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...adult black actor who plays the young Macunaima is a superb comedian: strutting almost spastically in a yellow sack, he combines the goonish petulance of Jerry Lewis with exaggerated indolence and lasciviousness. Yet he is still such a child that his mother, who sleeps beneath him in the lower of two hammocks, takes an umbrella with...
Ride the High Country. Sam Peckinpah's superb second feature, one of the best American films of the '60's. Though elegiac in tone, the film recognizes the death of the frontier and of heroic values along with it. And some very modern psychological truths are introduced in incredible scenes at a mining camp, Sunday, noon, CHANNEL...
...extreme views, he retains an aura of conviction and simplicity. No one really knows whether his success has welled from some deep voter malaise with the way things are -and a concomitant if unfocused demand for change, even along McGovern lines -or whether it has happened because of his superb and dedicated organization...
Still, there are some excellent things in Hannie Cuulder. Hurt Kennedy's direction is robust, the scene about learning to shoot a pistol is superb, and the homicidal Three Stooges - Ernest Borgnine, Strother Martin (both of The Wild Bunch) and Jack Elam - are the best bad guys around...
...film has some shaky motivation and more than a fair share of trickery, but Hitchcock is such a superb storyteller that few viewers will even notice till well after the final fadeout. What they will notice is the perversity of the film. In one mind-boggling sequence, Bob tries to pry his diamond pin from the stiff fingers of the corpse that he has stashed inside a potato sack...