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Actor Gene Hackman and a crew of narcotics agents and drug pushers out of Central Casting are currently in Marseille filming The French Connection II, a sequel to the award-winning 1971 dope flick. But as any real narc could tell them, this time they have the wrong location. For the moment at least, the French connection has been largely broken, along with the heroin-processing laboratories on the Cote d'Azur and the Corsican drug rings that ran them. The new center for the European heroin trade is, of all places, the jewel-box city of Amsterdam...
...Joseph Cotton plays the American writer who investigates the death. The story is hard to beat, the little touches (watch for the cat in the doorway) are brilliant, and Welles is Welles. The "Third Man Theme" is a catchy little accordian tune that tops off a great flick...
...that film makers are paying scrupulous attention to the old genres, and such formulas as the police thriller, the horror flick and the private-eye caper have been dusted off with success, screwball comedy was hardly likely to escape. All in the name of homage, Peter Bogdanovich ripped off Bringing Up Baby, called it What's Up Doc? and made himself a hit. Doc also represented Barbra Streisand's initiation into the realm of frenetic comedy...
...Japanese virtues and patriotism (TIME, June 17). At the same time, he has tried to enhance the party's box office appeal by jazzing up the ticket with a strange lineup of candidates, including a well-known television interviewer, a slapstick comedian, Actress Akiko Santo and a skin-flick producer...
...this case it's romance with a lot of heart and brain behind it. Francols Truffaut, working with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo, has created a beautiful motion picture that is in many ways more rewarding than the Antoine Doinel series. Mermaid is playing with another Truffaut flick, The Bride Wore Black starring Jeanne Moreau. This one is relatively lightweight, but it's still an eminently enjoyable bit of story-telling. Shows begin...