Word: sheila
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PERSON who hates mystery movies. So I expected to find myself walking out halfway through Herbert Ross's new murder mystery, The Last of Sheila. But I never did. Sheila has all the equipment of a mystery movie, but it doesn't put that equipment to work. It is a slick production, but bogs down in its slickness, and never gets down to the mystery business. Despite the fact that it fails to deliver its basic promise, Sheila is an entertaining flick...
James Coburn, Sheila's game player, has made his money as a Hollywood producer. He has invited aboard a week's cruise six of his Hollywood friends: two movie stars, a film script writer, a director and two managers. Beside a common vocabulary of cocktail party quips and a set of stereotypical Hollywood neuroses and remedies, they share the fact that they were all present at a party after which Coburn's wife Sheila was killed by a hit and run driver...
...dead wife: it is his bait assuring his guests' co-operation. They play along, expecting to land parts in Coburn's planned film, but of course we all suspect that the real object of the cruise is the unmasking of a killer. The yacht is, after all, named Sheila...
Superfly TNT is at least a shred more believable. It shows some flashes of hard wit and has a good, coarse sense of the criminal trades. Priest (Ron O'Neal), former street hustler and cocaine pusher, is now in residence in Rome with his fine woman (Sheila Frazier), living high but a little aimlessly. What finally gets him interested is the plight of a West African nation fighting for independence against a repressive colonial regime. In return for a leather pouch full of diamonds, and the chance to do a little something constructive for a change, Priest gets...
...while The Last of Sheila promises to turn into an amusing maze...