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mm mm'i mm'i nan Has Martin SCOTMM'B ONLY Iramaff 22 Pot tV-Fri, April 25, 1975 lt3 antjrlrt Cirrus MOVIE REVIEWS 'Messiah': The Horror of It All 438-5435 r9Mrn (it jttttr cinema for jromr pkMimrr Robs Mro Hamy rua laaf Tkt Onus Slawty Starring Rotort Daro (Acadtniy Award Win.tr for test Supporting Acter 1174.) RESEDA 18445 Sherman Wy. 965-3800 WAIT IISMTS -snowEST iuii THE ITOIUKI AMI -NCIEIItiE itUMETIt) TUSTIN-2 Nmert Antat at Si. Frwj. 714544-1696 lartfl SlrituM Itm mill le "WHtrs up "(Pti Bum CtaeeaiaBti Cshera "USI Of SHCIU 'PC) ADULTS 99c Children 50c IHBBTHHIHIimT ff Is AMERICAN MULTI CINEMAS ROUCEOPRICES rURMNr'TWIITHOUR jpj MESSIAH OF EVIL' An International Clnefllm Corp. release of a Messiah Film Co.

presentation. Executive producer Alan Rlchl. Producer Gloria Katz. Director Willard Huyck. Screenplay Katz, Huyck.

Camera Stephen Katz. Art director Jack Flske. Film editor Morgan Fisher. Featuring Michael Creer, Marlanna Hill, Joy Bang, Anltra Ford, Royal Oano, Elisha Cook, Charles Dlerkop. Running time: 1 nr.

26 mln. MPAA-rated: (persons under 17 must be accompanied by parent or adult guardian). t3 )PUENTE HILLSf LA HABRA ROXY CHINATOWN(R) 930 417 Brand THE CONVERSATION(PG) 2434393 730 CREST ALICE DOESNT LIVE HERE westwd-Wilsh. ANYMOREIPGj 272-5876 740-1140 474-7866 DAY FOR NIGHT(PG) 940 mum Puente 1 a woman under Azuu-Colima THE INFLUENCE(R) (213) 965-M67 530-8 30 TWI-LITE HR. 5 to 530 FiShi0l Sa.

1 Winner 6 Awards Imp -Msno Best PictureDirector (2131 691-0633 Suooorting Actor fiODf ATHER 11(A) froo-MS TWRITEHR.5:30to6 aak Puente 2 PARAMOUNT Midnight Show hZZ I bi in sensurrouno STEPFORD WIVES(P6) 530-745-lOOi TWI-LITE HR. 5 to 530 COLORADO 2588 E. Color Klo 796-9704 THE GODFATHER PART 11(A) KB Near Hiinland EARTHGOARE(PG) BY KEVIN THOMAS Times Staff Writer Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck, who wrote "American Graffiti" and whose current project is "Lucky Lady," with Liza Minnelli, Burt Reynolds and Gene Hackman, surely must have hoped that "Messiah of Evil" (citywide) would stay on the shelf permanently where it has been gathering dust for more than four years. Written by Miss Katz and directed by Huyck, it's a thoroughly dismal horror picture that is sleep-inducing rather than hair-raising. It seems that there is this Dark Messenger (or Messiah of Evil) that plagued a small California beach town 100 years ago.

Before disappearing into the ocean he promised to return a century later. A survivor of the Donner Party, he developed a taste for human flesh. When the vestigating the legend. His traveling companions are sultry Anitra Ford and saucy Joy Bang. Alas, there's not an ounce of credibility in "Messiah of Evil," which is hopelessly vague and illogical.

Making matters even worse is the film's lethally slow pace. The three key actresses are at least poised Miss Hill is especially lovely and tries hard to bring conviction to the nonsense but Greer is miscast in what is, to begin with, an ill-defined part Considering what Miss Katz and Huyck have done since and what Huyck accomplished as a USC studentone had hoped that "Messiah of Evil" might turn out to be something like that ghoul classic "The Night of the Living Dead." Instead, it's a stinker through and through. The second feature is "The Flesh and Blood Show." Puente 3 Fashion Sq. 2 aloha bobby RosEiPSieKw-ioxi TWl LITE HR. 5:30 to 6 ARM Acad.

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Disturbed by letters she has been receiving from her painter father (Royal Dano), warning her to stay away, Marianna Hill whose character is pretentiously named Arletty, presumably in homage to the star of "Children of Paradise" takes off for the town to see for herself what's going on. Once there she crosses paths with Michael Greer, who's supposedly in Puente 5 BALDWIN street riGHTERsm La Bre A Rodeo EDUCATION OF 293-7164 SONNY CARSON 635 BrFaShlOR Stt. 4 Best Sup. Actress ORIENT EXPRESSIPfil TWI-LITE HR. 4.45 to 515 LENNY(R) TWI-IITE HR.

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MAJESTYK(PG) 845 ics of the late Bruce Lee in Chiba, who grunts, groans and grimaces as he kicks, jabs and grabs with the proficiency of a Sumo wrestler but the delicacy of a bull. Action shots were directed by three martial-arts specialists and some of the fight scenes are suspenseful and well choreographed. Kenji Tsuka-koshi's photography is competent; the gallons of paint look like blood and the dubbing isnt bad. Even though the production is more polished and the violence more graphic, "The Street Fighter" is just another implausible, boring and silly kung fu movie. LINDA GROSS the man doesnt have enough money to pay him.

But quite inexplicably, Chiba changes gears when gangsters from the Yakuza and Mafia ask him to kidnap the heiress of an oil empire (lovely Doris Nakajima). He refuses and sets out with his sidekick (well played by Gerald Yamada) to rescue the girl. He must contend with a particularly nasty American bad guy, a lethal "dragon lady" and a brother hell-bent on revenge. But Chiba is indomitable. Even after being shot and stabbed, he manages to wipe out half an army of villains aboard an oil tanker and save Miss Nakajima.

Don't look for the graceful acrobat "The Street Fighter" (citywide), a sickening and slick kung fu-karate movie which stars massively muscular Sonny Chiba, has been rated for violence by the Motion Picture Assn. of America. Although nonstop eye-gouging, throat-ripping, skull-crushing and body-breaking are customary kung fu gore, "The Street Fighter's" dubious distinction is to show the results of the character's actions. When Chiba castrates a rapist and tears the throat out of another enemy, the camera lingers ad nauseam. Chiba plays a hulking, half-breed street fighter who kills the brother of a prisoner he has helped escape when Alondra Acad.

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