Going home6/10/2023 And no mistake about it, Going Home is bad. It's just that he's there, the kind of screen presence that draws your attention. The second means, again to me (I'm not a grammarian), that the person goes home at 4 every day. The first means, to me, that today the person will leave at 4 but perhaps not every day. Mitchum can't be described as good or bad in most of his performances. When asked 'Will you be here at 5' you could answer 'I am going home at 4' or 'I go home at 4'. Going Home is a fairly awful melodrama that's worth seeing primarily for the presence of Robert Mitchum. Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times did not care for the film and gave it 2 out of 4 stars: Largo (53 bars) Year/Date of Composition Y/D of Comp. None force assignment Key D-flat major Movements/Sections Mov'ts/Sec's: 1. Many of Dvorak’s themes were inspired by African-American spirituals, which he heard in America. Title Going Home Composer Fisher, William Arms: I-Catalogue Number I-Cat. Fisher arranged and adapted Dvorak’s Largo theme and wrote his own lyrics. The song was written by William Arms Fisher, who was one of Dvorak’s student’s. He's very handsome and very young and he has a lot to learn about acting, including how to hiccup with conviction. The song Goin’ Home is based on Czech composer Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony no. Unfortunately, Jan-Michael Vincent is impossible as the son, admittedly an impossible role that requires the actor to be simultaneously appealing and psychotic. I also liked Brenda Vaccaro as his mistress. Mitchum has reached that point in his career where he doesn't seem to act as much as inhabit whatever film he's in. Going Home is more objectionable, more pernicious, than other, much dumber movies because it appears to have some surface intelligence. Marcus's explanation of why the father, played by Robert Mitchum as if he were a high school football coach, took the knife to his wife in the first place: He was drunk. Going Home, which opened yesterday at the Victoria and other theaters around town, is an exceedingly nasty movie. Vincent Canby of The New York Times did not care for the film although he praised its intelligence and some of the actors: It's clear that Jimmy himself is dealing with serious psychological problems, and the father-son reunion leads to sometimes grim complications. Jimmy tracks Harry to a run-down seashore community and finds him living in a trailer park with his girlfriend Jenny ( Vaccaro). His son, Jimmy ( Vincent), who witnessed the slaying as a child, is still haunted by the crime and wants to confront his father about it. After doing 13 years in prison for the murder of his wife, mechanic Harry Graham (Robert Mitchum) is out on parole and looking to rebuild his life in a small seaside community. Harry Graham ( Mitchum) is a lonely and beaten-down man who has recently been released from prison after serving time for murdering his wife 13 years earlier. Leonard and starring Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro and Jan-Michael Vincent, who was nominated for a Golden Globe award for best supporting actor. Going Home is a 1971 drama film directed by Herbert B.
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