Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sadly acknowledge that all editing, post-production as well as additional scenes were executed by James T. Aubrey Jr. We are sorry." Laughlin and Magwood claim that Magwood was locked out of the MGM cutting room, and that Aubrey inserted several minutes of new footage to simplify the plot and replaced their nostalgic score with a trendy one. The result, says Laughlin, is "a completely different movie" from the 1940s-type private-eye flick that he set out to produce, starring his wife Leslie Caron and Warren Gates. He and Magwood have started legal action to have Chandler withdrawn from...
...Hill's history, he has invented, deleted, and rearranged the life and times of the IWW bard. Such exploitation might be forgivable in the name of dramatic license, but Widerberg turns his liberties in no particular direction. The editing (which Widerberg also did) muddies the development of theme and plot with arbitrary shifts in scene. The script (again his work) offers no possibility for growth or awareness in the characters. The film's tone is soft, sentimental, easy-going, and totally wrong. Minimizing the period's very real pain and brutality, it deals with highly political people and events...
...farewell rally for Castro on the day after the march, Allende lingered long and lovingly on Klein's comments and the Santiago riots. "This coincidence of words that are irresponsible and indiscreet but obviously deliberate, with recent internal happenings, is suspicious," he said ponderously. Translation: a damn-Yankee plot must have been behind the angry ladies with the empty pots...
...plot is like a Freudian case history rewritten for the Reader's Digest -The Most Unforgettable Psychopath I Ever Met. After that trauma on the staircase, young Jimmy Graham's father Harry (Robert Mitchum) is eventually convicted of his wife's murder and sent to the state pen. Jimmy is dispatched to an orphanage. Fifteen years later, Jimmy (Jan-Michael Vincent) goes looking for his father. He has been paroled, and is now scratching out a living as a mechanic in a small town on the New Jersey shore, sustained by his girl friend (Brenda Vaccaro). Vengeance...
...tenuously plotted satirical review, Nixon! is a scattershot entertainment. As it traces the steps which lead poor Dick Nixon to blow up the world in the midst of the '72 elections (with a final Dr. Strangelove plot twist that the show's narrator brashly admits has been stolen from the film). Nixon! verges on the sexist, racist, and anti-Semitic--not to mention, its occasional lapses of taste. Of course, it's all meant in a spirit of fun (right? yes, right would I put you on?) and the Yiddish words get the biggest laughs of all. (Would somebody please...