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Peary and Cook were quite different. A Peary expedition was a big production with Government support and financial backing from a group of New York millionaires. Cook was a loner who had worked his way through medical school as a milkman. He preferred to travel light, live like an Eskimo and depend on his ingenuity. On one expedition to the Antarctic he saved his ship from the ice by using the bodies of penguins as bumpers. He designed clever gear, including a sled that could be converted into a kayak...
...time as Dean (they appeared together in Rebel Without a Cause), and in rather the same style. But Hopper is an actor of quick cunning, and he manages to get the movie back on course whenever it tends to become a little sentimental about the lot of the misunderstood loner. He has the uncanny ability to transform himself instantly from a ravaged outcast into a kid in a cowboy outfit on his way to First Communion...
...popularity, Brando still insists that "privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to; it's an absolute requisite." He still holds to his old credo that "conformity breeds mediocrity." And although he does not ride a motorcycle much any more, he remains a restless loner, a middle-aged delinquent of the film industry. If he had a theme song, it would be Elgar's Enigma Variations...
...thriller is Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson), a name so bland that we must assume the producers were at pains to appease antidefamation groups of virtually every nationality. Bishop is a psychopathic Mr. Fixit, flawlessly efficient at doing in whoever has fallen out of favor with his employers. Emotionless, a loner, Bishop spends hours studying his quarry...
There's no thrill quite like signing up with an idea whose time has come -except, of course, the thrill of opposing it if you happen to be a loner. For her present foolhardiness, roughly comparable to throwing herself in front of a juggernaut with a Molotov cocktail, Midge Decter deserves to be named 1972's Daughter of the Anti-Zeitgeist...