Word: moos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Skirted Subjects. In truth, that is what she has been playing all along. Though she is a superb comedienne and a subtle actress, Reid is called upon to moo and moan around the set with scarcely a shred of alleviating humanity. York's innate beauty and growing skills are dissipated in a role that calls for little more than wide eyes and elliptical chatter. What is most wrong with The Killing of Sister George is its essential conception. Director Robert Aldrich has regrettably decided to make this adaptation of Frank Marcus' play into pure Hollywood Gothica...
Financed by a group of New Orleans businessmen, he set to work. One assistant, Jim Alcock, concentrated on the legalities of the case; a second, Andy ("Moo") Sciambra, handled the field work. After months of investigation, Garrison finally announced that he had "solved the assassination." Lee Harvey Oswald, he said, was only a decoy and a patsy. "The key to the whole case is through the looking glass. Black is white; white is black." A right-wing conspiracy involving some 20 anti-Castroites, ex-CIA agents and members of the Minutemen had killed Jack Kennedy in Dallas' Dealey Plaza...
...fact," said one of them, her eye-brows batting in amazement, "last night we were sitting around and a guy came up and said, 'Do you want hear me moo?' and he began mooing, and hee-hawing! Then he said, 'Look at the beautiful birds in the trees,' and he began chirping...
Rats squeak, cows moo...
Alvarez Kelly, like most pictures that prattle about cattle, leaves the customers feeling that they ought to raise a beef. But there is more than moo in this moovie. There is, for example, a galloping good story that describes with cheerful inaccuracy how in 1864 a troop of Confederate cavalry rustled about 2,500 steers from the Union forces and then sent them thundering through Grant's lines to the relief of Richmond. What's more, the story provides Director Edward Dmytryk with irresistible opportunities to plant a little poison ivy on the grave of Southern chivalry...