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Brooks had the shrewdness and good taste to cast not only Hackman but the excellent, sardonic James Coburn as his buddy and friendly rival. After that, in spiration fails. Pace, so crucial to un dertakings of this kind, is maintained at the approximate speed of a lazy canter. Characters race a piece, dismount, talk things over, get to know each other a little, then start racing again. No one, however, becomes either familiar enough or real enough to make it a matter of much concern who wins the race...
...scenery is nice - mostly New Mexico and Nevada - but Brooks' notion of staging a scene is to plant the actors in the middle of the frame and have them talk. The dialogue is not worth such attention. Coburn is called on to describe Hackman as "the cham pion of dumb animals, women in dis tress and lost causes." Candice Bergen points out to the hotheaded Jan-Michael Vincent (the kid looking to make a reputation) that "killin' someone don't make you a man." Brooks occasionally offers some comic relief (Whore...
...Rich Nichols, Dartmouth: Pal Roach, Cornell: John Escaller, Brown, 1000-yard run--William Huntley, Penn; Ken Ashworth, Penn; John Stoeckel, Penn. Mile Run--Craig Masback, Princeton; Des Foynes, Columbia; Peter Christ, Penn. Two Mile Run--Dave Merrick, Penn; Ray DeMarco, Cornell; John Cabell, Princeton. One Mile Relay--Dartmouth (Bob Coburn, Joe Duncan, Rich Nichols, Ken Norman). Two Mile Relay--Cornell (Dave Stinson, Steve Braillier. Tom Patterson, Pal Roach). Weight Throw--Phil Bartlett, Brown: DANNY JIGGETTS, Harvard: STEVE NIEMI. Harvard. Shot Put--Dave Doupe, Cornell; Greg Cortina, Penn; Kevin Mundt, Brown. Long Jump--Jim Leonard, Cornell; Len Stachitas, Penn; Ed McPherson...
There are some talented people in the cast: James Coburn, Ian Hendry, Harry Andrews, and Lee Grant trying mightily to lend substance to someone's bad fantasy of a newspaper woman. Virtually the entire movie is taken up with the planning and negotiation of the internecine bloodbath, with a few allowances for subtleties like characterization. There is, however, a rather nice suggestion throughout the film that in the world of applied politics, the real villians-detached, manipulative, powerful-can engineer anything, including a succession of murders, and tally up the results like the box score of adoubleheader...
...COBURN Lansing, Mich...