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This is the one about the sailor and the whore, and is there anyone out there who still cares...
...unmarried whore has a son, who is part black and approximately twelve years old, just the age the sailor had reached when his own warmly remembered father died. It is immediately apparent that the sailor will begin to act as surrogate father. Indeed, it seems reasonable to expect that the movie will end with a shot of the sailor and the kid walking away from the camera, arms around each other, talking bravely about the future. Mark Rydell is not a director (The Fox, The Cowboys) to avert clichés or confound expectations. The only curiosity is what takes...
...whore (well acted by Marsha Mason) does not, at least, have a heart of gold. What she does have is a consuming pathology that the sailor finds irresistibly attractive. If furies of masochism lash at him, though, they are not gone into. Cinderella Liberty wants to be cute and sentimental and tries very hard to turn behavior like child desertion into the stuff of melancholy whimsy. All during this gruesome exercise there are some sharp supporting performances, notably by Allyn Ann McLerie as a snippy social worker and Allan Arbus and David Proval as a couple of Navymen. James Caan...
...city during the summer, Steve must struggle to gain acceptance in the ghetto, an acceptance that comes only after a vicious blood-letting fight with a neighborhood gang leader. Success in the street leads to success in the bedroom as he is initiated into sex by a local whore as laurels for his victory...
...street gang, his later teens in the Navy and his early twenties in a flirtation with the American dream. Going heavily into debt to buy several slum properties, he becomes a slum lord par excellance, carries a brief case, subscribes to The Wall Street Journal, and even runs a whore house on the side. But when the violence and degradation becomes overwhelming, he locks the door to the whore house, leaves everything behind, and heads for the ultimate destination of America's nomadic society: California...