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CHICAGO TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1969 Section 1 -13- MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN MOTION PICTURES 1 MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN DOWNTOWN MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN MOTION PICTURES 1- DOWNTOWN 1- MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN r. 3 i no iviuviuu BY GENE SISKEL why is this, Generation DIFFERENT 14 If SI ygm Jr a k. tin now a verv funrw Ask a funny question. You get a very funny answer. Joseph Elevine An Avco Embassy Film GSTlGRATIOn Bmdjanssennm darby CARLRBNER-PETE Bond and de Sade TOE NEW James Bond film ii like a violent club sandwich.

There are two wholesale brawls sandwiched between three clubbings and the whole thing is garnished with a chopped human being who falls into a snow-blower. "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is, of course, the story of when 007 finally marries. Diana Rigg, who left her leather Jump suit but not her manners on the The Avengers set, is well-cast as the girl, but we lose her for about an hour In the film, only to have her return in a most implausible location and time. Implauslbility frequently has been the watchword of the Bond series, and as long as that reckless attitude was com municated, audiences were more than willing to go for the ride. The whole Ft.

Knox sequence in "Goldfinger" was implausible, as everyone knew. That didn't stop us from en-Joying tt. But the latest Bond adventure has pretenses of believa-bility and they never go beyond being pretenses. As the film opens Bond is being bead hunted. The head of a Mafia-type holding company wants 007 to meet and marry his daughter.

But the rice-throwing will have to wait until Bond can destroy Telly Savalas as Blofeld, a man who looks like Mr. Clean and strokes cats. Blofeld is living in a plush hide-out atop a Swiss alp. AO he wants for Christmas is to make the world safe for demagoguery. Biological warfare carried out by a squad of a lovelies is the plan.

GEORGE LAZENBY is the new Bond and he doesn't fill Sean Connery's shoes, Aston-Martin, or stretch pants. The new 007 Is more boyish and consequently less of a man. He doesn't order food with the same verve, and generally lacks the self-satisfied smirk that Connery kept with him and transmitted to his audience. Of all the characters, the best performance is turned in by Use Steppat as Irma Bunt, Blofeld's masculine-feminine assistant who thinks that rouge is something you bet in roulette. She is consistently hideous and a fiendish delight to watch.

Yes, the violence is excessive. Excessive not because it will damage the minds of people who see the film, but excessive because it begins to lose meaning. One concrete wall meeting one head doesn't have the same impact after that head has been hit by a two-by-four. And yes, there are fewer gadgets. But I loved those gadgets.

And it is a relief when a computer-plus-copying machine comes thru a window and opens a safe. The well-designed background music, added to the danger that the safe's owner may return, makes this the best sequence in the film. Disappointing opening titles and two co-plots haphazardly stuck together prove that even Her Majesty is finding it difficult to get good help. A FRANKOVICH PRODUCTION waller inorio Moifiuiu Beroman eaems FIDW8P WILLIAM 6D0DHART william gooohw LEONARD LIuHISIQNt A rncDtnlUK BKI550N rTOUUCHUN btUKbt SJHAtrtK Tnin mil in taMBMSSVMease starts TOMORROW a.m. mnm.

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It looks as tho the cameraman caught few blows to the head because be cant always keep the actors focus. And If that isn't enough to make your corneal ache, we are treated to a multi-image plnwneel snot that only makes things five times worse. The Marquis de Sade was an 18th-century writer with a men-tal cramp. In this simplistic story of his life, one is barely able to sort out from the flash-backs-and-forwards that the marquis felt the need to Inflict pain and destruction because be caught his uncle poorly played by John Huston of all people, a worn an. and her daughter slapping each other on the buttocks.

Add this childhood embarrassment to having to marry a girl be didn't love, and you get one big psychological nut But this unredeeming social value doesnt get in the way of bare bosoms for very long. And that's too bad. Not because we'd rather study sexual aberrations than beautiful women, but because we'd rather study sexual aberrations than vgly women. One upside down. Another is the victim of a flabby belly, and a third looks ts tho her backside bad caved in.

And this is before they are whipped. If a film version of the life of the Marquis de Sade had to be made, it could only stand up as a musical comedy. There would be the big production numbers, like, "Marquis!" and "Chains, Bracelets, and Whips." PAUL NEWMAN IS I Am ii Tr. eietr ex "tutj ivti tr "sibi twnzr l-g'lll MM II- SUBURBAN HOSTMWIIT Tica.ta for ill performonct SS -NOIUUSGZ- Ti.2 corxc OUTDOOR Claw. TaailM SUBURBAN -SOWTMWIir TODAY AT ttOO 1 1:11 Ml HARLEM Mlt IMr i r.

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