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That same collage of photographic thought works with better humor for Jack Nicholson in PRIZZI'S HONOR (Sack Copley Place). At first glance he plays the amiable Mafia hit man as simply as he slips into his Brooklyn accent, but his animated face and agile acting reveal a character far more likeable and intriguing than some cotton-mouthed thug...
This is too bad, as this movie features some of the best acting to come around this year. A remarkably good supporting cast complements the fine performances by stars Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner...
...Nicholson stars as Charlie Partanna, a stereotypical middle-aged. Italian man who has the habit of slipping a ten-dollar bill into the hands of anybody doing him a favor (he even tells a maid over the phone that he will send her ten bucks for all her trouble...
...should. Some enchanted evening Charley Partanna sees a stranger across a crowded room and somehow he knows, he knows even then, that he must see her again and again. As in any good romance, that turns out to be more easily wished than done. Charley, played by Jack Nicholson in one of his boldest performances, is a faithful lieutenant in one of New York's best and oldest Mafia families, the Prizzis. Irene Walker, the handsome woman in the designer suit whom he loves at first double take, is played by that estimable chameleon, Kathleen Turner, as a sort...
...underestimates her man. Charley's salient virtue is loyalty, and once committed to her, he will stop at nothing short of marriage. Nor does she understand that he is not as dumb as Nicholson funnily, bravely makes him look. Charley's shrewdness is on a slow-burning fuse, but it is very much a part of his tenacious nature. He is bound to discover that the career in which Irene is making the greatest strides is not her visible one, but her hidden one: hit person for the Mob, with a sideline that includes cheating the Prizzis...