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17 THE COURIER-NEWS, Friday, March 19, 1971 Director Mann's 3rd TV classic goes on now is pretty rewarding all By TOM GREEN Gannett News Service around." The story had not been filmed since 1944. Mann had been planning to do "Kidnapped" as his third classic, but changed his mind and did "Jane Eyre." One of the reasons was that all the major scenes of the book could playable today. It's too stylized." George C. Scott had just finished "Patton" when Mann was starting to case "Jane Eyre." At first the director was convinced that the role of Rochester should be played by a British actor. Then he realized that Scott is an international actor, i BEVERLY HILLS "Sud I guess.

He wanted to. play this script. He didn't want to change one word. He wanted something totally different from 'Patton' and he had never played a lover, a romantic character before. He was intrigued to play a period piece with a British cast." The, film has already opened to good reviews in theaters in I 4 "I i denly you find yourself in a roll tag ball," smiled Academy Award-winning director Del bert Mann, who is about to see be encompassed in a two-hour comedies beginning with Doris Day and Rock Hudson in "Lover Come Back." "Jane Eyre" is definitely a big-budget film, about double what a made-for-television movie normally would cost.

That's because it was made for showing in theaters throughout the world, except in the U.S. In this country, it will only be shown on television. "I had hardly been able to wade through 'Jane Eyre' the first time I read it. But Charlotte Bronte was an inexplicable genius. She was a spinster who wrote about passionate love.

his third television production "We hit him at the right time, London and Canada. based on one of the classics of film. "No lines of dialogue are the same, but you still have the literature go on the air. It's "Jane Eyre," an adapta ATRIP TOTHE UNKNOWN! feeling when you watch the film ion of Charlotte Bronte's 1846 that you re seeing it as it was written. Bronte's dialogue is not novel, and stars George C.

Scott, an Oscar nominee this is ACRES Of mt MCM year tor ratton, ana tjnusn NOW actress Susannah York. Tne Mann version of the novel will 1 KIDDIE SHOW TOMORROW SUN Opens 1:30, Show 2:00 Plus: CARTOONS MATINEES ONLY SHOW OVER 4:00 P.M. appear Marcn 24 on inuu Where did the knowledge and 'Bell System Family Theater. skill come from? To make her The director's first venture story a valid dramatic piece lawttffliniinTmmmwmnniinri imB i into the classics came two years ago with the production of Trevor Howard and Liv Ullmann are seen in "The Night Visitor" now playing at The New Liberty and other area theaters. RED CARPET THEATRE I II DICKVrVN DYKE-1 Kynpi-ai- color by olu.

UmiediiisisyM Heidi." Last year he aid DONE! rilNNYf' 'David Copperfield" and he will bllow "Jane Eyre" with Robert Louis Stevenson "juanapea ss-AlcriviSia ,.400 Hi Lin4n S2S-17I7J 'When I was first asked if I'd TODAY 2:00 7:00 9:10 be interested in doing 'Heidi' for DiDOBEttn? 'Most Important Man9 Cast is good, story terrible at New York City opera ilm and television, my immedi IHIAIiTOl 1 ate reaction was yes, I'd love to do it. I felt there was a need for EAST BROAD I IN COLOR -rtfnlf RATING: CP VjLlUv3? Free Lighted Parking' amily entertainment, both thea-rically and on TV. There is -ill rl JERRY LEWIS CINEMA Basking Ridge 766-056S did a good job conducting, By MARY CAMPBELL I THE BLACK MAN makes an 23, ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEES AA KM III although often the orchestra overpowered the voices. Miss Bruno, of West Orange, N.J., was making her debut with the company. She was graduated from the Juilliard School in 1966 and was with the Juilliard Opera Theater from 1967 to '68.

She sang in Spoleto, Italy, last summer in Menotti's Festival of NEW YORK (AP) A three-, earth-shaking discovery, but a act opera, written and directed group of white scientists and bv Gian Carlo Menotti, "The politicians won't accept the fac-Most Important Man," was.ty that a black is "the most im-given its world premiere jPortant man." Everybody recently by the New York City assumes the black man will be Opera. It is an attempt, for presuming to im-successful, to be relevant about portance. To save him, the black-white problems. scientist has his white assistant It has a first act 50 minutes stal 50 i claim the discovery as his such a lack of something the whole family can enjoy. The classics are eternal, although I'm not interested in doing them just because they're classics." Mann made his reputation as a director of low-budget, naturalistic character studies.

He did the celebrated television play, "Marty," in 1955 and then won his Oscar with the film version of the play. In the 1960s, he did a string of high-budget slick COLMITOnUU gS5GP. HIGHEST RATING! SPELLBINDING!" TIMES QIJC AT ALL The black man, feeling Two Worlds and he wrote the seems like three hours. The nthpr tu-n nrtc arp mnrh hptpr DCtrayea, strangles the white part his new opera for her. Children's Matinee "MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN" SATURDAY 12:30 and 2:40 SUNDAY 2:00 P.M.

Children under 12 50c 20th Century Fo presents An Ingo Preminger Production Color by DE LUXE IRl panavision I assistant and flees with his she is a find. NOW: EXTRA ADDED HIGHLIGHTS OF BIG FIGHT JOE FRAZER vs MUHAMMAD ALI the i both musically and dramatically, and are shorter. pregnant mistress, who is scientist's daughter. He followed and shot. IS The opera is in English.

CENTER Bloomfiald 748-7900-8 The music is tvDical Menntti. I SEE the melody with a controlled! The story is a mess and amount of dissnnanrp rathpr comment on race a morass. vA il 1 JjZ'l lot of I Pf4v I fun." I i 1 Gene Shalit I ELLIOTT GOULD I Bloomfield Av. and Broad St. "JOE" "Ttll Them Willi Boy Is Here" 2 Blocks Off Garden State Parkway, Exit 148 The cast in the New York riTiVlfi bland.

The story is terrible. il mi immi.it, I State Theater was good, Eugene mlmrm PUINF1EL0 jwiwuu 2 mi SOUTH tCT UK 3bl36 HLn WALTER READE THEATRES PERFORMANCES TODAY 2-7-9 DTE.35 DRIVE'IN Amboys AlDRIVE'lN ffi tie PA 1-3400 IN 264-2200 i 756-3500 "I n- If I ISOUTtHtAT Of OPERA GOERS will accept Holmes, baritone from St. Louis almost anything in an opera as the black man, Harry libretto, even, in "II as the scientist, Bever-that a vengeful gypsy has stolen Wolff splendid as his wife a count's young brother to ad Joanna Bruno as their throw him in a fire and by daughter, Christopher Keene, RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL Presents Rodgers Hammerstein's mi FLOWER DRUM SONG h1 10 A FA A li Academy Award Nominees James' Earl Jones Best Actor Jane Alexander Best Actress mistake throws in her own son. Ridge High School Auditorium $2 million tour I I'l'Ll i-H i'I'l UHI Basking Ridge, N. J.

NEW YORK (AP) Grank "The Most Important Man" is worse than that. The situations aren't credible, and the presentation of emotions and music Peter Boyle and Dennis Patrick I Funk Railroad, a U.S. hard rock and 99 i frrriiiti will omharlr nn cnrmo JOE March 19, 20, 26 and 27 Curtain Time 8:15 P.M. All Seats Reserved I I $2.50 Call 766-3070 For Reservations i ELLIOTT GOULD "I LOVE MY WIFE!" and PAUL NEWMAN JOANNE WOODWARD Efird WitkTlM tha could make the situations tour Encompassing 33 appear-matter little as in in 52Pda ey hPve a Trovatore isn done 'and guarantee-exclusive of per-in todays world the attitudes jjtenta the gate-of $760,000 about race run against the and.ith percentages- a po-gram. we would think, of almost tovf mnoinnn I'm the Champ and I've got a gold belt and a white woman to prove it.

That sticks in your craw, don't it? (rated R) Evenings: 7:00 P.M. 9:00 P.M. Saturday: 7:00 P.M. 9:00 P.M. Sunday: 4:20 P.M., 6:40 P.M., 9 P.M.

Wednesday, March 24th Bud Cort and Sally Kellerman BREWSTER HcCLOUD (rated R) Crystal Pi umage everybody. iantirinatprf pros nf nparlv The protagonist, a black million. In ,1 VSVr assistant to a white scientist, in the white-ruled African country where the opera is set, is NOW NOW Every arena on the tour will have a minimum of 10,000 seats. There is a potential audience of U.S. SO.

Nr. GILL LANE PANAVISION COLOR BY DELUXE presented as a "noble savage." .1 1 m-l. starts with 1 VT1 1 The opera black man, 968-2565 FRI. SAT. PETER BOYLE AS THf INTERNATIONALLY RENOWN IOOKS just back V1U uc "um lu I FIOM fernandsville 766-0357 Eurone.

rtisrovpred attpmntinw' Une group Will travel With 1 20th Century-Fox Presents A Lawrence Turman Martin Ritt Production The Great White Elope that even a whizbang like the to rob his old teacher, Funk throughout the scientist. He begs the scientist! tour, Bloodrock, from Dallas, to love him like a son, which The tour will cover 26,326 will give him back his soul. The 'miles and Grand Funk will car-scientist gives him a job and ry 8,000 pounds of equipment takes him into his home. 'and 75 luggage trunks. motion picture M.

"A TRIUMPH!" Judith Crist, Nw York Matn KIDDIE SHOW SAT. SUN. MAT. THAT SHOWS Kama Sutra" is only a summary of a given society's customs, taboos, wisdom, myth and foolishness at a particular time. The books that might actually change a society's sexual habits are not usually how-to manuals at all but sober, unreadable scientific reports-notably Alfred Kinsey's pioneer work showing what American sexual behavior really is, and Masters and lohnson's unparalleled demonstra 2 P.M.

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