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The Dispatch from Moline, Illinois • 16

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The Dispatchi
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Moline, Illinois
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16 THE DAILY DISPATCH 'ZZV MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1972 TTb Worst Flick Of Year Award No Fanfare For Returning POWs for a reunion with his CHICAGO (UPI) -There will News reported Sunday. an attending physician and home To 'Last House On The Left' be little fanfare when U.S. The American Medical Asso meet a companion officer who will accompany him the rest of the way back to the United family for days or even weeks after his release in Vietnam. "The basic decision about when the men are able to conic home will be in the hands of ciation publication quoted Pentagon officials as saying every family. The article said the freed prisoner may be kept at the hospital for additional weeks on a "hospital status." Wilbur said the plan was effort would be made to help! pretty.

Even more in favor of the flick, it only lasts 80 minutes, after which the viewer may feel free to yawn prisoners adjust from their life prisoners return from American history's longest war. The Defense Department has established a plan under which prisoners returning from North Vietnam wiJl be gradually and quietly returned to their families, the American Medical in confinement to ordinary iife with their families. their attending physicians," the article quoted Dr. Richard S. Wilbur, assistant secretary of defense for health and environ By BRIAN KELSON Dispatch Writer The newspaper blurb for "Last Ilou.se on the Left" (playing at the Showcase Cinema II) said, "Warning! not recommended for persons over 30!" What the ad failed to say was that it was referring to IQ.

States. At the reception center, the POW will be informed, as gently as possible, of all changes in his family since he last saw them deaths, illnesses and, possibly, a divorce by his wife. I Under the plan, the POW may not be reunited with his or vomit, depending on how accustomed he is to badly portrayed violence. I am not one to get up in arms teeth and buzz saw The unbelievably stereotyped caricatures (I hesitate to tall them characters) are an insult to the intelligence of the audience, and the absurd claim that the movie Is a retelling of Ingmar Bergman's Oscar winning "The Virgin Spring" in 1972 terms may set the Swedish film industry back 10 years. If it is, as the ads claim, a ment, was quoted as saying.

"Their return will not be held up for any other reason." After being released, the 'Fragging' Case To Jui about violence, even wanton developed because statistics show most men need time to compose themselves following prolonged confinement. He said the Defense Department has talked with more than 2,000 families with prisoners of war and most agreed that slow assimilation of returning prisoners was the best plan. The article said some families 'V After a period of rest, the article said, the man will be FT. ORD, Calif. (UPI) article said, a prisoner will be Seven Army officers decide the Producer Sean S.

Cunninghar.r violence, in movies. I was has somehow managed to take thoroughly enthralled by "Straw what is possibly 1972's most, Dogs," Sam Peckinpaugh's worthless general release film recent blood and guts and, with a sensational and rcjcase However. Sam Peckin- taken to the nearest medical given a new uniform and board facility in South Vietnam for a physical examination. Next, he an Air Force hospital plane for a flight to the West Coast. There he will bo taken to the dant's battalion commander testified that Smith could not be trusted to teil the truth under oath.

Army prosecutor Craig Casey said Smith was trying to kill his company commander and first movie with a moral, that moral expressed the need for family a of Pvt. Billy D. i today at the first Vietnam "fragging" case to be tried in the United States. Smith, 24, Los Angeles, has said under oath that he was will go to a reception center in Guam, Okinawa or the Philli-pines. There he will be assigned military hospital nearest his I counseling.

certainly must be "A fool and his money are soon parted." Forrlinately, Showcase overblown advertising cam-! paugh used plentiful sex and paign, parlay it into a major iporc as ony a master director moneymaker. In doing so. he.cari) building the suspense to may be In line for the Cy Dung intolerable levels and Award for the movie most frt wnPh, horrified sergeant when the grenade Cinemas generally show far smoking marijuana with a exploded and killed 1st Lt STARTS offensive to the intelligence of buddy the night a fragmenta and yet utterly fascinated, as Thomas Dcllwo of Mechanic-sville, N.Y., and 2nd Lt. Richard Harlan of Dallas, Tex. Dustin Hoffman wreaked his tion grenade exploded at Bien Hoa Army base, killing two MUST END TUESPAY WEDNESDAY! ONE WEEK ONLY! bet'er taste in the selection of their movie fare than they did with this week-old mackeral.

And, with two other theaters included in the building, you won't even need to avoid the an audience. It's not that there aren't some good points to the film: the scenery and the girls arc lieutenants in an officers vengeance upon his tormentors. Compared to this standard, writer director Wes Craven shows the imagination of a barracks. ASBWATEPEA3E Military Judge Co. Rawls burned out light bulb, the in- 'an Frazier presents final instruc MON-TUES.

AT: the I vn a movie go iou iu, tions to the jury of seven officers today and they will telligence of a carrot, and sensitivity of a dead snail. asks the blurb? In this case, no. new fx is i retire for deliberations. WnK Night! Shows 7 P.M. SAT.

SUN. 1st SHOW 1 P.M. adults only-no On Over 90 Admitted, For Health enl Heirt. Briefly stated (the plot doesn't and hopefully in the very near future this one will be as far awav as possible. The defense wound up a a iri mm or mm MON-TUES: MON-TUES bear much more looking into), two attractive girls try to score some pot on the way to a rock seven-hour closing argument Saturday by charging the Army's case with being concert and are abducted, FINAL.

9 rays JUST ACROSS THE STREET FROM SUN INTIMMTIONAl MKWUCTIONt kPANAVIStON' I TECHNIC CXO" Good Candidate For 'Soundest Sleeper' Title SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -Robert Bridge woke up with cold Attorney Luke McKissack said the Army's investigation of the March 15, 1971 blast turned slipshod immediately after the explosion because a sargeant raped, and slaughtered by a gang of wanton homicidal imbeciles. While two idiot policemen try to reach the scene of the crime, the parents of one of the girls succeed in killing off Brilliant Bare Color "PARTY CIRtS" WEEKDAYS at 5-7-9 the whole pack (which has feet the other morning. He was Starts Nov. 16 "MARITAL AIDS" invaded their home) with knife SAT. SUN named Smith as the probable killer because of his personality.

"That's what has caused the tunnel vision that has permeated this case," McKissack said. "From then on, it was simply a at 1-3-5-7-9 also $150 poorer. Bridge, of Salt Lake City, told police he put $150 cash inside his stocking, put on his cowboy boots, and then fell asleep while listening to a record player in PASSES NOT HONORED THIS ENGAGEMENT VJ Urn his living room. When he woke up, his boots. matter of clinching the case against Billy Smith." The prosecutor rebutted Mc-Kissack's argument with an attack on Smith's reminding the panel the defen- stockings and cash were gone.

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