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...picture is well made in a broad-stroke sort of way. Director Aldrich (The Big Knife, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Hustle) has never been one to linger over subtleties, but he has a good sense of life on the scramble in the less exalted realms of Middle America, and he covers the action in the ring quite brilliantly. One starts to feel one's own tendons screeching as the ladies apply their holds to one another, and the shuddering impact of bodies flung to the canvas registers in the audience's bones. Writer Frohman has concocted...
...please?" Buddy backed off a bit, allowing his paunch some room to move, brushed his hair back and wiped the sweat off his forehead; Jim, the boss, whistled "Lonely is a man without love" for maybe the twentieth time since the morning, picked up a butcher's knife and snapped the links holding a strand of sausage together...
Andrew Sellon, who wrote the book and lyrics for the show, and Micheal Scubert, who composed the music, are familiar as the composer-writer team of A Little Knife Music, the Pudding show of two years ago. They describe their current opus as a mix "of the Romantic and the fantastic," set in Victorian times, and contend that, though some humor keeps it from breaking entirely out of the Pudding mold, the show has "much more than that going...
...your mail box for two days." At one point during the conversations, Foster's freshmen roommates giggled in the background. "They're laughing at you," she said to Hinckley, and to the girls in an aside: "I should tell him I am sitting here with a knife." Hinckley heard the remark. "Well," he assured her, "I'm not dangerous, I promise you that...
More troubling is the realization that under questioning, even the most sophisticated Angel will recite stories of gang wars won, bullets whizzing overhead and knife wounds to the abdomen. We should certainly wonder whether Sliwa's expansion program will attract public-spirited kids concerned about purse snatchers or toughs who are only too happy to find a sanctioned duty as inner-city commandoes...