Word: pollacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jeremiah Johnson pretends to be the saga of a tall, tough mountain man who takes tetuge items civilization in the Utah wilderness Sydney Pollack, hailed for They Should Houses Don't They". directed: he cast his old friend. Robert Redford, in the title tole Redford comes to the mountains a young creenborn, enters the tutelage of an old grizzly hunter named Bear Claw, and gets roped into wilderness domesticity when an Indian code of honor forces a wife upon him. Civilization does catch up: a cavalry detachment enlists him to help rescue a party of settlers trapped high...
...Pollack admitted as much in an interviews shortly before the film's Boston premiere. His hero, he told me then, is "a man who turns his back on civilization because he wants to find a place where it's totally unnecessary for him to conform to a code of ethics...
...newsmen. Indeed many reporters, barred from the climactic scene, hesitated when word of the captives' safe release first came from the Bavarian state police, who were responsible for security at the airport in Fürstenfeldbruck. A few journalists were apparently misled when a local pub owner, Ludwig Pollack, passed a rumor near the airport gate that the terrorists had been seized; from this it was inferred that the hostages were safe. But it was only after receiving confirmation from Conrad Ahlers, official spokesman for the West German government, that many reporters sent firm-and wrong -stories...
...robbery went wrong as a result of the psychological quirks of the perpetrators. In Cool Breeze, the gang is given a vaguely altruistic motive (the money from the job will go to start a "black people's bank"), which once proposed is rapidly forgotten. Pollack's script uses this political ploy as a kind of sop, an attempt to make the gang not merely crooks but criminal revolutionaries...
...movie is all jiveass and jungle bunnies. The men (Thalmus Rasulala, Raymond St. Jacques, Jim Watkins) chortle and slap one another's palms. The women (Judy Pace, Margaret Avery) mostly moan and gyrate in transports of synthetic sexual passion. Director Pollack is singularly catholic in his taste for stereotypes...