Word: rustics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Poulin (Lionel Villeneuve), worker at the asbestos mine, who can take the tension and degradation of his job no longer. He quits, and soon sets out for his old job at a lumber camp. Facing nature alone, unfettered by machinery, he will lead, a romantic spirit would suggest, the rustic existence he is suited for. As he prepares to leave, close-ups of this burly man in a tartan flannel workshirt, his axe once again on his shoulder, alternate with shots of his sturdy wife, Helene Loiselle, ready to run the household by herself for as long...
...Milton's Satan. But Victor Canning, a master craftsman of English thrillers, has managed to conjure up a variation. He is Edward Shoebridge, a saturnine hunter, a falconer who feels pollution and plastic closing in and coldly uses crime to raise the money to escape to some rustic Scandinavian fortress. His business is kidnaping high political figures in impeccable style. He takes his ransom in uncut diamonds...
Anatomy of a Murder. The first of Otto Preminger's films in which he tried to raise moral and political questions stars James Stewart as a rustic lawyer who plays jazz piano while thinking out his strategy. Fascinating psychology in a complex courtroom tale. With Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, and Joseph Welch...
...situation to be borne with stiff upper lips and all that? Not at all. A Cornish counterattack is mounted by an aged but indomitable exactress who runs a sort of orphanage. Her rustic crew of local stalwarts prevails by deploying the hackneyed virtues of the English character: sly eccentricity, calculated insult, a modicum of violence...
...federal bureaucracy, he was starting with his own men. He wanted their ideas on how to make the Government more responsive to presidential command; he also wanted to discuss their futures, which in some cases are not going to be in Government. Each guest huddled with him inside the rustic presidential lodge known as "Aspen," where even a blazing fire did not always take the chill off the proceedings...