Word: sirening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NIGHT TIDE. Man against myth is the theme of Writer-Director Curtis Harrington's promising first feature, an eerie tale of a young U.S. sailor who nearly succumbs to the siren song of a Venice, Calif., mermaid...
...fire engine he was riding. To re-create the exact details for the jury, Belli used an enormous aerial photo of the intersection where the collision occurred. He questioned a parade of 29 witnesses, spotting each person's location precisely on the photo, to prove that the fire siren must have been audible in the cab of the truck. Then he diagramed the positions of other witnesses, who testified to the truck's excessive speed. In the end, only the most unimaginative juror had not relived several times over the traumatic crunch that Belli contended sent his client...
Villella dances through the wanderings of the Biblical Ulysses with the clear knowledge that the painful odyssey is mainly in the heart. He shows the boy's confusion of bravery and mere curiosity with great, amazing leaps that lead him nowhere; in his dance with the Siren, he makes twins of terror and desire. Betrayed by his lust, he struggles home, and in a slow, gentle movement that is a touching confession of sin and folly, he lifts himself into the curl of his father's arms...
Night Tide. Amidst the clapboard and tinsel of the amusement park at Venice, Calif., a siren song lures a young sailor toward destruction. He meets a girl, Mora, whose dark eyes distill the rapture of the depths. "I am a mermaid," she tells him-perhaps referring to her job, which involves slipping into a scaly fishtail and then into a tank at a boardwalk sideshow. But Mora is unfathomably fey. She collects starfish and coral. Gulls fly into her arms. She is tormented by a mysterious Woman in Black who appears with jet veils murmuring about her like sea things...
...have an accident, according to a National Safety Council study of 1962 statistics on 16 U.S. turnpikes, is a woman, either under 20 or over 55, driving on an icy highway between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. on a misty Wednesday in February. The most likely candidate for siren and stretcher is a young man of 24 or 25, driving on a dry pavement at 5 p.m. on a Friday in July...