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HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. Up in Vermont, three madcap characters are put through their paces by Director Adolfas Mekas, an East Village cinemaniac who pokes fiendish fun at every moviemaker from D. W. Griffith to Antonioni...
...JONES. The funniest movie in many a year. Fielding's bawdy classic about vice in 18th century England has been pinched and patted into shape by Director Tony Richardson, with able assistance from stars Albert Finney and Hugh Griffith...
...JONES. Albert Finney is Tom. Hugh Griffith is Squire Western. And Director Tony Richardson is the man responsible for wresting a movie masterpiece from Fielding's ribald classic about the "favourite Follies and Vices" of 18th century England...
...materializes on the screen and just as suddenly dissolves. At one point, while the heroes grapple in a foot of snow, the sound track plays ethnic music from equatorial Africa. And all through the film, the cinemate moviegoer will be able to detect sly little mementos of D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Akira Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni-and Ma and Pa Kettle...
...JONES. Albert Finney is Tom. Hugh Griffith is Squire Western. And Director Tony Richardson is the man responsible for wresting a movie masterpiece from Fielding's ribald classic about the "favourite Follies and Vices" of 18th century England...