![]() Gruff family patriarch Henry Stamper (Henry Fonda), even though wearing a cast on his arm after falling off a tree, lives by the credo “Never Give An Inch.” In a cartoonish way he believes “all that matters is getting up for another day, and working, and eating, and sleeping.” His hardhat son Hank (Paul Newman) is a chip off the old block. Soon the clan are visited by the union boss (Roy Poole) and they still refuse to strike even when violence is hinted at. This makes the family unpopular in town, where the neurotic local movie theater and laundry owner (Lee de Broux) claims his businesses and other in town are drying up because of them. But the small-time independent loggers, the proud close-knit Stampers’ clan, refuse to strike and continue logging to fulfill a contract and because they think the strikers have been influenced by their pinko union. ![]() The logging town of Wakonda, Oregon, is in an economic crisis over a logger’s strike against the big logging company. The hardhitting melodrama about conflict and passion is most alive when showing the men actually logging, but loses its freshness when it goes into the family’s Tennessee Williams-like indecent struggles.Īs the opening credits roll by, Charley Pride sings “All His Children” with plenty of country feeling. The film was begun by Richard A Colla, but at the halfway point Newman took over after disagreements with the director. It’s based on Ken Kesey’s 600-page second novel, and is adapted by John Gay who deserves a ‘merit badge’ for whittling it down to the 115 minutes screenplay and still keeping it more or less coherent. Paul Newman (“Rachel, Rachel”/”The Glass Menagerie”/”Harry and Son”) stars, is executive producer and director of this action-packed logging film family drama set in a rural small town in Oregon. “When the film cuts away from the family soap opera dramatics and shows the macho men at work wielding their chainsaws at the logging camp among the giant trees, it has a buzz.” SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION (aka: NEVER GIVE AN INCH) (director: Paul Newman screenwriters: John Gay/based on the novel by Ken Kasey cinematographer: Richard Moore editor: Bob Wyman music: Henry Mancini cast: Paul Newman (Hank Stamper), Henry Fonda (Henry Stamper), Lee Remick (Viv Stamper), Michael Sarrazin (Leland Stamper), Richard Jaeckel (Joe Ben Stamper), Linda Lawson (Jan Stamper), Cliff Potts (Andy Stamper), Sam Gilman (John Stamper), Roy Poole (Draeger), Lee de Broux (Willard Eggleston), Joe Maross (Floyd Evenwrite), Jim Burk (Biggy Newton), Charles Tyner ( Les Gibbons) Runtime: 115 MPAA Rating: GP producer: John Foreman Universal 1971)
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