Director John G Avildsen is better known for films like Rocky and The Karate Kid, neither of which suggest that he was once capable of a movie as complex and ambiguous as this under-appreciated 1970 classic. But then he seldom had worked with actors as powerful as Peter Boyle. Boyle died in 2006 but left a legacy of note-perfect performances in such varied movies as Taxi Driver, Young …
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