Word: odessa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which serves as the white-collar headquarters town for the oil companies operating in the area, are a multimillion-dollar 14-story office tower and that symbol of a successful city, a Hilton hotel. A half-hour's drive away is Midland's twin city, Odessa, a blue-collar town built around a sprawl of refineries and oil-well service and supply firms. There the boom is reflected not in the skyline but in the HELP WANTED notices outside the machine shops and the POWDER ROOM signs inside them. Skilled labor is so short-1,500 jobs...
...attracting premium prices. New drilling pipe sells for $10.50 per ft. when available; when it is not, wildcatters often settle for used pipe supplied by oilfield hustlers at $20 per ft. "They charge an arm and a leg," complains Walter Bates, owner of a well-service firm in Odessa, Texas. "But I'm happy to pay any price to get the equipment I need." Sometimes, the equipment is not only high-priced but hot as well. Says Sheriff Elwood Hill of Odessa: "They are stealing just about everything in the oil patch that isn't tied down." Hill...
...ODESSA FILE Directed by RONALD NEAME Screenplay by KENNETH ROSS and GEORGE MARKSTEIN...
...subtitle might be useful for The Odessa File, something like How I Stumbled on a Nazi Plot, Infiltrated a Secret Organization, Hunted Down a Mass Murderer, Saved Israel and Spared My Self-Respect...
...there is more than rampant professionalism involved here, but Forsyth and the screenwriters reserve this information for a snapper ending. It seems that Voight's father, long dead, was a . . . but let the movie hold on to its arthritic surprise. It is just about all it has. The Odessa File has lumbering yearnings to be a kind of fictional semidocumentary. It invokes Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi hunter, whose name is listed in the credits as an adviser and who even appears, played by an Israeli actor, as a futile attempt to lend the project a little importance, like using...