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...Child of the Century, by Ben Hecht. A disorganized, windy, often fascinating look in the mirror by a softie who always made like a toughie (TIME, June...
...Apache (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists) claims to follow in the bootsteps of High Noon and Shane, but it trips along the way. It stars Burt Lancaster in a fairly closeup view of the Indian brave, Massai, who refused to join Geronimo in a peace contract with the U.S. Army. The old chief and his warriors are shipped off to Florida reservations, but Massai escapes and decides to go it alone...
...Child of the Century, by Ben Hecht. A big, disorganized and frequently fascinating look in the mirror by a prolific softie who always made like a toughie (TIME, June...
...Child of the Century, by Ben Hecht...
...Hecht had confined his autobiography to a personal record of such activities, it would have made more interesting reading. But he has padded it with feats of overblown metaphor ("My throat is sick with too much living, as if I had swallowed a long stove pipe") and bursts of gassy lamentation ("About those around me-hardly any have ever given me anything I could use as a human being -love, understanding or comfort"). A Child of the Century drives home the lesson that words and phrases are best kept short and plain-a fact Hecht might have learned from...