Movies

January, 1983

If there were a popularity contest to pick the most lovable screen character of the year, my prime candidate—running neck and neck with E.T., of course—would be Gandhi (Columbia). "This little brown man in the loincloth who led his country to freedom" is the subject of an engrossing, ennobling and grand biographical epic directed by England's Richard Attenborough. Assassinated in 1948, long before ashram and guru became buzz words for an entire generation, Mahatma Gandhi was a moral an...