Word: leupold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters' hopelessly grim environment--even at the cost of a few emotional deadends. Leigh Montayne takes the part of Len and turns it into a believable, if curiously passive portrait of a nice guy just too intent on finishing last. In contrast, as his rival Fred, Frank W. Leupold enters a stylish, occasionally overly malignant performance. As Mary, the mother of Len's girlfriend, Nora Jacobson is most convincing, a catch-all of stray hairs and wasted spirits. Rounding out the household. Lynne Breslin and Richard Christenson are no less relenting in the purpose with which they attack their roles...
Viennese Psychiatrist Harald Leupold-Loewenthal is not so sure. "In Austria," he says, "a car is still a symbol of prestige, of power and potency. Being passed by a faster car, for example, represents a loss of sexual grandeur. Traffic here is still acted out on the irrational level of male rivalry." A Viennese police department traffic expert shares the psychiatrist's pessimism. "No driving school, no policeman, can teach drivers a considerate and responsible attitude," he says, "when parents curse like fishwives and show their naked aggressions during every weekend outing...
...Sarah Payne as Nina, the girl who leaves him for a more successful writer and a career on the stage, simply do not generate enough excitement as the principle characters. Some of the actors cannot convincingly portray characters who are supposed to be older than they are. Frank Leupold, as the old man, Sorin, exaggerates his senility too much to be effective. Scott Munerbrook, as the successful writer Trigorin, on the other hand, looks and acts too young for the part. There were, however, two fine performances, by John Archibald as Doctor Dorn, and Anne Garrels as the aging...