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...first in some trumpery about shipping Baby Elsa off to captivity in Rotterdam, again in subtle but fairly insistent reminders that Mrs. Adamson craves an outlet for her maternal instinct. More often, though, the film treats animals with deep respect unspoiled by anthropomorphic cuteness; a baby elephant, a furry, gin-thirsty little hyrax (similar to a guinea pig) and a basketful of scrappy jungle kittens have natural charm enough to soften up the most inflexible zoophobe. Born Free strikingly reaffirms the lesson taught by Elsa-that loyalty, gratitude and affability are traits to be cherished in any species...
Shock Corridor can be chalked up as Fuller's best film to date. In it, a reporter feigns incest to gin admittance to a state mental institution so that he can track down the killer or a patient. Inside the asylum, Fuller subjects the reporter to a 90-minute horror show of shock treatments, nymphomaniac outbursts, sexual degeneracy, catatonia, schizoid fantasy, and psychotic gluttony. Shock Corridor is the Marat/Sade of film, a moody, almost choreographed, nightmare...
...created the giant 474-ft. baseball Scoreboard in Houston's Astrodome, whose animated display when the Houston Astros hit one of their rare homers includes steers with the U.S. and Texas flags waving from their horns. In New York an 80-ft. illuminated bottle will soon pour neon gin high above Times Square...
Pope and his maumetry"), and jolly sectarian scuttlebutt about such adulterous priests as the one who, "haunting to an honest man's wife, was subtly taken creeping through a window, and hanged out of the window in a gin laid for him of purpose." The body of his book recites in grisly detail and with respectable accuracy the martyrology of a mournful century in which as many as 84 Englishmen in a single year were burned as "filthye Hereticks...
...time." In between these sessions, he sometimes watches television with Corrie, easing his busy brain with such shows as The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Get Smart! Another relaxing habit, imported from Holland like the Schmidts, is an occasional belt or two of volatile Dutch Bols gin...