Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE. Across the River. Feature film starring veteran Broadway actor Lou Gilbert in the story of an eccentric ragman on the Manhattan waterfront whose attempt to help an abandoned girl leads to his own destruction...
...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. This adaptation of Carson McCullers' novel turns most of the author's poetry to humdrum visual prose, but Alan Arkin as the gentle, selfless mute John Singer lifts the film out of the ordinary...
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Under the direction of Roman Polanski, Mia Farrow gives a shivering performance as the put-upon heroine, in the film version of Ira Levin's bestseller about devil worship and other naughtiness on Manhattan's West Side...
ISABEL. Another tale of a terrified young lady, this Canadian-made film stars Geneviève Bujold as a rapidly maturing adolescent haunted by the all-too-real ghosts of her past...
...girl is shown dancing the boogaloo; then the camera moves in to reveal that the girl is painted head to feet with silly graffiti. Other sight gags are madly literal-minded or engagingly sly. When the announcer calls for a station break, the camera will switch to a trick film clip showing an elephant's foot squashing a TV station. When a commercial is announced, a man ostensibly from Allstate Insurance will cup his hands around a tiny house, saying "You're in good hands with . . .," and drop the house with a great shattering crash. In other sequences...