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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Eroica Dupea, scion of a musical family, gifted pianist and older brother of the easy riders of 1969. Indeed, the same studio that produced Easy Rider has manufactured an undrugged, mature version of that film, complete with central emblem: the road as panacea. But now, if something in the plot has thickened, something in the pulse has slowed...
Beyond such details, Speer compels attention because the man does not avoid the question of personal guilt. At first, he writes, "political events did not concern me." As a good technocrat, he agreed to the use of forced labor in order to bolster armament production. After the plot to assassinate Hitler failed on July 20, 1944, Speer briefly toyed with ways to kill his Führer. But, he admits, "I could never have confronted Hitler pistol in hand. Face to face, his magnetic power over me was too great up to the very last...
Darker Than Amber is not the best of the genre, but it provides some neat jolts of violent entertainment. The plot is the usual thing: Private Detective Travis McGee* (Rod Taylor) rescues lady-in-distress (Suzy Kendall); their affair is pleasant enough, but she skips out on him and is murdered; McGee seeks revenge on the killers. There is no absurd jigsaw plot to unravel. Stories-and movies-like this rely mostly on atmosphere and characterization, two elements in reasonably plentiful supply in Darker Than Amber. Rod Taylor plays McGee as something a little bit more than the usual...
...plot is a somewhat chaotic contrivance, involving two kids (Michael Brandon and Bonnie Bedelia) who have lived together for a year and finally decide to get married. Her family provides them a stylish wedding but sets a terrible example. Father (Gig Young) is carrying on with mother's best friend (Anne Jackson). Brother (Joseph Hindy) and sister-in-law (Diane Keaton) are determined to divorce. The groom's father (Richard Castellano) explains he has never really been happy with his wife (Beatrice Arthur), while a bridesmaid (Marian Hailey) fights off the advances of a lecherous usher (Bob Dishy...
...plot could have been lifted from a 1933 story conference at Warner Brothers. Siffredi (Alain Delon) is a petty crook, all bile and brilliantine, who goes looking for his girl friend Lola (Catherine Rouvel) after his latest prison term has expired. Stalking the streets of Marseille, he finally finds her happily biding her time with a nattily tailored sharpie named Capella (Jean-Paul Belmondo). Siffredi immediately initiates repossession proceedings. Capella only grins. Siffredi glowers. Capella still grins. Then, of course, they fight. After knocking each other around for a while, over pool tables, into mirrors, across bars, that sort...