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Buried beneath the rubble of what once must have been a plot is a good idea. Two children (Michele Lourie, Patrick Vincent) are trapped in a cavernous old mansion, locked inside an abandoned room by a sinister and anonymous adult captor. A premise like this offers abundant opportunity to explore the fears and phantoms of childhood, perhaps even its pathology, and to investigate the same dark corridors that Richard Hughes probed in his magical novel A High Wind in Jamaica. Surely we might have expected René Clement, the director of Forbidden Games, to take at least a similar course...
...oblique existential tract and the assassin into a schizoid avenging angel. Like characters in such previous and more estimable Losey films as The Servant and Accident, Jacson is a scarred and desperate man, searching a psychic void for some small sign of life. When he whispers to his police captor, hoarsely but triumphantly, "I killed Trotsky," it becomes not so much a confession as a self-confirmation...
With his chilling vision of man as a helpless pawn caught within a brutalizing bureaucracy, Franz Kafka would have been intrigued by the sad happenings in his native Prague last week. He would probably have seen both captor and captives as almost equally powerless. The captor, in this instance, was Party Leader Gustav Husák, who has repeatedly vowed since taking power in 1969 that supporters of ousted Reformer Alexander Dubček would not be put on trial for their roles in Prague's short-lived "springtime of freedom," which was crushed by the Soviet-led invasion...
Barry Commoner, Sc.D., ecologist. Kenneth Keniston, Sc.D., psychologist. Ravi Shankar, D.M., musician. Unrepentant captor of a whole generation of Americans; cantor for a new faith; nimble magician who conjures up symphonic sitars; zealous missionary of the great melodic and rhythmic traditions of India. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Lit.D., author...
Died. Bruce Cabot, 68, who saved Fay Wray from her simian captor in the 193 3 film classic King Kong; of lung cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Though he alternated between playing heroes and heavies during the early part of his 40-year film career, Cabot eventually settled down to a routine of bad-guy supporting roles in shoot...