News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Robert Duvall is
The Great Santini (1979), a fiercely-dedicated hard-living US Marine fighter pilot, who is unwilling to compromise his own brand of leadership even when it involves his family. Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell are the turn-of-the-century American pioneers facing the harsh reality of Wyoming life in
Heartland (1979). Gene Wilder talks in New York about his re-teaming with Richard Pryor in
Stir Crazy (1980), a comedy in which they play a couple of showbiz hopefuls who inadvertently find themselves framed for robbery and jailed for life.
—Radio Times