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"Delayed Payoff. Neither Goods nor Bads ever catch the imagination or evoke concern for their fates or pity for their states. The picture, in short, is without human interest—as most of Hollywood's big machines are these days. Since no one seems to care about these matters any more, Black Sunday may well make a bundle, thanks to the technical skill with which it manages its long-delayed payoff. But it is getting tiresome to be forced to admire, for want of anything else to do, the skill with which moviemakers jerk audiences around. It is hard to believe three grown-up men could not have written something worthwhile for Frankenheimer to shoot while he was warming up his cameras for his specialty number. Richard Schickel