BREWSTER MCCLOUD (1970) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Robert Altman
Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy,
Shelley Duvall, William Windom, Stacy Keach,
Rene Auberjonois, John Shuck, Margaret Hamilton
Bud Cort plays a kid who works as a chauffeur and lives in the Houston Astrodome, where he's building a set of wings and hoping to fly. He's got a guardian angel played by Sally Kellerman, who has scars on her back where her wings used to be. Then there's a hotshot detective from San Francisco, played by Michael Murphy, who turns up to investigate a series of murders whose victims all end up strangled and splattered with bird shit. And an oily politician played by William Windom. And a spacy tour guide played by Shelley Duvall. And a lot of other familiar (and unfamiliar) faces, including Margaret Hamilton, whose character dies wearing the witch's ruby red slippers from "The Wizard of Oz", which makes as much sense as anything else that happens in this movie. Definitely one of the oddest things to come out of Hollywood in the 1970s, and a kooky good time, as long as you don't try too hard to figure it all out. Shelley Duvall's first film.
Shelley Duvall
(1949-2024)
