Word: scripts
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...supposed to wing it from there. A screenplay to Altman (who used to write them) is just "a selling tool" to get financing, and afterwards, "not much more than a production schedule." In the middle of shooting McCloud the other day, someone who wanted a copy of the script had to search for ten minutes to find...
South African Playwright Athol Fugard should bless his actors for breathing vitality into his stillborn script. James Earl Jones pours out his rage at existence like a volcanic river of fire, and Ruby Dee's face is one of those relief maps of pain, torment and humiliation that characterize a life when it is brutal, nasty and interminable. The pair ought to get a bonus in salvage...
Director Don Siegel has made some good, lean, tough films in his time (Riot in Cell Block 11, Madigan, Coogan's Bluff), and the violence in Two Mules for Sister Sara is typically visceral. Siegel's talents, however, are weighed down by a heavy script and unwieldy performances by the two stars. Eastwood looks grizzled, stares into the sun and sneers, but anything more demanding seems beyond his grasp. Shirley MacLaine, on the other hand, has considerable range and some charm, both of which have been pretty well blunted by the monotonous consistency of her roles. Things...
...even though the movie does not star Elliot Gould. It is scantily-written and over-directed in a cinema gullibilite style. Director Stuart Hagmann has taken a heavy hand in his zooms, tracking shots, cuts, and dissolves in a desperate attempt to obscure the transparency of Israel Horovitz's script. Horovitz himself is a very concerned, intelligent man, and even makes a cameo appearance in this movie, but his screenplay has little of the punch of his plays like Rats, or The Indian Wants the Bronx. One thing to be said in his favor is that he is not entranced...
...nothing like a big name to push the product. Whipping up some radio commercials for the Calavo Growers of California (avocados, mangoes, etc.), the advertising agency of N.W. Ayer/Jorgensen/MacDonald, Inc. reached all the way to the top to get an endorsement for Calavo's fruits. Sample from the script...