Word: riley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appreciate the kind things that you said about me in your review of Bus Riley's Back in Town [April 23]. It is difficult for an actor today to bring in any kind of contemporary feeling and not be compared with either Marlon Brando or James Dean. I would like to thank you for pointing out that I may have some entity...
...these divisions, five are in Europe, two in South Korea and one in Hawaii. The other eight are stationed in the U.S. as part of the so-called "strategic reserve." They are: the 1st and 2nd Armored Divisions at Fort Hood, Texas; the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kans.; the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Benning, Ga.; the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Wash.; the 5th Infantry Division (mechanized) at Fort Carson, Colo.; the 101st Air borne Division at Fort Campbell, Ky.; and what is left of the 82nd Airborne Division after some...
...Riley's Back in Town has already backfired: Movie Newcomer Michael Parks describes the vehicle as his "first mistake." If so, Parks makes the best of it. But the film itself abundantly fulfills the promise of mediocrity put forth even more forcefully by Playwright-Scenarist William Inge, who demanded that his name be deleted from the opening credits...
Still seeming oddly Inge-stained, Bus Riley tells of a sailor's return to a small Missouri town where his magnetic male presence delights his widowed mother, unnerves a maiden schoolteacher who boards with the family, and quickens the pulse of everyone he meets. Reluctant to resume his old job as an auto mechanic, Bus declines an apprenticeship with a homosexual undertaker and becomes a door-to-door peddler, sweeping bored housewives into his arms while whispering the praises of a new miracle cleaner. Next he lapses into adultery with his former steady (Ann-Margret), now married, of course...
This trite melodrama has more good performances than good roles, and it is chiefly interesting for the appearance of Actor Parks, cast as Adam in John Huston's forthcoming The Bible. As Bus Riley, Parks will inevitably be compared to James Dean and Marlon Brando, but that need not discourage him. His own assurance, intensity, and hair-trigger temperament make even unoriginal sin worth watching...