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...little difficult to determine what Director John Hancock (Bang the Drum Slowly) and Scenarist Stanford Whitmore had on their minds here. Hancock re-creates some lovely home-front ambience and gets winning performances from Vincent and O'Connor. Still, to give the movie some resolution, it is necessary to bring on a trio of Japanese youths who have run away from an internment camp. Their appearance triggers the film's one action sequence. Marion and most of Bidwell's male population beat the woods and brave the rapids in search of the three boys-a slapdash...
These rotten little kids are meant to carry the freight of the novel's frenzied bully-boy philosophy. In this hapless screen translation by Lewis John Carlino (a scenarist making his directorial debut), they just come off looking like second-class citizens of The Village of the Damned. Fortunately, it is impossible to take the movie seriously on any level. A film maker who uses pounding pistons and dripping hoses for phallic symbols is a threat only to himself...
...protagonist of Man Friday is still Crusoe, but he is no longer the hero. It is the intention of the film makers to ridicule Crusoe's 18th century notions of the civilizing ideals which, Scenarist Mitchell implies, persist into and continually plague the 20th. Accordingly, this Friday comes from a very hip tribe. He laughs openly at Crusoe's attempts to instill the principles of wage-earning and sporting competition and figures Christianity to be foolish but harmless. Crusoe is soon turned into a pratfall personification of Western man. When an opportunity to escape the island arrives...
Died. Sidney Buchman, 73, film producer and scenarist; following a heart attack; in Cannes, France. A top Hollywood screenwriter (The Sign of the Cross, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) and a Columbia Pictures producer, Buchman was blacklisted after admitting to a congressional committee in 1951 that he had once been a Communist. He returned to film work in the 1960s serving as one of the writers on the Elizabeth Taylor-Richard Burton epic, Cleopatra, and later produced and wrote the film adaptation of Mary McCarthy's bitchy bestseller, The Group...
...mind-but when he flies to join her, Buek dies in a crash. It is some indication of the hollowness of The Other Side of the Mountain that this piece of real personal tragedy comes out looking like the last desperate invention of a weary and rather mechanical scenarist. It has been said-probably too often -that life is a bad movie. By that standard, Larry Peerce here presents the real thing...