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PROFILE: Dedicated, Incisive. A real leader, on and off the field. ABC-TV offensive player of the game for his performance vs. Cornell last season. Voted "Gourmet of the Month" by Harvard Lampoon's parody of Better Homes and Gardens Magazine. A high school winner of the famed Betty Crocker Future Homemaker of America Award. Had a great season with the undefeated freshman team of 1969, completing 45 of 83 passes for 779 yards. Led the Ivy League in completion average last leason...
...heroine is a reluctant frontierswoman of the 1880s named Catherine Crocker. At 35-a refreshingly ripe age for a heroine-Catherine is marooned in a Wyoming mining camp with her boorish husband. After one quarrel too many, she decides to flag a train to civilization. But the train is robbed by four bandits whose hostage she becomes. Naturally, the leader is not your ordinary outlaw. Strong, silent and sexy, Jay Grobart is stealing in a good cause. Ten years earlier he killed his Indian wife, Cat Dancing, in a jealous rage. Having paid his debt to society, he is seeking...
...main problem is simple: for a film constructed like a character study, it lacks a developed hero. Bill McKay, crusading San Diego lawyer son of an old-time machine-politics California governor, is chosen by Democratic organizers to run in a senatorial campaign conceded to the Republican incumbent, Crocker Jarmon, McKay stands for all the right issues--welfare, socialized medicine, ecology; Jarmon for all the wrong ones--law-and-order, budget-cutting, the rights of American individualists. (The filmmakers have not mentioned Vietnam in a vain attempt to reduce the chance of incipient outdatedness...
...acting is also topnotch. Robert Redford's McKay is a perfect seemingly sexless but actually hungry, American idealist; MeIvyn Douglas is fine as his corrupt father; Don Porter, veteran of fatherly roles in TV sitcoms, is well-cast as Crocker Jarmon--rhetorically smooth, with the sincerity of a born exhibitionist and a rockribbed physical facade. But Peter Boyle steals the show as Marvin Lucas, McKay's mysterious New York-based campaign manager. Lucas is tough, and smart, and flexible, a Madison Avenue superman; but in his own oily way we feel he cares more seriously than anyone else...
McKay has almost impeccable credentials for the job. His ecology speeches and civil liberties record do him credit. He has the good name of his father, redoubtable former Governor John J. McKay (Melvyn Douglas). Furthermore, a visit to Republican Incumbent Crocker Jarmon's campaign picnic convinces him that Jarmon (Don Porter) is an affable fake...