Word: scripted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...script," allowed House Republican Leader Gerald Ford, "is a good one from our standpoint." Indeed, the plot that he laid out was compelling, if not exactly original. It called for G.O.P. Representatives and their Southern Democratic allies to deny Lyndon Johnson his request for an unpopular tax increase, beat every tom-tom and kettledrum for economy, and force the President to take responsibility for specific spending cuts. The House last week voted 238 to 164 to do just that...
...dybbuk is dispatched before the full terror of the assault can be developed. Marilyn Pitzele as Leye, the bride, manages to prove herself a fine actress amid the swirl. With her brash girl friends hustled off-stage and her sing-song grandmother, (Barbara Thompson) silenced by the script, Miss Pitzele displays a sullenness of movement, and a finely modulated tremulo ideal for the role...
...with the Flint films, Coburn can cut a wide peel from some mighty small potatoes. But this enterprise makes him seem less a star than a character actor who needs smaller roles in order to regain his comic stature. In part, the blame may lie with a bland, spiritless script that fancies itself original in lampooning western cliches, yet has the temerity to steal Jack Benny's most famous joke: "Your money or your life." Pause. "Well?" "I'm thinking." Theft and rape may sometimes be forgivable; plagiarism never...
Cacoyannis, who not only produced and wrote the script but designed the chorus boys' clothes, tries hard to pull everyone together at the finale to make a momentous point about the atomic age. With no result. His 1,000,000-mega-ton bomb has enough cinematic overkill to bore to death every man, woman and hermaphrodite from here to Athens...
...agent of a hostile universe. Clyde's gun, which so mesmerizes Bonnie when she first sees it, is the only potency they possess in the face of total anonymity. But it is, for a time, a very real potency, and Penn refuses to flinch at this fact. The script demands that the audience recognize the power of violence to make Bonnie and Clyde whole, even as it engulfs them. In a dusty, sun-bleached field, Clyde finally makes love to Bonnie. His brother is dead, he and Bonnie already wounded, and there remains only one last ride into another dreary...