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From: tgd@floyd.UUCP (Tom Dennehy)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: The Grey Fox
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Date: Mon, 12-Sep-83 09:05:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: floyd.1959
Posted: Mon Sep 12 09:05:28 1983
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I saw The Grey Fox in Motown, NJ (Morristown for folks having
trouble pronouncing DiTROYT) and was very impressed, indeed.

The movie concerns Bill Miner, the "gentleman bandit", who spent
the last 33 years of the 19th century in San Quentin for robbing
stagecoaches.  We meet Bill as he is released from prison, when
finding no stagecoaches around, he takes to robbing trains.  We
follow his odyssey across the Pacific Northwest into Canada where
boy robs trains, boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy goes back
to prison, boy (getting into spoiler territory, nuff said).

The film is as handsome to look at as anything I've ever seen.
Particularly magical is a montage sequence of the growing love
between Bill and the photographer Miss Flynn, with him singing
in the bathtub for background music.  Alternating interiors and
exteriors, brilliant sunlight and purple twilights, and a perfectly
framed absolutely symmetric shot of them dancing in a gazebo.
A sequence walking through town on Christmas morning sticks in
the mind, as well as a magnificant shot of a dead man on a fence
(of all things). The body appears to hang in mid air.

But this is much more than a "Days of Heaven"esque travelogue of
gee whiz scenery.  The performances of Bill Miner and Miss Flynn
are wonderful (I've got to start writing down names).  They both
have expressive faces and a musical quality to their voices.  On
the character side of the street, good supporting performances are
given as Shorty Dubb ("short,nervous,dirty,and unintelligent"),
Sgt. Preston of the Yukon who does right by everyone, and a slimy
Pinkerton detective.

The costuming makes the whole endeavor look like a Ralph Lauren
commercial - in fact you can slip into this film as easily as a
worn leather jeacket or a pair of jeans :-)

You'd better slip into it soon.  Givent he size of the audience, it
won't be around much longer.  Enjoy.

Tom Dennehy	BTL WHippany	{floyd!tgd} with time running out...