Word: reels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contemporary America, substituting for Raskolnikov a sort of Supernorman. Censoring both the author's ideas and his scatological eloquence, the film script turns the story into a cliche-stocked, ho-humdrum thriller about a TV star (Stuart Whitman) who murders his rich-bitch wife (Eleanor Parker) in Reel Two, and for the next 80 minutes is dogged doomward by the police (Barry Sullivan), his wife's father (Lloyd Nolan), a former mistress (Janet Leigh), and his own conscience. The few amusing moments are provided by Actor Whitman, a young man with a large chest and a small talent...
...more serious form of entertainment is a government-produced two-reel film being shown in moviehouses, which explains to citizens how to bau di (vote). Those who are not already on the electoral rolls are urged to register and to file complaints if their names are left off local voting lists. Citizens are told how to cast ballots; for the benefit of illiterates, candidates will be identified by such symbols as water buffaloes and lotus flowers. The narrator even offers advice on sizing up the more than 540 aspirants running for the 117-member assembly: "Let us question the candidates...
...Jack D. Hunter, Stachel was a murderous, alcoholic blackmailer, but a trio of adapters has softened the edges of Peppard's role, following the unwritten Hollywood law that a hero-heel must be boyish, winning, and a terror abed. As a nod to custom, death in the last reel redeems...
Whatever the immediate peril - pow er failure or transit strike, water short age or race riot - New York City, like Pauline, invariably manages a third-reel deliverance before crisis turns to catas trophe. The city's latest ordeal, a dearth of funds that has threatened imminent, crippling reduction of municipal services, was averted last week as usual at disaster's doorstep...
...between Miner David Lattin and Wildcat Thad Jaracz, they had Kentucky off balance and off the goal. Midway through the first half, when Bobby Joe Hill, 21, Texas Western's standout guard, cleanly stole the ball twice in a row at midcourt, the Wildcats went into a reel that they never quite pulled out of. With a defense that strangled Kentucky in close and on the outside, Texas Western just kept pulling away by leaps and bounds until the final horn crowned them the national champions...