Celluloid Heroes

What does a film critic, even an amateur one, do his day off? Go to the movies of course. In this case, I’ve taken two days off work for the forty-second anniversary of beginning my existence, and have taken in three movies in one day.

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I got a hunch he brung something in.

Jack Palance makes a big impression in his film debut about a New Orleans street thug exposed to a deadly strain of plague in Elia Kazan’s lean, gritty story of an obsessively determined health official (Richard Widmark) who only has two days to head off an epidemic.

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