Word: fleshly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gance deliberately chooses as Napoleon a man abjectly lacking in charm or good looks. He does not want a Napoleon God-sent to save France in her hour of desperation, but a man of flesh and intellect. The protagonist, played by Albert Dieudonne, is a short, unimpressive young man. His long hair hangs listlessly about his shoulders, his arms clasped tightly behind him. But for his eyes, his face is hard and ex- pressionless, the face of a bandit or a martyr. His eyes are sharp, black. They scrutinize, and they attack...
...Bergen; but the film makes clear what a prize she is. Bisset and Ayres intend this film to be an affirmation of female friendship. Well, there should be a film affirming female friendship, but this is not it. Bisset's last statement that Merry "is the only flesh around"--the only human, that is--is heartbreakingly accurate. The people in the movie are so alone...
Tarzan the Ape Man--Friday at 1:25, 4:25 and 8:05 p.m.; with Flesh Gordonat...
...Flesh Gordon (Harvard Square): Science Fiction preoccupied with...
...jury to compromise." They are least likely to accept an insanity plea when the defendant is extremely violent or dangerous. Example: the trial of a Californian nicknamed "the Vampire Killer," who disemboweled several of his six murder victims, drank their blood and ate their flesh. He was sentenced to death but died, presumably by his own hand, while on death row. In less dramatic cases, says Dr. Russell Monroe, chairman of the psychiatry department at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, jurors often ask themselves: "Would the defendant have committed the crime if a policeman had been standing right...