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...expected pitching duel between Valenzuela, "the Mexican taco," and Yankee flame-thrower Dave Righetti did not develop, as both young pitchers were ragged and wild in the early innings. Dodger third baseman Ron Cey pulled a Righetti fastball deep into the left field bleachers in the first inning for a three-run homer, and Bob Watson, who has been hitting the cover off the ball all series, responded for the Yankees with a solo shot off a hang screwball by Valenzuela in the second...
...first-timer often employs and adds his own special stand-up-comic touch to many of the funny scenes. However, his successes on the comedy side barely compensate for his failure to turn the romantic spark between Reynolds and the new first lady Beverly D'Angelo into a flame. Even in comedy, the director at times stretches for just a little bit too much, for that extra, meaningless laugh...
...excitement of an uncatchable woman. The lust and pettiness of Irons' 20th century highlight the deeper passions of the 19th-century character Irons plays. The structure of the film tries to focus on the passions within Irons as he plays two very different moths hovering around much the same flame...
...flame is too bright to ignore. Streep's not-quite-pretty face, which should have been just the object of Smithson's passion, becomes instead the most memorable thing in the film. Streep, almost by accident, takes over the stage whenever she enters. Irons is good--his aristocratic gentility and his moments of anger both stand out clearly--but he can't compare to Streep's magic. Streep, as the Scarlet Woman of Lyme Regis, has to convey an obscure, flighty vulnerability, always looking away from the camera and Smithson. And always she has at her disposal that piercing stare...
...Sebastian (Franco Branciaroli), the would-be assassin. The film stock looks grainy, murky, like a kinescope of some 1948 "Kraft Television Theater" production. Afterimages cast a split-second shadow on every movement. Then a sound is heard, a soldier arms his rifle, a shot is fired-and bright red flame spits out of the barrel. The sky is suddenly soiled pink with brooding clouds. Lightning flashes, and it is as unnaturally red as the gun blast. The forces of nature are gathering to announce the beginning of a thundering melodrama-one in which the technique provides the action...