Word: pecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STALKING MOON. A bloodthirsty and ingenious Indian is out to take revenge on Gregory Peck. Such presumption can lead to only one conclusion, but there are good thrills along...
...STALKING MOON. Gregory Peck dashes around the hills of New Mexico pursuing and being pursued by a vengeful and ingenious Indian. Everything is terribly low-key and occasionally mannered, but there are some superb chills all the same...
...wild Apaches have taken to the hills, and after them clops the cavalry including a bony scout named Sam Varner (Gregory Peck). In the ensuing roundup, one face is out of place: a blonde woman, Sarah Carver (Eva Marie Saint), prisoner of the Indians for some ten years. Out of pity-and maybe a pinch of desire-Varner takes Sarah and her half-breed son to live on his New Mexico ranch...
Aiming for the classic genre, Director Robert Mulligan occasionally misfires. But he is saved, somewhat surprisingly, by Peck, who is in private life an avid collector of Lincoln memorabilia. With flashes of ironic humor and his customary rigid dignity, he escapes the boundaries of the role and gives it an honest, Abe-like stature. The rest of the cast is resolutely unglamorous; even Saint has the hollow eyes and concave face of a woman who has been out on the plains too long...
When Hong Kong's leftist Chinese spattered the British colony with posters proclaiming "Long Live Chairman Mao," it was hardly surprising. But there were other signs shrieking "Go Home Gregory Peck," and that seemed curious. What upset the left wing was The Chairman, a film in which Peck plays a U.S. scientist who enters Red China to help a Chinese colleague escape from Mao's clutches. The Chinese press railed at the moviemakers for "insulting the cultural revolution and provoking 700 million Chinese people." In Hong Kong, the anti-Peck campaign, complete with bomb threats and promises...