Re: RARA-AVIS: Please advise on hardboiled movies

Mark Sullivan (ANONYMEINC@webtv.net)
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 23:42:41 -0400 (EDT) Speaking of hardboiled movies: I should have thought of this to help
Peter get in the mood for his New York trip. The Incident is the
ultimate New York nightmare, being stuck in a subway car with a couple
of psychos. Tony Musante and Martin Sheen (I think the first movie for
both) mug a guy for either $7 or $9, I forget. They decide the only
place they can have fun on that amount is Time Square (this is 1967) so
they get on the subway (hopping the turnstiles, of course). The movie
then spends a bit of time following various people on their way to
getting on the same subway car: Ed McMahon plays a hen-pecked husband,
Donna Mills (her first movie, too?) is with her boyfriend, Jack Gifford
and Thelma Ritter are an older couple. Brock Peters, a bitter black
man, is on the train with his wife Ruby Dee. Beau Bridges plays a vet
with a broken arm; there is also a not-too-gay homosexual man. The
pair of hoods systematically terrorize each person or couple on the
train, unerringly targeting each's weakest spot.

This is one nasty movie, as timely today as when it was made. Watching
it can be grueling, but it is well worth it. After we first saw it on
AMC a couple of years ago, a friend and I just sat there in shock, in
awe of what we had just seen.

Mark

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