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...carnival of bang-up stunt scenes. which Richard Rush presents with marvelous subtlety. They do not look like the finished product, but neither are they like raw footage: they have the half-polished air of a rough cut. Above all, there is Peter O'Toole, doing his John Huston imitation, but putting a lacy edging of the fey around it. Daring and hilarious, he perfectly sets the tone of this antic, artfully paced piece...
With his field-tested flair for showmanship, and commercials for American Express behind him, Edson Arantes do Nascimento is chasing another goal: film acting. Pelé's role in Escape to Victory, now being shot by Director John Huston in Budapest, is classic typecasting. The former U.S. and Brazilian soccer star plays a former Trinidadian soccer star imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp along with Michael Caine, who, as luck would have it, played on the British national team, Sylvester Stallone, a brash American captain with promise as a goalie, and other prisoners of unquestionable talent-the cast includes...
...that Actress Lillian Gish, 83, bestowed on John Huston at a Lincoln Center film gala last week honoring his work was particularly affectionate. No wonder. "He seems like a relative," explained Gish. "I took my first curtain call at the age of five on the shoulders of his father Walter. We were touring in Rising Sun, Ohio." Years later, in 1960, Gish played for Huston in The Unforgiven, one of the 35 movies for which the grizzled director-actor was being honored, including such epics as The African Queen and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Huston, 73, listened...
...most remarkable aspect of the film is the simple way Huston and Fitzgerald have translated O'Connor's work to the screen. It works as if the novella had been the treatment for a screenplay. Like O'Connor, they make these characters seem natural when, in fact, they are grossly unnatural. When Haze wraps himself in barbed wire, a sequence that is at first horrifying becomes tender and comic because these characters really breathe, bleed and smile. Fitzgerald even allows some of O'Connor's imagery to creep into the dialogue when Enoch describes a woman with "hair so thin...
These insane characters have what Enoch calls "wise blood." It is a feeling inside about the right way to live, about the right way to be crazy and religious in a crazy and religious world. At 73, Huston may not be crazy or religious but his blood is still the right type; he has chosen an eccentric, powerful work with which to launch his welcome comeback as a director...