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The Gypsy Moths (1969)

Drama | 107 minutes
2,87 30 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 107 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: John Frankenheimer

Stars: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Gene Hackman

IMDb score: 6,3 (2.740)

Releasedate: 29 August 1969

The Gypsy Moths plot

"The Gypsy Moths fall fast. They can't stop risking their lives - not even for their down-to-earth women."

On the American national holiday, July 4, three paratroopers pass through a western village with a dazzling spectacle show.

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If we lived here, we'd be home now!

Small town blues.

The stereotypical story of a bunch of yokels pulled from the clay, who, to their extreme detriment, discover that you can pull the yokel out of the clay, but not the clay out of the yokel. A strong performance by Hackman, and also by a much older film hero like Lancaster. Or by Bonnie Bedelia, still in her teens. That certainly makes it clear when the film takes place, if the lack of cell phones hadn't already given it away. Perhaps the biggest mystery in the narrative, however, is how such a crowd could remain captivated for so long, while nothing happens for minutes as the plane lifts the skydivers back up—and then, at best, you see what's really happening with very powerful binoculars. I would have asked for my money back after a minute.

As a drama, it's completely overtaken by the times, and the moral that I believe was intended—that of the yokels—is hardly expressed anymore. A shame, because it's quite timeless, and applies in our country to anyone who grew up in Friesland or Groningen, for example. All the career opportunities you could want, except you'll never really be able to get that manure smell off your clogs.

Yes, if you're born in a village like that, everything is better, no matter how short the horizon, even if it's approaching you at 200 miles an hour. Understandable, because absolutely anything is welcome to escape that deadly dull predictability, that indolence, that overwhelming Brussels sprouts stench. But believe me, you could also go work at a supermarket somewhere else, in Portugal or France, FTW. Choose life. And above all, don't end up in a movie like this. There's so much more to this morality monstrosity than meets the eye.

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