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...have what I consider the most solemn and substantial assurances of my absolute independence. There are absolutely no restraints on my freedom to seek evidence, including presidential tapes and documents...
...Nickel Mountain leaves you feeling that there is an order to life. At the end of the book an old couple watch their son's coffin winched out of a grave. The woman shouts "I believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ." The man yells, "Shut up." In the solemn eyes of Henry Soames, where everything has some value, and you "don't shoot at everything that moves on the theory it might be a rattler," even this scene loses its farcical element...
...really know what I'm going to do afterwards." A silence fell on the back of the bus. But not for long as Mike added, "I guess I'll just pull out all my teeth, grow a beard and become a prostitute." Mike never let a solemn pause last for long...
...cannot recall what I actually felt about the president's murder. The only indication I have now of how I felt then is my reaction when news bulletins come over television. To this day I freeze with panic whenever a program is cut off in the middle and a solemn-voiced announcer says, "We interrupt this program to bring you this bulletin from our newsroom in New York...
...excellent Peter Finch appears as a brassbound industrialist named Krogh who traffics with the Nazis to sustain and increase his fortune. Michael York, who apparently wandered in from Cabaret still wearing his costume, impersonates the brother of Krogh's mistress (Hildegard Neil). There is much solemn and oblique conversation about impending crises, and the feeling prevails that the director, Peter Duffell, was rather too impressed with The Damned. There is, however, a splendid supporting performance by Michael Hordern as a quintessentially seedy journalist. If only the movie as a whole were as echt Greene as Hordern's characterization...