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Catholic "radio priest" whose political invectives boomed across the airways from 1926 to 1940; in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Father Coughlin's first broadcasts were religious sermons from his Shrine of the Little Flower Church outside Detroit, but soon he began voicing the discontent of the Depression by berating bankers. Heard in 30 million homes, Coughlin called F.D.R. "the great liar and betrayer" and tried to fuel a third-party movement. He preached against Jews and Communists, among others, and the Catholic Church finally silenced all broadcasts and writings in 1942. Despite his reputation as a demagogue, Coughlin remained...
...lived together for a couple of months before Laura took fright and moved out. That was a year ago, but Charles is still zonked. The phone rings and... no; it is only his mother (Gloria Grahame), a withered vamp whose insulation has started to fray, and who flirts coyly with suicide whenever she feels that not enough attention is being paid to her, calling to say that she has taken sleeping pills again and is sinking in the bath water. No matter. The logic of Charles' obsession tells him that the next call will be from Laura, who will...
...rite of mythic proportions. Lucas has moved on to more celestial myths, but his former partners remain preoccupied with the pangs of growing up. In French Postcards, Huyck and Katz try to create a true sequel to Graffiti: their new film is a rueful comedy about American students whose lives change dramatically during a year abroad. But this time the director is Huyck, not Lucas, and the results are deflating. French Postcards'comic anecdotes do not coalesce into a universal saga of postadolescence; they merely come across as a string of hit-and-miss jokes...
What with the plot being so linear and the characters being so flat, there is nothing to hold one's attention except the sad reflection that the late .Robert Shaw (who plays the general, and whose last movie this is) spent too much of his career on such dismal efforts, as did Di rector Robson (The Champion), who has also died since principal photography was completed. Also present are Lee Mar vin, Linda Evans and Joe Namath, who wears cowboy getup to play a CIA type...
They all come together again after Israeli intelligence learns that Egypt is building a nuclear reactor in the western desert. The only solution, as the Israelis see it, is to obtain enough uranium to make their own bombs. The assignment is handed to Dickstein, whose cover is subsequently blown by Hassan. Enter Ros tov and his Muscovites, bent on thwarting Israel's campaign. Enter also the fedayeen, who aim to capture the stolen uranium and trumpet Israel's perfidy to the world. Dickstein is also dogged by his own mistrustful Mossad; his most useful ally turns...