Word: gents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter's defusing action on the Cuban crisis reminds me of the gent who, finding the milkman in bed with his wife, ran outside and kicked the milkman's horse...
While lines like "Men aren't all bad, just 92 per cent bad" ring hollow, worshippers of Texan jargon strike oil in Whorehouse. But you can find choicer idioms in the glorious novels of Peter Gent and Dan Jenkins. Those novels aren't pretentious; this play is. It strains to hard to mock every Texan myth that the effect is laughable, more than laudable. So see it and laugh--after all, John Connally may be the next president. And John Tower reportedly liked it. Hot damn...
Screenplay by Frank Yablans, Ted Kotcheff and Peter Gent...
Based on former Footballer Peter Gent's good novel, the film shows this sadomasochistic world through the eyes of Phillip Elliott (Nick Nolte), a pass catcher with good hands and, in the view of the coaches and owners, a bad attitude. Elliott's insouciance springs from a developing conviction that he and his mates are exploited (if well-paid) field hands, risking their lives, or anyway their health, to assuage their owner's ego and their coach's desire to turn them into ciphers...
...script, adapted from Peter Gent's novel of the same name, is fairly true to the book. Like gent's novel, the movie captures the urban cowboy humor of the locker rooms, it delights in the sadistic pedantry of the coaches who see football as a business and players as equipment, and it squirms with pain from beginning to end. For caricatures, the supporting characters are remarkable--they put a lot into their limited parts. G.D. Spradin as Coach Johnson has a fear-inspiring glimmer in his eye and a loud piercing voice; he's an army sergeant...