Word: slicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make a frontal assault on the temple of cliches." Unfortunately, Brando decided to fight cliche with cliche. After all the creative contortions and esthetic argy-bargy, One-Eyed Jacks turns out to be just a big, slick, commercial horse opera. The film, to be sure, is meticulously produced, directed, acted and "dited, and it is often startlingly beautiful to see-there is a sequence, photographed in Death Valley, that rivals in pure malign geology the finest frames of Sergei Eisenstein's Thunder over Mexico. Nevertheless, many spectators will wish that a little less of the beauty had been created...
...slick technical standards of Hollywood, Operation Abolition is one of the least likely film hits since nickelodeons first started to charge a dime. The movie is an abrupt, badly edited 45-minute short. Its eye-jolting camera work is murky, its sound track raucous and shrill. But its impact is pure boffo. Prints of Operation Abolition are booked months in advance by Army camps, student groups, American Legion posts, political meetings, churches and corporations. Pennsylvania Democrat Francis E. Walter, chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, estimates that more than 10 million people have seen the film since...
...some stories by John O'Hara. The show itself is positively charming--combining Hart's wistful but razor sharp wit, with a musical sophstication that Rodgers was never again to achieve. Drumbeats and Song's production last night took advantage of all of Joey's heady potential. It was slick, sexy, delightfully witty--all in all, great...
...Seventh Day. On the morning of his seventh day at sea, Rafael suddenly saw a slick, 30-ft. Chris Craft shoot past. Though Rafael did not know it, the Gulf Stream had borne him north to within three miles of Miami Beach. Minutes later, the Coast Guard cutter Papaw bore down upon him, responding to a radio message from the Chris Craft...
Facts of Life. Middle-class manners and middle-aged morals are satirized in a quick, slick comedy played to perfection by Bob Hope and Lucille Ball...