Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful.

Miss Dietrich is not so much a performer as a one-woman environment.

In this land of unlimited opportunity, a place where, to paraphrase Woody Allen, any man or woman can realize greatness as a patient or as a doctor, we have only one commercial American filmmaker who consistently speaks with his own voice. That is Woody Allen, gag writer, musician, humorist, philosopher, playwright, stand-up comic, film star, film writer and film director.

Through the magic of motion pictures, someone who's never left Peoria knows the softness of a Paris spring, the color of a Nile sunset, the sorts of vegetation one will find along the upper Amazon and that Big Ben has not yet gone digital.

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.