Dogfight (MOD)

Dogfight (MOD)The Marines have landed! Cpl. Eddie Birdlace and three buddies are on the loose among San Francisco's bars, tattoo parlors and blue movie houses. They've also organized a "dogfight," a wager with simple rules. Each guy puts in $50. And the one who finds the most unattractive date wins. Birdlace finds Rose. River Phoenix gave one of his most endearing performances as Eddie in Dogfight, a terrific and touching Vietnam era saga set to a memory evoking

one of the most popular fictional sleuths of the `40s and `50s

stars in this morality tale tracing the development of the "Biggest Little City in the World

a teenage car aficionado with a special place in his heart for Corvettes

not his bride

Foreign journalists covering the feverish unrest are kept at arm's length by the wary Sukarno government

Using lies

Critic Bosley Crowther of The New York Times had high praise for Bogie's special ability to make villainous Duke likable and also extolled the film's "sharply written script and good cast

Dakin and his on-again off-again pimp sidekick

champagne elegance - Wilder

Madrid is welcomed by the drug lord (Savalas) with whom Mitchell is staying

the demon witch

Merle Oberon