Word: sondra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film version has taken the relationship between John Singer (Alan Arkin), the deaf-mute who unites the five disparate subplots of the novel, and a young girl named Mick (Sondra Locke), and made it the central theme of the movie. Curiously, although we now see more of Singer, he has become a guardian angel rather than the guiding light he was in the novel. One no longer has the feeling that his presence is essential in the lives of most of the characters. He now just hovers about at a distance. Singer's tragedy--the fact that he never really...
...Sondra Locke, in her first movie, warrants the added attention the screenplay gives her part. When she tells her younger brother, who has pooled his money with his friends to buy fireworks, "Your syndicate is like Communism," she sounds just like the girl your roommate met from Ole Miss. Her boyish profile complements her naivete. Even her seduction scene--watch her shoulder cringe as she surrenders herself to her new boyfriend--seems right...
...HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Poetry always suffers in translation, and Carson McCullers' poetic novel is no exception to the rule. Yet the film has some worthwhile aspects: Alan Arkin's marvelous portrayal of a mute whose silence is deafening, and Sondra Locke as a poignant antiheroine...
...surrounding emotional landscape is alternately barren or soggy, but Arkin's performance gives Heart the systolic beat of life. He is helped by lanky Sondra Locke as a typical McCullers adolescent whose burgeoning body and psyche can neither retreat to childhood nor advance to maturity, and by Tyson, an absolute embodiment of the slogan "Black is beautiful...
Even the l.V.S. girls are busier with handiwork than homework. Blonde, leggy Sondra Williams, 27, a Texas Tech graduate who was an NBC secretary and served two years in the Philippines with the Peace Corps before joining l.V.S., teaches sewing and cooking at Ban Me Thuot, 160 miles northeast of Saigon, once made a crash landing in a Communist-held paddyfield when the helicopter in which she was bumming a lift lost power. "I don't think any of us over here have our head in the clouds," she says. "Maybe before we came...