Word: raucher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed by CHARLES JARROTT Screenplay by HERMAN RAUCHER and DANIEL TARADASH
...rural South, and the movie-shot on location in Mississippi-is careful about people, sharp in selecting and using details of landscape: hushed green fields, a sinuous, umbilical river, a house perched on the edge of woods as if waiting to be enfolded in the trees. Herman Raucher's screenplay concerns the real reason Billy Joe threw himself off the bridge, an eventual revelation that is dramatic without being hysterical...
...Raucher's previous Summer of '42, much of the dialogue written for the adolescent lovers (well played by Glynnis O'Connor and Robby Benson) is coy chatter, polyunsaturated Salinger. Many of the big scenes, in contrast, are levelly written and directed with a certain reluctant reserve that gives them true intensity. The last scene especially, which reveals all about Billy Joe's tragedy, has a fine force that goes well be yond the modest limits this movie has set for itself. The scene belongs mostly to the man who brought about Billy Joe's death...
FICTION 1. QBVII,Uris(21astweek) 2. The Passions of the Mind, Stone (1) 3. The New Centurions, Wambaugh (3) 4. The Exorcist, Blatty 5. The Underground Man, MacDonald (4) 6. The Bell Jar, Plath (5) 7. Tarantula, Dylan 8. The Other, Tryon 9. Summer of '42, Raucher (8) 10. The Throne of Saturn, Drury...
...Summer of '42, Raucher...