Word: mcqueens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some-like Henry Charriere (Steve McQueen), whose nickname, Papillon (Butterfly), is symbolized in a tattoo on his chest-are endlessly obsessed with plans for escape. Others, like Louis Degas (Dustin Hoffman), try to get along by going along. Still others are on hand to demonstrate by their dramatically timely deaths just how difficult both courses are. Much suspenseful, if highly stylized, drama results from the interaction of these characters with one another and with hell on earth. Devotees of the prison-and-escape genre will enjoy anew such tradition-blessed ploys as the smug-gled-weapon bit, sundry chases through...
...slickness of his work vitiates any attempt to take Papillon with entire seriousness. Prison life is more picturesque than genuinely horrifying, and the escapes into the world outside are seen through a National Geographic lens brightly. Everywhere squalor seems to have been painted on carefully but obviously, like McQueen's old man's makeup at the end of the picture...
...greatest Chaplin films, Modern Times and City Lights, are at Park Square over the weekend, and Papillon, with Dustin Hoffman and Steve McQueen, about prison life and escape, starts at Beacon Hill. Have a Merry Christmas...
Current films seem to be putting youth back in its place. In his past roles, Steve McQueen often played the rebel -against home, hearth or system. But in Junior Banner he is a dutiful son who finally wins enough money to send his pa to his dreamland, Australia. In The Emperor of the North Pole Lee Marvin is trailed by a brash youth who wants to replace him as king of the hobos. But the crown stays squarely put on the gray head. At the end of the film Marvin boots the youth off the rails, shouting...
Married. Ali MacGraw, 34, the willowy Wellesley graduate whose acting (Love Story) is still accidental; and The Getaway rebel Steve McQueen, 43; she for the third time, he for the second; in Cheyenne, Wyo. McQueen summoned a justice of the peace from a golf course to a city park to perform the ceremony, which was attended by McQueen's son and daughter and MacGraw's son by her second husband, Robert Evans, vice president in charge of production at Paramount Pictures...