The Revolutionary

Directed by Paul Williams (Miss Right), this 1970 drama stars John Voight as A, a disillusioned young man frustrated by the way his so-called revolutionary friends talk a big game, but ultimately do nothing to change the way of the world. When he falls out with his intellectual friends, A starts hanging out with a more militant crowd, the kind of people who think words are OK, but nothing settles an argument more effectively than a bomb. It’s more than a bit dated, both thematically and cinematically, but Voight gives a good performance, as does Robert Duvall as a radical union leader and Seymour Cassell as the hard-line revolutionary.