Word: culdesac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CULDESAC, an inventive exercise in macabre slapstick by Polish Director Roman Polanski, looks like Part 2 of a projected trilogy of terror that began with Repulsion. This time around, Polanski plays his ghoulish games on a desolate North Sea island whose sole inhabitants are a half-mad old fool (Donald Pleasence), his hot-blooded young wife (Francoise Dorleac) and two unexpected nighttime visitors...
...CuldeSac. Roman Polanski, 33, is the Paris-born Pole who three years ago captured an international audience with a precocious thriller called Knife in the Water. Knife in hand, this switchbloc Hitchcock then went West and persuaded British producers to finance a small masterpiece of menace called Repulsion. His third film, also made in England, is a jittery-tittery comedy of terrors in which Polanski hones his slapstick to a razor-edge...
Home in the Horseshoe. Since Candlestick Park is on a peninsular sort of culdesac, many a San Franciscan feared a traffic jam to end all traffic jams. But on opening day there was not much cause for worry: Candlestick's 8,500-car parking lot was left 2,000 shy of capacity. Dreading to drive, hundreds of San Franciscans came by seaplanes, helicopters, sail and motor boats. It was all remarkably orderly...