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0K i I OLMFTGE -YEAR'S 10 BEST FILPS! Judith Crist, NBC Today Show floger Greenspun, New York Times Rex Reed, Syndicated Columnist Wanda Hale, New York Daily News Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times Winsten, New York Post Leonard Harris, WCBS-TY Stewart Klein, Metromedia Television Peter Travers, Reader's Digest (Educational Edition) Newsweek Magazine David Sheehan, KNXT Giles Fowler, Kansas City Star Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune Gary Arriold, Washington Post Mary Knoblauch, Chicago Today Richard Cuskelly, Los Angeles Herald Examiner Paine Knickerbocker, San Francisco Chronicle Stanley Eicheibaum, San Francisco Examiner minality and again by the Inclusion of the chiding old cutter, It remains possible to argue that Shagan's indictment of the times it too harsh and that the American middle class does not universally share Harry Stoner's disenchantment nor his corrupted willingness to hang on to what he has by any means. And yet Harry's litany of laments about a world whose values have been misplaced and whose capacity for human contact has been grievously reduced is all too obviously not his At that, if it seems to late for Stoner to reassess his own aspirations and set some new rules for his life, Shagan suggests that there is still hope for a younger generation who can learn from both the past and the present without being captives of limited goals, or the lack of any goals. Like the earlier touchstone films, Save the Tiger is-a small and intensely personal work, carrying the concerns of Shagan (who fought for two years to get it financed), Lemmon (who did it for no salary) and AYildsen (whose sympathetic response to the material is evident in every frame). The performances are uniformly stunning, centering inevitably on Lemmon's' and Gilford's but including as well Miss Heineman in the difficult role of the girl, Norman Burton as the lecherous visiting buyer, Patricia Smith as Lemmon's weary wife, Thayer David as the confident arsonist and William Hansen as the old man. Please Turn to Page 75 demonstrates his considerable ability to get social reality on film.

"Save the Tiger" was shot in sequence and entire ly on locations in a garment loft, a Ma-, libu beachhouse, a Chinatown restaurant, in a downtown sexploitation house where Harry talks terms with the cool arsonist technology, not morality, boy). The difference is that "Save the Tiger' Is as quiet and internalized as 'Joe was shocking and melodramatic Shagan, translating a state of mind and a point of view into story terms, has" built his structure carefully and the devices sometimes reveal themselves as devices. A long coincidence brings Lemmon together twice with a hitchhiking hippie chick (Laurie Heineman) who is too neatly prototypical of a later generation lost in its own way without ever having had, as Shagan says, the chance to be innocent. What saves the sequence is that it achieves its ends illuminating more of the Stoner character and of the beguiling Miss Heine-man's times. Similarly, an old Jewish pattern-cutter in the factory is almost too neatly symbolic of a still older generation which has held on to traditional, simpler values of love and work.

The sequence comes off, again, because of the careful and affecting playing of Lent-, mon and William Hansen as the old man. The delicate problem of avoiding any inference of anti-Semitism Shagan has handled, effectively, by his considered balancing of Gilford's indignant rectitude against Lemmon's reluctant cri Jack lemmon Italy calls home to Baltimore in MAv-anti," opening Wednesday in multiple screenings. BESTHOUIE OF 1972 (National Board of Review of Motion Pictures) Best Director Bob Fosse Best Supporting Actress Marisa Berenson Best Supporting Actor Joel Grey it If iDCuiM OS a wlrDaianlbairQfJ 'winner 3 GOLDEN GLOBE Hollywood Foreign Press Association) Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical Best Motion Picture Actress, Comedy or Musical Liza Minnelli Best Supporting Actor In a Motion Picture Joel Grey yl News '1 "ASLAM-BAtlG PRIVATE EYE MOVIE!" NORMA McLAIN STOOP, After Dark Distributed by Allied Artists Technicolor IDOHENY EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT Mon. thru Frl. 7:30, 9:45 Sat Sun.

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