Robert Aldrich's slightly feverish vision of the assorted dreamers and schemers in the City of Angels, over their heads in hot color and murky shadow. Scriptwriter Steve Shagan's post-mortem on a teen-age runaway, apparently a suicide, is teasingly well plotted around numerous interruptions and postponements, and ultimately is unable to find anyone to blame — a surprise ending, of a sort. Aldrich, as much by craftsmanship as by conviction, gives the thing force and feeling. Much help, too, from the cast, most of all Ben Johnson as the bitter and inconsolable father of the dead girl. With Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan, Ernest Borgnine, and Eddie Albert. (1975) — Duncan Shepherd
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