Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...savorless trifle, with John Forsythe back to the laugh-packed responsibilities of bachelor fatherhood. In this, his third series, he plays a widowed history professor from Iowa who relocates with his three daughters in sunny, funny Italy. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (ABC) exploits both the classic 1936 film comedy of the same name and the stupefying breakthrough in transcultural humor of The Beverly Hillbillies. Deeds is a bumpkin newspaper editor who unexpectedly inherits the financial empire of a robber-baron uncle and moves to Manhattan to redress family wrongs. In the first episode, TV Actor Monte Markham (The Second...
...Scriptwriter Evan Jones is not totally successful in correlating black and white alienation, he does have a decided knack for good, pungent dialogue. "What do you want from us, baby?" shrieks a black homosexual to a desolated Roddy at film's end. "Whatever answers you're lookin' for, we ain't it. No matter what they tell you, baby, we ain't got rhythm." The fault of this modest and diverting enterprise is that, like Roddy himself, it can never resolve the question of black and white identities and, by attempting to combine...
...brings his usual Pleistocene presence to the part of Cat, presumably granted him because his rain-barrel chest wouldn't look scrawny in the locker-room scenes, but everyone else stands around looking sort of embarrassed. The last tackle comes as a welcome relief, as Heston and the film fall one final time to the gridiron with a resounding thud...
This is the kind of thing that makes America great, and this is the kind of material that Robert Downey has incorporated into his new film, Putney Swope...
...case the word hasn't reached you yet, this film (now at the Paris Cinema) is the story of what happens when a bunch of black militants take over an ad agency. But the film isn't really about advertising or blacks. Putney Swope is rather a monument to chaos, a plea for insanity, an adversisement for anarchy...