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...paunchy, middle-aged Italian restaurant owner (Richard Castellano) discovers that he has an illegitimate son from a long-past liaison. The boy (Jon Voight) is 22, a blond sunburst who looks as if he had spent an eternity on a tennis court. The father breaks the news to his wife by bringing the son home for a visit. The wife (Irene Papas) is a moody, olive-dark, childless woman of 36 who has been pacing her life like a tiger in a cage of desire. Unable to restrain herself, she kisses the youth. When he spurns her ("Get yourself another...
...Sleep of Prisoners, Christopher Fry's account of a fictional war and the inner turmoil of four wartime buddies from different social levels who are prisoners in a bombed-out church. Their captivity causes conflicts that lead to enmity. Starring Barry Morse, Paul Stevens, Ramon Bieri and Jon Voight...
Thus, the pathos is neither expected nor effective, and is, in fact, somewhat grotesque. This is not the fault of Heinz Ruhmann, who plays the exconvict, Voight--interpreting all of his many moods, from puckish drollery to soggy weltschmerz, with maximum effect. The fault rather lies in the nature of the film...
...meet, Lenore Kight-who lost by a handbreadth to Helene Madison in the Olympic 400 meters -won two events. Using a free-style (crawl) stroke with even more arm-pull than Miss Madison's, she finished the 100-meter final in 1:10.8, with Olive Hatch Voight second by two feet. In the mile she had an easier time and beat Susan Robertson by 30 yd. When Helene Madison retired last year she held 16 out of the 17 of the world's free-style records up to a mile and it looked as though most of them...
...north end. Of the 168 entrants, the most important victim of the quarry and the white faces was Harrison Johnston, defending champion. He had a first round of 83. Other good men qualified but slipped out early-Francis Ouimet. T. Philip Perkins, Dr. 0. F. Willing, Johnny Goodman, George Voight. Only one man broke par in the first qualifying round. It was Jones. His two-round total of 142. which won the medal, has been equalled twice in tournament competition. It has never been beaten...