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im a. March 5, 1 965 31 If MMMMMMW GI-(ll MBfMMMfMfMMf fA W'M fMf ATfff jfMhw mt KHh I 1-1 MjO 5th Terrific Week! A HELD OVfRI wmut Ili4tf ICES! 5 i4 Stage and CONTINUOUS PERFORMA POPULAR PRICES! .36 HOURS, spy suspense drama; starring James Garner; the Piedmont Theater and Island Auto Movie. Everybody who 's ever been funny is it I it WEEKEND ROUNDUP There's ample screen entertainment for movie fans of all ages in Eastbay neighborhoods this weekend. Here's a sampling of the first-rate fare as recommended by Tribune Movie Writer Herb Michelson: FOR THE KIDS: If they've had their fill of the excellent Beatles' flick, "A Hard Day's 'Night" (at the Berkeley, Lorenzo and Hayward Motor Movies), they can try the combq of "Father Goose" and "So Dear To My Heart" at the Fairfax; the nifty "First Men In the Moon" at the Fremont Center; "Those Calloways," Lafayette Park, and "A Boy 10 Feet Tall," Richmond Park. Also, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" In Rodeo might please them.

FUN AND ACTION: "Goldfinger" is still around at the Cine 7, Hayward Ritz, Oaks and Airport Drive-in, and you'd be surprised how many folks are yet to partake of its wild pleasures. The reissued "Bridge on the River Kwai" is at the Pleasant Hill Motor Movies. THE FINERIES: Don't miss "Becket," still at the El Rey in Walnut-Creek, or "Chushingura," a piece of Japanese film magic at the Berkeley Cinema. Both the Grand Lake and U.C. are offering the splendid twin bill of "Dr.

Strangelove" and "Pumpkin Eater." EVA MARIE SAINT, GARNER AND TAYLOR "Devilish little premise" collapses i T4P. InU MtmaM tOtti UM1 STANLEY KRAMER WALT DISNEYlS GREATESTaCHIEVEMENT! I. 1 UlTM PUUVCCJf fxcfuafv lattBay Showing urniaf ntatr 7 Uatia ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS DtCLWivt BEST PICTURE, ACTRESS S5K "IT'S A LTAD, r.TAD, MAD WORLD" A taclvti fait Uy 7TH WEEK! 13 IIKUIOIM J1IIIF ANDREWS 'nimni-niniil 1 Rebel Awards THOMAS agents." Scott, one of the screen's best actors, will likely be nominated again, despite his wishes. He will be seen this year in two new films, both episodic and made in Europe. The modem "Yellow Rolls-Royce" required four weeks; "The Bible" took four and a half months.

"It was a punishing experience," he said of the biblical epic, in which he plays the patriarchal Abraham. "The makeup required an average of four and a half hours a day to apply sometimes four, sometimes five, according to who put it on. Each hair was attached individually. "All this, and then I would report to the set for perhaps one take a day, sometimes none. We experienced every extreme, from 105 degrees in Egypt to 30 in Sardinia.

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So one dark night he flies from London to Lisbon to make contact with a Nazi counter-spy, but knockout drops in a cup of coffee prevent the meeting. The next morning, Pike awakens in what appears to be a U.S. Army hospital in the Bavarian Alps. Overnight, he has grayed, become farslghted. He picks up a handy copy of Stars and Stripes to learn that "President Wallace" is speaking in Iowa and "Former President Roosevelt" is vacationing in Warm Springs.

The newspaper is dated May 15, 1950. Somewhere, somehow, Maj. Pike has lost six years. Thus, with rapier-like enticement, does director-screenwriter George Seaton establish, his intriguing, fascinating premise for a new spy-suspense film, "36 Hours." It's a devilish little premise and one that keeps you taut for nearly half the film. Seaton's story, during Act stands back and takes quick, admiring glances at the efficiency of the Nazi intelligence operation, of their plans to convince Pike the war has ended and get him to talk about what was to come off on D-Day.

Then, abruptly, the taut stack of cards collapses in a string of cliche dialog and characterization that renders "36 Hours" just so-so from an over-all view. It's possible Seaton could find no other way out of his plot, although I doubt it. From the moment Maj. Pike learns he's been tricked, the story resorts to easy outs and obvious solutions. And because the early going succeeded by not being "easy," the complete effort is damaged.

James Garner portrays Pike, an often, grim, occasionally devil-may-carish intelligence officer. It's a role that'i not Garner's cup of tea. His light-hearted screen efforts of the past always have cheered us. Garner operates best as a carefree lover or scrounger but bogs in the heavier going. Perhaps, because he's a man of natural comedic ability, the drama bent will come his way with more work.

At least In "36 Hours" he has a story line to overshadow the characterization so his faults are not that harmful. The film's best role goes to amiable Rod Taylor, a comer In the land of make believe and a rather good performer to boot Taylor portrays the Nazi intellectual doctor in charge of finding out what Garner knows. His role is that of a humanitarian, an opponent of Hitler's tactics yet a man who realizes there's a job to do for his country. That Taylor manages to puncture through the cardboard figure handed him is a testimony to his talent. Another caricature kind of role falls to the fragile, lovely Eva Marie Saint, returning to the films after an absence of several years.

Miss Saint always has provided decorative and competent screen work, and it's nice to see her back even in as predictable a role as this. She's Garner's nurse, a one-time concentration camp inmate forced into spying. The screenplay labels her as a woman no longer able to feel any emotions because of the horrors she's seen, a woman who cannot even cry. When she finally does, a great deal is made of it. The only other major character in the picture is Werner Peters, in the role of a different sort of Gestapo officer who intercedes in the questioning of Garner when it appears Taylor has failed at the task.

Instead of the usual heel-clicking, teeth-gnashing SS man, we're given a Madison Avcnue-ish Gestapo fellow who's more concerned with one-upsmanship and keeping his record clean. The role borders between the refreshing and the ludicrous, and German actor Peters gives it interesting treatment. "36 Hours" was filmed, in part, at Wawona Lodge In Yosemlte, and the Sierra terrain passes easily for Bavaria. But the movie Itself cannot pass for more than an average suspense yarn after it fails to live op to early promise. Incidentally, the second feature at the Piedmont with "36 Hours" is a much-overlooked, excellent little action drama called "Guns of Batasi," featuring Richard Attcnborough in a remarkable portrayal of a rigid British sergeant major.

If you care anything at all about fine acting, this piece of work shouldn't be rrtisscd. DAVID GLYHIS JOHNS EM DON Ml BMUSH KMCT-u BRING THE LITTLE MAYBE SHE'U DIE IAUCH1NC! :.1 1 Screen 11th fantastic WEEK I i 1 DICK VAN DYKE MM TMW FBI Mfl mm Turr i) win Ul lta -wmr inn tminrjnw mm nffl Scott Still On Oscar By BOB HOLLYWOOD UP) The man who shook up the Motion Pcture Academy is in town at the awards season, and he remains unreconstructed where Oscar is concerned. Dynamic George C. Scott paid a rare visit to Hollywood to perform-in a Bob Hope-Chrysler Theater show. Several observers believed Scott would be nominated last week for his role as Gen.

Buck Turgidson in "Dr. Strangelove." Scott didn't think so, and it turned out he was right. "I don't believe I will ever be nominated again," he said flatly. He thinks Academy voters still resent his blast three years ago, when he was nominated as best supporting actor for "The Hustler." He asked that his name be withdrawn on grounds that the Oscar race was a meaningless popularity contest Does he regret his action? Not in the least," he snapped. "My only regret is that I wasn't able to shock the Academy into doing something constructive to clean up the awards structure.

The same orgy of trade paper advertisements goes on. "And the awards are still voted by all the Academy members, which perpetuates the block voting. The acting awards should be voted by actors alone. If the Oscar were selected by my peers, i would treasure it But I can't have any respect for an award that is voted on by everyone from grips to press IMS BOND LEAYES Positively Final Wtk GOU3FXNGEII TtoMCttM warm urntra emir tITI OAKS AIIPOITDR.IN Also at Ctntrt and Paris in San Francisco 2nd BIG WEEK! Ti7 na UNSATISFIED'! nusi rrwHci mm TMI MtK tNATCMItt" ITtKTlV fOM A MAT 'jASESEAESa-BlKAHSSian in sis MM? aiKTRErai EDDiiaYEKoiT tXPtXCEl ZT the KPC2TAXT 9 v. i Jeff Pike.U.S.Intelligence in i mm NOWI AT OTK TMIAT1UI v- muni I 1 0 M.

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