Word: perverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first my career was fascinating because the parts were varied." Savalas won an Academy nomination for playing a convict colleague of Burt Lancaster's in the 1962 movie Birdman of Alcatraz. The studios then typecast him in a long series of heavy roles, notably the swinish pervert in The Dirty Dozen (1967). When Hollywood sagged as a film center in the '60s, Savalas moved his wife Lynn and their three daughters to Europe, where he worked unenthusiastically as a villain in Italian potboilers. "One day," he says yearningly, "they will realize I can do a romantic story. Forget...
...dancing and an awful lot of BurtBacharachmusic. And I am left, finally, with a question for Helen Gurley Brown. Is it really in the style of a Cosmo girl to end an affair with: "When you walked through the door with that distinguished hat, I knew you were a pervert!!"? Maybe Ann Landers was right...
...head of the whole nasty slave racket is a Caucasian pervert named Amafi (Frank Finlay), whose line of chatter runs to things like "Luck can run out even for you, my black brother." It is difficult to imagine how he rose to such a position of prominence, but his henchmen seem impressed. They chase Shaft all over Ethiopia, from desert to village and even across the water to Paris. But he eventually dispatches them all, even taking time out to discuss a clitoridectomy with Aleme...
...London suburb, the police are engaged in an all-out man hunt for a sex pervert who molests children. Connery is a detective who brings a peculiar passion to the pursuit. When a prime suspect (Ian Bannen) is captured, Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit...
...cuteness of The Matchmaker and too little on the human comedy, makes one wonder if the concept of naivete describes the play itself rather than the subject of the comedy. Well-played farce ought to exaggerate normal human foibles, arousing the sympathy of the audience. This production tends to pervert the characters' behavior in form as well as degree. While some of the straightforward humor of the farce remains intact, much of its charm is swallowed up in the overdone quaintness of the show...