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...camera he may not seem the type, but on-camera Richard Burton cuts a fine figure as a priest. After playing a man of the cloth on a devilish mission in Exorcist II: The Heretic, Burton has once again put on his cleric's collar, in Absolution. This time he plays Father Goddard, an opinionated Jesuit priest at a Roman Catholic boys' school in England. Trouble arises when his favorite student tells him in confession that he has committed murder. To get away from such traumas, Burton likes to relax on the set by tossing a cricket ball...
...film's title refers to a NASA mission to send a trio of astronauts (James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, Sam Waterston -don't you love it?) to Mars. Unfortunately for the astronauts, NASA is headed by a devilish schemer (Hal Holbrook) who decides to fake the Mars landing in a TV studio rather than risk failure and a cutoff of appropriations. Predictably, the mad scientist's plans go wrong, wrong, wrong. Capricorn One turns into a vivid chase involving NASA henchmen, an investigative reporter (Elliott Gould), a crop-dusting pilot (Telly Savalas) and a couple of bloodsucking desert...
North By Northwest. Clever. One could say as much for any Hitchcock film. But this one has to be his most ingenious, the plot is devilish--and although Hitchcock never really wrings the full terror out of it, terrifying. Cary Grant plays a Madison Avenue smoothie with a doting mother and life of business luncheons who gets taken (figuratively, and literally) for a spy. "Nice play-acting, but it won't wash," his abductor, a chillingly villainous James Mason tells Grant when he tries to clear up this misunderstanding. Grant breaks free, then does some romantic interluding with a seductive...
North By Northwest. Clever. One could say as much for any Hitchcock film. But this one has to be his most ingenious, the plot is devilish--and, although Hitchcock never really wrings the full terror out of it, terrifying. Cary Grant plays a Madison Avenue smoothie with a doting mother and a life of business luncheons who gets taken (figuratively, and literally) for a spy. "Nice play-acting, but it won't wash,' his abductor, a chillingly villainous James Mason tells Grant when he tries to clear up this misunderstanding. Grant breaks free, then does some romantic interluding with...
...diagnosis, says Schoenfeld, also explains the most devilish part of the Paganini puzzle: how he could perform so dazzlingly without ever being known to practice...