Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SAM PETOK...
Casablanca. Bogart gazing emptily over his bourbon, while Dooley Wilson, as Sam, plays a little something of his own-Rick's smoky Club:Americain where Claude Rains wins at roulete, where Bergnan's arrival earns Sam's state-Peter Lorre's escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue Parrot. Conard Veidt, Bogart and Bergman and a lighthouse. It's the best melodrama, with unforgettable mood and many great characterizations. Director Michaell Curtiz integrated all the sentiment, all the style, to make a movie to be seen a dozen times...
Casablanca. Bogart gazing emptily over his bourbon, while Dooley Wilson, as Sam, plays a little something of his own--Rick's smoky Club American where Clause Rains wins at roulette, where Crande arrival earns Sam's state--Petter Lorre's escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue Parrot, Conrad Veidt. Bogart and Bergman and a lighthouse. It's the best melodrama, with unforgettable mood and many great characterizations. Director Michael Curtiz integrated all the sentiment, all the style, to make a movie to be seen a dozen times...
...Getaway had just rolled off the studio assembly line, the work of a competent craftsman, it could pretty easily have been passed over and forgotten. It is, however, the work of a major American film artist. Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western, The Wild Bunch, looks even at this distance like a great film, and his other movies, from 1961's Ride the High Country to last year's Straw Dogs, form a body of work as substantial as any other contemporary film maker's. Such a director is owed more than a measure of indulgence...
...some small comfort to remember that Whitehead's proposal is not an executive order, but a piece of legislation. In Congress, Senator John O. Pastore is developing coolness toward Whitehead and Senator Sam Ervin's strenuous opposition to any infringement of press liberty should dampen whatever sparks of enthusiasm which may exist for Whitehead's plan. For the networks, solicitous of their fragile relationships with their affiliates, the threat of regulation may itself be sufficient impetus to change. Whether it succeeds or not, Nixon's proposal blows a chill wind across freedom of the press...