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...money and women in Toronto. They are, of course, doomed to failure. Their only city acquaintance is an uncle who refuses to recognize them; unable to find anything better, they finally drift to working in a bottling plant. Eighty dollars a week is a lavish salary to Peter and Joey, and they spend whatever they get on drinks and waitresses. When Joey, the more frivolous of the pair, knocks up a girlfriend and decides to get married, he goes on a no-down-payment buying splurge. He is left disconsolate when he and friend Peter are laid off after...
...much like a bad Depression novel where the unthinking masses are hauled off to a sheep-like death. On the verge of starvation (and Christmas) Peter and Joey rob a grocery store, bashing in the skull of a clerk who tries to stop them. At film's end they are in flight: once again goin' down the road, probably to another half-year of good times, hard knocks, tedium, and a folk guitar strumming on the soundtrack...
...TIMES, Shebib timorously approaches the ideas defining his characters' conditions. Peter, hungry for a place in society beyond his education and cultural reach, has been brainwashed by the Polyanna media. Joey is sucked into high-powered consumerism. Both are removed from any contact with the upper classes. Truly saddening are the attempts Peter makes to talk with a Satan-enthralled ingenue in a record shop, and a coed of more super-ficial pretensions reading Hesse in a park. He is, in both cases, peremptorily cut off. It is probably a symptom of general urban paranoia that this action seems almost...
...orchestra: he has a pleasant, reassuring manner and a way of keeping in control of interviews. Sitting in a comfortable armchair in a Symphony Hall anteroom, he seems to actually enjoy being asked the same old questions once more. (As we talk, two Symphony Hall employees pass through. "Oh Joey," says the first, "are you being interviewed? " And to me, "Be sure to write that he's groovy. The staff loves...
Mann and Co-Producer Jerry Frank, who previously worked together on ABC's Joey Bishop Show, always knew that they would someday hit big casino. Frank says he was inspired by football crowds that "went bananas" during flag-waving numbers at half time and by the emergence of Middle America. "When that man said 'Silent Majority,' he was right. They are silent. Someone has got to make them jump out of their shells and start screamin', because they're just waiting for someone to give them the spark." Mann's inspiration was more personal...