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...HUSH . . . HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE. Four durable movie queens (Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Astor) turn a lushly photographed thriller into frightful fun, though the horrors provided by Producer-Director Robert Aldrich (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) are mostly formula...
Cathedral Hush. "I speak tonight," he began slowly, "for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy. At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man's unending search for freedom. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama...
...chamber became suspended in a cathedral-like hush. Nobody coughed. Nobody whispered. Nobody rustled. The only sound was a product of the silence -the faint click-click of photographers' cameras that was audible clear across the chamber...
...Bridge. Finally, Martin Luther King arrived, having committed himself to the deal proposed by Collins and approved by Smitherman, Lingo and Clark. His unsuspecting listeners settled into a respectful hush as he spoke of his "painful and difficult decision." Said King with great emotion: "I have made my choice. I have got to march. I do not know what lies ahead of us. There may be beatings, jailings, tear gas. But I would rather die on the highways of Alabama than make a butchery of my conscience! There is nothing more tragic in all this world than to know right...
...Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte is a gruesome slice of shock therapy that, pointedly, is not a sequel to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The two films are blood relatives, as Producer-Director Robert Aldrich well knows, but Charlotte has a worse plot, more gore, and enough bitchery to fill several outrageous freak shows...