Word: room
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lacy Elementary School in Hondo, Texas, is so overcrowded that some classes meet in a makeshift room built into the balcony of the auditorium, and in two noisy rooms off the gym. The 500 pupils, mostly Mexican American, are packed so closely together that illnesses spread rapidly among them...
...there is no room at the top for all the Joe Lamptons and Jimmy Porters, those angry young men from the working class, a black man in Britain can't even get his foot on the bottom rung of the ladder. Two Gentlemen Sharing presents a tidy essay on John Bull and Jim Crow by telling the somewhat unlikely tale of a West Indian who desperately wants entry into the Establishment and a young ad man who is struggling...
...Director Tom Gries inserts dozens of pauses between the clichés, some seemingly as long as a half time ceremony. Charlton Heston brings his usual Pleistocene presence to the part of Cat, presumably granted him because his rain-barrel chest wouldn't look scrawny in the locker-room scenes, but everyone else stands around looking sort of embarrassed. The last tackle comes as a welcome relief, as Heston and the film fall one final time to the gridiron with a resounding thud...
...John also happens to be a pretty fair painter. "By the time we get our room decorated there should be about 25 Ballantynes on the walls." John said. "My style is reminiscent of Picasso." he added sheepishly...
Once he got the money (from a fertilizer magnate), he worked an exhausting schedule to get the movie done. All of the sequences set in ad agency offices had to be filmed at night in closed office buildings. (The board room of the agency in the film is actually the board room of David Rockefeller's bank...