Word: heston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatly influenced the modern human-potential movement. Though The Ten Commandments and Remarkable Men are theologically antithetical, they are cinematic first cousins. Both films suffer from an excess of piety, a shortage of humor and an infatuation with desert vistas. Still, DeMille's muscular, campy Moses (Charlton Heston) is a hell of a lot more fun than Brook's wimpy, self-effacing Gurdjieff (Dragan Maksimovic). Human saintliness plays better on the big screen when it is accompanied by thunder and lightning. Brook's film is based on the mystic's autobiography. The tale begins...
...other hand, the end could come from mutated praying mantises, killer bees, flying saucers, aerosol cans, a shortage of STP, the retirement of Charlton Heston...
...quality bookseller with an interest in the literary field, continues to operate in the old tradition; its sales people, for instance, often phone customers to alert them to new books that they might like. Against this, Dalton offers a plethora of autograph parties featuring such guests as Charlton Heston and former Treasury Secretary William Simon, and some selective discounting. Like many independents, Carl Kroch, the chain's president, insists there will always be a place for the old, full-price shop. Says he: "You can't provide our kind of services on such a large scale. Besides, there...
...clear the hatch so that the DSRV can do its job. Its inventor is not a standard-issue Navy type and, pleasantly played by David Carradine, he gets into some comical wrangles with Stacy Keach, who plays the officer in charge of the rescue. Down below, of course, Charlton Heston practices his customary agreeable stalwartness as the captain of the disintegrating sub. In the end, Carradine and Keach bring their mission improbable to a satisfying climax...
...title roles aside - are fun in their bizarre way. Ernest Borgnine yells out his lines in an un abashed American accent and bulges his eyes in every closeup, proving once again that he is the last word in screen vulgarity. His crass pyrotechnics are almost topped by Charlton Heston, who turns Henry VIII's death scene into a veritable anthology of hammy acting gestures. Raquel Welch, no fool, sees to it that she is more seen than heard...