The Day of the Dolphin
1973VOTE NOW
| AVCO Embassy Pictures | Release Date: December 19, 1973 |
Starring:
Elizabeth Wilson, George C. Scott, John Dehner, Jon Korkes, Pat Zurica, Paul Sorvino, Phyllis Davis, Severn Darden, Trish Van Devere, William Roerick
Summary:
A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the trained mammals for a more sinister purpose.
Mike Nichols' film of The Day of the Dolphin is a rare and regrettably uneven combination of ideas and action. George C. Scott stars as a marine scientist whose work with dolphins faces corruption by his own sponsors. The story climax strains belief, but Nichols is one of a handful of directors who can get away with occasional improbability.
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The problem is not with the subject, nor even with its presumably escapist spirit. The problem is that Mike Nichols and Buck Henry fail to bring it off successfully. [27 Dec 1973, p.51]
It's preposterously ill-conceived.
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