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...there has been a crash. Huge volumes of black, grimy smoke pouring towards us have caused the drivers to slow up on the track. The source, however, is the bog. Stranded in the middle of the mob is the charred hulk of a 40-seat Greyhound bus, bursting like popcorn as the children stone it. The burning continues through the Oldtimers' Race, a special side event this afternoon. Spinning clods of mud in the waning light, the motorcycles continue their catatonic sorties through the now near-solid crowd...
WHILE I WAS growing up, I thought that films were just for fun. Going to the movies on Saturday afternoons was a big treat. Some fantasy, a little greasy popcorn, and a couple of hours of dark anonymity, all at pre-inflation prices. Once in a while, I'd learn something interesting from an animal movie, but I didn't go to the theater to learn--learning was strictly a five-day-a-week job. Most Americans do go to the movies just to have fun, to escape from sordid reality, to see their fantasies played out in Technicolor...
...then there was candy at the movies (although popcorn was the traditional first choice), and candy after swimming and candy at the beach and candy just because you'd been especially good. Here, it is necessary to point out the fact that Mother used proper psychology. Candy was a treat, but there was not to be any connection between candy and good deeds. But I knew the truth...
...GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD passes one crucial test for the matinee trade: go out for popcorn and you will probably miss something good. Among the movie's major attractions are a one-eyed centaur, a winged griffin, a six-armed bronze goddess who comes to deadly life, and a rather testy flying homunculus. These creatures have their origin in the imagination and the work shop of Ray Harryhausen, a special effects whiz. He brings them all alive in a process called Dynarama, which would appear to combine equal portions of stop-action photography, elaborate multiple exposures and a kind...
AFTER FIVE MINUTES of The Three Musketeers my notebook was on the floor, by the popcorn boxes. What could I write? That Michael York and Faye Dunaway look nice? That the 17th century street scenes look like Hogarths or something? What can you do with a film which manages to make Raquel Welch goofy and charming? How can a movie where Charlton Heston glides around as a hunched Cardinal Richelieu keep anyone scrawling critical notations in the dark? Objecting to Richard Lester's Musketeers for being a little flabby and shallow would be like condemning another of Lester's pictures...