Cinema: Thrown for a Loss

About the only reason to see Kenner is to watch Jim Brown. The rest of the film is so awful that it makes an average TV series look like Citizen Kane. Brown, who has taken more punishment from his movie roles than he ever did on the gridiron, continues to give promise of becoming a commanding screen personality. All he seems to need is practice, and that is just about all that Kenner gives him.

Brown appears—reluctantly, it often seems—as an American sailor in Bombay trying to track down the man who murdered his shipmate by cutting him into "Christmas ribbons." When...

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