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Actors: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert, Eli Wallach
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Domino Principle |
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THE DOMINO PRINCIPLE was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer in 1977.
Roy Tucker (Hackman), an ex-marine and murderer, is doing his term in a San Francisco prison. One day, in the director's office, Tucker meets Tagge (Widmark) who tells him he works for an organization that wants to get him out of prison. In compensation, Tucker will have to do something for this organization. Tucker's escape is a success but his buddy Spiventa, who got out with him, is coldly murdered by members of the organization.
During the next weeks, Tucker is allowed to spend some time with his wife Ellie (Bergen) in Costa Rica but is soon brought back to L.A. He understands that he will have to kill an important politician for the organization. He then refuses the job but he's forced to do it when Ellie is threatened.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Domino Principle |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 20%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 60%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- finding an assassin
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- criminal
Age:
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard curly (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- white/grey
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Central
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco
Misc setting
- prison
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding vehicles
Is this movie based on a
- book
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