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...year-old girl masturbating with a crucifix: wallow in solitary confinement with Steve McQueen on Devil's Island--ten million dollar's worth of a dark screen. a few cockroaches, and no talking. I remember last summer, caught in a miserable little movie called The Terminal Man (from Michael Crichton, with George Segal), finding myself watching the Man (who has an alien machine brain lobotomized into his skull so that his actions are uncontrollable) chased at the end to a cemetery, the Man Writhing at the bottom of an open deepsunk grave in agony while a helicopter hovers above training...
When Donald Crichton Alexander was sworn in as Internal Revenue Commissioner in mid-1973, he inherited an agency that was rapidly dropping in public prestige. Watergate-related revelations of attempted political misuse of the IRS were eroding the awed deference that Americans have traditionally felt toward their revenue-collection agency, inspiring Government fears of a binge of cheating by suddenly cynical taxpayers. Alexander acknowledged that maintaining public confidence in the agency was his "No. 1" task...
...Such diseases would result from a reshuffling of genes and not from new genetic material like the virus from outer space in Michael Crichton's 1969 novel (later a movie), The Andromeda Strain...
...movie-drawn from Michael Crichton's novel-is the work of the gifted Mike Hodges, whose two previous features (Get Carter, Pulp) displayed a cool virtuosity. There are pyrotechnic scenes-the operation itself being the most dazzling. But the film does not really succeed beyond its embellishments. It has all the depth of a petri dish...
WESTWORLD was written by Michael Crichton, author of the novel from which The Andromeda Strain was adapted. Here, making his debut as a director, he provides mechanical film making to match his machine-tooled prose. He posits an amusement park for adults, run by computer technicians and scientists, where the customers pay plenty to live out their elaborate, generally adolescent fantasies. The hero (Richard Benjamin) dresses up as a cowboy and gets to spend a week in a replica of a Western town, where he becomes involved in saloon brawls, witnesses bank robberies, goes upstairs with the ladies who hang...