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Deep in the entrails of a Rumanian castle, a malefic beast has been stirring for a millennium. Now it is 1941, and a platoon of Nazis have let the evil genie out of his battlements. On the side of Good, sort of, are a frail Jewish scholar (the great English actor Ian McKellen, sporting an accent that sounds like south central Iowa) and a preternatural Watchman (Scott Glenn), whose eyes go quilted when he gets really mad. With all these adversaries crossing swords, neither the Nazis nor the narrative stands much of a chance...
...also can't win if your big man is on the bench, as the 6-ft., 10-in. Trout was for the Merrimack contest. Currently plagued by a hand injury, Trout figures to platoon with Carrabino and the squad's other big man, Co-Captain Ken Plutnicki...
...director's chair with this film after making his name as the cinematographer of Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Personal Best, brings a virginal intensity to each hoary plot device. He hardly gives his audience time to realize that the football team is only an updated platoon from a 1940s war movie (the Irishman with his well-fingered rosary, the Italian with his letch for the ladies, the slow Poles and happy blacks), or that the big football game follows a scenario that is both predictable and improbable (with only a few seconds left to play, the coach calls...
...game matched two of the finest pitchers in baseball but it was decided in a battle of home runs. Baltimore's Jim Dwyer, one of the Orioles' platoon players, belted a first inning homer and oldtimer Joe Moral tied in the sixth for the Phillies...
Bumbry led off by flying to center field and that brought one of Manager Joe Altobelli's shock troops to the plate. Dwyer, a platoon player in right field with Ford, had only 196 at-bats during the season and eight homers. Denny had given up just nine homers in his 242 2/3 innings work for the Phillies this year...