Word: widmark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt the most offensive. Director Michael Crichton '64 uses operations to keep the audience on its toes, and since the movie is devoid of humor there's nothing to relieve the tension. It's so solemn and literal-minded that it makes The Exorcist look positively expressionistic. Richard Widmark plays the head of a Boston hospital where young, healthy patients keep going into unexplained comas during routine operations. When he explains why he's doing it--the unimportance of the individual compared with the advancement of science--to a drugged Genevieve Bujold, the young doctor who has stumbled onto...
...ensure a fresh supply. The flower-like Bujold, who does not look tired enough to have finished medical school, plays Dr. Susan Wheeler, a brilliant surgical resident who stumbles prettily from creepy suspicion to grisly certainty. But no one in the hospital, including the kindly chief of staff (Richard Widmark), will take her seriously. Her lover, a crass young intern (Michael Douglas) who looks as if he will make a great golfer some day, keeps saying "I know, I know" and offering her Valium. He won't take his turn at cooking dinner either...
...hard enough to control his fast lip. They also devise a nice, slow-motion chase between Segal and Bottoms in one of the amusement parks where the film was shot. This material is at least mildly amusing, and affords excuses for Old Pros Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark to come on irascible...
...Fail Safe, Seven Days in May and various other pop-cult expressions of former doomsday fears. This sense of deja vu is enhanced by the casting of that archetypal movie star of the '50s, Burt Lancaster, as the leading trespasser on Government property. His SAC nemesis is Richard Widmark, still energizing his performances with a subtle suggestion of psychopathy. Playing the President's closest advisers are such good, gray actors as Melvyn Douglas, Joseph Gotten and Leif Erickson. It is all rather comforting to see these old companions in adventure from bygone matinees. Director Aldrich, a veteran purveyor...
...idea is that everything will be more interesting if Sean Connery or Ingrid Bergman, rather than the characters they play, is suspected of having committed the foul deed. The device does not work, despite the occasionally droll efforts of most of the cast, among whom Connery, Bergman. Redgrave and Widmark are the most effective. Everyone seems to have had a good time lurking about in the Calais coach in his posh 1930s duds. But the amusement is a little offputting. It is like watching a few people enjoy themselves at a party that hardly anyone else can bear...