Word: film
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Defense exhibits 351 and 352 were films of interviews with various movement leaders who stated that they were not planning a revolution and had tried to gain protest permits but were turned down. The third film was actually made a short time after the convention; it showed interviews with Rubin and Dillinger which explained some of the philosophies of the socalled subculture, and included a few highlights on women's liberation...
...third film was also thrown out as evidence on grounds of irrelevancy. The defense submitted to another "Objection sustained," but pleaded with the judge that this film was truly relevant, if only for the fact that "it showed the state of Jerry Rubin's beard"- a former point of contention. The judge agreed to allow as evidence one frame of the film which showed the jury that valuable fact...
...psychologist will be supplied for audiences. They will watch Actor Peter Strauss throw up violently onscreen, a scene that Nelson oversaw with the lapidary instruction: "When you get rid of it all, heavier with the dry heaves." The film's only known star is Candice Bergen, a sometime article writer whose empathy for Indians antedates the film by several years. "The only reason I wanted to do this film," she says, "was because this is the first script I have read where the Indian was not saying 'How' and running around committing atrocities." Evidently she never...
Even the Sharon Tate murderers might have blanched at such a scene -but Ralph Nelson rushes in where cultists fear to tread. In the Mexican Sierras, he is directing Soldier Blue, a film that he modestly describes as "my commentary on war." To shatter any lingering suspense: he is against it. As proof, he is making possibly the most gut-clutching film in history. Based on the Sand Creek Massacre, a notorious 1864 slaughter of Cheyenne warriors, women and children, Soldier Blue is a congeries of atrocities...
...righteous Hollywood organization entitled Operation Moral Upgrade awarded him a halo-shaped pin for his work on Lilies of the Field, which featured Sidney Poitier and a gaggle of fluttering nuns. "Apparently," Nelson says, "Mrs. Van New Kirk, the head of the group, recently saw an article about this film. I got a horrible letter drumming me out of the corps. I am no longer an angel. I consider it an honor...