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Hatch, Robert | August 3, 1970 issue

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This article presents the author's opinion about various motion pictures. Paul Williams completes his direction of "The Revolutionary" with one of those stop-motion frames that signal the audience to decide for itself how the story should end-in this case, will the idealistic youth throw his booby-trapped shopping bag at the cynical old mayor, or will he not? "Joe," directed by John Avildsen from a script by Norman Wexler, is a consistent picture-it shows contempt for everyone. The working class in Queens is sneered at for its faulty speech, gauche manners and banal taste in domestic interiors; account executives on Park Avenue are seen to be clammy with self-loathing and snappish toward their lacquered wives.

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MOTION pictures; REVOLUTIONARY, The (Film); JOE (Film); WEXLER, Norman; WILLIAMS, Paul; MOTION picture producers & directors
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