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...cover photograph and color pictures that accompany our King Kong story were taken by John Bryson, former assistant picture editor of LIFE magazine, who was on the set for much of the last year. Richard Schickel, who wrote the story, is a movie historian as well as a critic. In fact, he has just completed a nine-month stint as coproducer and writer of Life Goes to the Movies, a three-hour TV retrospective of movies made between 1936 and 1972, which will be shown on NBC Oct. 31. "I saw hundreds of old movies for the LIFE project," says...
...Richard Schickel...
...reminds us of a traditional American style of screen heroism-a moral man slow to rile but wonderfully skilled when he must finally enforce his conception of right and wrong. In these moments, he links us pleasingly, satisfyingly with our movie pasts, rekindles briefly a dying glow. Richard Schickel...
...Richard Schickel...
...these points the movie stands mute, in the end falling back on the one thing all knew was surefire - Sensurround technology. So Midway ends not with a bang, but with more of them than you can count. Richard Schickel...