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TempoEntertainmant 5 Tempo MOTION PICTURES MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN DOWNTOWN 'Escape to Witch Mountain Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, April 1, 1975 Section 3 By Gene Siskel Movie critic THE NEW-Walt Disney film "Escape to Witch Mountain" is a solid adventure for the under-12 set. That might sound like a backhanded compliment, but compared to other recent Disney live-action features, "Witch Mountain" is something special. Only rarely is it juvenile. Two children, an orphaned brother and sister both about 12, star in this tale of the supernatural. The kids, Tia and Tony, have angelic faces and eerie talents.

Tia can talk to her brother telepathically without moving her lips. Both can move objects without touching them, Tony preferring to use a har -v; (i If Eton John is The TA 'I NOT SATISFIED with merely "owning everything In sight but the sky," Bolt wants to latch on to things extraterrestial. Learning about the kids powers from Deranian, Bolt arranges for Deranian, to masquerade as their long-lost uncle. Bolt takes the kids into his home, feeds them piles of ice cream, gives them a suite of bedrooms furnished with everything from a soda fountain to a puppet stage, waits not more than a couple of hours, and then hits the wee ones with his proposition: "You could tell where oil was, when natural disasters will occur. I'll buy you anything you want; just don't ever leave me." Which, of course, is exactly what the kids suddenly want to do.

From then on "Witch Mountain" is a chase story replete with the Disney outfit's usual bag of special effects: flying cars, superintelligent animals. One more thing. From time to time, Tia has these visions. She sees her brother and herself sinking off a wrecked boat in icy water. What do these visions mean? Who are these kids really? And where on earth did they get their powers? "Witch Mountain" earned prolonged applause from the young matinee crowd I joined; little ones seemed to enjoy it best, and I wasn't bored either.

Exclusive ChtCfjolnd Showing ih Nowiopensam. State Lake TRIBUNE MINIREVIEW Decent Disney "ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN" Dirocttd br John Ho.tti. scrttnolav bv Pinball Wizard 1 Sorry, No PotiVt or wn mum Rtdwctd fric CLINT EASTWOOD UIKIT HAKKT "MAGNUM FORCE" theYAKUZA" r1 monica to trigger his mental impulses. Caught in a fight, Tony orders a baseball glove to strike a bully in the face. In another scrap, he has his pet black cat scratch his opponent.

Weird kids. But nice. Tia is clairvoyant, and she uses her ability to predict the future to sava a powerful man's life. Unfortunately she picked the wrong man to save. Mr.

Deranian sounds like "deranged" and played that way MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN MOTION PICTURES DOWNTOWN Last feature p.m. Now both in Open 9:00 a.m. Lait Camalata (ho 7:50 now FEATURES Open 8:30 l.m. Last "Yakuza" 10:30 p.m. Optn 1:30 Ltt Fetur 10:30 p.m.

COLOR PART DEVIL Pus MAX "THOIV1ASINE Sal -AW i JULIEN VONETTA McGEE DUSHROD" Runaways Kim Richards and Ike Eisenmann get a helping hand from Eddie Albert in "Escape to Witch Mountain." by Donald Pleasence is the executive assistant to rich and powerful Aristotle Bolt Ray Milland. Bolt lives on the California coast in a San Simeon-style estate. FRED WILLIAMSON nnce witf'r'pn MWtJbaf al VIWJUAli PART ALL MAN Harry Chapin: Trite but (X) was never like this. tns 3 11,1 hf kMWSflfR OPEN 9 A.M. yygjjgUST FEATURE 10:10 P.M Showing Encluiivety ul Iht Cilnbutl by COLUMBIA PICTURES a wit iMfATPE Open 9:00 a.m.

p.m. Tksiliil 'it FIRST-RUN THRILLERS ijr jjjjty rjn- MERCY a or HARRY CHAPIN is a singer-songwriter who has made a career out of his "story songs," lengthy treatments of people in specific situations. His first success was with one called "Taxi," a story of a cabbie who picks up a former lover, takes her home to her well-manicured but presumably hollow suburban home, and figures out both he and she got just what they'd wanted years ago. She wanted to be an actress and now she's acting like she's happy when she's not; he wanted to be a flier and now he flies real high when he's stoned. Since the first time I heard that song the ending seemed obvious and the situation trite, I have to admit that the first time I reviewed Chapin, I had this snotty line all ready something to do with "Taxi" and a description of Chapin as a "hack." Well, I never used that line, because after seeing Chapin live my opinion of him underwent a mild revision.

Chapin puts on a pretty enjoyable show, and most of his songs seem to come alive when he does them; you feel for his heroes who are scarcely heroes at all but sad, lonely people trying to reach out beyond their own little worlds. MOTION PICTURES --1st Run Chicagoland- I N0RTH li NORTHWEST MUNDELEIN 1 DES PLAINES MUNDELEIN Robert Malcolm You in. tuM tht boot by Alexander Kay, pnolosripnatl by Frank Phillips, music by Johnny Mandol, Produced by Jtfomt Courtland, a Buana Viiti reloass at neighborhood rhaaltrs. Ralto) G. THE CAST Jason Eddit Albtrt Arislollt Bolt Ray Milland Otranian Donald Pltastnct Tia Kin Richard! Tony lat Eisonmann Shariff Pordy Walter Barms Mrs.

Grindliy Rela Shaw all right new? and how we should all get involved in making things better. Perhaps he felt the audience wouldn't get the song otherwise. Perhaps he should give us a little more credit. Biggest crowd-pleaser of the second half was Chapin's "Sniper," an old song which he brought to an overly-dramatic, guitar-waving conclusion followed by the customary standing ovation. Nothing succeeds like emotional excess.

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