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...movie is not-as it might more profitably have been-about the testing and steeling of the faith of two priests who try to exorcise the spirit from the girl's body. The priests are characterized with cliches: the younger one (Jason Miller) suffers guilt over the death of his mother, who appears to him in dreams carrying two shopping bags and moaning his name; the elder (Max von Sydow) is a weathered, mystic intellectual-perhaps modeled after Teilhard de Chardin-who may or may not be able to muster the strength to go a final round with...
...special effects-flying furniture, a levitation-are good. What else could be expected with such a budget? Von Sydow has a presence of unshadowed strength. Jason Miller (author of the Broadway play That Championship Season) makes a very impressive first film appearance with a performance full of swift undercurrents of psychic pain. Lin da Blair performs bravely as the tormented girl; the rasping voice of her demon is hauntingly dubbed (without screen credit) by Mercedes McCambridge. Ellen Burstyn, a good actress who is especially adept at portraying a beleaguered strength, is stuck here with an assignment that might once have...
Broadway is a noble word again. Power, beauty, passion and truth command the stage of the Morosco Theater where A Moon for the Misbegotten has been revived in unmitigated triumph. We owe it all to the sensitive direction of Jose Quintero, the matchless performances of Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst and Ed Flanders and the piercing vision of Eugene O'Neill, who could laugh over humanity's impish follies and grieve over the sad agony of man's fate...
Over the years, Jason Robards' psychic affinity for O'Neill has marked the peaks of his acting career. His Hickey in The Iceman Cometh, Jamie in Long Day's Journey, and title role in Hughie will probably never be surpassed. Increasingly, Robards even looks like O'Neill. He has the brooding, deep-set eyes that look out from O'Neill's photographs with searing gravity. His performance in Misbegotten will remain a touchstone for all actors to measure themselves...
...this week's cover was largely unknown outside Washington, D.C., legal circles until last January, when the "Watergate Seven" defendants appeared in his courtroom. Says Senior Editor Jason McManus, who has edited most of this year's Nation stories dealing with Watergate: "By putting pressure on the defendants in that trial to tell the truth, Judge Sirica set in motion the tumultuous events of the year. His determination had vast implications for the country and the presidency, and a much needed and vital impact on the legal profession...