Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rush to Judgment. It would appear difficult to make a dull film about John Kennedy's assassination and its aftermath. Difficult, but not impossible. Mark Lane has done...
...Rush to Judgment, Lane...
...traversed in three hours flat by means of the Hikari, a sleek supertrain whose name, if not quite its speed (125 m.p.h.), means "light" in Japanese. The city dweller of the Tokaido is confronted with problems endemic to urban life everywhere. His highways thunder to the rush of 15 million speeding trucks, cars and motorcycles. Commuter trains on Japan's excellent railway system must hire "pushers" to jam the passengers into the steamy cars. A lack of sewerage results in the use of "vacuum trucks," the odoriferous tank cars that daily pump out the cesspools of the cities...
Lane presented his case for Lee Harvey Oswald's innocence last year, in the bestselling book Rush to Judgment. Though one-sided and full of obvious flaws, the book had a certain coherence and raised disturbing doubts in the minds of many readers. Possibly because pictures are harder to edit than words, the film version nakedly exposes the fragility of Lane's theorizing. Directed by Emile de Antonio, who made an effective movie about the McCarthy hearings, Point of Order, it purports to be a documentary. Actually, it is one long point of disorder-a poorly edited...
...counsel for the defense, Lane should never have gone to the jury-in this case the moviegoing public-with such a shaky case. He appears to be under the impression that Rush to Judgment rips the hide off America to expose the corruption beneath. But it only exposes the dry rot of his own unreasonable arguments...