Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There's a new wave in American films that might be labeled New York Ugly. It's a style first exploited on television in now-departed shows like Naked City and Car 54, Where Are You? Lately, it's moved to movies, most recently in The Tiger Makes...
...Tiger Makes Out concerns a 42-year old mailman, and he is not played by Paul Newman or George Peppard. Eli Wallach squnched-in face and all, stars in this major, technicolor release. His wife, Anne Jackson, co-stars, and they are backed up by a cadre of New York-based actors, most of whom you'll recognize from Naked City and Car 54, Where...
...Tiger Makes Out is a comedy, but the jokes, and laughs, are small ones. Author Murray Schisgal (he wrote Luv) likes to stretch situations that are, as they say, "all too real" and draw smiles with the resulting absurdities. His favorite device is a rapid trade of cliches by people quite oblivious to their banality...
...know that The Tiger Makes Out is adapted from a one-act play by Schisgal called The Tiger, it's easy to understand why the film seems a succession of high points surrounded by a lot of filler. Those high points are good, though. They are touching in their way, but salty, not schmaltzy...
...pound defensive end Tom Diehl to tackle and put a halfback at the defensive end spot. As a result of such maneuverings. Musick has put together a mobile team--not so quick as to outrun the Harvard offensive line, but certainly effective enough to stifle Princeton and Tiger tailback Bob Weber (10 tries, 23 yards...