watch this on tcm a i type this . i record it to my dvr from tcm air last night 3/1 negative and in case anyone want to get technical about it while ) my impression of this 1974 movie shank . it the only movie create for people over 90. it dreadful . extremely slow and needless to say and bore . the humor and or rather attempt at humor fall very and very flat . so flat in fact that what should be construe a humor come across a mean spirit and creepy and obviously to my eye not funny . i mean try to import marcel marceau unique brand of french humor to u. s. audience . who think this be go to work . william castle apparently . poor marcel . watch him proudly strut about the american . countryside look utterly and completely out of place . this debonair old sophisticate should be stroll the street of paris in his trendy euro fashion . instead he play uncle creepy to a young blonde girl and who apparently have no friend or family even though she live in a charming house with perfectly bloom flower . the american kid just outside her door feign interest in marcel marceau and i think they merely humor the old creepy french guy into make him think that he entertain them . throughout the movie marcel be stick with an angry and confused look of why the hell do i decide to make this movie again when i could have stay in paris drinking absinthe . and speaking of drinking and this movie be awash in bombay gin® . the product placement incident actually out number the cast member . no really . in one scene at a general store there a shelf fully stock with bombay gin® . so as clearly a the gin itself and this movie fuel by gin . which explain a lot actually . oh god . i just watch a scene that involve the brother of marcel character be attack by a reanimated rooster . to illustrate this scene here i will provide makeshift screen capture to get across the immense lunacy of this movie representhttp represent or or img205 . imageshack . u or img205/8048 or image030g . jpg http represent or or img37 . imageshack . u or img37/7955 or image029a . jpg http represent or or img371 . imageshack . u or img371/4836 or image028s . jpg http represent or or img532 . imageshack . u or img532/1905 or image027n . jpg http represent or or img532 . imageshack . u or img532/9040 or image026k . jpg http represent or or img215 . imageshack . u or img215/9454 or image025ww . jpg http represent or or img96 . imageshack . u or img96/1715 or image024qk . jpg http represent or or img37 . imageshack . u or img37/2791 or image023ck . jpg http represent or or img37 . imageshack . u or img37/2702 or image031bt . jpgshortly after this scene the be wigged mother be strike down and kill in a hit and run accident in which the driver ask the important question of marcel brother barton while you do not see anything do ya . i certainly wish i hadn not . this be one of those movie in which i would have love to have sit with a pay audience a they watch this thing unfold before them when it first come out . i dare say their reaction and most likely follow by their stampeding to the exit and would have make the price of admission worth it . so i be go to go back to give my full attention to shank because i do not want to miss one priceless moment . however and i still maintain the masterstroke in marceau ( brief ) film career be his brief appearance in mel brook 1976 movie silent movie . it be such a brilliant thing too because brook make a silent movie for ( then ) modern cinema . and guess who have the only line of dialogue . of course represent marcel marceau . so i will echo his one word utterance from that brilliant and funny 1976 brook film to describe this 1974 experiment title shank representno .