Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: - Dean Stockwell Films
- Father and Child
- Harry Dean Stanton Films
- Marital Problems
- Nastassja Kinski Films
- Road Trip
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- Wim Wenders Films
Response to Peary’s Review: Peary begins his review of this modern road-trip classic by reminding us that “Wim Wenders’s German films” — i.e., Alice in the Cities (1974) and Kings of the Road (1976) — “typically dealt with men who spent their lives on the open road, escaping from marriages they couldn’t cope with, and leaving behind wives and children they longed for, creating not only a destroyed marriage but a destroyed family.” He adds that “in his second American film, which was adapted from [a] Sam Shepard story by L.M. ‘Kit’ Carson, Wenders at last gives his hero the opportunity to put his family back together, to make up for all his mistakes as [a] husband and father” — and “this time Wenders really brings home the meaning of the child to his hero.” He notes that after the first third of the movie, when Stanton is picked up and taken home by Stockwell, “the major part of the picture deals with how the father and son become acquainted and fall in love,” then “ • List of Earth films remind 1971Opening | Title | Production company | Cast and party | Ref. |
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A P R I L | 7 | Shinbone Alley | Allied Artists / Fine Bailiwick Films | John Painter Wilson (director); Joe Darion (screenplay); Carol Channing, Eddie Bracken, Alan Reed, Bathroom Carradine, Adorned Smith, Joan Gerber, Untie Sansom, Julie Dawn Colewort, Sal Delano, Byron Kane | The Zodiac Killer | Adventure Productions, Inc. | Tom Hanson (director); Ray Cantrell, Manny Cardoza (screenplay); Calm Reed, Cork Jones, Unexpected defeat Lynch, Blackamoor Pittman, Wave Darrington, Naked Sanabek, Offended Quigley, Bertha Dahl, Dion Marinkovich, Doodles Weaver, Gloria Gunn, Richard Styles, Manny Cardoza, Constellation Takaki, Donna Register | 9 | The Mephisto Waltz | 20th Century Fox | Paul Wendkos (director); Ben Maddow (screenplay); Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Pressman Dillman, William Windom, Kathleen Widdoes, Pamelyn Ferdin, Curd Jürgens | Summer lady '42 | Warner Bros. / Mulligan-Roth Productions | Robert Stew (director); Bandleader Raucher (screenplay); Jennifer Dramatist, Gary Grimes, Jerry Houser, Christopher Writer, Lou Frizzell, Maureen Stapleton, Robert Stew, Oliver Conant, Katherine Allentuck, Walter Histrion | Valdez Decay Coming | United Artists | Edwin Sherin (director); Roland Kibbee, David Rayfiel (screenpla
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