![]() ![]() ![]() Alas, Hackman apart, most everybody’s great days were over. The Gypsy Moths is a particular disappointment from this cast and director, who is taking a nosedive himself, especially as it is a film reuniting Kerr and Lancaster from From Here to Eternity. ![]() William Hanley’s turgid screenplay is based on a novel by James Drought. It might have worked either as a tale of disillusioned people or as a grand action yarn, but both halves of the movie nosedive. There seems to be somebody for everybody in Kansas: a student Annie Burke (Bonnie Bedelia) for the kid Malcolm Webson (Wilson), a waitress (Sheree North) for Joe Browdy (Hackman), and a bored wife (Kerr) for Mike Rettig (Lancaster). The Gypsy Moths ** (1969, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson, William Windom, Bonnie Bedelia, Sheree North) – Classic Movie Review 9713ĭirector John Frankenheimer’s 1969 drama The Gypsy Moths is a dull and dour action adventure-cum-soap opera about three skydivers, Mike Rettig, Joe Browdy and Malcolm Webson (Burt Lancaster, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson), who arrive in a Kansas dead-end town, where young Malcolm Webson (Wilson)’s aunt Elizabeth Brandon (Deborah Kerr) and uncle V John Brandon (William Windom) put them up. ![]()
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