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3 Part May 18,1974 Eoaflngtlfsifflmta. MOVIE NOTES Wellman expects this weekend's programming "Nothing Sacred" (1937) will be shown tonight and "The High and the Mighty" (1954) highlights Sunday's programmingto bring in the largest audiences. Sunday, at 7 p.m., William Wellman will be on hand to receive an award from Douglas Wright's Motion Picture Hall of Fame, located in Orange County, and to participate in a qiicstion-and-answer session. ent crowd. The same crowd that was going to see '2001' had swung over to This Easter, "Alice" was finally reissued.

Coupled with a comedy, "Charlie and the Angel," and an adventure short, "Stormy," the film was first given a general release to attract the family trade. Now, however, the film is playing exclusively at the UA Cinema Center in West-wood. On a double "bill with two classic 1932 Mickey Mouse shorts, the film is catering to that same "different" audience that turned out for "Fantasia." It is reported the imperious caterpillar that Alice encounters in Wonderland is not the only person smoking in the Douglas' Son to Film Kesey's Cult Novel will be disappointed to learn that the author will not be contributing to the He was initially contracted to write the screenplay, but, says Douglas, "unfortunately, it didn't work out." BY GREGG KILDAY Timtl Staff Writr Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," first published in 1962, was one of the few books to break through the counterculture's prejudice against the written word, becoming, by the end of the '60s, a cult novel KT3 Many of his fellow officers consider him the most dangerous man alive an honest cop. if The William Wellman Retrospective, continuing through Tuesday at the Royal Theater in West L.A., has already proved a critical success. Wellman has made the rounds of the local talk shows even though he will consent to, only one such visit per day.

Taking advantage of the publicity, local television stations have been quick to program Wellman films. A New York exhibitor has expressed interest in the 38rfilm package. And Wellman's autobiography, "A Short Time for Insanity," has sold out at local bookstores. Still, response to the films themselves has beeri "just fair," according to Bill Wellman who organized the retrospective in cooperation with the Taylor-Laughlin Distribution Co. and UCLA.

Not even the most popular program so far a screening of the 1927 "Wings" has sold out the 580-seat theater. that had found its way into the hip pockets of many of the decade's more1 rebellious youth. Set in an insane asylum whose totalitarian regime is threatened by one wild, outrageous, not-nearly-crazy-enough inmate, the book was read as an analog for the disintegrating times. The fact that it also contained some of the most hallucinatory descriptions of the drug experience ever put on paper from dreamy marijuana highs to sizzling electric shocks didn't hurt its populari If the producers of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" are in need of reassurance that the counterculture audience hasn't disappeared that, in fact, it has simply retired to its room for a joint they need look no further than the successful reissue of Walt Disney's "Alice in Wonderland." When first released in 1951, the 75-minute animated film grossed a disappointing $2,420,000. Never a favorite of Walt Disney's who thought it full of "weird characters" with no appeal to the heart the film was never reissued.

Instead, it was consigned to occasional appearances in a reduced, tab version on the various Disney TV shows. But all those kids who grew up with Mickey hadn't forgotten. Suddenly Disney was swamped with requests to show the 16-mm print of "Alice" at college film-societies. Meanwhile, "Fantasia," Disney's 1940 pastiche of classical music set to animated subtexts, had gone into its fourth general release in 1969 and, to the company's surprise, proved exceptionally popular. "I don't think they were aware at first that it was a drug-oriented thing," says Tom Jones, Disney's director of publicity.

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where it should the film will be produced by Douglas and by Saul Zaentz of Fantasy Records, whose last film was the night-in-the-life-of-a-country -singer, "Payday," starring Rip Torn. Douglas is optimistic that the long delay hasn't lost the film its rightful audience, citing "the great sense of black comedy" Forman brought to his previous movies like "Taking Off and "changed attitudes toward the mentally ill" as two factors that should contribute to the film's success. Kesey fans who probably haven't yet recovered from the perfunctory movie version of Kesey's second novel, "Sometimes a Great Notion," directed by Paul Newman AIT Aimcntri Friiute I COWUSIA PICTURES DIVISION Of COLUMBIA PICIUES INDUSlSltS. INC. 1 1 PACIFIC DRIVE-IMS S0UTHCATC DRIVE IN Soulhcal' tf4 113 VERMONT 0RIVE IN Gaidena itTib PICKWICK DRIVE IN Burhank 84? CAN06A PARK DRIVE IN CanocaPk -3466211 STARLITE DRIVE IN El Monte 448 7631 A71ISA FOOTHILL Drue In Aiim 334 IA HABRA DRIVE IN laHabia 871 186? SANTA PAULA DRIVE IN Santa Paula 575 2121 R(l AIR Dnf In Inntana 033 CIRCLE DRIVE IN long Beach 439 Vs 13 ORANCE On.f In I Orange J58 105 UNGUES IHutUE 00WHTOWK-6246271 LATE SHOW IRI.SAT.

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