Word: leachman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story concerns the great consternation brought about in Continental society by the appearance of Daisy Miller (Cybill Shepherd), a rich American girl touring Europe with her mother (Cloris Leachman) and bratty little brother (James McMurtry). Daisy flirts openly with a gaudy Italian opportunist, causing something of a scandal, while teasing an upright young American expatriate named Winterbourne (Barry Brown). The latter observes, with a mixture of melancholy and enchantment, her flouting of convention, and feels drawn to her. Daisy eventually catches "the Roman fever" late at night in the Colosseum, and dies of the figurative effects of culture shock...
Most of the actors behave with the sort of animation generally reserved for lyings-in-state, although Cloris Leachman's Mrs. Miller is skittish and well observed. Bogdanovich, a hugely eclectic director, borrows heavily here again. The use of a popular tune-Maggie, in this instance-as a sort of sentimental signature comes directly from John Ford, and the mood of much of the light-comedy moments seems a gloss on Ernst Lubitsch. The film's opening is quite ravishing, however-the early moments of a hotel stirring for a new day-and throughout there is a kind...
...movie director said he did not have any plans to do anything on Broadway, but he will be making a "musical in Hollywood"called "At Long Last Love" with Shepherd, Burt Reynolds and Cloris Leachman...
...famous cigar, and the Lady in Red (Cloris Leachman) who betrays Dillinger are two of the very few things explained in the film. We are left with too many unanswered questions. At the end of the film we discover that dedicated G-man Purvis retires from the force after killing Dillinger and that thirty years later he shoots himself with the same gun that he used to kill Dillinger. This is the movie's interesting tale and yet it is tacked on as an afterthought. What drove Purvis to such a symbolic end? We would rather explore Purvis' character deeply...