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David and Lisa. In his first movie, made for less than $200,000, Director Frank Perry tells a heartrending, heart-warming tale of two psychotic adolescents (Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin) who find love at the bottom of the snake pit...
David and Lisa. In his first movie, made for less than $200,000, Director Frank Perry tells a heartrending, heart-warming tale of two psychotic adolescents (Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin) who find love at the bottom of the snake pit...
...wrote and directed the first film version of Kafka's masterpiece, has wisely declined to decide. He accepts every possible interpretation as a limb of the author's allegorical monster, as a circle of the Hell in whose image he imagined man is made. Into this pit, his cameras rolling like the eyes of Lucifer, Welles plunges with tartarean energy; and if he cannot quite get to the bottom of it all he nevertheless comes up with a film of infernal brilliance, perhaps the most exciting picture he has made since The Magnificent Ambersons...
...quarry at the edge of town. In the book one of them strangles him while the other drives a knife into his heart and twists it twice-"Like a dog!" K. says as he dies. In the film they dynamite him, and out of the stone pit rises a small cloud shaped like a mushroom...
...N.Y.A.C. meet, but Brumel gave him something to think about anyway. Brumel skimmed 7 ft. 2 in., then called for the bar to be lifted to 7 ft. 4 in., a half-inch better than the indoor record he set himself two years ago. Brumel bounded toward the pit and took off. The bar never even quivered-he cleared it by a good inch. "It's too bad John was not here,'' said Brumel. "We both do better with competition...