Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again a good one comes along. Bathed in innocence, making mistakes as though they had never been made before, Harvey Hart's The Sweet Ride exists in passive limbo between art and product and, like Blow-Up, reminds us how much can be created from a skeletal dramatic narrative. Its surf, cycle, and psychedelic setting is seldom exploited as such, and even the semi-mystery which motivates the plot is largely abandoned in favor of extended description of a bittersweet life-style gone slightly out of hand. The Sweet Ride tries to beat the trappings of its own genre...
...years as Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, Samuel Harvey Shapiro was the man who came in the back door to see Governor Otto Kerner. So self-effacing was Shapiro that most voters knew him merely as a loyal Democratic minion from Kankakee-if they knew him at all. Last week the stocky, homely "Mr. Sam," 61, was sworn in as Governor of Illinois...
...Patrick Frawley Jr., 44, who is board chairman of Eversharp, and a veteran right-wing crusader. Last fall he brought out his first publication, Twin Circle, a conservative Catholic weekly. His more recent venture is edited by Ed Butler, 34, a Schick public relations man who once debated Lee Harvey Oswald on the subject of Cuba-an encounter that was preserved on tape and has been made into a recording...
...least in part redeemed by controlled visual construction and a sensible linear narrative. Perhaps A Dandy In Aspic could have similarly transcended its endless zooms to close-ups of anguished eyeballs and urban details; unfortunately, director Mann died three weeks before shooting was completed and star Laurence Harvey finished the film, presumably supervising the editing. What remains is a shooting style in transition (Mann trying to change from pictorial simplicity to a more montage-conscious approach) put together, not really badly, but certainly impersonally. The zoom stops, the shot holds for awhile, and another shot comes on: rhythm occurs haltingly...
Given the tricky and unpolished style and the ultimate anticlimax of the plot, A Dandy In Aspic isn't half bad. Although Laurence Harvey's acting capabilities enable him to register only an emotional strain of the kind plainly treatable with low-level patent medicines advertised on television, several scenes are genuinely moving, conveying the agony of a very trapped and very unhappy man. A secret service conference between Eberlin (Harvey) and his superiors contains some masterful close shots (chiefly of Harry Andrews), and indicates the high level of photographic composition and lighting in the interiors. A later confrontation between...