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Directed by SAM PECKINPAH Screenplay by RUDOLPH WURLITZER...
Directed by FRANCESCO ROSI Screenplay by FRANCESCO ROSI, TONINO...
Directed by ROBERT ALDRICH Screenplay by CHRISTOPHER KNOPF
Christopher Knopfs screenplay gets a lot of the details right: of Depression America and a closed, grim society of busted-down mavericks, with its own codes, its own language. The trouble is that the substance of his story is worn and without surprise, another brawny contest of strength and will between two scruffy cliches. Aldrich handles the violence of the story with the gusto of a born brawler piling into another fray. His best films (Kiss Me Deadly, Attack) have always shared a quality of almost surrealistic brutality. Since much of The Emperor of the North Pole...
Directed by SIDNEY LUMET Screenplay by JOHN HOPKINS...