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...virus has wiped out all household pets. Apes have taken the place of dogs and cats and have been trained to perform menial tasks (filing, sweeping up, waiting on tables). They are treated like slaves by a repressive government until one of them, named Caesar, leads an open revolt. Scenarist Paul Dehn sometimes lets his satire turn into sermonizing, but he also engineers a clever and jauntily cynical reversal of sympathies whereby audiences cheer the marauding apes in their campaign to overcome mankind...
...Candidate might have been a cool and cynical analysis of the contemporary political process. Scenarist Larner was a speechwriter for Eugene McCarthy in 1968. He knows all the intricacies of political infighting, and the movie deals with such matters competently enough. But Larner never makes McKay believable as a man. All we know about him is that he has something of a communication problem with his father...
More than $14 million, in fact -enough to assure him of a second shot at film making. Before that, he played, improbably, the nephew of one 007 in Casino Royale. Allen got no scenarist's credit for the film, but audiences could sense his touch throughout. "I have a low threshold of death," he bleated in one scene, as a firing squad counted down, aiming their rifles at his sunken chest...
This sleazy remake of John Huston's fine The Asphalt Jungle is cast primarily with blacks, but the men who made it-Scenarist-Director Barry Pollack, Producer Gene Gorman-are white. Their interest is not so much in reaching the new-found black audience (TIME, April 10) as in exploiting...
...Director-Scenarist Anthony Friedman has modernized the story and transposed it from New York to London, which works, and played much of it for comedy, which doesn't. Scofield is elegant, a joy to watch, and he saves the film. But John McEnery has been directed to play Bartleby less as a ci pher than as a dogged straight...