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...Cardigan's able young antagonist, the dashing Captain Nolan (David Hemmings). Nolan is, on the surface, the hero of the saga: he earned his commission by fighting in India rather than by paying in London, he disapproves of flogging, he falls in love, and he is a skilled horseman and soldier. But in a film where most of the other characters exhibit a That-Was-the-Week-That-Was simplicity, Nolan is a very ambiguous figure. For while he lacks Cardigan's fanatical obsession with form and privilege, Nolan is a cruel and chilling man. He is the first professional...
Down the road rattled a coach carrying six young Frenchwomen to the California goldfields. Up on the ridge, a leathery old horseman rose in the stirrup, turned and boomed over his shoulder. "There's a stage coming in!" Very good, approved Director Joshua Logan. There were cheers from a watching cluster of stars, extras and technicians, for that eight seconds of flawless acting was turned in by none other than Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse. Seems Morse was seated next to a movie executive on a recent plane ride, who suggested the Senator would make the perfect saddle...
...school of thought (which is not to be encouraged), people may buy certain kinds of products even though they hate the commercial. The axiom drawn from all this is that contempt breeds familiarity, and familiarity breeds sales. The recently retired White Knight (for Ajax cleanser) was the most ridiculed horseman since Don Quixote. He galloped so many laps around the plains of suburbia 1,000,000 in five years that after a while, he became a rather endearing symbol of camp. What is more, according to one claim, his magic lance added a not-so-subliminal phallic meaning...
...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. The Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is starkly rendered in this symbolic film written and directed by Zbynek Brynych...
...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A stark, symbolic tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, raised to a high level of creative cinema by the measured skill of Writer-Director Zbynēk Brynych...