. 2, for example, is discovered on a cliff when blood drips onto a little girl's sandwich below...
...well-bred British fumbler who keeps getting his men bushwhacked on an island in the South Pacific. The cynic-in-residence is a cool-eyed cockney medic (Michael Caine), who alternates between bandaging the wounded and needling his commander. A reluctant Japanese-language specialist seconded from the American Navy (Cliff Robertson) is straight out of The Bridge on the River Kwai; he becomes the company pragmatist who is determined only to save his own neck. The rest of the motley crew consists of bellyaching foot soldiers (Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Lance Percival, Percy Herbert) whose only function is to keep...
...sculptor, Walter Hancock of Massachusetts, was hired. Plans for the project had shrunk by then to a mere three figures on horseback. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis, their two-foot stone eyeballs popping and their megalithic hats held reverently over their huge hearts, rode across the cliff face on horses that seemed to have been resurrected from a dim memory of the Parthenon frieze by the resident soapcutter of Forest Lawn...
...Cach Cliff Stevenson said before the season started that his defense may be among the best in the country, but this seems to be a bit of an overstatement. Brown's unit lost two honorable mention All-Americans-goalie Roger Bolletin and Frank Scofield-because of graduation, and though the defense is still strong, there is no reason why Harvard's strong attack cannot score enough to win, provided, of course, that the rest of the Crimson plays well...
Dickey's central failure is brief but crucial. It occurs at the heart of his narrative, when Gentry, after climbing a sheer cliff in the dark, shoots a potential ambusher from a tree and then sets out after the wounded enemy along a trail of blood in the forest. No single action is impossible to believe, but the accumulation-it eventually involves his singing a sort of victory song over the body and then lowering it from the edge of a cliff -is just a bit too much. Gentry's return to the atavistic past suddenly becomes...