Alcoholic ex-GI goes to work collecting debts for gangsters, commits various crimes, then has a religious conversion and helps other alcoholics.
Tag: USA
Frank ‘Rhino’ Rhinoslavskyis a dumb part-time cab driver in New York City who wants to break into film business. He doesn’t have anything to offer, and just thinks that he can start at the top, as a writer. Opportunity knocks on Frank’s door when he goes to the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France to deliver some props to Troma, Inc.
In 1927, in Kingdom County, Vermont, a large dam is to be built, however, Noel Lord, a logger and cedar-oil harvester, won’t give up his lifetime lease on land that will be flooded. The dam company increases its offer of cash, but Noel refuses. He asks for a trade: a stand of pines for his lease. The company rejects that deal, but offers to make Noel a Ranger in a new park. Noel, meanwhile, talks with his Indian mate, the spirited Bangor, about their moving to Oregon and buying a saw mill.
Alexa is very attentive to her customer’s requests, but soon realizes that prostitution has limited long term career potential. She meets Tony, a scriptwriter who is writing a piece on prostitutes. Alexa falls for him, and decides to leave the profession. But her pimp has other ideas.
Blithely ignorant of its unforgiving landscape or its people, a hunter named Gale enters the Mexican jungle and is immediately out of his element. Resting after his first foray, Gale meets Sleigh, an aging American hunter and expatriate.
Alan Arkin, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-wierding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, overcoated hitchhiker buddy.
David and Albert Maysles directed this cinema-verite portrait of Joseph E. Levine, the blustery producer and distributor whose works ranged from the sublime (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Contempt and Carnal Knowledge) to the ridiculous (The Carpetbaggers and Santa Claus Conquers The Martians).
The rise and fall of a popular entertainer provides the basis of this musical drama. Harry Raymond begins his career with nothing but his ambition, his talent and the support of friends and loved ones. Eventually he hits the big time and becomes a star. Unfortunately with stardom comes arrogance and selfishness and he disdains his lowly but loyal lover and pals to hang out with the upper crust.