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Kennedy staffers shored up another weakness for New York as well, Orren explained. "For the first time, we made effective use of surrogates," he said, citing endorsements from Carroll O'Connor to Carol Bellamy that paid off on election...
...King), he has always been game for such bizarre experiments as Beat the Devil, Freud and Reflections in a Golden Eye. This time, Huston has found material that was all but guaranteed to fuel the battiest recesses of his imagination. Wise Blood is based on Flannery O'Connor's extraordinary first novel, which infused the conventions of Southern gothic fiction with fiery Catholicism and surrealistic wit. Huston takes to O'Connor's hothouse style like a gambler to a royal flush. The inevitable results are the very essence of weird...
...world that Huston and O'Connor create is so peculiar and self-contained that many may find Wise Blood impenetrable. The film features characters who are all crazy, themes that are religious and humor that ranges from dark to gruesome. Though the movie is by no means difficult to comprehend on its own terms, Huston does not attempt to win over disbelievers. It is not surprising that independent producers, rather than a Hollywood studio, took the considerable risk of financing the project...
Huston re-creates the grotesque imagery and internal logic of O'Connor's phantasmagoric parable by translating the writer's prose into cinematic and dramatic terms. The film's settings are glutted with eclectic religious artifacts and the documentary details of the backwater South. The cast, including even bit players who appear as cops, used-car salesmen and townsfolk, features enough oddballs to staff a Tennessee Williams repertory company. Huston's only lapses are a few purple flashback sequences that accomplish little beyond allowing the di rector to appear onscreen as Hazel's grandfather...
Northeastern had knotted the contest with only 3:36 left in regulation. Stationed in the slot, Paul McDougall beat O'Connor for his second marker of the evening on a power play, moments after the B.C. netminder had successfully frustrated several N.U. threats...