This week’s edition of In Other Blogs is heavily indebted to The Cooler, host of the ongoing Politics & Movies Blog-a-thon (Nov. 4-9), including this tribute to assassination films. “A very obscure gem of an assassination film that I have only seen on television is Nine Hours to Rama with Horst Buchholtz (the seventh gun in The Magnificent Seven) as the leader of the conspiracy to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi. Covering the tight timeframe of the hours just before the killing, this film examines the bitterness and motives that drive the assassin – Naturam Godse. And just like the above two films, things go wrong, as they historically did, as the assassin’s accomplices are picked up by policemen for a silly mistake. And, too, just like in the best assassination films, the assassin works his way through an agitated crowd while policemen make their fruitless last-minute dash to stop the deed from happening.”
Octopus Cinema examines voter fraud by way of Preston Sturges.
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