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i f'J' I i' tr a Corpus Christl Caller-limes Sun Aug 8 1971 11B 3 KRIS-TV Capra Like His Heroes THIS MOVIES aeniHMf OH HH eOnlttae pnmM eeMena (lwlriweHee frnlhe ky Nw Hwattn wnnMi mtrkMi wear la reeMiw eamllMi MMfl aveHaMe) SIMMY MICUST Information on current and coming attractions it Corpus Christ! Theatres was not available for today NATIONAL I Last Riw" (GP) -George Scott portrays a retired driver for a gang who comes back for just one more Job Knowledge" Next attraction Mike controversial film about two college chums who find their lives twisted as they age Jack Nicholson Ann-Margret and Arthur GarfUnkle star NATIONAL (GP) -Youth-oriented story about a half-breed war veteran who takes violent action in defense of residents of a freedom school on an Indian reservation in West is Harry KeUmnaa and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About (G) Next attraction Dustin Hoffman is a popular composer whose social life is threatened by telephone calls made by the mysterious Harry Keller-man THUNDERBIRD (GP) Wnr Wagon (NR) and of the Magnlficient (G) Burt Lancaster Robert Ryan and Lee Cobb star in the first film about justice in the Old West The second film stars John Wayne CAPRA BELIEVED in one-man control of a and he controlled his When his authority was challenged he was pre- pared and sometimes throw his contract away and desert the Him "Lady tor a "Lost Horizon" of the Union "You Take It With and a Wonderful Life" are some of the many films made in the Capra image After winning the Distinguished Service Medal for nuking war films during World War II We was one of them) Cam's returned to changed postwar Hollywood The one-man-one-film philosophy that Capra had fought to establish had been changed back to the old committee-rule system Defiantly Capra formed an independent film company with two other directors (William Wyter and George Stevens) PARAMOUNT offered him a directing contract but he would have to give up absolute control of his films He agreed It was the one time Capra compromised his art And although he made several films after teat he says "I was never the same man During his long filmmaking career critics sometimes disparaged" Capra films But Capra care He learned early that critics matter The audience does And Capra had a direct line to the hearts of every little guy in America The final sentences in his autobiography reach out like helping hands to the people who loved his movies: ll 1 I a CQRPUSZCHRIS Tl c- 5 :30 ta 1 :30 c- 7:30 Rainbaw Thoafr e- 8:00 Ras Humbard a- 9:00 Stiaama af FaMi i- 9:30 HaraM af Tnrth Tha Gulf Caaif Cafhalia cl 0:30 c-IPOO cl 1:30 Stafa af etia Rafian Tam Faalary SUNDAY AUGUST I kid trapped in the sleazy Sicilian ghetto of Los Angeles I looted for a device a handle a pole to catapult myself across the tracks from my scurvy habitat of nobodies to the affluent world of somebodies I finally found my vaulting pole it was not made id bamboo glass or metal In fact it was not a pole at all' It was a magic carpet the magic carpet of HE MADE that magic carpet soar as high as his mind and effort could reach He started out working for a tiny independent Him company moved to the Mack Sennett Studios where he was first a gag writer then a director then the man who made comic Harry Langdon a star When he left Sennett he was hired by Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures a man known for his crudeness viciousness and insensitivity especially to creative artists But Capra the artist was also Capra the scrappy determined ghetto kid who wanted to live rich He tackled Cohn met him head on gained his respect and became most successful director He helped transform the shabby third-rate studio into one of most successful Capra started as a man who knew nothing about film He got into it by accident and by bluff He finished as a man in love with the and a man who had conquered it In 1834 he made Happened One Night" for Columbi with a dette Colbert only picture to win all five major Oscars in Academy Award history: Best actor best actress best picture best writer Robert Risldn) and bed director (Frank By JOYCE GABRIEL NEW YORK (NEA) Film director Frink Capri describe himself as a tie a But It takes an uncommon common man to make the movies Capra did for more than 30 years Hi films were odes to the American spirit His heroes were not medieval knights in shining armor but 20th-centu-ry who battled for their beliefs against 1 In films such as Deeds Goes to and Smith Goes to Washing- Gary Cooper (as Deeds) and Jim-jny Stewart (as Smith) were the Deeds is a country bumpkin who inherits $20 million during the Depression --and outsmarts the wily relatives who are Allying to get a cut of nis money Smith is -nr replacement senator who fights a suc-cessful battle against political cynicism 3nd corruption in Washington common men are marvelous creatures: They have innocence independence integrity honesty and determination Thdy make mistakes they have doubts but before the last fade-out they succeed Capra is like his celluloid heroes As a child he was determined to make something of himself: To think hud and to work harder to succeed HIS PARENTS were uneducated Sicilian Immigrants who thought a place was in the fields not in school But Capra wanted an education He worked his way through elementary school high school and college starting as a newsboy and taking any part-time jobs that were available When he graduated from Cal Tech at the end of World War I jobs were hard to find With all his education Capra was unemployed unsuccessful As he writes in his autobiography "Frank Capra: The Name Above the hated being poor Hated being a peasant Hated being a scrounging news ABBRoam CUUmnalK 104150 lintasflN cl 2:30 Rif Pktara 1 :00 MOVIE MATINEE "WE JOINED THE NAVY" Kanncth Mora Lloyd Nolan Mischa Auer Joan OBrien A yauna BrHMi nawi MUear Dai Nm rdUdddy knack a I kakia mkaa blm ajmaaaa c- 1:00 This The Life c- 1:30 Simons Seng c- 9:00 Oral Roberts c- 9:30 Cattanoogn Cats Bellwinkle e-1 0:30 Demiaga Psaa 1:00 SUNDAY MATINEE 2:00 Ssnday Matinee a Roy Rogers Dale Evans c- 3:00 American Golf asiic c- 5:00 Mr Roberts c- 5:30 Town A Country c- 6:00 Love On A Rooftop c- 6:30 NFL Hilitei c- 7:00 Tho FBL ABC SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE Texas Stylo Hugh O'Brien Padie Motel Restaurant SUNDAY 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I c- 3:00 Got Tho Whole World 4:00 Around tho World wHh Compassion 4:30 San Jalm 6 Tawar 5:00 COMMENT 5:30 presuming to say in films Friend yod are a divine mingle-mangle of- guts and stardust So hang In there! If doors can open tor me they can open for anyone" If you don't believe Capra ask Deeds or Smith Film on Drugs Honest Grim KpwsS im( Mtiia CTsm OTTHTITOCTaVgL DAVID OnUNUV FnANKHeOUAND JOHN CHANCELLOR PLUMBING 3 Sfoppod Up Pays Te CoS An timir' AA Sanh-Rootcr 152-0447 a- 6:00 10:30 BIG Bravo Bulls" Anthony Quinn Mel Ferrer that should be very delicately exploited Still if this movie turns just one person away from hard drugs it will have been worth making And thanks to Pacino and Miss Winn it is definitely worth seeing Complete Basobal fcoroo Tingle c- 6:30 New-The Big Bend Fastest Ride in the (ISA Open Daily 10-10 Adults $575 Children under 12 $400 Children under 3 Free SIX FLAGS' OVIN TINAS DALLAS PORT WORTH TEXAS iSHZBBBBEBnm Moot and Dato by COMPUTER 1 Hundreds of eligible wont to meet you in tho area'i largest group of tested computer-matched singlo adults No obligation for information and questionnaire DATA-MATE MS CAMNCAMM COVIS CHIISTLTtUS 7141 1 Wlliffik fltPrilRffTO Hum AMrsis I By DAVID ELLIOTT I CMoaaa Mty Nawi THE PANIC hit the addicts in Needle called Sherman Square on biaps of New York shortly after a huge federal narcotics raid had wiped out their incoming supply for the winter Despite that two young addicts named Bobby and Helen managed to Escalate their habit to an al-most suicidal degree This depressing story called Panic in Needle £is a fictional film although it is based on a Lite magazine story about two real junkies by James Mills who lata: turned it into a book The was adapted for the screen by Joan Didion and her husband John Gregory Dunne who together with director Jerry Schatzberg have made a devoutly honest grim and disturbing movie about drug ad-I diction the best since Man With the Golden unrefreshing about slum I clearance it still has a great V- deal of human feeling thanks to the excellent young actors I City State Zip 1 FroncMi ed NmtlmnmHy Sendee (OrCBDGBSGnD THE PETROLEUM CLUB BRINGS BACK RAULISA'L'QS FAST PACED ONE MAN SHOW "THE WALTZ KING" Rteaaae te Pnmo wVa Mi nrit HaialtD Mi famarl Mfartt (a amlray (b awlca caraar Part II c- 7:30 SUNDAY AUGUST 8 1971 7:26 Carpus Christl Chapel 7:30 Servkios Religiose! ea Espanol 1:00 Telerevista Del Dies 9:00 Lamp Unta My Feet 9:30 Leek Up and Live 10:00 Camera Three 10:30 Face the Nation 11:00 Ten and Jerry 11:30 Perils ef Penelope Pitstep 12:00 Porkv Pig A Friends 12:30 STAGE TEN MOVIE "Hollywood Story" a Richard Conte a Julie Adams 2:00 Pinpoint 2:30 AAU Champions Billy (ckstine Sept MIMURSHIPs'a VAILABlI If YOU CKJAtlfY ArORRO9 thdtjy tR Ystsl RStRBOOtRdR un uatfunA nniMeflia fflla oee poyiufRi iipsy peymvvns ioe ffolftTTfhm Ra4i ubmI: sikmnaa Cabat aa a MmaU Uaiadlva a ami c- 1:00 UltHUMO IHAN J44JS i4aae noo taaioo trns aawja un iaoajt is Dial Finance The one for the money Setups anil Hear Beer 0PIN 7 PMtm 117 Schnuet It 8I2-7S31 GXLm 4730 Ayars fin CarlwiUM cama (kml IM la muni la Imw Mmnaw a i aa Urn Impranlaa A SERTOMA MORNING CLUB X- X- X- 1 PRESENTS JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR PLUS 9:00 ranifftinnh i A1 Pacino as Bobby and Kit-i ty Winn as Helen nave creat-v ed a tenderly felt love affair that very nearly raises the film above being just one more study of kids-on-dope v- Pacino is pure voltage as Bobby a veteran street scrounger and wlseguy full of nervy body English and ready to cop a TV set on a whim His charm pulls in Hel-en an art student from Fort Wayne Ind who has just had an abortion Pacino nuts life into the film but Miss Winn makes it moving with her plain-pretty face that is at first so beaufi-v ful and then under the impact of heroin becomes bitter sul- len and defeated Her degra-dation out of loyalty and curi-v osity and a desperate need to feel closer to her lover Is the heart of the film Soon she not only has an $80-a-day monkey on her back but also vulture-like narcot-lcs cop (beautifully acted by Alan Vint) who knows she will inevitably hit the street and then turn on Bobby who has become a pusher for the syn-dlcate Like "Midnight Cowboy" i' this film has caught the neu-: rotltf vitality of New York but it has a less fanciful story and i- leas flashy line of attack It has been directed with plidty and dignity and the cast is flawless For aU that I still have res-h creations Simply as a matter of taste "Panic in Needle i is a movie long wallow in human degra-i dation that works overtime on the audience's morbid curiosi-ty and its two emotions 'AMAZING GRACE" THE LORD'S PRAYER AND OTHM OMSINAC A TRADITIONAL WORKS Invitational 4:00 TBA 4:30 Whero'i Huddles 5:00 Untamed World 5:30 CBS EVENING NEWS 6:00 LASSIE 6:30 ANIMAL WORLD "A Tiger Tale" 7:00 COMEDY PLAYHOUSE A hidden camera look at people caught in the wildest situations "An Amateur's Guido to Lev" Rose Mario Michael London Dick Martin 1 Peter Marshall 7:30 SONNY AND CHER COMEDY HOUR Guest stan Ken Berry of "Mayberry RFD" i t-r 1:00 SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII "Anns' Boly sta rring Keith Mitchel as VIII and Dorothy Tutin as Anne X- X- X- X- X- X- SPECTACULAR The Spanish Main Top of the Sheraton SUPERB 3 Eitrees Luncheon Buffet Dailyi Monday ihraagh Friday Ut30 AM-ls30 PM Fashions by Casual Colony Every Friday FREE PARKING X- X- (actart at CraHl lailttuta la MMrti la ka cara ate Ha a TONIGHT 7: 30 PM Corpus Christ! 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