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COLONEL DEAN MACHO, veteran Marine flyer and crew-cut C.O. of Air Group 12 greeted the final day of the war with a farewell bombing sortie over the Mekong Delta. Whistling off into the hot pink dawn with three other A-4 Skyhawks, Macho made radio contact with a Vietnamese forward air controller (F.A.C.); he was promptly directed in pidgin English to an enemy target. Except for the language problem, it was business as usual. "At one point I asked the F.A.C. whether the target was east, west, north or south of some smoke rising from the ground," Macho recounted...
Cukor fabricates stock character types and conventional plot complications with playful expertise. Henry, the stodgy middle-class bourgeois, Augusta, the eccentric aunt, Visconti, her wildly romantic macho first love, and her present lover, Wordsworth, a fortune-telling black African, wind up on a mock spy adventure on the Orient Express as Augusta delivers an illegal $100,000 ransom to Visconti held captive in Africa. Fortified by the belief that love conquers all. Aunt Augusta cajoles, lies, steals, blackmails, and is deported in the course of her mission. Having sacrificed practically all she own when she finally does deliver the ransom...
...started with Peckinpah's Wild Bunch, and no discussion of cinematic fascism is complete without Straw Dogs. At the beginning of the year came the realization, by Pauline Kael and others, that the movies had begun to pipe fascism into the mind of Joe Moviegoer. That the primitive, unquestionably macho preachings of Peckinpah and Kubrick, as well as the less subtle portrayal of Dirty Harry Kellerman by Don Siegel, depicted a cultural regression...
Director Dick Richards hasn't filmed a story, only a series of along-the-trail anecdotes which illustrate the boy's macho training, boss Frank Culpepper's disciplinary authority over his unruly group (an authority of sheer professional certitude), and the slender code of honor of the four orneriest critters--gunmen Culpepper picks up to replace men shot by cattle thieves...
...most of these remain vague references, often deceptively so. For instance, the cover tells the newsstand onlooker that inside he will find "bikes, leather, Nazis, flesh bestiality," everything to satisfy the macho lusts of that man of the world...