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'French Connection' builds
tense cat and mouse game
Review by Bill Wallis
The French Connection contains a chase sequence which
has been termed a "classic" by film critics everywhere. It is,
but the chase sequence is an integrated part of a full-length,
superbly-crafted film.
The story is that of a tough cop named Doyle, who is
brilliantly brought to life by Gene Hackman. In a thousand
tiny but seemingly habitual moves the attitudes of a gruff, wry
and passionate individual are exposed to the viewer.
Doyle and his partner Russo (Roy Schneider also an
excellent portrayal) are Narcotics Bureau Detectives in New
York City. The story is of their struggle-on duty and off-to
locate and intercept an enormous shipment of heroin from
France.
Their evil counterparts, Fernando Rey and Marcel Buzzuffi,
are among the world's elite criminals. Only through the
inordinate and passionate curiosity of Doyle as an individual
(as well as a cop) is the shipment even discovered and the very
violent game of cat and mouse begun in the underworld jungle.
Reasons for this film being ranked one of the best of 1971,
and, one of the best action films of all time, are these: the
story never stops, event flows into event with a never-ceasing
tension. Climaxes occur, but never a letdown. The film's
- rhythm, or balance of sequences (especially of rising and
falling action, and of location), is superb.
The film is dead-level realism, but never approaches
dullness. Sensational elements (Dirty Harry's powerful
handgun, his prey's abnormal psychological condition) which
usually clutter up "cop stories" are absent.
This is the story of intelligent, brutal human beings who
exist in a jungle of steel and flesh. It is the sharpness of their
intellect, the finesse of their instinct, the thoroughness of their
knowledge of their field, and the complexity of their tactics
that makes this film hard-hitting brilliant entertainment.
This, plus the brilliant protrayal of virtually all the
characters, and the technical mastery with which the
characters, their actions and interactions, are captured on the
screen.
Only in the highly-touted chase sequence is the imagination
' stretched beyond the bounds of believable experience, and
then only a little.
This realistic atmosphere of the film gives the actors greater
breadth of expression. He can better be bored as a character
without boring his audience when he can relieve his boredom
as any of us might-working overtime, bad coffee and all. But
Doyle's overtime involves 32 million dollars worth of
heroin, and t life and death game.
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Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers,
performed by the Contemporary Theatre
Company, closed the Lincoln Broadway
League's season Thursday night. This
production was, overall, the best of the
season for the League.
It can be argued that Simon's works are
mass-consumed by middle class Americans
who think they're seeing "great theater."
Simon's comedy is only one form of
comedy however, and comedy is only one
form of theater. As long as people realize
this and expose themselves to the other
forms, there's nothing wrong with enjoying
this type of comedy.
Basically, the plot of Lovers centers on
seafood restaurant owner Barney Cashman's
three unsuccessful attempts to carry on
extra-marital affairs by luring women up to
his mother's apartment.
Stubby Kaye as Barney was the main
reason for the success of the show. His stage
experience was apparent as he wandered
around the stage pouring drinks, smoking
grass and trying to get a purse away from
one of the women.
Kaye's facial expressions and his delivery
were a delight.
Pat Benson as Elaine, the nymphomaniac,
is the first woman with whom Barney tries
to have an affair. She's willing, Barney isn't.
Result nothing happens.
Benson also did a good job with her
characterization. In fact, she was probably
the most believable of the three women in
the show.
Patty Crowe as Bobbi, the psycho-actress
who is convinced the world is against her, is
the object of Barney's second attempt.
Crowe seemed a little nervous when she
made her first entrance, but as she got into
the show she became more comfortable in
her role.
The third woman Barney tried to seduce
was disappointing. Yvonne Vincic as
Jeanette, a friend of Barney's wife, seemed
extremely nervous. Granted, some of the
nervousness was her characterization, but
she was not even waiting on her laugh lines.
While the audience laughed, she would say
lines the audience could not hear.
The largest problem of the production
was the sound system. Throughout the show
there was intermittent crackling from the
speakers.
Due to the proposed Stuart Theatre
remodeling plans the Lincoln Broadway
League will have to find a new home next
season. Not every production brought in by
the League has been a winner, but they all
haven't been losers eithar.
The League has done a great service to
Lincoln over the past years. Hopefully they
will find a suitable new home so they may
continue to bring productions to Lincoln.
Having Waited For Logos, an original
script by William Szymanski, will be
presented by Free Theatre on Monday and
Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union
Centennial Room.
The play is an experiment in movement
and madness. Admission is free.
The Special Films Committee has
scheduled Woodstock at the Sheldon Art
Gallery on Tuesday and Wednesday at 1
p.m., 4:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Admission is $1.
UNL faculty member John Zei will sing
the role of Count Montsrone in the Omaha
Opera Company's production of Pigoletto
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Omaha
Music Hall, 17th and Davenport St. Five
singers from the Metropolitan and New York
City opera companies will also perform in
the production. Canadian baritone Louis
Quilico will sing the title role.
The Harlem Globetrotters, with UNL
alum Nate Branch, will be at Pershing
Auditorium on Tuesday, Feb. 22 at 7:30
p.m. Tickets are $3, $3.50 and $4.50.
Rock group Three Dog Night will be at
Pershing on Friday, Feb. 25, at 8 p.m.
Tickets are $5.50 and $6.
Television movies:
Monday
KMTV, Channel 3, 8 p.m.. Operation Kid
Brother starring Neil Connery. Sean
Connery's brother playing James Bond's
brother.
KETV, Channel 7, 8 p.m., Cleopatra,
conclusion starring Richard Burton,
Elizabeth Taylor and Rex Harrison. 1963
$40 million production.
Tuesday
KETV, Channel 7, 7:30 p.m.. Call Her
Mom starring Connie Stevens. Waitress
takes over as fraternity's housemother.
Wednesday:
KETV, Channel 7. 8 pm.. Diet Dial My
Darling! starring Tallulah Bankhead and
Stephanie Powers. Madwoman totures dead
son's fiancee.
Thursday
KOLN, Channel 10, and WOW, Channel
6, 8 p.m.. My Blood Runs Cold starring Troy
Donahue and Joey Heetherton. Rich girl
falls in love with motorcyclist.
Friday
KMTV, Channel 3. 7:30 p.m.. Evil Roy
Slade starring John Astin and Dick Shawn.
Remake of a pilot film that didn't make it.
WOW. Channel 6. 8 p m.. Nona But the
Brave starring Frank Sinatra and Clint
Walker. World Warr II yarn.
KOLN, Channel 10 8 p m.. Man on a
String starring Chris George. Police
lieutenant goes underground.
KUON, Channel 12, 9:30 p.m.. Beauty
and the Beast, starring Jean Marais and
Josette Day. French poet filmmaker Jean
Cocteau's 1946 interpretation of fairy tale.
Saturday:
KETV, Channel 7, 7:30 p.m., Notorius
stamng Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
Alfred Hitchcock classic.
KMTV, Channel 3. 8 p m., 25th Hour
starring Virna Lisi and Anthony Ouinn.
Another World War II goodie.
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