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...loutishness of this film is hilarious, but Scott's participation is sobering and depressing. He acts very badly here. Perhaps the only mark of his actor's canninesss is that he has surrounded himself with players who give him no competition. Van Devere (Scott's wife offscreen) delivers. under what must have been her husband's guidance, the most ruthlessly embarrassing hysterics since Marilyn Monroe's desert outburst in The Misfits. Carson, similarly clumsy, suggests not so much the primitive life as a somewhat furtive one, say, in late-night doorways on Manhattan...
...Foreman mistook this commission for a knighthood. The film that he and Director Attenborough (Oh What a Lovely War) have whittled out of all the dispatches, memoirs and histories is antiseptic and servile, as empty of conflict as a biographical entry in the Britannica. The movie even employs an offscreen journalist, whose task it is to badger Young Winston (Simon Ward), his father Lord Randolph (Robert Shaw) and American mother (Anne Bancroft) with indelicate inquiries. "What precisely was the nature of your husband's last illness?" the journalist sneers from behind the camera, adding after an evasive answer, "Come...
...TIME in its issue on American women [March 20] made me sound like Shirley Temple! I am not really against exploring depravity. I understand it's terrific both on-and offscreen and can be done by either sex. ELEANOR PERRY
...image of Mafiosi as softspoken, smart-dressing businessmen, who shun such crudities as murder and torture as oldfashioned, seemed to be fading. Perhaps the Mob was taking those gory movie scripts about itself too seriously. At any rate, it was exposing the cruelty and ruthlessness of racketeering. Offscreen, murder is brutally final. Indeed, Gallo did not like parts of The Godfather. He told a friend that he thought the death scenes seemed "too flashy...
...audiences, the women behind the performers, the women who design or edit or photograph or write, are invisible. Indeed, backstage and offscreen, those women are all but invisible too-because there are so few of them...