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...WILD BUNCH. Under Sam Peckinpah's direction, this film becomes a huge and beautifully composed canvas of violence in the waning West. The script may be a campfire yarn but the final shoot-out is one of the most raucous, violent and magnificent gun battles ever put on film...
There are two reasons to see Stiletto: Actors Joseph Wiseman and Patrick O'Neal. It is a rococo and frequently incoherent gangster yarn extracted like a rotten tooth from an old Harold Robbins novel. Stiletto seems to have been written only to take a share of the profits made by such stylish thrillers as Point Blank and Bullitt. And it quickly becomes obvious that Director Bernard Kowalski (who also made Krakatoa, East of Java) is not up to that sort of competition. Judged on sheer acting talent, however, Wiseman and O'Neal are equal to almost anything...
...drunkard" tend to clutter the air like gnats. Kim Darby seems too far past puberty to be the original Mattie, and Glen Campbell proves the ideal cowboy to chase a wooden Indian. Even so, a conspiracy is afoot to make the picture succeed. Director Henry Hathaway, 71, knits the yarn into a perfect size 46 extra long for Wayne...
...Good Score. The script-which Peckinpah wrote with Walon Green -has the sound and rhythm of a rambling campfire yarn. Pike Bishop (William Holden) is the aging leader of a ragtag bunch of bandits who ride through the Southwest trying to scrape together an honorably illegal living. The money from previous jobs has just about run out, and the bunch is being trailed by a group of murderous bounty hunters. After an unsuccessful stickup in which two of them are killed, the rest light out for Mexico, with the bounty hunters hard on their trail, looking to make what Bishop...
...NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY. A routine kidnaping yarn is only the premise for this chilling seminar in the poetics of surrealistic violence conducted by Writer-Director Hubert Cornfield. Outstanding in a small but superb cast is Marlon Brando, who plays a hipster-hood and gives his best performance in a decade...