Word: hackman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is part of a great lost tradition, the meanwhile-back-at-the-fort film," Gene Hackman boasts of his new movie. Cheerfully titled March or Die, the picture features Hackman as a West Pointer who finds a commission in the French Foreign Legion and trouble in the Sahara between archaeologists and Arabs. Hackman grumbles: "A whole generation has grown up without ever seeing a Foreign Legion film. Today kids think the only thing on the other side of a sand dune is an oil well." His new role as a French connection, desert style, will surely set them straight...
Night Moves (Arthur Penn directs Gene Hackman) at 4 and 7:35; Force of Evil...
Noncorporate markets for private planes are also growing. More of the ultra-affluent are buying planes, following the example of Actors Cliff Robertson and Gene Hackman, Country Singer Merle Haggard and Attorney F. Lee Bailey. Learjets and other craft that can fly as high as 45,000 ft. or more are popular for aerial photography and mapping. Small planes are being used to seed crops, salt icy highways, conduct geological surveys, and patrol the nation's coasts. Nearly 30% of the industry's sales are to foreign customers-not surprisingly, since 90% of the world's small...
...three principals seem to realize their importance in maintaining the proper chemical balance. Liza Minnelli is better than she has ever been, sweet and raffish, while Burt Reynolds cuts up with infectious bemusement. Much of the heavy acting falls to Gene Hackman-just as it did to Spencer Tracy-and he performs with subdued authority. If the stars seem sometimes to be off on different courses, playing out their own roles instead of playing to each other, this is one of the hazards of all-star Hollywood entertainment...
...breeziness, Lucky Lady falters over a few other hazards. The proceedings get a little arch at tunes: an occasional line seems too cherished, some secondary performances are rendered in strokes too broad. Besides, at the last minute the film makers changed the original ending, in which Hackman and Reynolds were killed, because preview audiences were disappointed. Now the three protagonists are last seen much older and still together. The happy ending is in one of Hollywood's best traditions. Those traditions can be limiting even when the show is flush with high spirits...