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...Winston Moseley is serving a life sentence for the killing of Kitty Genovese, the New York girl whose death in 1964 became celebrated because her screams for help were ignored by at least 38 neighbors. In 1968, while out of prison briefly for minor surgery in a Buffalo hospital, Moseley escaped from his guards and hid in a vacant house Neighbors telephoned Mr. and Mrs Matthew Kulaga, relatives of the owner, who came to investigate. Moseley captured the couple at gunpoint, raped Mrs. Kulaga and beat up her husband. Moseley was subsequently recaptured. The Kulagas sued-not Moseley, who hardly...
...LATER YEARS, when Sir Winston was completing his Great Man Act by flashing V. signs to the press at St. Tropes, he saw The Guns of Nevarone and, apparently impressed by Gregory Peek's shenanigans, summoned its writes producer Carl Foreman. Foreman was just the man to write a movie version of his early years, the statesman decided. Foreman's script of Young Winston is loosely based on Churchill's My Early Life, which in turn is loosely based on the author's career until age twenty-eight...
...everything in general. Foreman's screen adaptation doss not tap any deep springs of character or political behavior. What we get instead is a robust action flick far above the usual cut, interspersed with the documentary machinery of early rotogravure photographs on mahogany bureaus, newsreel clips of the real Winston, and a decent imitation of Churchill's familiar, lisping voice narrating various segments of the film...
...Young Winston does make a pretense of revealing some of the less attractive sides of Churchill's personally, but does so in a shallow, journalistic sense which avoids the darker recessed of a very complex man. The young Churchill was brash, egocentric, wholly absorbed in his political career. He blatantly infringed on a main canon of British breeding (somehow lost in the Atlantic transit) which considers youth a regrettable interlude to be borne with patience and modesty, and ambition as tolerable only if it is decently concealed. The film does treat Churchill's publicity-mongering, as well as his dismal...
...CHRISTINA STEAD 787 pages. Holt, Rinehart& Winston...