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Re: The Patriot
OK, now that's a definition of chutzpah: )
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> REVOLUTION (1985). See http://us.imdb.com/Title?0089913 It was quite a
> stinker, I thought (though some movie buffs now call it "underrated").
> Despite its pervasive murkiness and wrong-headedmess, it did have two
> visually striking scenes: the Battle of White Plains and the final victory
> celebration in New York City, which had a sort of Bruegelesque vitality.
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> But Al Pacino's character, with his New Yawk accent, was supposed to be
> SCOTTISH. I kid you not.
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> Thomas J. Wood
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> From: Casey Grene [mailto:cgreene@ROSENBERG-LIBRARY.ORG]
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> _The Patriot_ sounds like a relatively good movie in comparison to a
> turkey about the Revolutionary War that starred Al Pacino (!) as one of
> the colonists. I believe the latter was released in the late 1970s or
> early-mid 1980s. Does anyone recall its title?
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