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...give the film makers a break - which is more than they give the viewer - Prime Cut was obviously intended to be a tough, surreal gangster film in the Point Blank mold, a kind of jazzy allegory about brutality and dehumanization. Point Blank, however, had John Boorman directing Lee Marvin. Prime Cut has only Lee Marvin and a director who must have taken a very long lunch hour. Against all odds, Marvin summons up a measure of dignity. Hackman looks abashed...
...strange and spooky and a reminder of Chicago's lurid past. Over a five-month period the bodies of six murder victims were found bobbing in the waters of the Chicago River and the Sanitary and Ship Canal. All were black. They had been efficiently executed in gangster fashion-shot to death and dumped into the murky waterways...
Contempt...or Godard, the master of pretension, with a big budget to play around with and a Moravia short story to demolish. With Pierrot le Fou, a self-serving and clumsy Godard comic-book romance, with a naive artist-gangster as the hero, and topical references sprinkled throughout to no great purpose. ORSON WELLES CINEMA TWO. Call...
...wonders about the psychology underlying the phenomenon of "Mafia chic" [April 17]. What is it about the gangster Joey Gallo that appeals to people like Actress Joan Hackett and Author Marta Curro? Are they titillated by the company of violent and dangerous men? Would they find such men "absolutely charming" and "fascinating" if they were to witness firsthand a gangland slaying...
...Gallos a chance to breathe a bit more easily -and perhaps longer. But they know that Mafia contracts are out for Joey's brother Albert, Joey's bodyguard and three other Gallo hoods. The Gallos, in turn, are gunning for a top Colombo member, a New England gangster allied with Colombo and Alley Boy. Seemingly unworried, Persico quickly posted $5,000 bail and flew off to visit his brother in Atlanta...