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Rick Dillon (Keir Dullea), small time hockey hero and man-about-the-small-town of Delisle, Sask. (pop. 700), knocks around a good deal, getting up to no good. He rouses the passions of a loyal barmaid named Loretta (Elizabeth Ashley), even while leching after the daughter of the hockey-team owner (Dayle Haddon) and making up to a raucous number who works in the bowling alley over in the next town. Implausibly, Dillon has enough energy left over from these various pursuits to carouse with his lumpish buddy Pov (John Beck) and play a fierce, albeit mediocre, game...
...heart belongs to Brick (Keir Dullea), who spurns her in bed and is drowning in alcohol out of fear that he may be a homosexual. Brick's father, Big Daddy (Fred Gwynne), is dying of cancer, and the childless Maggie is in a steely duel with Brick's brother Gooper (Charles Siebert) and his fecund wife Mae (Joan Pape) for the imminent in heritance of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile." What evolves is a series of confrontations that would reduce the forthcoming Foreman-Ali fight to a game of pattycake...
...Keir Dullea's Brick is fine all the way. For a long time this is a thankless role: Brick has little chance to play; he functions more as a mannikin than as a man. But it takes considerable skill and attentiveness to convey Brick's inattentiveness convincingly, whether he is just lying down with closed eyes, gazing off into space, or whistling about the light of the silvery moon, quite oblivious of what Maggie is saying. Eventually he is goaded into action, and uses a chair as a circus lion-tamer does. In the great scene with Big Daddy...
SATURDAY: Starlost. New series starring Keir Dullea (of 2001 fame) has had a slow start but is moving in on the old Star Trek audience. Earthship Ark is traveling through space with millions of people aboard in self-contained environments. Three of them are trying to save the others from destruction. Worth a try. 7 p.m. CH.4. Color...
...gets the feeling that the women are dealing with comedians who have power, rather than with men who oppose women's suffrage on principle. Because the suffragettes alone are serious, they seem to carry on a solitary battle; neither their one male friend, Keir Hardie (one of the original Labour M.P.'s) played by Peter Wright, nor their foes, the "gents" who praise Mom and embrace the status quo, can match the women in presence or dramatic potency. The men are not strong enough to illustrate Parliament's political treachery or the cruelty of the force-feeding by which they...