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...hook hidden in a clump of colored leather strings that his fish may mistake for a small school of river lampreys. By winter, he is so eager to have at his prey that he willingly pays $5 each day for a license, stalks off to battle with a reel big enough to tether a mule...
...rebirth in the spiritual sense). But nothing is born, and in The Magician Bergman examines the reason for the failure-lack of faith. His magician-hero, made up to resemble Christ, has supernatural powers, but he listens to rational objections, doubts himself, loses his powers. But in the last reel of the film, after long sufferings in obscurity, the magician is "called at last" to perform in the presence of the King. And in the latest picture, The Virgin Spring, God makes his first miraculous intervention in the world of Ingmar Bergman. On the spot where the beautiful virgin...
...nearby table sits a real FBI agent checking on this zany imposture, and at his side is (who else?) Janet, babbling to him about the force ("How many dots do you have?"). The next dotty reel brings on the real spies. Farce's end finds Tony and Dean bravely intoning America the Beautiful while flooding the sub-basement of the Empire State Building under the impression that they are sinking their Soviet captors' submarine...
Corner on the Pooch Market. The main themes of Ko are, as its dust jacket states, "baseball, neurosis, art and death; travel, weather, self-realization and power; love, error, prophesy, destruction and pleasure." Among the characters who reel through the commotion of Koch's jouncing, rhymed octaves (following the rhythm of Byron's Don Juan) are Ko, a young Japanese pitcher who earns a tryout with the Dodgers and throws with such force that he shatters grandstands: Dog Boss, a financier who has cornered the pooch market; Amaranth, the king of England; a nameless but enchanted fish...
...Fortunately, he is followed by a Hollywood producer (Charles Brackett) with wit enough to smile at some of the most preposterous pseudo-scientific poppycock ever published by Jules Verne. And so what might easily have been just one more merely colossal ($4,500,000) monster-movie comes off the reel as a grandly entertaining spoof of the boys' book as it was written before the comic strips took over-the sort of kids' picture that makes children gasp and parents grin...