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...maniac. But in Wait Until Dark, Playwright Frederick Knott used a series of ingenious devices to keep the killer and the audience dangling. In See No Evil, Scenarist Brian Clemens offers no motivations and precious few plot twists. Nor is his head-on harum-scarum approach improved by Richard Fleischer's blunt direction, which favors sudden cuts to broken corpses and sadistic closeups of a girl precipitously tumbling into catatonia. Manifestly, Fleischer is out for only one thing: to inspire sudden fear. That he does, but at the expense of taste. The two were not mutually exclusive...
...clashed over the actor's objections to script rewrites and the leading lady, Tina Aumont. There were shouting matches between Scott and Huston in the early hours of the morning. Huston eventually departed, and so did Tina Aumont. The film is now being finished under the direction of Richard Fleischer. Scott, who realistically maintains that "I can still make more money in films than any place else," is presumably planning to gather up his not inconsiderable salary and then turn to more serious matters...
...blind tradition amplify each error beyond calculation. No single man can be blamed, and no villains or heroes emerge from this foundering, slipshod-and hypnotic-drama. That judgment must hold not only for those who lived it but also for those who filmed it. Three directors, one American (Richard Fleischer) and two Japanese, Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasaku, have managed to move crowds and planes, but not the viewer. They have shown events, but not contexts; national characters, but not national character. Originally, Master Director Akiro Kurosawa (Rashomori) was signed to oversee the Japanese sequences. He might have revealed...
...second week of the search for the five suspects in the bank robbery-cop slaying will be covered in tomorrow's CRIMSON: Bond and Gilday are captured; the search for Miss Power and Miss Saxe continues with few clues; the number of robberies involved grows; the police name Michael Fleischer in a warrant and promise that other persons will be named later; the "radical organizations" remain a mystery...
...Super Fight The Vegas odds for next week's "Super Fight" are 6-5, bettors' choice. Muhammad AH (né Cassius Clay) says that he is going to put Rocky Marciano away in the fifth round. Ring Magazine Editor Nat Fleischer likes the Rock. Ali v. Marciano? Didn't Rocky die last year in a plane crash? Well, yes -but not before he had finished filming a simulated fight with Ali. The fight between boxing's only two undefeated heavyweight champs will be shown for the first and supposedly the only time...