he c • • dally olle lan arts t Weekend films Double bills dominate offerings her portrayal of tudren. manss first big 't follows a Flick \ gangof doctors the Korean War Elliot Gout and Donald Sutherland e a great teanl. Sally Kerman, ' the original Hot K. almost steals the film.lll9 Osniond Lab!'l "And Now for Something Completely .Different" First: film by 134itish Monty Python and the Flying Circus comedy group. • A series i nf skits, some of which are great and 'some of which are just funny. Waring Lounge • The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" Better than yoterl expect. This suspense film' about • the attempted iijaeking of: a New York sub ay car " is rather en tertaining. 111 Forum ';2001: A Space Odyssey" Bugle your seatbelts and watch out for Hal. He's even snesier than his brother in Shields who messed up my preregistraion. 121 Sparks Downtown "Around the World" We really couldn't say whether it takes 80 days, but John "The Wadd" Holmes stars in this X-rated adventure movie. Screening Rpom "ChinatoWn" Gets better every time you see it. RoMan Polanski's mystery movie set in the 30s is .a tight, well ihought-out film. Jack Nichol ion is superb and Faye Duna way isn't bad. "The Longest Yard," a prison football comedy (howz dat again?) with Burt Reynolds and Eddie Albert is also on the bill. Cine ma One "Clockwork Orange" Stanley Kubrick's terrifying film based on Anthony Burgess's futuristic novel kbout a London hoodlum. Puts you through the wringer. "Deliverance," John Boor man's film of James Dickey's novel, stars Jon Voight, and Burt Reynolds and lots of rushing water. Cathaiun Love and Death" Bric-a-brac: Philadelphia soap opera fans are mighty disturbed. "The Edgf of light,•" the long-running soap on CBS was can celed by that network only to be picked up by ABC. But Chan nel 6, Philadelphia's ABC affiliate, declined to carry the daily serial. Letters and calls of protest have been pouring in to both the station and local newspapers. One letter to the Philadelphia Inquirer said, ',With all the naked trash and off-color programs they insult viewers with throughout the week, why are they depriving us of 'Edge of " Another protestor wrote, "I've been waiting a year and a half for Nicole, ! Travis to be found alive, and on the last day on CBS someone from her hometown saw her." And the Watergate investigative journalism boom con tinues. "Who Killed Marilyn? And What Did the Kennedys Know?" is being advertised as the book which reveals the truth about — The legendary American sex goddess ... And two of the most admired men'of our time, involved in a sordid and dramatic coverup." The $1.75 Manor Books paperback was written by Tony Sciae. a pseudonym for somebody the publishers are labeling as a "former New York Post investigative reporter." r WMAILMIILM.WIII. ~,IVIL I NIPSWIWNIALNII6 0 ; ,/ Need a Ride to or from Classes? OTIS is sponsoring a _car pool listing for students who need rides, or riders, to and/or from classes. The listing is located on the bulletin board to the ileft of the HUB Check Cashing Agency. :0 :0 0 .0 It is now Available lor your use. - I iLm vumwir ibm km L'w ft*' immkimmaoiL*wayL, Woody Allen can do no wrong, This his latest film, only proves the point. The won derful l "Returnane Keaton plays his leading ady"Returnof the Pink Panther," which featurt Peter iSellers and lot of I slapstick, is alSo playing. , einem' Two "Pleasure [ Masters and SWeet Agony Two X-rated films• for the price of one. Bring extra popcorn. State ""Three Days of the Condor" Robert Redford, who is beginning to show his years ; stars as a poor in nocent who becomes the target of some fancy CIA shooting. Faye DunaWay helps him plot his escape. Mildly diverting. Garden Theatre "Undereovers Hero See today's review. Movies `j Women in Love" Ken Russell's version of D. H. Lawrence's novel about the two English sisters. Lush and provacative. Glenda Jackson deservedly won the Oscar for soap opera fans disturbed We're here to help yotr! 20 HUB 865-6851 On Campus "Alice in WonderAarui Walt Disney's vers . ' of the classic Lewis G. Carroll tale about the girl who drank and greiv. Now thought - to rank just below "Fantasia" as a "head film." 105 Forum "Exodus ,Otto Preminger's film of the big Leon If ''s bestseller about the setting! up of Israel.' Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint Istar in this okay spectagle film. Newman' is as good-looking agl usual. Saturd4y and Sunday. HUB Assembly Room "Jerimiah Johnson" - - Robert;Redford, sporting a slightly darker blonde beard, plays a ,mountain man and trudged through mounds of snow. Long and ' less than fascinating. Sydney Pollack directed. 102 Forum "M -A-S-H" Still ex tremely funny. Robert Alt Marlon Brando and Jack Nicho6n are filming "The Mis souri Breaks," a Western for Arthur Penn. Thomas McGuane wrote the screenplay for the United Artists film. Michael York and Peter Ustinov are filming "Logan's Run," a futuristic film about the 23rd Century for director Michael Anderson. Tom Laughlin and Delores Taylor, the husband and wife team responsible for "Billy Jack," have announced plans for a remake of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," starring the Billy Jack .character. Plans for a remake of the same film starring John Denver in the James Stewart role were announced last ,year but seem to have fallen by thetvayside. Broadway's theatre district got a clean-up Wednesday as 200 of its actors and staff took brooms to the streets. According to the New York Times! the sweepers were divided into nine groups, each of which took a block of Broad way between 93rd and 47th Streets.l "It is not the trash which upsets us , " producer Alexander H. Cohen said. "We are upset by the prostitutes, the whorehouses, the pornographic stores and the filthy food stands which at tract vermin to the place where we work.'" Those participating in the sweep -In included: Celeste Holms, Donna McKechnie, Larry Kert, John R.aitt, John Cullum and Shirley Knight. \Mk‘\ l l New Peter Sellers film lacks subtlety and yuks By KAREN FRANKOLA Collegian Staff Writer If any form of double entendre excites you, you should im mediately see "Undercovers Hero," now playing at The Movies. But if you like subtlety in this type of humor, you probably will be irritated tiy the film's narration that rams silly suggestive comments down your throat. Peter Sellers has never been more active. He appears in six different parts, which is sure to satisfy even the most hard core Sellers' fan. While Sellers has successfully played multiple roles before, as in "Dr. Strangelove," it is almost impossible for , any actor to perform adeg t uately in this many characterizations. movie review Sellers becom l es an animated Mr. Potato Head. Add some silver to the hair and a weak accent you've made an old French general. Attach an Oriental nose and bronze the skin a Japanese pritice appears. Add a square black mustache and throw in some backward wrist motions you have Adolph • Hitler himself. It's even harder to find any credence, in the plot than in the characters. Most of the action occurs in a ritzy whorehouse in Paris during the German occupation in World War 11. When the Germans first enter Frange, the brothel is a Redford tops moneymaking list HOLLYWOOD (UPI) For the second year running Robert Redford was voted the top money-making:star in the United States by the People who care most the theater owners. Exhibitors often prefer a top star in a mediocre movie to a good picture with so-so actors: Popular performers often bring in crowds when a movie doesn't justify a full house. The 44th annual Quigley Publications poll listed only one actress in the top 10. Barbra Streisand placed second in the balloting, As was the case in 1970, 1973 and 1974, the singer-actress was the only l feminine star to gain the golden circle. Placing third was Al Pacino, on the strength of his performance in "Dog Day Afternoon." Fourth was Charles Bronson, the world's favorite boxoffice star. Fifth was Paul Newman, followed by Clint EastAkiapd, sixth; Burt Reynolds, seventh; Woody eighth; Steve McQueen, ninth; and CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION Robert Redford Gene Hackman, 10th It was Allen's first ap pearance in the top 10, Last year he wound up 12th. It is worth noting that Allen is the only comedian in the group. Gene Hackman, who last appeared on the list in '1972, bounced back thanks to "French Connection II." John Wayne, who is the all- The Daily Collegian Frida typical one. But gradually it takes matters into its hands and becomes a secret resistance organ of the French Army. By the time the Germans are ready to withdraw, the ladies of the house have knocked off a good number of officers while in the process of entertaining them. • Because of these and other undercover activities, the ladies bring About the Russian rebuff of German advances and the successful American penetration into Normamly. These feats, howeier, are only the preliminaries to the final climactic ex ploit of the girls. None of the characters are explored in much detail because of Sellers'dominant position in the film. Lila Kedrova picks up some of the action as the perfect example of a poised, well preserved madame. Her girls provide attractive scenery and their performanceis satisfying enough. While the film isn't totally barren of amusing moments, it doesn't seem likely that it will be raising many big laughs from the members of the audience. - "Undercovers Hero" is an easy film for an evening's diver sion, but its lack of genuine humor makes it impossiblelo get involved in. Directed by Roy Boulting, there is nothing distinc tive about it cinematically, other than its being shot almost en tirely in a studio. Those who anticipate great enjoyment from Sellers will un doubtedly feel let down. As a vehicle for allowing Sellers' comic ability to express itself, "Undercovers Hero" just doesn't make it. Barbra Streisand Al Pacino time box office champion in the poll, did not appear in the top 10 for the first time in 25 years. But old Duke did place 15th, behind Jack Nicholson, 11; James , Caan; 12; Dustin and Faye Hoffman, 13, Dunaway, 14. A curiosity was Liza Minnelli who was voted 16th , December 12,1175- in boxoff ice magnetism although she did not have a new film in release during 1975. "Her drawing power was based on release of her old pictures," said a Quigley spokesman. Not a single member of this year's top 10 appeared in the poll a decade ago.
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