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Pessimists about American independence further stress the sometimes overlooked fact that land transportation throughout the Colonies is still slow (four days by stagecoach from Boston to New York), and there is not a single bank comparable to the great financial institutions of Europe. "For what purpose were [the Colonists] suffered to go to that country unless the profit of their labor should return to their masters here?" asked the Marquis of Carmarthen in the House of Lords. Edmund Burke made the same point with more sympathy for the Colonists: "The scarcity you have felt would have been a desolating famine...
...seen one of their films or ever heard of them? How can you take movies seriously? You go on the set with the script in your back pocket. You take it out and read: 'Let's see ... in this one Brando plays an Indian who attacks the stagecoach.' O.K., let's roll 'em. Commercialized glop, not worth thinking about...
Citizen Kane, A Touch of Evil, the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup and Horse Feathers, Stagecoach, and The 39 Steps. Call 868-3600 for times...
...oddities worth checking: Bogart (with a taste for cheesecake, the source of which Peter Lorre viciously murders) and Mafia friends save N.Y.C. from the Nazis when the police aren't watching in All Through the Night; the Russian film of Dostoevsky at Quincy; John Wayne in John Ford's Stagecoach, one of the first major Westerns. A jumble of others, two with Peter Sellers. Two Marx brothers. Cambridge, in terms of fine old movies that speak for themselves, you're best as far as I'm concerned. Cambridge you pool a great range of shots. "So do you Fast Eddie...
LEVERETT DINING HALL, John Ford's Stagecoach, Oct. 26-27, at 8 and 10, $1 SCIENCE CENTER, Straw Dogs and The Wild Bunch, Oct. 26-27, at 8 for double feature ($1.25), at 10:15 for single feature ($.75) Fellini Satyricon...