Word: films
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music, and Yellow Drum, based on Truman Capote's The Grass Harp, reiterates Broadway's faith that a weak play sounds better set to music. Robert Shaw will star in the hymnbook version of Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis' novel about a corrupt evangelist. Fellini's film La Strada is being unspooled, as is All About Eve (stage title: Applause, Applause!), starring Lauren Bacall as Adam's fetching...
...Karen Valentine) capable of telling Haynes, "I think it's so significant that you're colored." Except for such sappy moments, Room 222 may prove to be more good-humoredly wise on the problems of school prejudice and board-of-education bureaucracy than that overpraised book and film Up the Down Staircase...
...gave up on in 1965. Bracken, a Howard Hughes-like studio chief, is never seen, and the day-to-day operation of the studio is handled by his executive secretary (Eleanor Parker). All told, the series includes eleven running parts and more cliches per foot than any other film in memory. Among them: a young contract player who comes on as a kind of poor man's Michael Parks; a starlet who will do anything for a part ("One thing I'm sure of is nobody can give you what I can"); a stage mother who says with...
...vision," brags Butch Cassidy, "and the rest of the world wears bifocals." Unfortunately, the rest of the world includes the makers of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Every character, every scene, is marred by the film's double view, which oscillates between sympathy and farce...
...cast is merely reflecting the film's deeply split personality. Scriptwriter-Novelist William Goldman (Boys and Girls Together) purportedly spent six years researching his subjects, yet he provides them with neither background nor a sense of their own transitional time. Director George Roy Hill abruptly annihilates the nostalgia with a scat-singing sound track by Burt Bacharach at his most cacophonous. Coupled with a mod love song, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head-wedged in while Newman does stunts on a bicycle -the score makes the film as absurd and anachronistic as the celebrated Smothers Brothers cowboy who played...