Movies

December, 1976

A California bail bondsman meets a wild gypsy girl who lives with him, leaves him and disrupts his dull but ordered existence by turning up again, a year or so later, in jail. How the bondsman bails her out and becomes hopelessly ensnared again is the tale of Alex and the Gypsy, co-starring Jack Lemmon and Genevieve Bujold. Director John Korty, known for such appealingly quirky small-canvas films as Crazy Quilt and Riverrun (as well as for last year's TV hit The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittma...