Word: thriller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the interior of a railway car. All of which does not detract from the film's credentials as a bona fide Hitchcock. In fact, viewers who encounter difficulties with the implicit morbidity and amorality that mark some of the Master's works will find this glib comedy-thriller a welcome relief. Dame May Whitty plays the title role of the innocuous old lady-spy whose disappearance aboard a train furnishes the central event of the narrative. Michael Redgrave and Margaret Lockwood make for a formidable pair of amateur sleuths. And there's a good old-fashioned stab...
Black Sunday. Director John Frankenheimer, making what has justly been touted as a riveting come-back with this film, hits just the right balance between fast pacing, clever technological effects and the skillful pretense of social relevance that this kind of political suspense thriller requires...
Blye also shares the conviction with his thriller counterparts that he is a shrewd listener and talker. With poor people, a strong stomach counts. Says he: "I've had to drink coffee out of cracked cups with roach wings floating around inside." But if Blye sits at their tables, they shed their mistrust. With the more affluent, a smooth line of backchat comes in handy...
Well, it was not the Beanpot; it wasn't even Harvard-St. Lawrence. But if you sat back and thought hard, real hard, the finish to last night's hockey intramural final between Winthrop and Kirkland could have been B.U.-B.C. in another ECAC thriller...
...model train on the special-effects man's miniature trestle. Such audiences as there may be for this pulse-slowing movie might wish to reflect on the dismal results of commercial overreaching. For what The Cassandra Crossing offers is an unstable blend of three currently popular genres: the paranoid thriller, in which the good guys turn out to be rotten; the train-of-fools story; and, finally, a disaster film. Decent writing and skilled direction might have come up with something admirable for its nerve if nothing else. But the crowd responsible for this one lacks even...