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...Where else but in South Carolina would a congressional candidate named Julian Sidi Limehouse III campaign in red, white and blue tennis sneakers? Yet Limehouse, 33, a Republican cattleman, is certainly considered more progressive than his opponent, Incumbent Democratic Representative Mendel J. Davis, 29, godson of Mendel Rivers, the late autocratic chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Davis is banking on the "Mendel mystique" and his role as protector of the military installations that were his godfather's legacy to the district. Limehouse, who goes about coatless and tieless and shows up at Democratic rallies to hand...
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Despite all this, The Godson's elegiac mood and spacious sense of style reveal undeniably adept direction. Except for his Doulous - The Finger Man, an atmospheric thriller that appeared in 1964, Jean-Pierre Melville's work has been little seen in this country. He himself popped up in Godard's Breathless, where he played a celebrated film maker giving an interview to Jean Seberg. In France, in deed, he is celebrated for melancholy Gallic exercises in gangsterism, American style...
...Samurai-The Godson, Alain Delon appears as a French gangster with the unlikely name of Jeff Costello, an icy and dogged professional who kills the manager of a Paris night club and then is set upon by the people who hired him. The flics, too, pursue Costello. He tries to work his way out of his classic quandary with characteristic efficiency, by dodging the cops even as he hunts down the men who are hunting...
...until it is just so. The hat, unfortunately, looks like a felt pie pan, and Delon moves mechanically through the action. Melville means to pay sober hom age to all the Hollywood films that did all this but better. It is a pity that for all its virtues, The Godson's patina of high seriousness renders every scene forced and selfconscious...