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The Mechanic 1972
This film has no right to be this good. Well done tale of Bronson's quiet and detached hitman, a man who engineers deaths rather than commit them outright. He gains an apprentice, Jan-Michael Vincent, and then . . .
This was the Era of "The Organization" where people speak vaguely, as classier (and art-filled) successor to the hard boiled crime outfits in the 40s and 50s. The next generation, swept in with a expansive, meaningless party (which echoes the cryptic…
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Black Sunday 1977
Yes, this is a movie about a blimp attack on the Super Bowl. Clearly, Frankenheimer and the scriptwriters were going for 70s blockbuster appeal. But the film has an (appropriately) odd cast and takes far too long setting everything up. We actually spend most of our time following the bomber/blimp pilot/mentally unstable disgraced Vietnam Vet Bruce Dern in his setup, goaded on by a Palestinian terrorist/handler/live-in girlfriend. The good guy tracking the plot is Robert Shaw, as an Israeli Mossad…
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The Gypsy Moths 1969
Similar themes to Grand Prix: men doing dangerous things and their personal lives. But the mixture is worse - the action shots of skydiving are not as exciting as auto racing (a victim to the activity's later popularity, perhaps), and the personal drama is even duller than the earlier film's. (In this case, it's a relationship between Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster, both of whom qualify as older). Gene Hackman turns in a characteristically energetic performance, but everyone else is either sleepwalking or making old fashioned adultery romance (depending on how you look at it).
