Word: hackman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...storm. Finally, the boys in isolation decide to do something about it. They bust out, take over the cell block and hold the guards as hostages. The object of the whole thing is to stall for time so that a few of the riot ringleaders (Jim Brown, Gene Hackman, Ben Carruthers) can tunnel under the wall and make a break for freedom...
Despite all this realism, Riot is about as convincing as 20,000 Years in Sing Sing. Jim Brown is becoming a strong, silent screen presence, but that is not acting. Gene Hackman, a fine character actor, deserves better parts than the one he is given here, and audiences deserve better than the careless ease he brings to it. Although the year is still young, Ben Carruthers contributes what will surely stand as one of its worst performances. As a homicidal schizo, he twitches, shakes and gyrates like a dwarf holding a trip hammer...
...landlord, in turn, is shot down by a crooked cop (Gene Hackman), who makes off with the money but later joins forces with Brown to shoot it out with the accomplices. Naturally, the accomplices all die, and the cop becomes a hero. As for good old Jimmy Brown, he is about to escape with his share, when he is called-symbolically-by the voice of the dead Diahann, summoning him-symbolically-to hell. And there, as they say in professional football, The Split ends...
...PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Ralph Bellamy, Jane Wyatt, Inga Swenson and Gene Hackman people Robert Crean's drama My Father and My Mother, third original TV play on this season's Playhouse roster...
...actors. Penn is one director who, though able to control tone and response by shooting and cutting alone, nonetheless shows real concern for achieving a set of convincing and consistent performances from major and minor players. Several performances are considerable achievements in their own right. Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, and Estelle Parsons bring grim authority to three dull and aimless lives. Faye Dunaway will be a great star, she already is, and Beatty, with his utterly credible portrayal of Clyde, finally comes into...