Word: filming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recent travels have shown me that John Wayne's popularity is global [June 25]. In Australia, a farmer asks when the next John Wayne film will come out. In Burma, the Duke's picture hangs in a corner restaurant. An Afghani shop owner, addressing my question of how life has changed under the new pro-Soviet regime, replies that the John Wayne movies have gone. In eastern Turkey, when I tell a nomad I am from America, he reaches to his side in a mock draw and with a big grin exclaims. "John Wayne!" Now. back...
...look at a king, then a kid can look up to a queen, particularly if the kid is Ricky Schroder, 9. Properly togged in midget tuxedo, the star of The Champ met Queen Elizabeth II at the film's London premiere. Whether, when the lights went down, the Queen sobbed like others who have seen Ricky on-screen remained a royal secret...
Some of those old el cheapo pictures were, in the last analysis, more entertaining than this rather too impeccable film...
ANNOYING AS THESE directorial intrusions may be, at least they are flaws in an interesting film. The news footage, by itself, would make an entertaining documentary Noyce must have sifted through eons of film of find such choice moments--Aussies crawling through the underbrush rooting out Public Enemy #1, the rabbit; the vice-presidential Nixon arriving with Second Lady Pat; flies buzzing around the new Prime Minister and his staff as he decries the Communist menace. The opening sequence, kangaroos excepted, is eerily effective, capturing the strangely fearful confidence of the post-war period...
Noyce uses documentary footage most effectively as social and political commentary. Although he embraces the simplicity, innocence and parochialism of the people he films, he casts a wiser eye on the cold was suppression of communism and the rigid posturing of the Church. Sometimes the newsreels do blend into the fiction easily--Maguire's steadfast moralism shows better against the undeniable portrait of the fifties on real film. Assigned to film a flood, Maguire and his young cameraman grope their way into the disaster area at night. A newsreel by the competition, Newsco, introduces us to the scene...