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Duck, You Sucker is even more frivolous than the usual Leone. The action, of which there is the customary abundance, takes place in Mexico during the waning days of the revolution. Rod Steiger swaggers through various robberies as a goodhearted, simple-minded bandido whose fondest dream is to knock over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Playing Guns | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

Galloping to the Rescue? That combination of rebelliousness and goodhearted naivete is a mark of many Catholic radicals?who have a heritage of enthusiastic intrigue against conservative superiors. Even friends express dismay that so many priests and nuns caught up in the resistance often go about their plotting with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Berrigans: Conspiracy and Conscience | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

When I was fourteen and a collector of comic books in New York, I used to go downtown to a dirty loft its owners called The Memory Shop to trade early Batman comics for early Dick Tracy with a tough truck driver from St. Louis who fell by every month...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Midsummer Night's Dream | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

John Pym played the goodhearted dimwit Irwin Ingham. He too, though he's the only first-rate comedian at Harvard, did more than grub for laughs. At first you noticed the variety of expressions he used to convey dimwittedness. And how perfectly his baggy pants suited his clumsy movements. But...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: Little Malcolm, etc. | 12/12/1967 | See Source »

Jean Simmons as a drunken socialite, Suzanne Pleshette as a beddable actress and Angela Lansbury as a goodhearted chippy are among the memory prodders Garner encounters before he learns for sure that he is not a dangerous escaped lunatic being sought by the police. He is something much worse: a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Memory Lane | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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