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Like many of Steiger's minor films, The Sergeant could easily have degenerated into a one-man show. Instead, it is a two-man performance. The second man is Director John Flynn, who, faced with a prodigious actor and an undeveloped scenario, has fleshed out his film with nuances. The barracks life of monotony and loneliness is depressingly acute; the local pay sans, whose faces are maps of rural France, give an extraordinary sense of locality to a story that badly needed roots. Unfortunately for the film, neither Flynn nor Steiger bears the antidote for the sting of predictability...
...Sheahy, the Eagles' first line center, should be Harvard's biggest problem tonight. The 6', 195 pounder, the team's high scorer with four goals and two assists, plays on a line with Paul Schilling, second scorer, and Kevin Ahern. John Sullivan centers a second line of captain Mike Flynn and Charley Toczylowski...
With his 44 saves, Durno eclipsed the old Harvard record of 43 held by Bill Fitzsimmons and Charles Flynn. He broke the record despite being speared in the neck by B.U. forward Eddie Wright in the second period...
...effrontery of Maggie Flynn is to commercially exploit, for purposes of amusement, the oppression of Negroes, draft evasion and the Viet Nam war in terms of a factitiously conceived parallel with the draft riots of 1863. So slipshod is the play that at one point the draft dodgers, who have been presented as militantly antiwar, go racially berserk and are about to burn, maim or kill a dozen Negro orphans. Behind the injected element of fashionable social consciousness lies a cornball ro mance about the orphans' surrogate mother (Shirley Jones) and her erratic spouse (Jack Cassidy), who went...
...MAGGIE FLYNN, with Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy. Can an orphanage director find happiness with a circus clown...