Writer: Robert Stone
Composer: Lalo Schifrin
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey, Pat Hingle, Don Gordon, Michael Anderson Jr., Leigh French, Bruce Cabot, Cloris Leachman, Moses Gunn, Wayne Rogers, Robert Quarry, Skip Young, Clifton James, Lucille Benson
More info: IMDb
Tagline: Love it or leave it
Plot: A radio station in the Deep South becomes the focal point of a right-wing conspiracy.
My rating: 6/10
Will I watch it again? No.
I didn't know anything about this except that it starred Newman, Woodward and Perkins. The cast does a fine job, especially Pat Hingle who plays the bastard that runs the radio station. He's almost too good at it. He's very menacing. You get to hang out in New Orleans quite a bit and that's always a good thing. It's such a wonderfully rich city in its people and architecture. I wish more movies were centered there. Perkins initially seems miscast but he owns it in a great confrontation with Wayne Rogers. Terrific. The story drags a little. That's not cool considering the talent. It takes a long time before we get to the meat of the plot or at least the dirty dealing that ultimately brings this thing to a head. The rally near the end was just a giant mess of sound. Nothing but cacophony. It might've been designed that way but the copy I watched had the sound messed up. The music or sound effects often overpowered the dialogue which had my finger constantly on the volume button. The ending is dreary. I was left thinking that the focus was misplaced that there should've been more of a buildup instead needle dropping into these people's lives and scratching the record trying to get to the next song if that makes any sense.
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