Word: dunaway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oklahoma Crude is a dry hole. Handsomely shot, with a textbookish attention to period details, it is the story of a foulmouthed female wildcatter (Faye Dunaway). Against the depredations of the big oil interests, she defends a well that she is convinced is worth a fortune. In this she is aided by a tough drifter (George C. Scott) and her gentle father (John Mills), and besieged by the senior tough on the gang trying to overrun her claim (Jack Palance...
Neither suspenseful nor novel enough in its action sequences to make it as an adventure film, Crude is also not funny enough to make it as a comedy. Director Kramer and Writer Norman attempt to jerk it to life with sadism (Dunaway beaten almost to death by Palance's mob), vulgarity (Scott urinating on Palance's boots during one of their confrontations) and an excess of bawdy language. But the prissy and self-consciously liberal Kramer seems, in this attempt at lustiness, rather like a college chaplain deliberately swearing in order to seem like one of the boys...
When Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty thrashed to death as the gunfire of Texas Rangers sheriffs' deputies hit their car in the climactic scene of Bonnie and Clyde, audiences too were riveted to their seats in horror. Now Peter Simon II, 22, a casino owner from Jean, Nev., who saw the movie three times, has become the proud owner of the actual death car, a Ford V-8 sedan that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stole in 1934 from a farm in Topeka. (Barrow wrote Henry Ford I: "I drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with...
...coat-tails of Bonnie and Clyde (and no doubt hopes to be as big a financial success). Unfortunately Bonnie and Clyde is based on a lie, and Dillinger, as a remake of the original phony, is worse. The real Bonnie and Clyde were not beautiful, like Beatty and Dunaway. On the contrary, they were hideous, violent hoods, who, as Dillinger says, "gave gangsters a bad name." Several gimmicks in Dillinger were lifted straight out of Bonnie and Clyde, beginning with the use of the song "We're in the Money" sung over the credits. Dillinger tries to be more factual...
...sequence where you expect. Ann Sheridan to visit him any second with a nailfile baked in a pie. The rest of the cast is excellent, and everyone has a terrific American southwest accent. The only disappointment is Michelle Phillips as Billie Frechette, who manages to look like both Faye Dunaway and Ali McGraw, the new gun molls of the '70s (Eecch!). Her acting regrettably takes faithfully after Ali McGraw's (as if the Real McGraw isn't enough). Though not quite as smug, Phillips has the same simpering voice and snotty facial mannerisms that have made Quick-Draw McGraw...