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Fatal Accident. The adolescent here is a runaway heiress (Melanie Griffith, daughter of Actress Tippi Hedren) whose obviously devious mother hires the shamus to find her. The search introduces him to plenty of colorful company, notably a movie stunt man, before he finds the girl holed up with a shabby stepfather and his mistress (Jennifer Warren) on the Florida Keys, where they manage a dubious-looking sea and air charter service. A traumatizing accident-or is it murder?-shocks the girl into docility and a return home where, doing extra work in a movie, she herself suffers a fatal accident...
...Saturday night back in October about 50 students--mostly black, all angry--prevented a House film society from showing its scheduled movie. Their actions had deep implications for almost everyone at Harvard who reads the papers--they refused to allow a showing of D. W. Griffith's racist film classic. "Birth of a Nation" and thus forced a debate of some very difficult issues racism, freedom of speech and the politics...
...students, members of the Organization for the Solidarity of Third World Students, said they objected specifically to Griffith's patronizing attitude toward blacks under Reconstruction and his glorification of the Ku Klux Klan, arguing that by presenting a racist film as entertainment the Adams House film society at least tacitly sanctioned the film's racism. They said the film and others like it should only be shown in a proper forum, one that would allow for an explanation of the history of the period and the film as well as a discussion of the issues of racism and freedom...
...When I came here to Harvard. I was sort of alarmed that I'd be the lone veteran, and I was almost right," Griffith A. (Griff) Marton '75, a 26-year-old transfer student from a junior college in California, says. "There had been lots of veterans where I came from, so we were relaxed, the professors knew how to react to us, the college was experienced in handling veterans problems. It was a lot different from here...
History is Made at Night with a Griffith short, Sunday...