The Jack London novel defanged, the Klondike traveloguized. The animal action is so careful not to offend the SPCA that it loses all credibility as action. In quieter times, a heartstring or two are successfully plucked. Ethan Hawke, Klaus Maria Brandauer, James Remar, with a special guest appearance by Bart …
Soft-core sex show (with an even mushier heart underneath) from Zalman King, the American Just Jaeckin, centered on the orphan of a Chet Baker-ish trumpet player, a moonfaced mopey adolescent (Nina Siemaszko, dead ringer for the young Gloria Grahame) who finds a home in that pornographic staple, the Whorehouse Beautiful …
Canadian-made anthology of women in stand-up comedy, fleshed out with off-stage interviews as well as archival footage (of Lucille Ball, Fanny Brice, Mae West, et al.) that somewhat blurs the focus. Some of the biggest names are absent: Rivers, Barr, Tomlin, Rudner, Bernhard. And the level of humor is not …
It's gonna be like Day of the Jackal, General De Gaulle mixed up with fictional characters. Thus the journalist hero describes his secret writing project. The description fits the movie around him as well, except it's former Prime Minister Aldo Moro mixed up with fictional Italian terrorists in the year …