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ON A PERSONAL level, The Godfather doesn't glorify Mafiosi. It shows them as the hotheaded hoods and wiser, mellower monsters that they are. They live in their own social and spiritual hierarchy: the men of the New York Five Families here depicted battle for position in an underworld pecking...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Killers' Choice | 3/29/1972 | See Source »

There's still more. Robert Duvall, rivalling Robert Ryan as America's most underrated actor, is the Corleone's German-Irish lawyer: Sterling Hayden, brute incarnate, a guinea-baiting crooked mick cop; and a supporting cast of lesser-knowns and has-beens with the right number of stitches in their...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Killers' Choice | 3/29/1972 | See Source »

GEORGE SEGAL, in my estimation, is born to win, but in this movie he's been given a crooked deal. The scriptwriters (David Scott Milton and director Ivan Passer) can't make up their minds between hilarity and a grim social realism. While real life often veers between the tragic...

Author: By Esther Dyson, | Title: Put It Together, Ivan | 2/12/1972 | See Source »

Indeed, the vagueness of The Revolutionary carries into the fuzzy thinking of Dealing; and the clean lines of the former film have given way to the empty frames of the latter. Details--like the overhead roar of a jet--are conspicuous by the absence of a fully developed mise-en...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Grass, Acid, Talent... | 2/8/1972 | See Source »

Bond is on the trail of that arch-meanie, Ernst Stavros Blofeld (Charles Gray), and a ring of high-placed diamond smugglers who operate in Las Vegas. Somehow mixed up in all this are an eccentric millionaire recluse (hello there, Howard Hughes), a wizened stand-up comic, a crooked mortician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Looney Tune | 1/10/1972 | See Source »

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