Word: clydes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clyde Pyle, chairman of the CDA Housing Planning Council, said last night that even if approved, state funds would not take effect until late 1974, and urged Harvard to make the necessary funds available immediately...
...bolder films, from Midnight Cowboy (1969), with its homosexual as well as heterosexual couplings, to A Clockwork Orange (1971), with its rapes and sex à trois. Going beyond all of these, Tango proclaims the liberation of serious films from restraints on sex as unequivocally as the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde proclaimed liberation from restraints on violence...
Since Michael J. Pollard (most familiar for his slow-witted C.W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde) holds down the title role, this movie is, alas, a Pollard vehicle. In fact, Pollard is physically right for the part, although with his bulbous cheeks and cretinous eyes, he looks a bit like Dopey. However, he acts more like all the Seven Dwarfs-simultaneously. Instead of directing him, Dragoti indulges him. Pollard either mopes or mugs in every scene, and cruelly prolongs every line of dialogue that he cannot swallow entirely. There are some good secondary performances, though: by Charles Aidman...
...COMPANY, which is finishing up an unexpectedly brief run at the Seck 57, is relatively masterful. At least its action is coherent. It also boasts a predictable nihilistic chic. If you expect a lot from Robert Benton and David Newman, the screenwriters of Bonnie and Clyde, you'll be disappointed. If you've always suspected that Arthur Penn was the real here of that effort, and that the pair never left Esquire far behind, your worst suspicious will be confirmed...
Benton's directorial debut, Bad Company is very much in the same hokey picaresque tradition as Bonnie and Clyde and There Was a Crooked Man, for which Benton and Newman contributed characteristically jaunty scripts...