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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THREE MEN ON A HORSE. Jack Gilford plays Erwin, a composer of verses for greeting cards, and Sam Levene plays Patsy, the horse player, in this revival of the 1935 comedy. The cast is superb, and while the plot may contain no surprises, the entire production is polished to a high gloss...
Louis Salzberg would also do it all over again, "twice, if necessary," he says, "because Uncle Sam should have cracked the whip and put these people away a long time ago." In Salzberg's case, it was the FBI that first got in touch with him nearly three years ago. A staff photographer for New York City's Spanish-language newspaper El Tiempo, he was asked if he would be interested in passing photographs of possible subversives along to the Bureau. "If we're talking about Commies, about Reds," he recalls telling an agent, "then fine...
...comedy, with a cast of superb character actors playing together like an ensemble company. Jack Gilford deftly fits his long, lugubrious countenance around the part of Erwin, ace composer of Mother's Day verses for a greeting-card company. Patsy, the horse player, is played by Sam Levene, and Dorothy Loudon as Patsy's moll does a solo in her underwear that would give any choreographer something to think about...
...Chicanos and the newly militant Chinese, who are all more conscious than minorities anywhere else of deprivation in the midst of fantastic plenty. It is the fear of losing their place in the sun that leads middle-class Californians to vote for a Ronald Reagan or a Sam Yorty...
...WILD BUNCH. "Killing is no fun. I was trying to show what the hell it's like to get shot," says Director Sam Peckinpah about this film, which follows a ragtag bunch of bandits as they scrounge through the Southwest. While traveling with the bunch, Peckinpah provides long looks at scenes of uncontrolled frenzy in which the sense of chaotic violence is overwhelming...