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...divided Ireland, which still rage. But if A Sense of Loss lacks the definitive quality of The Sorrow and the Pity, it has a desperate urgency all its own. Ophuls spent a month and a half earlier this year shooting all around Ireland, his subjects ranging from Bernadette Devlin and Prime Minister Jack Lynch to the arch-conservative Protestant preacher, the Rev. Ian Paisley. Ophuls has structured the film not on these interviews, however, but around the impact of meaningless deaths. Parents mourn the incineration of their adopted son Colin, 17 months old; a widow tells how her husband...
...many Protestants as Catholics have been killed-and that few of the victims had any connection with extremist organizations-has now led to fears that a terrorist gang of assassins, possibly psychopaths with no political connections, may be at work. One gang in the Protestant area, says Paddy Devlin, an M.P. for the Falls Road area in Belfast, is led by a "mad, dangerous man who uses a knife on many of his victims." The killers operate at night, mostly on weekends, often prowling in stolen cars or listening in on taxi radios, and apparently picking their victims by chance...
...boss (Eddie Egan, late of The French Connection) takes this as an affront. Besides, the Kansas City boys are skimming off a healthy slice of the corporate profits. So he dispatches Nick Devlin (Lee Marvin) to teach Kansas City a little respect...
...sultry wife Clarabelle (Angel Tompkins), a former Chicago model. Mary Ann auctions cattle and keeps the buyers happy by filling cowpens with stoned-out, naked teen-age girls, who are also up for sale. "I give this country what it wants," Mary Ann gloats. "Dope and flesh." Devlin stalks past the beef and the broads without batting an eye and confronts Mary...
They then settle down to the business of beating and blasting each other's forces all over Kansas City, a process that produces a high body count but low interest. In his spare moments, Devlin squires-but does not sleep with -a spacy teen-age girl whom he has rescued from the pens of iniquity (portrayed by a young and resplendently unpromising actress named Sissy Spacek). She in turn lends him moral support as he triumphs over the forces of darkness and unhealthy meat-packing practices...