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...Outland has anything besides familiarity going for it, it is the presence of Sean Connery as a New Frontier marshal who comes to 10 to clean the place up. Connery is perhaps the one genuine romantic hero in the movies now. He is strong; he is soft. He can be hurt physically, and take it; he can be hurt emotionally, and show it. Outland gives Connery every chance to strut and smolder and sends him off on one splendid chase sequence. The rest is strained silliness. Good Guy Connery knows that Bad Guy Peter Boyle is out to kill...
...enterprise seemed to stop there. As a boy on the frontier of Ohio, he had been instructed by his father in how to bargain for a colt-then told the owner the highest price he could offer. He remained ingenuous; amid the bonanzas of the West, he panned only fool's gold. In San Francisco, a friend from the East talked him out of $1,500 for a partnership, gulled him into destroying the notes and soon absconded. On Army duty in the Pacific Northwest, he sought to make some side money raising potatoes for hungry settlers; the Columbia...
...century, rich cattle barons hire an army of well-trained assassins to rid the Wyoming territory of poor immigrants who steal their cattle in order to survive. Cimino wanted to make a bold statement about the injustice of the American aristocracy, he wanted to show the corruption of the Frontier Spirit. Not a bad idea. And crawling through Heaven's Gate's quagmire of chaotic, irrelevant scenes, unexplained connections between events, unclear alliances between people, and awful dialogue, you can find traces of that original idea...
Seagram was founded by Samuel Bronfman, Edgar's father, who was the son of a Manitoba, Canada, frontier hotel owner. In 1925 he set up a modest whisky distillery in Montreal. The company profited enormously during U.S. Prohibition, when rumrunners smuggled Seagram's whisky to a thirsty market in the U.S. Since 1947 the company has been the world's largest distiller. Edgar succeeded his father as head of the company...
Camelot is alive and well, on motorcycles-in Pittsburgh. The redneck revenge movie has found a new hero-in Shelby, N.C. Teen-age actors play at deadly gang wars-in Boston. The radical political spirit of the northern frontier is put on film-in Crosby, N. Dak. A company of actors turn 30, and another young man makes a movie about it-in North Conway, N.H. Tab Hunter and a 300-lb. transvestite named Divine enact a suburban passion play-in Baltimore...