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The Pitfsb'urgK Press, 2T, T972 jg Voicing Views Stanleys "Last House On The Left' Among The Year's Worst 4 VV By EDWARD L. BLANK Press Drama Editor How can theaters lure their lost audience away from TV? By running pictures beneath the quality of made-for-TV films, perhaps? That hardly seems possible, and yet H's the case with "The Last House on the Left" at the Stanley. Here's a cheap-jack movie of no discernible merit but considerable taste-lessnes3 that seemed to be doing a passable business at yesterday's opening on the strength of its campaign: "To avoid fainting, keep repeating: It's only a movie." No directions are provided on how to avoid falling asleep. Or how to convince yourself it's a regular picture (in a regular theater at regular prices) when it looks and sounds like someone's ill-conceived and horrendously produced home movie. On Toe Primitive Side It's lit, photographed, recorded, written, directed and acted as if more than 60 years of film technology had never occurred.

"The Last House on the Left" concerns a gang (a junkie youth, two escaped convicts and a bisexual moll) who anyway, it's riddled with awkward, self-conscious performances. The actors, shall remain nameless, lest some day they choose to confiscate and burn all prints before casting agents catch the flick. One of the co-stars, standing in the Stanley lobby yesterday, said he'd seen the film seven times. If ever there were, a parallel to "the child only a mother could love A film of quite another feather is at The Playhouse Hamlet Street Theater through Saturday. It's Hiroshi Teshigahara's beautiful "Woman in the Dunes" (1964), one of the three or four best Oriental films of all-time.

As Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Director, it's a remarkable movie on the theme of perspective. Eiji Okada plays a man who stumbles into a deep sand dune from which he can't escape. He's doomed to stay there forever with a woman he doesn't know, but who is resigned to her fate. Live Twice" at the Fulton and "The Red Sun" at neighborhoods and drive-ins. Aside to R.J.

C. of Marshall Road: Yes, the girl who wears a track suit and boasts about her all-day deodorant in that TV commercial is Diane Keaton, who played Kay (Michael's Anglo-Saxon girl friend) in "The Godfather." Diane also played Linda, the wife of Woody Allen's best friend, in "Play It Again, Sam." Instead of playing here for one week next month, "Godspell" is booked into the Nixon for almost a month. A new national company will begin its tour here Oct. 20 with a week of "previews," followed by three weeks of regular performances starting Oct. 27.

Don't be misled by the word "preview." It's still the whole show. But like all Broadway shows and most touring editions, a few extra performances are attached to the beginning of the engagement to give the cast a chance to play before an audience and polish up the rough spots. Usually the prices are lower for these performances, as they will be at the Nixon. Watchinj Teit Match these Audrey Hepburn film with the roles she played: 1. "Roman Holiday" 2.

"Sabrina" 3. "Funny Face" 4. "Green Mansions" 5. "Breakfast at Tiffany's" 6. "Children's Hour" 7.

"Charade" 8. "My Fair Lady" 9. "Two for the Road" 10. "Wait Until Dark" A. A widow pursuing her husband'i murderer B.

A blind woman menaced by i murderer C. A princess D. A guttersnipe who learns elegance E. A school teacher accused of sodomy F. A creature of the South American forest G.

A chauffeur's daughter H. A party girl named Holly Golightly I. A partner in a stormy marriage J. A model (Answers to Matching Test: 1-C, t-G, 3 4 5 6 7-A, 8-D, 91, 10 B). EIJI OKADA Starring in great kidnap two teen-age girls and later invade the home of one.

Their escapade is tawdry, vicious, wholly without purpose and finally stupid. As if any part of it were salvagable DIANE KEATON Gal in gym suit. The focus is on what he does and how his point of view shifts. Odds And Ends Next Wednesday's openings include "Alf 'n' Family" at the Forum and Encore, "ThunderbaU" and "You Only OPEN DAILY AT 4 P.M. JOHN PAPI'S LOUNGE Rout II IILHTT A DOOZEY rn; pv mm' "haunted' -Bob Salmaggi, DAILY 4 fa I p.

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