Like the other big youth movies, so-called, of 1969 (Easy Rider, Last Summer), Arthur Penn's slight expansion of Arlo Guthrie's rambling protest ballad avoids coddling its audience. It is most effective, in fact, when it is gravely cautioning. The sour, melancholy notes sounded at a hospital death bed, at a gently snowy funeral, and at the funless farewell party are quite affecting, while the obligatory anti-Establishment spoofery comes close to Mad Magazine crudeness, crumminess. The caricaturing of Authority lacks even Mad's impartiality, though, as Arlo, in his first movie, rises above all the hassles with the serenity of a Renaissance Madonna, which he facially resembles. With Pat Quinn and James Broderick. (1969) — Duncan Shepherd
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