Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of Rose's atavistic attitude comes indirectly from the old St. Louis Gas House Gang. "I once saw a Reds-Cards game," he says, "where Enos Slaughter drew a walk and ran hard to first base. I decided right then that that was what I was going to do as long as I played ball." A more immediate propellant was Pete Sr., a semipro football player with the old Cincinnati Bengals, who taught his son to switch...
Given this compulsive speeded tempo the Who relish in a wide variety of styles ("They have a nice sense of play' 'a photographer friend remarked) ranging from the chain gang 'Bald Headed Woman' to the baroque Swingles Singers Bach effect on 'Silas Stingy' chanting 'money money money money. . .' in rising and falling strains to harpsichord music...
There is the elaborate sight gag: Clouseau exits from the wrong door of a plane and gets carried out with the luggage. The Malapropism: "You are pushing my leg." The convoluted scheme: a gang of thieves disguise themselves in Clouseau masks to enter Swiss banks. The third time round, however, the mixture is flat and tasteless. Bud Yorkin's slovenly direction makes the film look as if every expense had been spared, trapping Arkin in a farce of habit that will probably retire Clouseau to oblivion -one picture too late...
With a posse in hot pursuit, Big Brother Stewart keeps calling Martin aside for lectures about Mom, the meaning of life and how to make out with Raquel. When the gang is finally attacked by some bandoleros, Martin falls mortally wounded and gaspingly tells Raquel that if a girl like her could like a guy like him, then "there must be something good in me." Nursing a ventilated chest, Stewart staggers by to add that old Dino "always wanted the right things" but somehow "it was always hard for him to see the light at the end of the trail...
...keep Chris a dutiful husband and (b) to maintain Paul's friendship which she hopes will result in his selling the rights to his name. When the film opens. Paul and Chris pick up a girl; they take her to a lonely park and are attacked by a gang who rape and kill the girl, leaving Paul in a state of shock requiring intensive therapy (seventeen shock treatments) before he can return to his opulent, if tense, domestic menage...