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Other characters are too sketchily conceived to be very convincing. Cecilia (Theresa Russell) turns into a snotty, would-be vamp, almost a figure of self-parody. Robert Mitchum, as her father, spends most of his time looking constipated. Jack Nicholson delivers a fine vignette of a labor organizer encroaching on Stahr's prerogatives, but his appearance is unfortunately brief...
...worlds. If movies are dreams for him, they are yard goods for his studio colleagues. Stahr insists on making a big-budget quality movie that may never turn a profit. He does it over the protests of the corporate lawyer, Fleishacker (Ray Milland), and Studio Chief Pat Brady (Robert Mitchum), who has described his production chief as a "goddam Vine Street Jesus." As much as his uncertain health and assaults of melancholy, it is good taste that ultimately undoes Stahr and permits Brady and the board of directors...
...goddess-are brought off with the checked flamboyance characteristic of the best in Panic in the Streets and East of Eden. Kazan has certainly lost none of his assurance with actors. De Niro makes an appropriately remote Stahr, bright or shaded depending on the circumstances and angle of view. Mitchum, Milland, Tony Curtis (as an aging superstar), Dana Andrews (as a fading director) and Jack Nicholson (very canny as a Communist union organizer) fill in their roles . with quick, bold strokes...
...Friends of Eddle Coyle. Tough talk, beautiful Boston, Mitchum's mug. Dynamite...
...intellectual caveman," grows up dreaming about being a tough fighter, a writer and a famous actor. He stumbles from job to job, then weaves his daydreams together: he writes a boxing movie, stars in it himself, and-even before the film is released-Hollywood hails him as the next Mitchum, Brando and Pacino rolled into...