Word: segale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This time we have George Segal as a safety inspector convinced that foul play was involved in the spectacular amusement-park accident with which the picture promisingly begins. The audience, one step ahead of him as it always is in this movie, knows that sweet-faced youth (Timothy Bottoms) lurking around the wide screen has got more on his mind than cotton candy. He is a highly intelligent psychopath who gets at least as much fun out of making the cops look like fools as he does out of making thrill rides even more thrilling than they were intended...
Writers Levinson and Link develop a few pleasant comedy bits involving Segal's status as a divorced father who is trying hard to control his cigarette habit but not hard enough to control his fast lip. They also devise a nice, slow-motion chase between Segal and Bottoms in one of the amusement parks where the film was shot. This material is at least mildly amusing, and affords excuses for Old Pros Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark to come on irascible...
...Oliver ' s Story, Segal...
...Oliver's Story, Segal...
FICTION 1 -Falconer, Cheever (2 last week) 2-Oliver's Story, Segal...