What is shown of the hero's bright side (his career as a professor of English Literature) is pretty skimpy, and silly besides. His nebulous relationship to his mother and grandfather is also skimpy, but mildly intriguing. These things, in any case, are almost completely eclipsed by the mass of material on his dark side (his obsession with stretching his luck and sticking his neck out). James Caan and director Karel Reisz give the character a credible façade, and they give him a tantalizing mysteriousness by declining to pursue the characterization much deeper than that. With Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, and Jacqueline Brookes. (1974) — Duncan Shepherd
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