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The Carey Treatment

‘Carey Treatment’ (1972) wildly adapts ‘A Case of Need’

I described Michael Crichton’s “A Case of Need” (1968, written under the name Jeffery Hudson) as a hardboiled medical mystery. But there’s the book version

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Shaft 1971

At 50, Roundtree’s ‘Shaft’ (1971) is still a cool cat

If nothing else, “Shaft” (1971) – which led to four sequels and a TV series – has style. Director Gordon Parks opens on Richard Roundtree’s

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