Fontbonne College presents a series examining neglected films of the 1960s. In Penn s weird and wonderful psycho-existential thriller, a young Warren Beatty is on the run from an invisible hitman intent, he thinks, on gunning him down because of a lifetime of unpaid debts. After skipping town, he lands in Chicago and is thrust into a paranoid world of his own devising. At times, Penn is heavy-handed and feels the need to clumsily hammer us over the head with the symbolism, but the missteps become irrelevant after a remarkable scene depicting Mickey alone onstage at Xanadu, the only audience member being the spotlight, behind which stands the monster of Mickey s own devising. Also starring Alexandra Stewart and Hurd Hatfield, who s great as Xanadu owner Castle.
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