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When classic car salesman Bill and his wife Bernadette discover
a rat in their Beverley Hills swimming pool a powerful black
man arrives from nowhere to fish it out for them. The couple
assume he is the pool maintenance man, but instead he turns
out to be a rapist and thief wanted by the police. There is
no cash in the house, and it soon becomes evident that Bill
has borrowed more money than the couple have. The intruder,
known as Bone, gives Bill a deadline in which to drive into
town, withdraw some money and get back, otherwise he will
rape and kill Bernadette. Bill initially complies, but then
gets side-tracked by a liaison with a strange woman who was
molested by an old man when she was a child and seems determined
to repeat the experience. When Bill fails to show up at the
allotted time both Bone and Bernadette are aggrieved for very
different reasons. They decide to go after Bill, intending
to cause an "accident" and claim on the insurance. But Bone
hasn't counted on the ruthlessness of Bernadette...
The
moment I noticed that Bone was written and directed by Larry
Cohen I somehow knew exactly what to expect. I wasn't far
wrong. Lots of jazzy The Streets of San Francisco-type
music, pretty bland characters and a plot which could easily
have been played-out in half-an-hour. In fact similar scenarios
have been attempted much more successfully in long-running
weekly serials, because the format is far too common to be
self-sustaining. So we are forced to endure the stereotypical
black villain story, and are informed through dialogue that
Bone acts the way he does because it is what society expects
of him (what?!). Larry Cohen's It's Alive trilogy
of films about cannibal babies weren't quality pieces by any
stretch of the imagination, but at least they had a hook.
There was mystery, there was danger and there was sympathy,
all qualities missing from Bone.
On the extras, Jack H. Harris explains how he turned from
film maker to producer and could not obtain enough films to
please the film company. Bone arose from his liaison
with Larry Cohen. The film was shown to test audiences who
didn't care, so it was decided they might be more successful
with predominantly black cinema goers. Wrong again. Instead
of catching the blatant hints that this was a rubbish film,
the pair remarketed the project as a dark comedy and romance
(for fear of repeating myself again... what?!). This time
they were apparently more successful - which probably means
one blind man turned up at the cinema looking for the bakers.
Extras
include the aforementioned comments from Jack H. Harris, a
Commentary by Larry Cohen, a Featurette, and Theatrical Trailers.
In
short, Bone will bore modern audiences to distraction.
You could say it's Bone-idle (yes, I did think of that
one all by myself).
Ty
Power
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