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...direction generally accentuates the script's failings. Though Huyck cuts frantically among his stories, he tuckers out the audience without ever accelerating the film. The elaborate finale, involving a chaotic end-of-term school play, does not achieve its intended purpose of ty ing all the plot lines into a bittersweet cli max. What is missing is Lucas' fluent visual language. In cinematic terms, French Postcards sadly proves to be not so much American Graffiti as fractured Franglais. Rich
What with the plot being so linear and the characters being so flat, there is nothing to hold one's attention except the sad reflection that the late .Robert Shaw (who plays the general, and whose last movie this is) spent too much of his career on such dismal efforts, as did Di rector Robson (The Champion), who has also died since principal photography was completed. Also present are Lee Mar vin, Linda Evans and Joe Namath, who wears cowboy getup to play a CIA type...
...collapse began on the third play of the second half, when Harvard quarterback Burke St. John's pass intended for Rich Horner went instead to Brown defensive back Woodrow Pugh who returned it to the Harvard 40-yd. line. "He threw it right at me," Pugh said afterwards...
...play later, Brown's Rick Villella, who baffled the Crimson with 121 yds. rushing on 31 attempts, took off on a power sweep and ran over the Harvard defense for a 36-yd. touchdown and a 7-6 Bruin lead...
Harvard's Jon Hollingsworth then fumbled on the first play after the kickoff at the Harvard 28. On Brown's third down, at the 29, Carbone threw to Mitch Metz--all alone in the flat after his defender fell down--who ran from the 15 to the end zone for the second touchdown...