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Maggie Thompson of Mentor, Ohio, sends along the following comments on the Feb. 6 issue of the Penny Dreadful:
We'll have to keep an eye out for Smile and W.W. And The Dixie Dancekings-neither of which we saw on their first time in this area, (Previews for the latter were not exactly compelling, ) However, we seriously wonder how many times Don Miller saw Nashville; it's a film absolutely designed to be seen for the second time. (Jaws is designed to be seen for the first time, on the other hand; we saw the two films within a short time period and decided that you could teach an absolutely great film course using just those two movies as subjects-two very different types of film-making, each great. )
On second viewing, you discover that not only is Nashville not formless, it is one of the most carefully constructed movies ever made. There are two sequences which might be capable of being dropped (the one with the short and tall women singing in the night spot and the one with the black singer doing his number at the Grand Ole Opry--and we think there was some important business going on during the course of each scene), Every other sequence contributes to the plot, leading inevitably to the climax, It's a film that can be discussed in multisyllabled, boring dissection--or just enjoyed as a diverting piece of entertainment. No way is it formless, though. .,It seems to have "loose structure," but if you study it, you'll see that if so-and-so hadn't been in this place at this time, so-and-so wouldn't have been in that place at that time--and so on, Even such seemingly noncontributing scenes as Geraldine Chaplin at the school bus yard shows something else happening without which the ending couldn't have happened. A fantastic jigsaw puzzle, in which every piece has to be in the right place or there's no picture...
And, uh, The Sam Sheppard Murder Case may have made for fun viewing, but take it from people who live near Cleveland, the script did not “include everything, pro and anti" about good old Sam, Nor, believe us, did it show what happened during the trial. (That turkey about the judge telling Dorothy Kilgallen that Dr, Sam was “guilty as hell" is at best debatable; the judge had a very strong sense of what judges did and didn't do and in addition he never used any strong language in front of women. Old Dottie waited till the judge was long cold in his grave before she came up with the statement, which would have been actionable if made when he was still alive.) The TV show mixed up the inquest with the trial and so on. Maybe OK drama, but not to be taken as an indication of what happened, (As opposed to the magnificent Lizzie Borden movie of some time back, which made it clear what was speculation and what was fact--and which goofed only in showing Lizzie's sister leaving her right after the trial, Elizabeth Montgomery did a fine job acting out a fine script--though we disagree with the speculation that Lizzie did it. ) CAPTAIN GEORGE'S PENNY DREADFUL, a weekly review established in 1968, is published by the Vast Whizzbang Organization, 594 Markham Street, Toronto, Ontario.