USA
, 82 min
Shown in 1966
CREDITS
- dir
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Juleen Compton
- prod
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Stuart Murphy
- scr
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Juleen Compton
- cam
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Roger Barlow
- editor
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Stuart Murphy
- mus
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Michel Legrand
- cast
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Robert Gentry, Sharon Henesy, Marco St. John, Sam Waterston, Skip Hinnant, Arthur Hughes, Henry Oliver
- prod co
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Compton Films
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COMMENTS
in the New American Directors series. Juleen Compton in person.
OTHER
A totally independent filmmaker, Miss Compton first won attention last year at Cannes with an out-of-competition showing of her first film, Stranded, an avant-garde comedy about three bohemians who take a summer cruise through the Aegean. She plays the leading role. In contrast to that sophisticated work, reminiscent of the French nouvelle vague, Miss Compton has turned to an unusual American locale for her new film shot in the Ozarks. The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean is original and full of the spirit of contemporary life. It describes a girl, part of a rock-and-roll group's entourage, who suddenly discovers she has powers of clairvoyance.
—Albert Johnson
FACTOID #210
When Ginger Rogers appeared for a tribute at the SFIFF in 1984 (’sporting hair with the color and richness of whipped butter,’ wrote the Examiner), she shocked the packed Castro Theatre crowd at her 1984 tribute when she griped, ’The filthy mouths we’re hearing in films today’I won’t pay to see these movies. I’d rather stay home and make jam.’
