Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by PETER FONDA Screenplay by THOMAS MATTHIESEN...
...dreams, opportunities lost and responsibilities evaded. Director-Writer Charles Eastman (best known previously as the author of the screenplay for Little Fans and Big Halsey) evokes, in the character of Vic, the kind of wary protagonist whose abdication of personal responsibility made anti-heroes out of Dean and Brando, Fonda and Hopper. The film builds to a crazy, disorganized hillside ceremony in which the entire town of Buddy, Calif., comes to cheer its boy Vic off to the nationals. Vic sees it all as a shuck, refuses to go and hits the road out of town, pursued...
...version of the movie from ever opening, Bach hopes to have a chance to revise the scriptures. Meanwhile he must be cursing himself for being so, well, gullible. ∙ Marriage and fatherhood have, it seems, brought fresh frustrations to Angry Young Man Tom Hoyden, 33. While Wife Jane Fonda, 35, emcees the singing, speeches and slides of a touring troupe campaigning against U.S. aid to South Viet Nam, Husband Tom does his own tour of duty taking care of their son, Troy, three months. When the group arrived at Wellesley College for a show, Tom and Troy established themselves behind...
...Jane Fonda represents the film's firmest break with tradition: a strong, defiantly contemporary Nora. Hers is not a thoroughly shaded interpretation -it is a little too direct and aggressive 73151;but it is a great deal more interesting and closer to the mark than Claire Bloom's airy Nora, a stage performance recently translated to film (TIME, June 18). One thing Fonda manages well is the delicate transition behind the closed bedroom door. As in the play, we do not see Nora change, but when Fonda comes out again to confront Torvald and prepare to leave...
...major film to use amateurs, and their performances seem almost effortlessly effective. When de Sica and Zavattini approached American film magnate David Selznick for financial backing, Selznick wanted Cary Grant to play the lead role. That was hardly what the film makers had in mind, so Selznick proposed Henry Fonda. At that, they decided to go elsewhere for money, and, you'll see, it was well that they...