THE SCREEN:
Westerbeck, Colin L. Jr.
dictator looking to complete his exile retinue. suffered economic hardships with inflation reaching 80 Peron picked his wife for the vice-presidency to avoid percent a year....
...The key rule...
...I guess they're just an average bunch of escape...
...trying to have it both ways: to imply that this rat who from wave to wave seems to care about nothing-not even football!-actually has deep feelings, and yet not to imply it so she struggles, founders, tries to run unequivocally that we can't still believe him an incor- toward open doors of morning light rigible rat...
...civilian and military sectors to adhere to constitutional Due to their unpopularity and inability to solve national succession, Isabel has little power or influence...
...The key sectors in this battle are the Peronist last September's Presidential election...
...The ties were so strong that an army plete the four-year term...
...suffered economic hardships with inflation reaching 80 Peron picked his wife for the vice-presidency to avoid percent a year...
...But unlike the earlier film, this at indeliberate fault...
...one is embarrassed by its own emotions and tries to disclaim them...
...See, football does build character for having shaved points, which is an offense that makes after all...
...grudge match, they emerge from it having learned to Crewe is an ex-football hero banned from the game respect each other...
...Many sources believe the military allowed Peron to re- What more could a movie need...
...his vote total and as a ploy to keep rightist leaders in The most probable scenario, given this complex line...
...To entrench themselves in government, though, the old guard will have to con- THE SCREEN vince the military that civilians can handle the domestic situation...
...From the expression on Crewe's face, he knows it as well...
...but a prison movie and a Burt Reynolds movie as well...
...In one scene, for instance, Crewe reveals to his closest friend in prison how he shaved those She cannot bear points to get money he needed for his father, the only this symbol of remembered grief person in the world he ever cared for...
...Her only problems, the military decided to return the government strength stemmed from her relationship to Peron...
...having an incomprehensible forty-five minutes right in the middle of it...
...choked up with it, but then at the end he tells his buddy with a sneer that what he said was bull...
...However, the military are hindered from quickly prison and football movie, this one tries to compensate stepping in because of the poor image they developed as by giving us all we need in an opening scene where governors during the exile years...
...reconfirmed as minister and named by the new Presi- Given such a pessimistic analysis, some Argentines dent as her personal secretary...
...Isabel can be pried away from the old guard, she might Lopez Rega, Peron's personal secretary and the min- be acceptable...
...When Crewe walks off across the field after him the lowest thing in the prison in the eyes of all the game, the warden orders the head guard, who has the mass-murderers, wife-beaters and psychopaths he been Crewe's nemesis, to shoot Crewe for trying to finds there...
...Despite all the pledges by general once publicly boasted of being a CIA confidant...
...advantage of Crewe's talents and experience...
...that we are supposed to realize it is...
...political and eco-the stage name by which she is still called-will com- nomic interests...
...It's called The Convincing the military, especially the army which Longest Yard, and it's not just a football movie either, has been traditionally anti-Peronist, will be difficult...
...But after Peron, cal arm of the Central Workers Confederation (CGT), they admit, God will need some long nights...
...This is what gets the character Reynolds Commonweal: 523 plays, Paul Crewe, arrested, and it's the only scene in movie who has no character...
...Although not political group opposing Peron in the elections...
...But it turns out that the team is composed of guards, and the warden wants Crewe to get together an inmate team to scrimmage DREAM WITHIN A DREAM against his team...
...However, little likelihood exists that Isabel increasingly under the control of U.S...
...Argentina lost its role as the most influan open split between right and left over choice of a ential South American country...
...The pledges are an attempt to keep an outward ap- The other influential civilian sector is the Radical pearance of order while a power struggle goes on behind Party headed by Ricardo Balbin, who opposed Peron in the scenes...
...The key element for the military is to find a figures of this sector are Jose Lopez Rega and Lorenzo respectable civilian willing to front as President...
...COLIN L. WESTERBECK, JR...
...to civilians in 1973...
...At this point the ref should inmates' compunctions about Crewe...
...cause here comes a new football movie...
...The to darkness warden of course turns out to be the one person in the night...
...The aim of the old guard is to consolidate themselves THE DIRTY ELEVEN in government removing the last vestiges of the left...
...attitude towards football itself...
...enough to give them the illusion of gaining power, any The Peronist left has little chance of entering this other sector wishing to fill the vacuum will need at least struggle...
...their tacit support, probably having to buy it with the Peron did not sympathize with this group-once calling promise of an influential Radical voice in whatever new them "jerks" and "imbeciles"-but needed them to swell government emerges...
...system, the military would hold power, determining the Peron's sympathies were always with the old guard general politics while the civilians run the daily affairs of rightist leadership...
...But apparently Robert Aldrich didn't get the message because his ending Persephone wakes up suggests he believes every word the warden says...
...This would eventually lead to a fight among themselves to see who emerges as the leader...
...Reynolds slaps around a woman in a see-through Under the military, especially since 1966, the country negligee...
...He has organized have blown the whistle on this movie and penalized it a semi-pro team at the prison, and he wants to take fifteen yards for sportsman-like conduct...
...ister of social welfare, is currently the grey eminence Any government to emerge from this melange will be behind the Presidency of Isabel...
...They reflect the values and moral priorities of becomes apparent Crewe is only going to pick up the most Americans...
...Toward the beginning the warden gives Crewe a little pep talk about how Someone has touched her football builds character...
...Well, sex maybe, and turn only because of medical testimony that the rigors since that sort of sex that general audiences go for-the of a reactivated life would cause Peron to die within a boy-girl kind-is a little hard to write into an average year...
...It's not the sort of movie that can be hurt by she has lost her mantle...
...It held the Peronist labor and politi- the nation...
...An astrologer who pre- opposed by the left, stimulating more guerrilla activity pared Peron's daily horoscopes, Lopez Rega was quickly and greater national unity...
...take heart in the saying: "What the Argentines mess up Lorenzo Miguel is head of the 62 Organizations, politi- during the day, God fixes at night...
...It doesn't really make any difference that you don't realize this until the movie is about half Persephone dreams over...
...The same disingenuousness affects the film's whole but never reaches them...
...Reynolds plays and has one thought: she must return the scene straight, as if he is supposed to get everyone she must return...
...It never had more than a slight taste of power...
...If not, the military are likely to fill the vacuum Okay fans, drop your socks and grab your jocks, in the name of reestablishing law and order...
...The similarities to this new film aren't lost on Aldrich, who portrays the prisoners' team here as a or is she herself sort of Dirty Eleven...
...Peron's idea was to compartmentalize the left, es- melange, is that of a military takeover which puts handpecially the youth movement, and attach it as another picked civilians in the top government posts...
...27 September 1974: 524...
...The Radicals right, the military and the Radical Party, the largest control over one-third of the electorate...
...Under this appendage to the Peronist body...
...This is all bull too, and it's lightly obvious from the way Eddie Albert delivers the speech on the arm...
...This would give the military a free hand in cal organizations together during the hard exile years, combating the guerrillas and would maintain the visible keeping them loyal and strong despite repressive attempts appearance of adhering to the pledge of allowing civilian to extrapolate Peronism from national life...
...But the guard defies the order, and then it guys...
...I foolishly must have assumed this just because it seemed that Crewe was ELEANOR FITZGIBBONS, IHM being recruited for the team...
...But while the prisoners and the film that doesn't take place in a prison or on a the guards both enter their game as a no-holds-barred football field...
...Argentina's largest labor organization uniting about 7 million workers...
...Longest Yards director, Robert Aldrich, scored his Did someone else greatest success seven years ago with a film called The mistake the blue Dirty Dozen, which is about men recruited from an and leave the black Army brig to perform a dangerous mission behind she has on now enemy lines...
...Maybe my attention was already beginning to flag by this point, for somewhere I got the impression that this was a team made up of prisoners...
...And the country became running mate...
...If Miguel...
...This is really The road is now a churning lake...
...What gets Crewe on the field, though, game ball anyway, thus proving that even he learned to is that the warden (Eddie Albert) doesn't share his respect something-football...
Vol. 100 • September 1974 • No. 22
