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D-4 ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Sunday, Ma 1. 1977 'Harlan County': Remarkable Documentary 'Assault on Paradise' Simply 'Dumb' Movie ion president is convicted of murdering his political rival. Hollywood could do some thing with a The authenticity is stunning. A leader of the miners' wives cheerfully stashes a pistol in her bosom. Strikers file past the open coffin of theirfellow miner.

UMW President Tony Boyle gantly declares his intention to remain in office until he's 180. later, after his conviction for the murder of Jake Yablonsky and Yablonsky's wife and daughter, he looks it. The photography, principally credited to Hart Perry, is straightforward, crisp and frequently so in the midst of the action that one wonders how the camera got there. Black and white footage of early coal mine conditions lends perspective to the present. And local ballads provide the perfect score.

HARLAN COUNTY, directed by Barbara Kopple, now at the Montgomery Plata Cinema (PG (103 minutes PG rated) By DAVID DUGAS NEW YORK (LTD-Kentucky coal miners strike for union representation, mine owners bring in the scabs, a striker is shot dead. In the background the corrupt un New York filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Kopple began work on "Harlan County" the year before a strike began at Kentucky's Brookside Mine in 1973, followed through withtheadmissionof the United Mine Workers Union a year later, and stayed on for subsequent developments in the economically depressed community. Movie Review story like that, but no fictional script could begin to capture the drama played out in a remarkable documentary, "Harlan County, U.S.A.," by By CHUCK MITTLESTADT ASSAULT ON PARADISE, directed by Richard Comp-ton, Eastdale Theatre (94 min PG Rated). Occasionally, a single word description will fit a movie, and the lone word that best typifies "assault On Paradise" is "dumb." As this reviewer sat through this weak hour-and-a-half melodrama, that one word kept coming to mind.

With a bit more believable Presents the script has them in control of everything. A weirdo who dresses in Indian garb and war paint, and uses a bow and arrow as his principal weapon, goes around shooting cops from ambush, and otherwise causes havoc. He offers a threatening note saying he wants a million dollars in cash to halt his terror tactics. A hot shot internationally-known investigatorf'expert" is called in to help solve things, but while he puts on a good act, he isn't much better than the inept locals. Albuquerque freelance writer Chuck Mittlestadt contributes movie articles to the Journal.

II II lb a AT CIVIC AUDITORIUM MONDAY 8 PN. AC LO A 77 and the Coral Reefer Band script, bet- Plus Special Guest MAY 9TH i infirm a rrNi Movie Review th ter direction and a little more effort on the part of the (usually 10 ANNIVERSARY SEASON AUAoiiia ifs TICKETS: ALBUQUERQUE TICKET AGENCY (CORONADO CENTER) Kill! Villi! ilUU4 y-n1 "DIVORCE ME DARLING" by Alex Gottlieb capable) cast, it might have turned out pretty good. As it is, it's just another pot boiler. To be sure, it has plenty of action, lots of rough stuff and the usual amount of violence. The story is a topical one, broadly based on current snooping by a team of investigative reporters over in Arizona.

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