Word: waitressing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Back home, most adults don't notice these kids. Gangling Dan Voll, 18, is one of the stock boys at Pacemaker Foods in Rockford, Ill. Teresa Slowen works part time as a waitress in the Sundance Restaurant in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Curly-haired John Barker is the kid who cuts the grass in Birmingham, Mich...
...waitress brings Pell's check. "You have a favorite presidential candidate yet?" she is asked. "No," she shrugs "I'm just thinkin' about the North Pole.' What about the North Pole? "I'm thinkin' it isn't this cold at the North Pole...
...hostage. Teddy's aim is really not to rob or murder his captives but to humiliate them. He forces a haughty middle-class tourist (Lee Grant) to bare her breasts; he makes cruel fun of the diner's crippled owner (Pat Hingle); he tells a fat young waitress (Stephanie Faracy) that she is doomed forever to spinsterhood. By the time that Teddy departs, his victims have been stripped of their selfdelusions. Meanwhile, the audience has been treated to a headache-inducing avalanche of shouting matches and two-bit catharses...
...been abandoned by her husband. "No problem," said Giuseppe. "Move in with us." Then came Margherita, 20 and pregnant. She was followed by Lucia, 42, seduced and deserted by her lover. Another local woman, a second Margherita, joined the clan. Next was Angelika, 22, a German waitress with two illegitimate children. When Fortunata's mother Carmela showed up, she too was invited to stay. No problem...
...characters except Gortner's are themselves cliches; the unsatisfied wife, the frustrated greaser, the fat waitress, the nice-guy motel-keeper. The characters line up almost exactly like those in The Petrified Forest, but in that film they were three-dimensional. In Red Ryder the characters are all foils for Teddy's contempt. None of them are allowed to do anything but whimper or get hysterical. When Red Ryder finally goes after Teddy and shoots him down, the film has already lost us. The final act of bravery, unlike Leslie Howard's in Petrified Forest, makes little impact, because...