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...Chase is a shockworn message film, smoothly overacted and top-heavy with subtle bigotry, expertly exploiting the violence, intolerance and mean provincialism that it is supposed to be preaching against. Taking a Horton Foote novel adapted by Playwright Lillian Hellman, Producer Sam Spiegel (Lawrence of Arabia) hired Director Arthur Penn (The Miracle Worker) to whip up a scathing, lopsided indictment of a small town somewhere in Texas. With Star Marlon Brando as chief jeer-leader, the movie smugly points an accusing finger at all the wrong, wrong deeds done by precisely the right people...
Diminutive Presence. Now 41, Capote has executed an "esthetic experiment." He calls it a "new literary form" -a "nonfiction novel." It is an unfortunate term, as contradictory as it is pretentious. Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day, a reconstruction in novel form of the Allied Normandy landings, Lillian Ross's Picture, a book-length study of the making of the film Red Badge of Courage, and John Hersey's Hiroshima are numbered among the creditable jobs of journalism that antedate Capote's esthetic experiment. Not to forget that old master, Ernest Hemingway...
...LILLIAN GAVRON Jacksonville Beach...
...England for the rightful Romanov heir. Some blind Russian peasants who happen to be milling around the streets of Berlin oblige by blubbering "Little Mother" all over the set, and it is clear that only an optometrist could prevent Prince Paul (John Michael King) and the Dowager Empress (Lillian Gish) from falling all over their royal relative...
...What Four, designed wide-wale corduroy jump suits for themselves to wail in, tailored a couple of rock tunes to order, and then, reading success in a lot of tea leaves, invited a movie photographer to film a documentary of their "inevitable" jumping to fame. The What Four: Lillian Pogan on lead guitar, Elizabeth Burke on drums, China Girard on rhythm guitar, and on bass guitar, Diane Hartford, wife of A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who invited the group down to the family's New Jersey estate, Melody Farm, to rehearse for their Soft Day's Night...