Word: western
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRUE GRIT. It's the Duke at his best. In what could have been just another western, John Wayne shows true grit in this cornball shoot...
...Massachusetts, 300 welfare demonstrators, including Wade Rathke, the western Massachusetts organizer of the Welfare Rights Organization, sat in at the Springfield welfare office after an anti-war march. As the police moved demonstrators from the welfare office, youths threw bottles, bricks, and rocks at them...
BUTCH CASSIDY and the Sundance Kid is just barely a Western. It wavers between a New Yorker cartoon version of the Old West and an anti-hero extravaganza for a high school audience. Like a Charlie Chaplin movie, it serves up heaps of comedy and mayhem. The result is mostly successful. Director George Roy Hill has taken a tired theme (the outlaw as folk hero) and maintained it on a very high level of slapstick...
...Western parodies are nothing new, but this film derives unique strength from the comic gifts of its two stars. Paul Newman is ingratiating as Butch Cassidy, the dubious "brains" of the team. In the past, no matter how hard he has tried, Paul Newman has ended up in Paul Newman roles. He always seems larger and more laconic than life. This time he does better by playing a slightly inept chatterbox, not very tough and not very mean. Aside from his affability and formidable name, Butch Cassidy might have escaped from a Woody Allen monologue. Polite and considerate, he would...
...Western scientists have speculated that the four spaceships will rendezvous and the cosmonauts will assemble an orbitting space station from parts supplied by Intercosmos...