Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1950s and the '60s. This allows Lucas to mock, carefully and compassionately, the conventions and stereotypes of a genre as well as a generation. All the details are here, from the do-whop music and lovingly customized cars to the slang, which hovered between Ivy League and street gang, and the clothes, which seemed, like the time, both shapeless and confining. Even the jokes come straight from AIP: "How'd you like a knuckle sandwich?" inquires a hood of a nervous, bespectacled sad sack outside the local hamburger drivein. "No, thanks," says the sad sack...
...based on Booth Tarkington's novel, and this is one of its faults, for it matches Tarkington's rambling and disjointed style. Technically, however, it is once again vintage Welles, replete with deep-focus and up-from-the-floor, down-from-the-ceiling camera angles. The old Mercury Theatre gang is there, Joseph Cotton, Anne Baster, and Roy Collins, but the film cries out for the presence of the master himself. This film is an example of this failing, with bland and amateur Tim Holt as the young Amberson who must cope with the collapsing family empire. The film...
...Dancing follows the getaway trail of a band of train robbers in the Old West, led by Burt Reynolds, who plays a taciturn and tough ex-Army Captain. In the midst of its carefully planned heist, his gang is forced to include Sarah Miles in the escape. Miles portrays a rich young runaway wife, who improbably decides to board the train at the spot where Reynolds' men dynamite the tracks...
...married Indians, is set against the rampant anti-Indian feeling on the frontier. But Cat Dancing's Indians appear as marauders or fools. "The cigar was one of the white man's good ideas," grins a supposedly sagelike Indian chief. The chief's son, a member of Reynolds' gang, is killed defending Miles from a band of thieving Indians. Reynolds attempts to sum up the problems of the 19th Century American Indian in a one-sentence eulogy: "He wanted to be a leader, like his father, but he only turned out to be an imitation white...
...captains a converted Coast Guard cutter, while another is suspected of navigating a lobster boat-long after the lobster season has ended. Not every mobster can afford to "suffer a sea change into something rich and strange." The less affluent Gallo brothers, still recovering from the decimation of their gang, have to be content to splash around in a swimming pool they have built in Brooklyn, where there is always the danger of running into a water...