Word: fadeouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strikes a sometimes successful, sometimes tenuous balance between suspenseful diversion and romantic melodrama. Klute's character is never adequately probed, and there is an uncomfortable number of genre cliches, including a hoked-up terror-in-the-last-reel episode that lacks both terror and surprise. Worse, the sentimental fadeout runs completely contrary to the strenuously realistic tone the film has struggled to sustain...
...That the fadeout is strangely chilly and unaffecting does riot prevent Two-Lane Blacktop from being one of the most ambitious and interesting American films of the year...
...advancing troops met sharp resistance, particularly at Stung Chhay Pass. But true to Communist guerrilla doctrine, which counsels a fast fadeout in the face of a superior force, at week's end the enemy seemed to be withdrawing deep into the blue hills. There, also true to doctrine, they would be able to regroup to hit Route 4 once again...
...Gabor. They and the rest of the players sing a number of numbers-all of them delightful, and one of them (Ev'rybody Wants To Be a Cat) absolutely true. The animals' exuberance is so infectious and their "acting" so true to human life that by the fadeout The Aristocats does, indeed, give the audience paws for reflection...
...paratrooper (Rock Hudson) and enlist his aid in wreaking bloody revenge on the Nazi occupation forces. There is one sardonic sequence where he teaches the kids to shoot machine guns and another, quite brutal, where they all joyously massacre a town full of Nazis. Director Phil Karlson's fadeout is hopelessly sentimental, and there is a subplot about a woman doctor that sabotages a goodly portion of the film, but Hornets' Nest survives all this as a morbid if minor curiosity...