Movie Review # 932 - Katherine
I recently watched Katherine (also known as The Radical), a 1975 movie starring Sissy Spacek, Art Carney and Henry Winkler. Intended to portray the time period of the Vietnam War, the title character was loosely based on Diana Oughton of the Weather Underground, who died in the 1970 Greenwich Village townhouse explosion when a bomb she was building accidentally exploded. Reviewers have also noted that Katherine also "borrowed from the then-current headlines involving Patty Hearst, another heiress whose exact level of voluntary involvement with the Symbionese Liberation Army remained hazy in 1975.
Through a series of flashbacks, the film, told in semi-documentary fashion, retraces the main characters' lives through the years 1964-1972.
I give this movie 1 out of 5 stars.
I remember the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army and Patty Hearst and a movie with these actors in sounded like a good choice. However I was unpleasantly surprised as the movie was extremely dated in both is filming and film quality as well as being very hard to follow. I find it hard to believe this was ever watched on TV. It's not often I turn a movie off but this one made the list of ones I have.
My recommendation, even though the subject matter sounds appealing, would be to pass. It is not only a B rate movie but a bad B rate movie.
Through a series of flashbacks, the film, told in semi-documentary fashion, retraces the main characters' lives through the years 1964-1972.
I give this movie 1 out of 5 stars.
I remember the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army and Patty Hearst and a movie with these actors in sounded like a good choice. However I was unpleasantly surprised as the movie was extremely dated in both is filming and film quality as well as being very hard to follow. I find it hard to believe this was ever watched on TV. It's not often I turn a movie off but this one made the list of ones I have.
My recommendation, even though the subject matter sounds appealing, would be to pass. It is not only a B rate movie but a bad B rate movie.