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SET the upper lip to 'stiff' for this propaganda rocket aimed at the still largely isolationist and antiwar U.S., a cracking replay of the Scarlet Pimpernel story. Leslie Howard gives his big screen success of 1934 a modern twist here, he's a proto-Indiana Jones figure, a meek archaeologist by day who, by night, is secretly spiriting refugees out from under the Nazis' noses.
THE whistlestop tour through the Sixties continues with our black and white families now reaching the sticky end of the lollipop, as Flower Power goes bad, the Black Panthers show all is not peace and love in the garden, and Vietnam goes awry.See the full content of this document
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But again, the music is tops and Dylan, The Doors and Jefferson Airplane say it much better than director Mark Piznarski can.
FILM: THE 60S PA...See the full content of this document
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