Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Review: Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

Director: George Roy Hill

Cast: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine,

Michael Sacks
Michael Sacks
Ron Leibman
Ron Leibman
Eugene Roche
Eugene Roche
Sharon Gans
Sharon Gans
Valerie Perrine
Valerie Perrine

Plot: Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.

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Back to the ’70s

Back to the ’70s

Revisiting movies from the early 1970s, I recently watched Howard W. Koch’s rather ugly cop feature Badge 373 (1973), with Robert Duvall as a rule-breaking, racist misogynist NYC detective; Willard (1971), Daniel Mann’s adaptation of […]

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