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...destructive activities of that all-purpose villain, man, are not wholly irreversible. A decade ago, Oregon's Willamette River was the most polluted waterway in the Pacific Northwest. Even scavenging fish could not survive its toxic atmosphere. After a concerted drive by environ mentalists, government officials and just plain anglers, the river has become so pure that the delicate trout and salmon can be found throughout its reaches...
Scattered along the bends and twists of this satire-of-a-plot are cameo appearances and sight gags that somehow work. Alex Karras, the ox-like former tackle of the Detroit Lions, plays Mongo, a villain who storms into Rock Ridge and knocks out a horse with a punch in the mouth. Madeline Kahn, the nebbish circus dancer in Paper Moon, is a saloon singer who wails about her sexual fatigue in a clever ditty called "I'm Tired" (words and music, of course, by Mel Brooks...
...amusing script (which he wrote with four other men, among them, comedian Richard Pryor) is threadbare in parts, and some of Brooks's cast need all the help they can get. Harvey Korman, better known for his boring slapstickery on the Carol Burnett Show, destroys the comedy of the villain's role by his overbearing and predictable gestures and expressions. Cleavon Little, another gift from the world of TV comedy, plays Black Bart like Stepin Fetchit. Such a portrayal lacks not only racial sensitivity; it lacks...
...racial prejudice and the machinations of a corrupt frontier political machine. With very little help, he manages to save the citizens of Rock Ridge from being driven away so that a railroad may pass more cheaply through their land. But so what? The important thing is that the chief villain is named Hedley Lamarr, and the actors insist on mispronouncing his name; that at a town meeting an anguished citizen complains that "people are being stampeded and the cattle raped"; that a black labor gang, ordered to sing a Negro spiritual by their straw boss, respond with a nice arrangement...
Gamble, the villain of the third period, converted Brown's second shot on Jim Murray for the Bruins' only tally at 15:15 of the second. The goal came with the Crimson on the power play, as Bob Thornton won the faceoff in the Harvard zone and Gamble took the slapper for the score. Brown went on to force Murray to make three more saves before the stanza ended...