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...Torn Loyalties...
...flight, calls her at the hospital in Trouville, first because the stove is broken and then for help on his homework. Realizing she can do nothing for him, Alice breaks down into anguished, frustrated tears. This is the only sign in the film that Alice is at all torn by her two lives. But it still doesn't convey why she's allowing herself to be torn between two complete losers. The movie is completely devoid of psychology...
...neighborhood has changed physically as well. The former Oddfellows Hall has been torn down and a Kentucky Fried Chicken now stands at the same site, the old Harvard theatre at the corner of Shay and Mass Ave. is now a bank. The large Knights of Columbus hall has been demolished and the Knights now hold their meetings in a small, rented room adjacent to their former hall...
...gritty, wind-torn burg near Palm Springs, Calif., a college student is found in a canyon, burned and shot to death. Los Angeles Police Department Detective Sidney Blackpool bridles at taking a case far from his own turf, but he cannot resist the six-figure job promised by the boy's millionaire father, which would allow him to quit the force. As usual, ex-Policeman Joseph Wambaugh keeps the uniforms blue and the humor black. Blackpool has also lost a son, and the key witness is another graying officer, Harry Bright, who now lies in an apparently irreversible coma. Also...
...shelter him from tiffs with his sister and other "unpleasantness," but she does nothing to keep the 13-year-old crippled boy from racing all around town on a souped-up motorized wheelchair that blows by cars as if they were standing still. Even after his best friend is torn to pieces by the werewolf, she doesn't put an end to the boy's wandering. It all seems silly...