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Sunday, Feb 4, 2001
Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz
"This is the movie that immortalized for me Burt Lancaster's smile...those 108 give-or-take-a-few giant gleaming teeth frozen in time," Gifford writes. You'll know what he means when you see this new print of the beautiful color, widescreen adventure set in Mexico, where gunslinger Burt and defeated Confederate colonel Gary Cooper play the Juaristas against Maxmillian's forces and vice versa with spy-vs.-spy agility. Like so much of politics, it's all very cynical (that blinding grin notwithstanding), and all about gold.
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