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cinema-
Le fling down pre tens ions
Edward Everett Horton dies
By NEAL GABLER
Itr really isn't fair to condemn
a film that's perfectly success-
ful in its genre unless, of course,
you happen to dislike the whole
genre. Ultimately a film c a n
only be as great as its ambi-
tions, and sheer entertainment
is good if it's entertaining. But
anyone who readtsKaufnaann or
Simon knows that not all crit-
ics subscribe to this theory:
they wear their repugnance of
kitsch as badges of honor. Who,
us? We don't e n j o y movies.
That's notpart of our job.
I have to admit that I go
along with them part way. Let's
face it - most films are trash.
But among the junk there are a
lot of movies that are diverting.
No, they aren't great films but
then they don't try to be. My
conscience demands I say all
this before I tell you that I like
Rider on the Rain. It certainly
isn't a great picture, but it is a
film without pretensions a n d
that's a recommendation if 1)
You're not a critic for The New
-Republic; or 2) You happen to
be in the mood for something
.without pretensions.
Like so many imports Rider
raises the question of flows. No
film industry exists in a vacu-
um and the process of borrow-
ing or influencing is continual.
One of the m o r e interesting
flows is from the American sus-
pense film - namely Hitchcock
- to t h e French thriller.
Doubtless one of the chief at-
tractions of the genre is the
challenge that it poses to the
filmmaker; manipulation re-
quires precision in construction.
Another appeal of Hitchcock,
though, is his childish wit and
the naiviete so many French-
men regard as the sophistica-
tion of unaffection - poison in
a glass of milk, a murder in the
middle of the opera, a battle on
Mount Rushmore, a man's life
hinging on the possession of his
cigarette lighter. The message,
if you look for those things, is
that between any two points is
a curvy line. What seems most
innocent may actually be the
greatest threat.
The latest filmmaker to suc-
cumb to the Hitchcock bug is
Rene Clement. Maybe he could
do better than to make a mod-
est thriller. Or maybe Forbidden
Games was the child of one of
those rare moments of genius,
and after the disastrous Is Par-
is Burning? Clement is eager to
settle in a new element. But the
question really isn't: How much
better is Clement than his film?
The question is: How well does
Rider on the Rain hold up as
suspense?
And except for minor flaws
like pseudo-psychological flash-
backs (Why oh why are film-
makers addicted to flashbacks
designed to reveal t h e inner
secrets of the mind in five min-
utes?), it holds up very well.
Clement follows the formula of
always keeping t h e viewer
guessing, but he never lapses in-
to the defiance of logic that so
many directors use to get them-
selves out of corners. Mellie's
(Marlene Jobert) husband is
due in from London and she's
waiting for him at home. While
she waits a rapist breaks into
the house, and little Mellie,
seized by terror, proceeds to
blow him apart with a double-
barrel shotgun. She disposes of
the body and all is well until
Dobbs (Charles Bronson speak-
ing French all the way), a man
who seems to know her secret,
arrives.
That's about as far as a syn-
opsizer dare go. The rest you'll
have to figure out for yourself.
Enjoy it.
ENCINO, Calif. () - Actor
Edward Everett Horton, fluttery
master of comic befuddlement
in plays, television and more
than 100 movies died yesterday
at 84.
The wispy, purse - mouthed
character was known to college
audiences as the narrator of
Bullwinkle's "Fractured Fairy-
tales." He had been a lifelong
bachelor.
Horton polished his style un-
til he was virtually an acting
unique. A spindly six-footer
with an expression of genteel
timidity, his trademarks were
an air of fluttery anxiety in the
face of crisis, and his sly, mis-
chievous grin. He was known as
a master of drawing room com-
edy, but played almost any role
that called for a display of con-
fusion, panic or disintegration
in the face of adversity - sales
clerks, fussbudget businessmen,
busybody relatives.
Sometimes he had played it
straight. In his younger days, he
was leading man to such stage
beauties as Gertrude Dallas,
Mary Servoss, Blanche Yrka and
Dorothy Dalton.
Horton's bread and butter ov-
er four decades was the play
Springtime for Henry in which
he appeared more than 2,600
times. Horton played Henry
Dewlip in the tale of a reform-
ed gay blade and the problems
of mismatched lovers, mugging,
laughing, crying, dancing. He
executed to perfection the dove-
tailing line - starting a sen-
tence, pausing at a certain
point, then finishing w i t h a
change of thought usually good
for a laugh.
In recent years he was often
seen as a guest in television
dramatic shows. O n 1 y last
March he told an interviewer
he figured he was "good for
another 20 years."
Horton said in a recent in-
terview: "I never considered
myself a movie actor, I'm a
stage actor, happiest when I'm
on the stage with a nice au-
dience."
"I played only three butlers,"
he once reflected in an inter-
view, "but people say, 'You've
played a lot of butlers'."
Why d i d he never marry?
"Hard to say. You become so
mesmerized by work that the
idea of socializing you rather
resent."
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