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Penn's work on the film is nicely augmented by that of editor Dede Allen co-screenwriter Venable Herndon and actors Arlo, James Broderick and Pat Quinn. Pete Seeger is also on hand to remind us how little things have changed since his generation's attempt to find a better America...
...from the word go, Alice's Restaurant is Arthur Penn's movie, not Arlo's. (In addition to directing, Penn co-wrote the screenplay with Venable Herndon.) The director's control becomes clear very early in the picture, where he gives us the first of several scenes set in Arlo's father's hospital room...
...Kirstein has tried to stuff every bit of Lincolnian legend-fluff there is into the few hours before the President's trip to Ford theater. Ann Rutledge, William Herndon, Matthew Brady, Crazy Mary, Drunk Ulysses, dirty stories, trips down the Old Mississippi, unorthodox but deep faith, what he really felt about the Negroes and more and more. Since Kirstein's sole thread of dramatic coherence is Lincoln's growing consciousness that this day is the ordained and necessary day of death, the catalogue of anecdote and reference might be, lamely but legitimately, the drowning man's life passing before...
Died. John Charles Herndon, 55, Idaho Democratic gubernatorial candidate, a relatively unknown lawyer whose slim hopes of winning in November increased last month when State Senator Don W. Samuelson defeated incumbent Governor Robert Smylie for the Republican nomination; of injuries suffered when a light plane taking him to a political meeting crashed; near Stanley, Idaho...
...Campaign. The irony of Smylie's defeat by Samuelson-who in November will face Democrat Charles Herndon, an unprepossessing protégé of North Idaho Democratic Boss Tom Boise-is that one of his duties as chairman of the Republican Governors is to advise other candidates about how to campaign and how to get grassroots support...