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Directed by PETER BOGDANOVICH...
Screenplay by W.D. RICHTER and PETER BOGDANOVICH...
While pursuing his career as a director, Peter Bogdanovich has been an assiduous and romantic collector of early Hollywood reminiscences. This interest sets him apart from his fellow film craftsmen, who rarely betray the slightest knowledge of their medium's past and who have in the last year or so trashed all kinds of potentially interesting material (Gable and Lombard, W.C. Fields, the early screen cowboys in Hearts of the West, not to mention the hapless Rin Tin Tin) while seeking a market in movie nostalgia that has so far been more apparent than real...
Nickelodeon makes use of a number of incidents reported to Bogdanovich by such pioneers as Directors Raoul Walsh and Allan Dwan. But more important to the film's relative success is the director's warm, but not sloppy feeling for the very earliest period in film history. In telling the story of a tangle-footed lawyer (Ryan O'Neal) who, in the course of fleeing an outraged client, literally falls into show business and accidentally becomes a director, the film perceives that the distinguishing characteristic of those pioneering days was an innocence derived from the fact that...
...Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, Ben Johnson, Timothy Bottoms and --woo woo!--Cybill Shepherd). America's most eclectic director's auspicious second film. Saturday...