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THE JOURNAL-NEWS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1982 ITS AST, EASY, REDUCE POUNDS' WITHOUT HUNGER SAFE! film andhi' a disftnguishe 1 I Dropped 60 lbs. and 1 I I 9. ROSIE MASCARELLA 1 weight Losingv SPECIAL I 1 ger strike and, finally, the Indians threw down their arms. Shortly thereafter, despite warnings from his friends, Gandhi insisted on visiting Pakistan, where at the age of 79, he was felled by an assassin's bullet. It is not easy to make goodness, in this case saintliness, interesting, but Attenborough and Kingsley have achieved it.

There isn't a slow or dull moment in its three and a half hours running time. There are cameos by Ian Charleson as an English missionary who joins Gandhi's cause and Geraldine James as a British girl who does the same. In addition there are bits by Sir John Gielgud, John. Mills, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen, and South African playwright Athol Fugard who plays General Jan Smuts. The script by John Briley and Ravi Shankar's music help to make "Gandhi" one of the most distinguished films of this or any other year.

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This affected the British economy and brought attention to his cause. Gandhi went to jail many times when he defied the British viceroys, but he always took it in good humor. Gradually, he united both the Hindu religion, which was his own, and the Moslems who had always been battling, and eventually he had all of them behind him. When Gandhi was arrested for sedition, even the judge who sentenced him hoped the British government would show clemency. Gandhi would go on dangerous hunger strikes when his awakened people were moved to make riots or do battle.

Such was the power of the Mahatma that his fellow Indians immediately stopped fighting for fear that Gandhi would die. In 1947, he lived to see the last viceroy, Lord Louis Mont-batten, grant India total independence, but this was Pyrrhic victory because the Moslems felt that only Hindus had achieved independence and they demanded their own separate state, Pakistan. But even then, trouble wasn't over. The Hindus and Moslems clashed bitterly and there were many deaths, so the frail old Gandhi went on one more hun plays a prisoner who is given 48 hours' respite from jail to help Nolte find two crazed cop killers who are after half a million dollars of stolen money Murphy has stashed away in his car. Murphy and the cop killers had been members of the same gang.

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BERNARD DREW By BERNARD DREW Gannett News Service Richard Attenborough's "Gandhi" is a monumental movie about the man who singlehan-dedly achieved independence for India from Britain, the one person in this century it is safe to call a saint. Full of spectacular crowd scenes, some of which employ thousands of extras in battle or riot, the film never loses sight of the intimacy of the warm man who inspired a nation end drew the respect of the world. Ben Kingsley miraculously plays the Mahatma, looking amazingly like him. He evokes all of the kindness, passionate zeal, stubborness, even humor the man must have had. After attending Cambridge University, Gandhi at first tried to look and dress exactly like a European when he first began to practice law in South Africa.

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