SHORT TAKES ADMIT ONE
CLEOPATRA JONES (Warner Bros.) — One of the slickest, fastest-moving black movies we’ve seen. The camp elements are fantastic, a cinematic hodge-podge: real “Beyond the Valley,” “Batman” stuff. Good soundtrack (featuring Joe Simon and Millie Jackson) too.
SHORT TAKES ADMIT ONE
CLEOPATRA JONES (Warner Bros.) -One of the slickest, fastest-moving black movies we’ve seen. The camp elements are fantastic, a cinematic hodge-podge: real “Beyond the Valley,” “Batman” stuff. Good soundtrack (featuring Joe Simon and Millie Jackson) too.
David Marsh
OKALHOMA CRUDE (Columbia) -After covering nuclear war, race relations, college seizures, and ecology, Stanley Kramer may have gotten around to his women’s lib film, though he denies it (and if that actually was his intent he’s botched it worse than the others). It employs his famous sledgehammer approach, this time in the typcially male concept/parody of a “liberated woman.” But thanks to Faye Dunaway and George C. Scott, Okalhoma Crude is not only tolerable, it’s even amusing and likeable at times; they bring depth and interest to roles that I suspect would lack it without them. It’s a bit predictable, but cliche is the gist of a Kramer film and that shouldn’t be held against him Anymore than it is. toward gangster, cowboy, or any genre film. This may be the best movie Kramer’s directed since...?