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Battling Crime in Tennessee lance that the most un-' thinkable viole pee releases the "audience from its helpless passivity." 'There could not be a more apt. description of what; he accomplishes in "Walking Tall." a number of-notable movies of the 50s, critic Andrew Sarris wrote a decade ago that "Karlson was persorial and most efficient when he dealt with the phenomenon of1 violence in a world controlled by organized evil. His special brand of lynch hysteria establishes such an outrageous moral imba- it- 'WALKING TALL' A Cinerama release of a BCP production. Executive producer Charles A. Pratt.

Writer-producer Mort Briskin. Director Phil Karlson. Assoc. producer Joe) Briskin. Camera Jack A.

Marta. AAusIc Walter Scharf. Production designer Stan Jollev. Costumes Oscar Rodriguez, Phyllss Garr. Film editor Harry Gerstad.

Featuring Joe Don Elizabeth Hart-man, Noah Berry, Lurene Tuttle, Bruce Glover, Felton Perrv, Rosemary Murphy, Brenda Benet, Gene Evans, John Brascla, Arch Johnson, Richard X. Slattery, Lynn Borden, Ed Call, Sidney Clute, Douglas V. Fowley, Don Keeter, Sam Laws, Pepper Martin, John Myhers, Logan Ramsey, Kenneth Tobey, Wanea Wes, Lelf Garrett, Dawn Lyn, Domlnlck Maizle, Russell Thorson. Running time: 2 mlns. MPAA-rated: (persons under 17 not admitted without parent or adult guardian).

i Continued from First Page" sense of frustration in deal ing with such matters that it's unfortunate that skilled writer -i producer Mort Briskin didn't go a step further and raise the iquestion of whether, gam? bling and prostitution might he better, controlled-by legalising them: Certainly, "Walking Tall" is so powerful it could have sustained such considerations. -At-any rate, it's deeply involving -large-scale en- deav'or. In his first'starring screen role the burly Baker is highly ingratiating and can you to tears. Equally fine is Miss Hartman's hard pressed but unswerving wife. Beery and Miss Tuttle, exceptional ormers always, make a warm, folksy couple.

Perry and Glov-er, the latter in a winning IN PERSON POLICE ATTACKED Joe Don Baker's (Sheriff Bufbrd. Pusser) car is run off the road by. members of the mob in "Walking -Tall," opening Friday at the Pan-tages Hollywood Theater, Elizabeth Hartman is costarred in the action film. MOVIE REVIEWS Films Deal With Heroin, YD I 222 flnffcltg Uimtt 2-k Part 23,1973 MOVIE REVIEW 'Priest' in Film Marathon BY KEVIN THOMAS TimM Stiff Writer Included in the fifth and final weekend marathon in the Vagabond's French New Wave Festival is Jean -Pierre Melville's "Leon Morin, Priest," a 1962 film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Em-manuelle Riva never released locally. As before, the marathon commences at midnight Saturday and is repeated starting at noon on Sunday.

The other three films scheduled, all revivals, are anding: Chabrol's Hitchcockian "Leda" (1959), also known as "A Double Tour" and "Web of Passion," Jean Rouch's pioneering cinema-verite film "Chronicle of a Summer" (1961) and Georges Franju's "Therese" (1962), which also stars Miss Riva, who is still best known for "Hiroshima Mbn Amour." That a story about a priest should come from a film-maker whose heroes almost invariably are gangsters is not all that unlikely. That's because Melville is interested in how well a man lives up to his code of honor no matter what and not in his vocation per se. Austere Drama This austere, ambiguous drama takes place in a small provincial town, and its action spans the duration of its occupation by the Germans. A widow with a young daughter, Miss Riva long ago lost her faith yet is moved to go to confession when she becomes alarmed at her response to the overtures of the dominating young woman who is her supervisor at work. Naturally, she is surprised to discover that the priest she has chosen because she likes the sound of his name turns out to be the young, ruggedly attractive Belmondo.

Soon they are spending evenings together debating religion these sequences are static and hard-going but essential and in time she believes she has been restored to her faith in God by Belmondo but in HERE'S YOUR CHANCE TO FIND OUT ALL ABOUT THE PERSONAL LIFE OF THIS RISING YOUNG SEX STAR! Meet "BAD BARBARA" in Person in tho Theatre Lobby Today Tomorrow From 1:30 TO 3:30 and from 6:30 to 10:30 SHE'S A ONE WAY ImA TICKET 3 -V I-TIME MAGAZINE says: 1 wim 4 city shots of thedisease's victims, but the film' sturdy and involving enough to sustain them. Once again the talented Durston gets good performances from a cast of unknowns. Thomas and Harlan Cary Poe as his one friend, are both actors of promise. Especially fine is Connie Van Ess as a hearty rural madam upon whom Thomas bestows the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval." KEVIN THOMAS THE ONE AND ONLY TW(DAin HOW TO TURN ON vav vniio MAI YOUR MAN PUSSYCAT HOLLYWOOD 7734 Santa Monica Blvd. 654-5744 OPEN ALL NIGHT THE STIMULATORS PUSSYCAT BUENA PARK 6177 Beach Blvd.

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Moss the enterprising sponsor of the admirably offbeat (if uneven) vampire picture "Let's Scare Jessica to Death," and writer-director David E. Durston whose 1971 "I Drink Your Blood," despite its lurid title, was one of the most imaginative and terrifying horror pictures of recent years. (It featured a band of rabies infected acid-heads on rampage.) Why Do You Hate The totally ludicrous but mercifully fast- moving "Kill, Kill, Kill" stars Curt Jurgens as the head of a Geneva-based international narcotics bureau and also the secret chieftain of a far-flung drug syndicate; James Mason as his top but corrupt agent who doesn't realize he's in effect sold out to his own MD Mm At wanted was tasb of feedom! CONTINUOUS SHOWING 101 3:15 5 6:45 8:3010:15 MIONITE SHOW FRI SAT ADULTS ONLY THIS MOTION PICTURE boss; and Stephen Boyd as another narcotics agent who's decided to take the law into his own hands in a private war against drug trafficking. Anyway, Mason flies off to the Middle East on assignment only to have his' numbskull wife (Jean Se-berg) tag along. Ready and waiting, Boyd keeps whisking Miss Seberg away to Arabian Nights-style lairs.

"Why do you hate me?" beseeches Miss Seberg in the midst of a fiercely impassioned clinch. "Because I begin to like you," replies. Boyd through gritted teeth. "Kill, Kill, Kill" is really too silly to bear further Anti-VD Message "Stigma," on the other hand, represents the modest topical thriller at its very best. It stars Philip M.

Thomas as a hard-nosed young black medico trying to combat a VD epidemic on a tiny all-white island community, a veritable Peyton Place, in Massachusetts, x. The disease becomes a metaphor for the community's rampant bigotry and hypocrisy, but "Stigma's" allegorical implications are handled so subtly that it can be taken simply as the neat little scare show it primarily is. The film's timely, urgent anti-VD message leads to a couple of preachy sequences, including a couple of atro- mas SELECTJ Or AMEHICA fXClUSfVI jHOrVWOI COUPLES ONLY' LUXURIOUS eRmo 1044 S. Hill St. MAYAN R0XT tn-1021-Hl 10:41 tONC IF1CM FINE ARTS J0 -0" SI.

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Tea often you hove been disappointed. Their films delivered far lest than thier advertisements which premised everything including the impossible. NOW THE BEVERLY CINEMA SHOWS THE IMPOSSIBLE Other theatres will find It a hard act to follow. Cell it a landmark a breakthrough call it a milestone. We cell it "Valery." "Valery" it totally different from anything ever shown et any other theatre-anywhere.

"Valery" surpasses itt predecessors in a way that makes them instantly absolete. The degree of explicitnest and freedom exercised in "Valery" ft unprecedented. THIS MOTION PICTURE CONTAINS SCENES IN WHICH SPECIFIC SEXUAL ACTS ARE SHOWN. IF THIS MIGHT OFFEND YOU, DO NOT ATTEND. 4WM1V saw NOWmGGTTERNEVER-NEW GIRLS! MX i in Ul 69 CM SWforilePRICEtfri 1 365N.LACIENEGA nr.

MELROSE VALERY mm A hard act to fellow. i I THE NEW BEVERLY CINEMA 7165 BEVERLY BLVD. 937 9580 MEf UfHiSHMCNTS (COKtSr CANDY I POPCOKN) mt fm COMING SOON "DEEP ROOTS" fm truth has instead fallen in love with him. Deceptive Simplicity 'Anyway, "Leon Morin, Priest" is a film of deceptive simplicity that gradually involves us deeply with its two central figures, who are played so persuasively by Belmondo and Miss Riva. Morin, Priest" apparently, is available only in an English language version in which the prin-c a 1 carefully mouth quite respectable (though a bit stiff) English dialog, technique which wouldn't be so bad were not the dubbed American voices so relentlessly colorless.

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