The boys are in a rivalry over a pretty girl..
Frank Howard Clark
United States
The first image Frank Howard Clark hurls at us is a jalopy coughing like a tubercular dog while a girl’s garter belt flutters from the rear-view mirror—an omen priced at the cost of innocence. From that sly overture, This Way Out never once relaxes its choke-hold on the viewer’s collar. Clark, a scenarist weaned on p...
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Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Arthur Hotaling
Arthur Hotaling
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" The first image Frank Howard Clark hurls at us is a jalopy coughing like a tubercular dog while a girl’s garter belt flutters from the rear-view mirror—an omen priced at the cost of innocence. From that sly overture, This Way Out never once relaxes its choke-hold on the viewer’s collar. Clark, a scenarist weaned on punch-lines and pulp, treats the silent frame like a pawnshop of combustible trinkets: every close-up of a clenched jaw, every iris-in on a lip-locked smile, gets stockpiled until t..."
