Word: voight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Williams treats it on a level of such abstraction that the film presents no arguments-ideological, moral, or otherwise-but simply models for revolutionary existence. Hans Koningsberger's screenplay (from his novel) schematically recounts the evolution of the central character, the hypothetical A. (Jon Voight) through all the leftist possibilities in some indefinite (through modern) place and time, (hypothetically) "somewhere in the free world," from liberal protest to bomb-hurling, as he half drifts, half-extracts himself from the morass of liberal mystification...
...student, called A (Jon Voight), attends a large university "somewhere in the free world" and faithfully goes to meetings of the Campus Radical Committee, a group whose militancy is pretty well confined to in camera debates. A gets busted for disrupting a political rally, and eagerly lies on the stone floor of his cell, scribbling a ringing "statement to the court" on a length of toilet paper. He is freed the next morning without a chance to read...
...writing inspirational sermons that will gain the unit a spread in the Saturday Evening Post. The flyers are ordered to raid civilian towns so that they can concentrate on producing nice tight bomb patterns in the aerial photographs. Most horrible of all, Lieut. Milo Minderbinder (Jon Voight) is encouraged in his murderous wartime profiteering...
...left home to go to Georgetown University in Washington (as had Michael in the film), but "only stayed about five minutes," before going on to Catholic University Drama School, which has produced such theatre people as Jon Voight, Walter and Jean Kerr, and Robert Moore, who made his New York directorial debut with Boys. (William Friedkin directed the film...
Williams displays a disciplined, unaffected style that, like the early work of John Huston, complements but never dominates the narrative. Barry Gordon, as Paul, is alternately manic and melancholy with equal finesse, and Jon Voight (who made Out of It before Midnight Cowboy) gives the football hero just the right touch of caricature. Out of It lacks the dazzle of The Graduate, but more than compensates with its own air of personal testimony...