Word: finlay
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexico and his native Poland, hugging and blessing peasants, kissing babies and stirring vast outpourings of human emotion with folksy homilies. In his unique fashion, he is rapidly becoming parish priest to the world, and this mission could only be furthered by his U.S. visit. Said the Rev. James Finlay, president of Fordham University in New York City: "He is reaching beyond geographical, political and ecclesiastical boundaries to give the man in the street the feeling that he is there...
...each and every character is a zealot, convinced not only that whatever cause he happens to be serving will change the course of human affairs for the better but that he is absolutely vital to that cause's success. The musketeers (Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay), for example, never stop for a moment to observe - as Lester does - that the French king (Jean Pierre Cassel) for whom they endlessly risk life and limb is a vain and idle popinjay. Their opponents, the servants of Cardinal Richelieu, never seem to notice that their man (deftly played...
Reed), Porthos (Frank Finlay), Aramis (Richard Chamberlain) and D'Artagnan (Michael York). But Lester has added to their motto, "All for one and one for all," his own realistic coda: "And every man for himself." His musketeers are mercenaries, albeit loyal ones, and their adventures occur on the mud-puddled roads and in the filthy rooms of 17th century France...
...musketeers-Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain, Frank Finlay and Michael York as D'Artagnan-all perform admirably. When the casting threatens to become too capricious (Raquel Welch as the Queen's confidante, Faye Dunaway as the archvillainess, Charlton Heston as Richelieu), Lester exploits the absurdity. He made the discovery, for example, that Welch and Dunaway, for all their physical dissimilarity, are basically the same actress. So a climactic brawl between them is funny not just for itself but because of the two people playing them...
...head of the whole nasty slave racket is a Caucasian pervert named Amafi (Frank Finlay), whose line of chatter runs to things like "Luck can run out even for you, my black brother." It is difficult to imagine how he rose to such a position of prominence, but his henchmen seem impressed. They chase Shaft all over Ethiopia, from desert to village and even across the water to Paris. But he eventually dispatches them all, even taking time out to discuss a clitoridectomy with Aleme...