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OLUONNU Fry mame Luusier tans Shrimp Entrees $2.00 Off Conductor Ben Johnson comforts Jamie Lee Curtis, a student pursued by a deranged killer. 'Terror Train' stays right on the horror cliche track RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE TERROR TRAIN A hidden killer stalks a train leased for a college graduation party. Starring Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis. Directed by Roger Spot-tiswoode. Rated (gory violence, profanity, brief nudity).

By Bill Kelley Entertainment Writer Terror Train, this week's horror movie, is the latest shocker to fall back on the durable Halloween gambit: No matter how many times somebody stabs, punches, kicks or bludgeons the picture's masked killer, he, like the train he stalks, just keeps on FRI. Fish (an nigm; uauy SAT. (all night) All Terror Trains gimmick is the title vehicle itself, a luxurious charter express which a fraternity leases for a splashy graduation party. As the train speeds along through the icy night (this is another horrof movie made in Canada), the costumed pajtygoers entertain themselves with booze, a little pot, some sex, and a performance by a talented magician (real-life magician David Copperfield, who has no place in the film beyond a contrivance of the script and stops the show whenever he appears). Elsewhere on the train, a costumed madman is entertaining himself by systematically bumping off the guests, to the consternation of conductor Ben Johnson and the growing terror of leading lady Jamie Lee Curtis (again), who is his prime, elusive target.

Say this for Terror Train. Although the dialogue is generally terrible, and the performances perfunctory (including Johnson's), the film is well paced (director Roger Spottiswoode is a former editor) and boasts some striking cinematography (credited to John Alcott, perhaps the same John Alcott who filmed Stanley Kubrick's Barry Best of all, the movie does not dwell lovingly on a catalog of graphic mayhem. The murders, while gory and sometimes startling, are brief. Terror Train is a respectable (if that's the word) exploitation movie. ITlUYIC review This lapse in one of the few SUN.

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The initial meeting between Willie Kaufman (Michael Ontkean), a Jewish schoolteacher who wants to be a jazz pianist, and Phil D'Amico (Ray Sharkey), an Italian fashion photographer who wants to be a Jewish intellectual, takes place as they emerge from a New York arthouse revival of Jules and Jim in 1971. And there are other echoes, too, particularly the way in which Mazursky, like Truffaut, functions as an off-screen narrator in order to give his story a fairy-tale feeling. But as soon as Willie and Phil meet Jeannette Sutherland (Margot Kidder), a tough waif from Kentucky who has arrived in New York "to become somebody important," the parallel with Jules and Jim begins to fade. And in its place one finds the aura of sweetness and decency with which Mazursky has always enveloped his characters, along with his discreet but ultimately explicit vision of how romance changed in the last decade. "It seems to me," says the 50-year-old filmmaker, "that in the '70s something mechanical took over there was so much explaining and talking about love and, on a certain level, so little real feeling.

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And that is why his latest movie, Willie and Phil, about two men and a woman who love and leave each other throughout the 1970s, is supposed to tell us everything we want and need to know about that puzzling decade. But what about the other Paul Mazursky, who has made such quirkily personal films as Alex in Wonderland, Blume in Love, Harry and Tonto, and Next Stop, Greenwich Village'' Even though he wants his movies "to be seen by as many people as possible," that man couldn't psych out the mass audience if he wanted to, because he is as much at the mercy of "issues" and cliches as any of us. And Mazursky is aware that the commercial fate of Willie and Phil is about to be determined by accidents of social timing that are beyond his control. "It's opened well in New Vork and Los Angeles," Mazursky says, "but I'm really curious I don't want to use the word but maybe I'm anxious to see how the rest of America reacts to the movie. At screenings I've been to in real theaters the people seem to like it and laugh a lot.

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