Word: sinatras
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...Frank Sinatra returns to the big screen after a decade's absence, but it is as if he had never been away. He spent the last years of the '60s making a trio of police dramas (Tony Rome, The Detective, Lady in Cement), and here he is, at 64, back in the N.Y.P.D. to solve one last crime before retirement. A whitecollar, black-leather maniac named Blank (David Dukes) is on the loose in Manhattan with an ice ax and too much spare time. Because the murders have been committed in different parts of town, the harried police...
...Sinatra still knows how to seize the screen simply by being around and being himself. But most of those behind the screen settled for hackwork. Catechists will recall that pride is the first deadly sin. Would that Director Hutton had taken some pride in honest craftsmanship...
...Frank Sinatra, singer: "Reagan has displayed a better grasp of the issues than the other candidates...
...Sinatra broaches the singer-as-actor credibility gap, giving a thoroughly realistic and low-key performance as one of New York's finest. Perhaps it would be in poor taste to suggest, as one observer did, that Sinatra ought to be able to fashion a fine portrayal of a New York policeman--he's had enough altercations with the type--but Sinatra doesn't miss a trick. His deadpan expression and passionless eyes brilliantly reflect the torments of a man who must, at once, watch his once-beautiful wife slowly collapse into herself, and yet still be the consummate professional...
...never throwing a curve by presenting an alternate suspect, never even temporarily blocking Delaney's inexorable march to solution of the puzzle. The ingredients of the film are delicious on their own merits--it's only when so combined that the recipe fails to pan out, as neither Sinatra's nor Dunaway's performance can provide enough spark to carry the entire story by itself. In short, the first deadly sin was for a dogged director like Hutton to attempt to translate Lawrence Sanders' novel to the silver screen. The second deadly sin is to force it upon the unsuspecting...