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...removing the surface whiskers that have grown as a result of past conflicts and struggles should not mean obliterating the entire face. We want to be familiar with all its features, both beauty marks and blemishes, so that we won't be forced to deal with a stranger. Yes, the press must be fair, but to its readership as much as to the president...
...demonic envoy, Richard stabbed him. By the time Robert Dadd's gory corpse was found in the grass, the young man was on his way to Europe, planning to kill the Emperor of Austria. He was arrested in France, after trying to cut the throat of a stranger in a coach with his "excellent English razor," and shipped back to Britain. Dadd spent the last 40 years of his life in madhouses, dying all but forgotten in Broadmoor in 1886. One of his infrequent visitors wrote that though he was still plagued by "thick-coming horrors and portentous visions...
Gittis becomes involved with an amiable patrician (John Huston), a gentleman rancher whose face is creased with forced jollity, a stranger to scruple. His daughter (Faye Dunaway), the water commissioner's widow, is troubled and dangerous, and Gittis falls for her. But whether he is really drawn to her or only uses her to advance his investigation is never made clear. The widow's part is a plum, and Dunaway does well with it whenever she relaxes and stops pushing, stops acting. A lot of her scenes are meant to be played big, however, and for these Dunaway...
...told her we were mad rapists) from the woman next door to the house where we were arrested. Seems we had come to her door and told her we were stranglers (Bill had a habit of telling folks, when asked to identify himself, that he was a stranger). You've got to be kidding...
...movie is shaky when the friendship between Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is sentimentalized, and at the end, when invention gives in to a mawkish resolution. But all the performers are excellent, and Eastwood unwinds a little from his customary characterization of a terse, razor-eyed stranger, breaking through to a kind of boyish affability. Cimino himself renders most of the movie with enough cunning to make it one of the most ebullient and eccentric diversions around...