Word: elisha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...success. A thieves-falling-out caper movie, its characters were so overheated that the action verged on black comedy, but they were recognizable enough to retain sympathy when necessary: Kubrick here walked a much tighter rope than the one he toes in Clockwork, Sterling Hayden played a savvy gunny, Elisha Cook the pathetic hen-pecked cashier who cracks--and kills the rest of Hayden's crew. A grotesquely muscled bit-player voiced the director's point-of-view (in an incoherent Russian accent): the crook is an attractive figure when the values of traditional heroes are in question...
...turn, there are some salient questions for Mr. Nichols. Is Sara Allgood? Is Shirley Temple Black? Is Linda Christian? Moreover, does Elisha Cook? If so, is Irene Dunne? Isn't Bobby Darin? Why must Fredric March? Isn't Victor Mature...