Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rick Middleton sent the game into OT with a tally at 5:17 of the third period, and then O'Reilly rammed home the game-winner as Black Hawk goalie Tony Esposito lay sprawled on the ice in a heap of players after making several outstanding saves...
...SLEEP Directed and Written by Michael Winner...
...blackmail schemes keep multiplying. It represents a deliberate attempt by the author to cancel out, perhaps even parody, conventional detective story suspense. The idea was to hold the reader's interest with mood, dialogue and above all eccentric, not to say grotesque people. The fact that Writer-Director Winner has been more "faithful" to Chandler's story line than Hawks and his writers (among them, William Faulkner) is no virtue at all. What matters is being faithful to Chandler's singular vision, and that requires acts of cinematic imagination that are beyond the reach of the crude...
...earlier works Winner sometimes demonstrated a certain vulgar energy, but even that has congealed as he respectfully confronts this "classic," and he seems to have communicated only that to his actors. As Marlowe, Robert Mitchum seems merely weary. Sarah Miles and Candy Clark, as the rich, spoiled and sexy sisters who inspire so much greed in others, as well as James Stewart, Oliver Reed, Richard Boone, John Mills, Joan Collins and Edward Fox, as assorted villains, victims and cops, all seem to be doing turns in a variety show rather than acting in an intelligently integrated drama. The result...
...true that nobody likes a winner then the Harvard heavies have begun work on a new enemies list--because Saturday, the varsity methodically put away a Syracuse boat which was supposed to be tough, by a margin of two lengths over 1600 meters...