Word: tomboyish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Xanadu is a typical new thriller, as was John Fowles's The Collector. The plot is of the old-fashioned boy-terrorizes-girl variety-but with a psychotic twist added. Leonard Hatch, a self-styled poet spouting Nietzsche, comes down out of the New Mexico mountains, kidnaps a tomboyish 16-year-old farm girl and carries her back to his retreat in the hills. Soon, one learns that he is a fugitive from a mental institution, suffering from the endemic new thriller malady: an acute case of mothering so smothering that he is impotent...
...jointly in love with a doomed revolutionary (George Hamilton) and continue to inflame the peasantry in his name. As Maria I, Moreau drolly helps the cause by improvising bits of the funeral oration from Julius Caesar, although most of the time she plays second banana to Maria II. A tomboyish Mata Hari who spent her childhood in Ireland as a mad bomber, Bardot gets the flashier jobs, manning a machine gun, planting high explosives, swinging from tree to tree like Tarzan...
Young Actress Baxter, adroitly steered by Mackendrick through a delicate and provocative role, manages to project both tomboyish pluck and the elusive boldness of a child grown prematurely wise. In a fit of terror, the girl murders a Dutch hostage taken by the pirates, thus setting the stage for the film's incisive postlude. Safely delivered to England, her former captors gone to the gallows charged with her crime, Emily, like any pretty English schoolgirl, stands by a pretty English pond watching a toy sailboat drift away. Only the eyes reveal that within her child's body dwells...
Burnett blends pure waffles-and-syrup Americana with a tomboyish hoydenism and emerges as the girl next door, only vastly more amusing. In 1952, she was industriously studying journalism at U.C.L.A. ("I wanted to be Brenda Starr") when, as part of a course in playwriting, she was required to take part in a college show. She went on, got a houseful of laughs, then and there decided to switch her major. Says Carol: "It's kind of like dope. You get hooked...