Movies
July, 1970
Time was, and not so long ago, when making films in America was comparable with the running of General Motors--the Hollywood model being a majorstudio blockbuster with the equivalent of chromium trim and tail fins, costing anywhere from $5,000,000 to $40,000,000. What looked for a while like a modest new trend--toward inexpensive, artistically independent productions--assumed the proportions of a stampede sometime in 1969, the year when such profligate endeavors as Sweet Charity and Paint Your W...