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...West, slaving in a B-grade studio to reduce the images of silver screen gangster sagas to flicks like The Black Coin where a young hero, wearing a white sweater, is attacked regularly by four burly men in black, turned the ideal upside down. In The Day of the Locust America became a Hollywood burlesque...
...movie is plagued by self-inflatable notions of its own importance. Director John Schlesinger (Sunday, Bloody Sunday; Day of the Locust) and Screenwriter William Goldman (All the President's Men) are not content with making an espionage yarn. They have tarted up their story with phony resonances intended to link it to such things as war guilt, the Nazis and the Jews, McCarthy witch-hunting, and the blight of urban decay as emblematic of modern anomie. Thrillers can deal fleetly with ideas, even difficult ones...
...have written the script for the affair. The V.F.W. color guard lined up in the center of the street in front of the Art Nouveau county courthouse, hard by the Russell County farm bureau. The high school band was almost in tune as it entertained under the elm and locust trees. The ladies of the town grilled hot dogs and served potato chips and salad on paper plates. The sun was full and hot as the crowd of about 2,000 gathered to welcome back the local boy who was bringing to town the President...
...could sneeze on it, hit the gas tank. The pick-up just rumbled for a second, and there was a dripping sound as gas leaked on to the cement. Then the truck joined its brother the Merc, 20 years late, M-80s--July Fourth--Dealy Plaza--Day of the Locust craziness...
...Errol Flynn fashion. But it also accurately and believably details the training and reserve one must acquire to become an emperor and the political intrigues one must initiate to remain one. In 1975 it was voted as the best science fiction novel of all time by the readers of Locust, a New York City-based "fanzine," ahead of classics like Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy and Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. It is good popular fiction; by which I mean it rates with the best of Eric Ambler...