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Review: Mother, Jugs and Speed

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Although the advertising works hard to suggest Mother, Jugs and Speed is “a black and blue comedy” in the tradition of M*A*S*H, the actual film...

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Review: Robin and Marian

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] A lot of things work against Richard Lester’s new film Robin and Marian. In the first place, as two of England’s most treasured heroes, those...

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Review: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] by Ken Eisler It just so happens that I was one of that lonely number who actually liked Mel Stuart’s One Is a Lonely Number some five years back....

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Review: Shoot

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Guy starts his movie with loving closeups of a ramrod squeezing oil down a rifle bore and a hand stroking off the outer barrel, he’d better have...

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Review: The Missouri Breaks

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] More than a fair share of iridescent, long-shadowed mornings and ghostly blue, otherworldly evenings mark the twilight of an era in The Missouri...

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Creature Contact

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Sam Fuller visited the Seattle Film Society the weekend of May 8 and, among many other things that happened within 46-and-a-half exhilarating,...

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Hey, Mom, Where’s My Suicide Note Collection?

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Sam Fuller: “You can always tell about a leaper by the distance his toes are from the edge of either the window or the ledge of the roof he’s...

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“When it’s night time …“: Myth and the Geography of the Unconscious in ‘I...

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] “I wanted the camera to tilt slightly in one direction and the picture to tilt in another. So when it evens out, we have death. I wanted something...

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The Steel Helmet: “I’ve got a hunch we’re all going around in circles”

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] There are two kind of people in The Steel Helmet: those who are dead and those who are about to be; men who have ceased to move anywhere and mean...

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‘Run of the Arrow': Birth Pangs of the United States

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] As with many of Fuller’s films, Run of the Arrow is finally about nothing less that the United States, even though it is “just” a Western. As a...

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Review: The Crazies

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] A hand unscrews a series of lightbulbs. A switch is flicked on and the room stays dark. Shadows and forms dart out of vision before they can be...

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Review: The Missouri Breaks

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] More than a fair share of iridescent, long-shadowed mornings and ghostly blue, otherworldly evenings mark the twilight of an era in The Missouri...

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Creature Contact

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Sam Fuller visited the Seattle Film Society the weekend of May 8 and, among many other things that happened within 46-and-a-half exhilarating,...

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Hey, Mom, Where’s My Suicide Note Collection?

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] Sam Fuller: “You can always tell about a leaper by the distance his toes are from the edge of either the window or the ledge of the roof he’s...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

“When it’s night time …“: Myth and the Geography of the Unconscious in ‘I...

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] “I wanted the camera to tilt slightly in one direction and the picture to tilt in another. So when it evens out, we have death. I wanted something...

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Image may be NSFW.
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The Steel Helmet: “I’ve got a hunch we’re all going around in circles”

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] There are two kind of people in The Steel Helmet: those who are dead and those who are about to be; men who have ceased to move anywhere and mean...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

‘Run of the Arrow’: Birth Pangs of the United States

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] As with many of Fuller’s films, Run of the Arrow is finally about nothing less that the United States, even though it is “just” a Western. As a...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Review: The Crazies

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] A hand unscrews a series of lightbulbs. A switch is flicked on and the room stays dark. Shadows and forms dart out of vision before they can be...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Review: Robin and Marian

[Originally published in Movietone News 50, June 1976] A lot of things work against Richard Lester’s new film Robin and Marian. In the first place, as two of England’s most treasured heroes, those...

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