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With $40,000 plus Cassavetes' sensitive and indirect direction, the actors improvised a sincere, original, powerful film. Always crude, often trite, sometimes even phony, this rackety little race opera is nevertheless loaded, like a truck full of oxygen cylinders, with huge, impounded energies...
Tonsils less swollen white spots about disappeared. Tomorrow at Singapore patient will be attended by doctor. Thank you very much." For hundreds of years merchant mariners dreaded illness or injury at sea almost as much as death-and often there was only a fine line between them. The crude, workaday rule became: "If the pain is above the waist, give aspirin; if below, give a purgative." The sailor with raging fever or shattered bones was lucky if he made port alive. If he was unlucky, his body was deep-sixed...
...Hoodlum Priest. A crude but telling Christian cops-and-robbers story that ends with the robber condemned to the gas chamber, and guilt assigned...
...same way Fidel Castro, who pumps Soviet oil through confiscated U.S.-owned refineries, pays in both money and sugar for the 2,500,000 tons of crude he is scheduled to get from Russia yearly. To get into the important Italian market, Moscow signed up with Oil King Enrico Mattei's mammoth state-owned ENI oil monopoly to deliver 12 million tons of oil in 1961-64 in exchange for 240,000 tons of steel pipeline tubing and 50,000 tons of synthetic rubber. The cost works out at about half the normal price for Persian Gulf crude...
...Hoodlum Priest. A bewildered boy, entrapped by life, finally finds freedom in the gas chamber. Crude and violent, Irvin Kershner's drama nonetheless shows that the divine spark can burn in trash...