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...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller-a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...
...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller-a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TiME, April...
...easy to understand the relief it would give a reviewer to be able to pin some sort of label on the film. The director, Jack Garfein, and the scriptwriter, Calder Willingham--who reworked his own 1947 novel and his 1953 Broadway play, both called End As a Man-- appear infuriatingly unwilling to commit themselves about what they are doing. All that can be said with complete confidence is that, in a style which captures much of the spontaneity of a really first-rate documentary, they present a story which centers on the career of one Jocko De Paris, a cadet...
Garfein and Willingham present only the bare facts of the story and refuse to construct any sort of frame of reference which would help in interpreting it. While a pure thriller in many ways, the film cries out for interpretation. This necessity, however, does not in any way detract from the quality of the picture, but in fact adds an extra dimension to its interest. If I may still be permitted to voice a bit of sociological jargon of my own, the story of De Paris seems at bottom to represent the conflict between a very tightly organized society...
...Strange One. Calder Willingham's novel (End As a Man) about a Southern military academy makes a slick, sadistic thriller-a slashing good cinema debut for Actor Ben Gazzara (TIME, April...