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Dog Day Afternoon DOUBLE MOVIE VALUE TheLONERS ThelNVINCIBLE BOTH COLOR MontoFfi 5.6 30.8.9 30 MonloSall1.2.5.B Sim nn. 7 .10 TODAY 6 P.M. I ROSE BAY 371-8986 1 Graham Greene "ENGLAND MADE ME" (M) With Peler FINCH Michael YORK Plus: London Cannes Festival Winner "MURMUR OF THE HEART" (R) With lea MASSARI Bennit FERREUX :11 lllllllllliillllllllll Pacino, in Dog Day Afternoon. By ROMOLA COSTANTINO and shocking true life situation; another mature American picture which faces and mirrors reality. (iM Paramount.) Benji IF YOU ARE a dog hater, prepare to meet glorification of the canine race.

If you are a dog lover, be ready to drool. Benji is an elderly, scruffy looking mongrel, but he is a natural candidate for a doggy-oscar. The story is easily grasped by anyone from the age of two years upwards. It concerns two children who are kidnapped and kept captive in a nasty house while the kidnappers demand ransom. However, Benji and his pal, a woolly pooch who plays Dr Watson to his Sherlock Holmes, come lo the rescue with super canine feats of bravery and intelligence.

There hasn't been a movie like it since Love Story, except that this one has a happy ending. (G. Morning sessions Regent). Mr Ouilp THE STORIES of Charles Dickens are splendid film material, whether straight or musical. The Old Curiosity Shop has the outstanding talents of Anthony Newly, who never seems to have had the complete success which his gifts deserve.

He plays a richly villain-nous Quilp and supplies some delightful music and brilliant lyrics. Although it falls short of Lionel Bart's Oliver! it is certainly worthy of DOG DAYS are hot days, when humans are apt to lose some or all of their caljn and reason. This film, beautifully directed by Sidney Lumet, shows us just how it can happen. How it did happen, in fact, for the story is based on an actual suburban bank robbery in Nfcw York in 1972. One reads about such confusing, crazy hold-ups all the time.

But here is the moment-by-moment development of a situation which is only just kept under control by police and FBI but even they could be blamed for messing it up further. No preparations for the crime are shown; it starts with the hold-up, just one of those routine affairs, three robbers looking just as scared as the bank employees at their mercy. These are no movie-style, cool crooks. They come from where most of the underworld people come from; the world of misfits. One of the robbers, a young kid, gets cold fect.

sheepishly apologizes and withdraws from the robbery leaving the other two in charge. Now the robbers are caught as if in a trap. They've been spotted and the whooping police arrive outside. What matters, as much as the magnificent way in which Lumet accounts for the whole incoherent afternoon, with its battalions of police, its hysterical crowds behind barricades, its TV coverage of Sonny, brilliantly played by A I Pacino, comes to the Through his reactions, seeing his family and intimates, one sees the real background to an act of crime. It's a topical film, which reveals a bizzare CREMORNE ORPHEUM 90 5241 TODAY p.m.

FOUR MUSKETEERS. NRC: plus NIGHT FLIGHT FROM MOSCOW. NRC. crinolines and bonnets and ihc Charlie Chaplin sketch for Licbestraum. But that kind of fun, unluckily, is not the motivation for most of the film.

Russell has to use his collection of awful fantasies, sexual, sadistic, political and otherwise. They are delivered with sledgehammer force and maniacal excess (VI, Cinema 1 and P'niatta 4). The Rocky Horror Picture Show THERE HAVE been innumerable send ups on film of the old Dracula-Frank-enstein horror movies. The Rocky Horror Show, as a stage hit, must have made its mark because it transferred such typical goose-pimply orgies to the theatre where they made an unaccustomed, startling effect. In Sydney, as elsewhere, a clever stage cast sang and danced the play on its way to success.

Back on the celluloid from which its inspiration originally came. with screenplay and direction by Jim Sharman, all you have is the tired old giggly- the kidnapping and escape sequence. The film was photographed in Kuala Lumpur and the Malaysian countryside. Other top roles are taken by Toshiro Mifune (called Japan's hottest cinematic export, who plays the Ambassador) and Hardy Kmger as the reporter from German TV. (NRC, Regent.) Aloha, Bobby and Rose PAUL Le Mat, who made his name in American Graffiti, turns in another sensitive and appealing performance in this unconvincing story set in contemporary Hollywood.

His co-star the girl-mother with whom he runs away from the Law and falls in love is talented Dhinnc Hull. The acting's great, the music's suitably jangling, some of the action's fast and exciting and there FRENCH'S FOREST gruesome formula brought up lo date in film terms, with the accent on lewdness. The giggles are leaden, for the cult of being revolted is banal and humourless as it is purposeless. Ascot). The Entertainer MIDDLE-AG ED aspirations is Jack Lemuion's-speciality, and here he takes on that monumental has-been, Archie Rice, synonymous with I.

ord Oliver in his heyday on the English stase. To fit Jack Lcmmon to Archie Rice, The Entertainer has been modified and set in America during World War II. Comedian Charlie is played in a shabby seaside theatre, rattling out the same corny jokes as his English counterpart, going home lo the pinched, sad household where his wife, children and grandpa, Old Billy Rice (Ray Bolgcr), watch him gloomily as he doggedly clowns on, the anguish darting from his eyes. The Entertainer has lost its backbone and becomes a mushy American wcepie (M, Paris, Evening session only). are laughs and tears and I love so what's 1 wrong? i Only cameo sequences ring true.

The whole slorv is unit (perhaps to appeal to the teenage audiences who are queuing at the cinema) tinged with too much doom. (M. Village Cinema City and Parramatta 4.) It's the most colorful film musical since Lionel Bart's Oliver and SUPER FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT! ANTHONY (fca) NEWLEY. ii 10.30, 2.00, 800 loo, 20- m-Sun- 1.30. 4.30.

7,30 m. pm mV BLACKTOWN A IIAT. COMMENCES 37 MINS.AM tfl START OF SESSION CwMMiTniTj 4.30, 7.40. INCREDIBLE BECAUSE IT'S TRUE In Today at I i gemot it 4.30. 7.30 LAST 4 DAYS IN 70mm I Today at tti cioc in 2,5.45.

WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR? COmmG TOGETHER Today at 4, 6, 8. MUtll J)l 30 (W1L THE BESTOF BENNY HILL JC Today at I 3IOTWIU3SI1TO 2,5.15. hut VMINUfiRMM, UI11LTI 8-30Gates7-30 BRUCE IEE DOUBLE 8-30 Gate7-30 EE WWE-I fldlftcfentsctof taws. 1045, 1.00, faSfSSPCl Sun. 1.

3.10,5.15, 3.45. 6.00, UU. 1 HIIJUHBTVT 8.15. mM TODAY ONLY 2.30 ClAHT XMAS MUSICAL DU0I LUCY as 'MAME' (G) PLUS R0Z Surf him Tomta 8 o.m. "GOING SURFIN' "(G) Mon.

to Wed. 7.30 'MAN) FROM DEEP RIVER (R) 'FAREWELt UNCLE TOM' (R) tVIL I BASS HILL i iiiiuuuii Paper Tiger Al being placed in its company. r. The colours are drab, which is disappointing, but otherwise Mr Quilp is as fascinating as only a well-told-Dickens story can be. (G, Australia Cinema and Rosevillc Theatre.) Lisztomania IT SEEMS that Ken Russell has vowed to make films about six of the world's greatest composers.

They will, of course, survive but one can shudder in sympathy for those still waiting for their turn. Russell deals in nightmares, and the Nazi nightmare from Mahler turns up again in Lisztomania. Otherwise, Lisztomania is a follow up of Tommy with Roger Daltrcy again playing the magical hero (Franz Liszt, no less). In Lisztomania, Russell has been able to fall back on the Tommy formula, because it is a fact that Liszt was the first musical star whose audiences worshipped and swooned. So the musical world of the nineteenth century is translated into the pop idiom of today.

There are glimpses of inspired lunacy like the screaming teenage fans in emotions, touching moments and interesting set-lings. Director Ken Annakin calls it "hot action with a moral." An aging but still charismatic David Nivcn (playing "Major" Bradbury) is brought from England to a fictitious Southeast Asian country lo tutor the nine-year-old son of the Japanese Ambassador. Bradbury, a man who finds it hard to face the truth, has woven a dramatic past for himself. But in the end, of course, his dream balloon bursts. Nivcn's charge, played by an enchanting Japanese child named Ando, helps him come face to face with himself during CARINGBAH THEN LETS TOGETHER AND HAVE FUN! "A MORROW i vim ii i I pi A7A ouuueorge 1.30,4.50 "UUA 61.6107 prilTIIDY 586 Georgei.40 4.40 ILNIUKT 26.224 lm 7.40 TOWNS 4-35'7-09 TTmW PARIS B15ft19301 PARIS 2.i5 ISML REGENT "ill j'ee.

RECENT mmB'1' return CAPITOL 211 2522 1-30'- RIVOLI ASTRA P'MATTA 1.30,4.30, hYIL DRAVULA MONDAY MATRAVILLE WARRIEWOOO ONE OF the best things about this marvellous movie is that early in the piece, one. is reassured that here is a comedy. Otherwise, the suspense would be well nigh unbearable. It is a film with everything excitement, icn-s i fun, human PENRITH NORTH RYDE OO YOU LIKE DO YOU IKE COMtHY? SEX? GET COMMENCING TO CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME AT THE OPERA HOUSE NOW SHOWING Today. Mon.

and Tues. Sat. and Sun. family day. 10 a.m., 11.30 a.m., 2 p.m.

and S.1S p.m. "The Adventures of iskybibbie" Hurrv, some 10 a.m. shows sold out. good seals available (or other shows, box office, agencies or door. The newest fun characters live on staae meet Iskybibbie, Uiy and Diay, Mr Dark, The Wizard in action with lots of music and song.

Children: $1.80. Adults: S2.B0. Inquiries and party concessions: 2 0588. i fa i THE INCRTDISty POPULAR MATRAVILLE Mans GUNIE0SWDQD DOUBLE MSB miiirai iu i 1 1 1 hui riCTrru ccnniiflRr' 3 1 A ENDS TONIGHT Restaurants open ZOO TO-MORROW PENRITH im IS BACK LIVERPOOL TO-MORROW MONDAY COMMENCING TO-MORROW FRENCH'S FOREST DUNDAS NORTH RYDE CARINGBAH FAIRRELO BLACKTOWN BASS HILL tw una 'tis man with nts Diamonflf iplsCAiwr ptfi LAW DISORDER iBan 11 iwh ribiv Am Ie3 roraver tsw 69 69 THE SUN-HERALD, DEC 21, 1975.