The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 24

8-B Jan. 24, 1979 HE HREVEPORT EWES Rome court convicts Carlo Ponti residence in Paris said the couple was in Switzerland, but refused to say where. The court sentenced Ponti to four years, but reduce it to two years because of a recent provision, and also fined Ponti $24 million. It ordered his arrest if he enters Italy. Miss Loren was acquitted on charges she was an accomplice in the currency violations and also that she tried to smuggle valuable arts works abroad.

The short, bald Ponti and dark-haired actress, Italy's most famous cinema couple, gave up their Italian citizenship because of legal problems surrounding their marriage when Ponti's Mexican divorce wasn't recognized here. ROME (AP) A Rome court convicted film producer Carlo Ponti in abstentia Tuesday of illegally transferring $11 million out of Italy and decreed a two-year prison sentence. It acquitted Ponti 's wife, Oscar-winning actress Sophia Loren. The court also acquitted actress Ava Gardner and actors Richard Harris and Kenneth Ross on charges they had broken Italy's monetary regulations for taking abroad their salaries from Ponti-produced films. Ponti and Miss Loren have become French citizens and were tried in abstentia.

There is virtually no chance Ponti could be returned to Italy to serve the sentence because France does not extradite its citizens. A person answering the telephone at the Ponti Brandy Barrett in "Screams of a Winter Night'' 'Screams' run to begin here "Screams of a Winter Night" a thriller filmed entirely on location in Natchitoches Parish last spring will open in Shreveport Friday at the Eastgate Four Cinema. The film was co-produced by Richard H. Wadsack and James L. Wilson, two Shreveport natives.

Wilson directed the film, and Wadsack wrote the original screenplay. "Basically," said Wadsack, "the film is about 10 college-age kids who go off to. a weekend at this lake. And there's this legend about a wind creature who's around this lake." As the vacationers tell ghost stories to each other to pass the time, he said, "you see the stories acted out." The film, said Wilson, has "the effect of grandfather sitting around the fireplace, telling ghost stories to the kids." Between stories, Wilson said, "we keep coming back to this group of kids, and things look progressively bleak for them." Wilson feels "Screams of a Winter Night" could do "extremely well" at the box office. "The production values and the quality of it are extremely good for a modest-budget film.

It looks like a major production. And a lot of fun things happen in the film." S. Mark Lovell, a Shreveport real estate developer, is making his debut in the theatrical film business as executive producer of "Screams." William T. Cherry III, a Shreveport resident, created the special effects. Featured in the cast are Matt Borel, Gil Glasgow, Mary Agnes Cox, Patrick Byers, Robin Bradley, Ray Gaspard, Beverly Allen, Brandy Barrett, Jan Norton and Charles Rucker.

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