Word: savanarola
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...works of Ralph Nader and John Gardner would be chanted aloud at Evensong in the Savanarola Chapel of Memorial Church...
...intends to be, and at times he is successful. He is crude in the sense that a Michael Curtiz or Roaul Walsh was crude, aiming for direct actions which are emotionally arousing but possess a sort of integrity: they don't score moral points. At one moment, a Teutonic Savanarola is thrown onto a witch's pyre of his own fashion, but there is no audience gratification-this though the priest, aside from the town merchant, is the film's leading villain. The motivations are too involved, and the action itself is one which goes beyond personal conflict...
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