between his efforts with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and his oscar win for The Sting (1973), director George Roy Hill tackled Slaughterhouse Five (1972) - obviously on quite a roll. with not a rocketship, robot, raygun or monster to be had, Vonnegut's WW II story of Billy Pilgrim, who has come 'unstuck in time', still rides high on the list of best sci-fi films, winning both a Hugo Award and the Prix du Jury at the '72 Cannes. described by the author himself as "flawless", it remains as seamless a transition of book to film as one might ever hope, aided by the clever imagery of cinematographer Miroslav Ondrícek (Amadeus 1984) and its playfully memorable score, courtesy of Glenn Gould and Johann Sebastian Bach. alas, all faces who have now passed largely from view, if not from life. so it goes.

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