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...DORADO. John Wayne and Robert Mitchum get the most out of a script full of raudous frontier humor in this fist-come, fist-served western...
...Kickbacks, voting-place vandalism, judge buying and customhouse connivance are still the fashion. At a busy Manila intersection, a white-uniformed traffic cop waves through the traffic. As each passenger-laden taxi passes by, a hand shoots out and deftly deposits something in the cop's cupped fist. "Corruption?" blurts an astonished cab driver. "He needs it for his family. And if I didn't give him 50 centavos once in a while, he wouldn't let me park near the intersection waiting for passengers. He gets something. I get something. How can you call that corruption...
...overwhelmingly a lower-class phenomenon. In Atlanta, for example, neighborhoods with family incomes below $3,000 show a violent-crime rate eight times higher than among $9,000 families. In the middle class, violence is perhaps sublimated increasingly in sport or other pursuits. Says Sociologist Wolfgang: "The gun and fist have been substantially replaced by financial ability, by the capacity to manipulate others in complex organizations, and by intellectual talent. The thoughtful wit, the easy verbalizer, even the striving musician and artist are equivalents of male assertiveness, where broad shoulders and fighting fists were once the major symbols...
...Dorado. The heavyweight crown in boxing may be up for grabs, but in the movies it is still firmly planted on the balding head of John Wayne. In El Dorado, though his lope may be a bit arthritic, the Duke still greets the opposition on a fist-come, fist-served basis, and the wrongo who tries to outdraw him still winds up feeling kind of shot...
...dirty dozen have it completely -- from the moment one of them gives their officer (Lee Marvin) a little lip and gets a fist in the mouth. We're for Marvin too: he's the one who puts the twelve convicts in fighting shape and communicates to them the we-row-together-or-we're-sunk notion. Their mission is blowing up a chateau-load of German generals, but the main problem is getting the convicts to work as a team. They're of course restless under authority. Still, Marvin--no convict, but not a sweet-talking guy--gives the officers...