Word: rollicking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weren't for the director's dead-weight, this movie could probably rollick to success. All the elements are there--from Falk's bumbling to Warren Oates's sensitive performance of the gang member who cracks and blows the whistle on the thieves just two weeks before the statute of limitations runs out. Even the post-war Boston setting is faithfully captured, right down to the graffiti on the subways. But the film never takes off. At the end the robbers are led, one by one, past cheering crowds outside the courtroom. It's staged curtain call...
Wonder topped that off by bringing out three fellow blacks - Sly Stone, Eddie Kendricks and Roberta Flack - for a reprise of Superstition and a rollick ing, hand-clapping, ear-piercing finale...