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...stopped for breaking the speed laws-too slow. The next belongs to the officer who made the collar-an earnest highway patrolman named Slide (Michael Sacks), whose lectures on police procedures, vehicular maintenance and the prevention of marital discord make him first a hostage, then an accomplice. Captain Tanner (Ben Johnson), the cop who organizes the comical pursuit of the miscreants, must ride herd on his trigger-happy associates. He must also keep the inevitable crowds of reporters and television crewmen from turning events into a media circus. In neither endeavor is he entirely successful...
...humor of the chase comes from Tanner's success in converting it into a stately progress. The 20 or 30 police cars involved generally serve as escort vehicles rather than the weapons of vengeance. The suspense stems from the fact that everyone but the criminals knows that Tanner must in the end uphold the kidnaping law rather than the spirit of common humanity, which has led him into his protective strategy...
...picture ends in tragedy, but one which is more muted than it might have been without the efforts of Slide and Tanner. It also winds up as a small but authentic surprise gift for audiences. Miss Hawn's performance is rather too obviously calculated, but her male co-stars-Atherton, Sacks and Johnson-are adroit throwaway artists. The script neatly balances action, suspense and soft-spoken humor. Best of all, 26-year-old Director Steven Spielberg, in his first feature after a promising start in TV, emerges as a man to watch. It is easy to patronize and satirize...
Blond, blue-eyed and unabashed Christopher Tanner, 4, of Pasadena, Calif., looked over his fellow model and decided that a correction was in order. "I'm going to pull your nose off!" he cried, tugging at the proboscis of California Governor Ronald Reagan. Chris, who has several birth defects, was posing with Reagan in the Governor's Sacramento office for an Easter Seal fund-raising poster. "Hey," grinned Reagan, "I'm going to take your nose off too," and he returned a friendly tweak. Then he offered his constituent a perk: the jar of jelly beans...
Taken by itself, Retour is not a bad movie, but for Tanner it represents a regression. Without engaging personalities, without a saving sense of humor, it is too long and often boring. Tanner's basic problem is his approach: the question that he treats is a vital one--for radical workers, and radical students. But forging a program for constructive radical action is not a simple task. By refusing to examine his characters in depth, Tanner refuses to put their ideology to the critical test of compatibility with their lives. He provides instead a vision of two children stumbling through...