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St. Ives
A blackmail scheme in Raymond Chandler's territory -- unseemly hotels, friendly neighborhood tavern, all-night laundromat, bus depot, and brick-walled Beverly Hills mansion -- is of scant interest, although the dialogue has a proper cheesy tang, and all the characters have catchy names like Pesco, Procane, Boykins, and Frann. Charles Bronson, as a former crime columnist now puttering on The Great American Novel, has no business being summoned into this intrigue, but once in it he conducts himself with aplomb. Lalo Schifrin's overwrought music stands out as a plateau of crassness on the broad plain of mediocrity. With Jacqueline Bisset, John Houseman, and Maximilian Schell; directed by J. Lee Thompson. 1976.
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MPAA Rating: PG
