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...BRONCO BULLFROG...
Since there has not been an example of the English realistic cinema in some time, Bronco Bullfrog comes to the U.S. as something of a novelty, and rather a welcome one. Crude and defiant, the film is full of such angry energy that its shortcomings can be, if not dismissed, at least indulged...
...East End where jobs and hope are in short supply. There Del (Del Walker), a 17-year-old welder's apprentice, picks up money on the side through petty thievery with his pal Roy (Roy Hay wood). The lads meet up with another mate nicknamed Bronco Bullfrog, whose recent stretch in reform school has given him some profitable connections. Bronco (Sam Shepherd) cuts the boys in on a job robbing a freight...
...hosted by Tom Chapin, a personable, hairy chap wearing an embroidered work shirt and bellbottoms, who sings nicely and plays a good guitar. Last week's première segment dealt with the words bull and fly. The visuals ran rapidly through the various kinds of "bull"-bullfrog, bully, Bull Moose Party, rodeo bull, bulldogs. "That is a lot of bull," Chapin remarked inevitably. The segment on flying managed to trace that activity from Icarus to the 747 via Superman...
Huge kudu eyes, wide, hungry mouth, bullfrog-in-a-barrel baritone: Hildegard Knef came sauntering out of rubbled Berlin to become an international star -for the U.S. a sexy fraulein figure renamed Hildegarde Neff, for Germany a second and more controversial Dietrich. And here it is: the expectable show biz autobiography. But not the predictable boredom: The Gift Horse sold 300,000 copies in Germany. Like Puccini's Tosca, Hilde Knef has lived for art and love, but like Brecht's Ginny Jenny she now casts a cold eye on her follies and grandeur. Don't expect...