Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maltese Falcon. Established John Huston as a director and Humphrey Bogart in the kind of double-edged role that became "Bogey." The third and most faithful adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's novel dwarfed its predecessors and became the screen's classic American crime tale. Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, and Sidney Greenstreet lead a cast that's perfect right down to Captain Jacobi, molding exciting mystery around the deceptive personality of detective Sam Spade...
...case grows larger and the tale becomes stranger and more ominous with each passing day. And lost in the Watergate shuffle is the central issue in the Pentagon Papers trial: are Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony J. Russo innocent or guilty...
Exodus. (1960) Leon Uris' tale of modern Israel's founding in a 25th anniversary showing. Then-blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo wrote the script under a fake name to avoid tinging this inspirational message in film with any insidious red influence. CH.56. 9 p.m. Color. 2 hrs. Part II same time Friday night...
...Greeks, the Oresteia was an exemplary tale of moral downfall designed to evoke pity and terror. Rabe's tone is pejorative, like that of a prosecuting attorney who is pressing play goers to confess that all men are bloody-minded beasts. There is no court of appeal in The Orphan. God is dead, absolute power has produced absolute corruption and society is a cracked veneer of hypocrisy...
...cotton to the town gin, in a truck with five bad tires (counting the spare), on a road monopolized by a brindled milch cow named Trixie. Here calculated excess works in the cause of comic relief, suggesting that the future of the Southern novel may belong to the tall tale rather than further variations on the gothic. Melvin Maddocks