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The Boston Globe Thursday, August 17, 1967 19 'In the Heat of Night' One of Year's Best Films 'Luv' Is "IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT" by Stirling Silliphant. Based on novel by John Ball. Directed by Norman Jewison. Produced by Walter Mirisch. Released through United Artists.

The cost: Virgil Tibbs Sidney Poitier Bill Gillespie Rod Steiger Sam Wood Warren Oates Mrs. Leslie Colbert Lee Grant Purdy James Patterson Delores Purdy Quentin Dean Eric Endicott Larry Gales Webb Schubert Schallart Craziest Comedy of '67 taP-KSE JiS he isn't quite up to to Know wny? much more rected by ciive Donner. produced the other two stars in pro- than they do in the theater. SeXTrtaW ior ColumWa voking mirth he is still near Harry Berlin Jack Lemmon the ton nf the Tipari But When it is boUed It Manviu, Peter FalU 1 Tfco (k. 4U EUerL Elaine May I lie picture, as the play tSro PT did, points out the comic of Sw cfown making Va' Q-hties nd merrv over suicide bank! uslng a theme song, m- SK dfvorSceC td 'thdr their love for each other own brand of "luv." with a series of slaps, kicks, torn clnthP? nH Pvontnnllv even sllghtly wilted.

One of If you don't believe that a Wedd nl fur coat fW the wildest "courtships" on people trying to kill them- fntthe sureing water record takes Place on 8 r0ck' selves every time Fate deals 1, nf hXsW inS err is wheel with Miss them a new underhand blow OA en giee- May the heavy breathing, de-can be an occasion for belly- sexual chart termined lover, laughs it is because there depicting her relations with A.s in the play, the picture hasnt previously been a her husbands, in Wall Street S1115 wlth Falk savmS comedy like Luv to show fashi0n, is another excellent Lemmon from committing you how it is quite reason- and continuous gag A suiclde by jumping off abiI double date in a Japanese Brooklyn Bridge and taking There isn much profit restaurant with Lemmon im home t0 a series of de-describing the plot; you 11 poutingly refusing to meet linous mishaps. -n the gym teacher (by this "Luckily "Luv" runs just left the. theater. What will time peter Fallc founcj less than 100 minutes any stay in your memory are a out that marriage to her can more would leave you as couple of handfuls of dizzy an unexpected bore) wacky as the cast. But it episodes.

turris into a free-for-all. can be memorable fun if The honeymoon scrap at your tastes run to the pres- Niagara when Lemmon and Peter Falk gets into the ent day kind of nonsense. Miss May attempt to prove doings with enthusiasm and MARJORY ADAMS "Luv" is the craziest comedy of 1967 and if your tastes run to the antic in art you can have a riproaring time for yourself at the Astor Theater. Even if you are a bit on the stuffier side, "Luv," through the hilarious and witty portrayals of Jack Lemmon, Elaine May and Peter Falk, is bound to strike your funny-bone. "Luv" is non sensical, yes.

At times it is as idiotic as a mental institution going full But you won't sit through it with a poker face. This Columbia production is adapted from a successful Broadway stage show by Murray Schisgal. It has been somewhat enlarged to include other characters Nina Wayne as a moral-minded, chocolate cream-loving athletic instructor is the most decorative and there are certain explanatory moments which weren't in the original pass each other. Rather, it seems Steiger and Poitier are acting together like a team, each with his eye on the ball every second and not missing a single chance to score. In this way they make what might be called "just another detective mystery" an impressive addition to the cinema of 1967.

What may be called "the Jewison touch" (and the man who made "Cincinnati Kid" and "The Russians Are Coming" has reached the place where he may be allowed to possess a fm identification) is the humor and wit in certain scenes. There is real fun to be found in the ignorant carryings-on of the more doltish of Sparta's citizens. Both the chief and the man from Philadelphia prick a good many over-expanded bubbles of fatuousness. Such is human nature that the audience relishes each scene. Although most of the people who see "In the Heat of the Night" will remember only Poitier and Steiger, there are other fine performances.

Warren Oates is particularly good as a Sparta cop; Quentin Dean is most effective in her role of a small town tart, ready to swear away anybody's life if it suits her. James Patterson, as her mercenary parent, makes his role stand out. But what the film is all about, once the murderer is actually discovered after so many false leads (even Tibbs makes one big mistake), is the fact that hatred and distrust may be turned to friendship and esteem provided men are given the opportunity to work with and understand each other. New Stegner Novel police lieutenant from Philadelphia who is at first accused of the crime and then asked to aid in the search. It is the Negro, trained in big city detective work, who gets to the bottom of the muddled affair but it is the chief's innate decency which brings about the friendly parting.

Virgil Tibbs has been kicked around, his life menaced, and his knowledge of crime derided by the white people of Sparta, but something good has come out of it. Two men with different colors learn respect for each other. With what dignity contempt, for inefficiency, scorn for racial intolerance and bitter humor does Inspector Tibbs face the slouching, almost unkempt police chief. Tibbs in his own city is an admired member of the homicide department, and he, with quiet force, puts over his importance to the sneering minions in the chief's office. Steiger, on the other hand, plays his role with easy, arrogance.

He knows everyone under him jumps to obey his commands and he doesn't have to work at it. He never makes the mistake, however, of giving his subordinates too much trust. He realizes they are a sleazy and rather stupid crew. The two stars play their roles to the hilt. You don't feel they are trying to sur jl I N-V Examines John is a biologist, frequently away from home on field trips and Marian loves all the little, living things.

She is the kind of a girl who freed a wasp and dry-cleaned him when he flew into her strawberry jam. This beautiful young woman becomes the heroine of the tale. The Allstons fall in love with her and she becomes devoted to the retired couple. Joe has- many friendly arguments with Marian whose high integrity and respect for life he admires but finds impractical. The focal interest keeps shifting to Jim Peck.

He has expanded his camp in the woods to a tree house, gathered a group of hippies and cultists about him and even plans to set up a school on Allston's property, the University of the Free Mind. The opposing forces in this situation gradually move toward an explosive cli- fx English Film, Shattering, 'Privilege' Brilliant By MARJORY ADAMS Globe Critic "In the Heat of the Night" at the Music Hall is one of the best pictures Boston will see this year, in that it has so many dramatic facets. There is an exciting mystery (who DID commit the there's a sociological problem handled tastefully; there's a clash of prejudice and personality and there's eventually a solution to mos. of the problems which is no less appealing to the audience's mentality because it is purely visual. In fact that final scene between black man and white man leaves an audience with something pleasant to take away from the theater, and maybe much of the reason is due to the artistry and the talent of a brilliant trio, Producer-director Norman Jewison; Academy Award winner Sidney Poitier and that star who may acquire his long delayed Oscar by his present role, Rod Steiger.

"In the Heat of the Night" is distinguished cinema. When I happened to read John Ball's novel, from which Stirling Silliphant adapted the script, I felt there was a movie to be found in its pages. When Walter Mirisch mentioned to me at a luncheon in New York that he expected to produce it I said to him, "With Sidney Poitier, of course?" "Who else," replied Mirisch. Later he or Jewison had the inspired idea of putting Steiger into the opposing role of a fat, careless, lazy but basically fair small town chief of police. The story relates the chief's determination to find a murderer and the conflict between him and the Negro By GEORGE McKINNON Glob Critic "Privilege" is a shattering, brilliant film from England, a chilling close-up of the Mod generation and its Pop culture, as nerve-jangling as a psychedelic nightclub.

The movie is a dazzling intellectual horror story of what might happen in England and, in extension, this country, if the Establishment and the Church cynically set out to control the young, using a pop singer as a Pied Piper. With this film, now at the Charles Cinema, 31-year-old British director Peter Watkins now joins that select handful of young men who are thrusting the movies to an exciting new vitality, cutting cleanly away from the stereotypes of the past. Watkins and his equally talented young photographer Peter Suschitsky bring a frightening semi-documentary authenticity to the film. Nothing escapes Watkins cold, satirical eye as he gives it to the Mods, the Church, the business leaders and the more slimy characters of show business. Watkins' first major film, "The War Game," was so gruesomely real in depicting England before, during end after a nuclear attack, that it was banned from British television.

With this full-length color film he becomes a major name in the movies. The film opens with a wild concert in London by the world's leading Pop singer, Steve Shorter. Played expertly by Paul Jones, him EXCLUSIVE I.E. SHOWING NOW. 2 PERFS.

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All of the principals in the story meet at a bridge which is blocked when Joe is driving Marian to a hospital. This is Wallace Stegner's ninth novel and 15th book. He has been teaching since 1933 and presently heads the Creative Writing Center at Stanford University. If he lectures as wisely as he. writes, his classes must be-crowded.

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Coming back from a walk one day the Allstons come upon a bearded young man on motorcycle musing in secluded spot on their property. He politely asks if he might camp there. Joe was all for giving him a fast refusal, but a knowing glance from his wife induces him to consent. The first intimation is given here that their only son, now dead, had followed the route of Jim Peck, the bearded one on the motor bike. Next to impinge on their retirement is a young family; John and Marian Catlin and their small daughter, Debby.

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She will sing Lady Macbeth in Verdi's 'Macbeth" at tonight's opening of the Newport Opera Festival In a brilliant scene, reminiscent of the Nazi rallies in the early days of Hitler, Shorter leads a evangelical crusade in a huge British stadium. The lights, the music, the great burning crosses, the fiery speeches and Shorter as the new Messiah make this scene a gripping moment. The power of a Pop singer over the young is dramatically revealed when he leads the massed audience in chanting "I will conform." The film will cause controversy and there is much that will offend various groups. One example is a rock 'n roll version of "Onward Christian Soldiers" sung and played by a group dressed as monks, complete with tonsure. But although the film may irritate or even shock many, it remains a forceful, brilliant example of "the new cinema." Famous model Jean Shrimpton makes her movie debut as the rather quiet love of the pop singer.

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The movie is set in 1970, and its prophetic vision of what the future might hold is chilling. In an exciting use of the color camera the movie follows the young singer, a basically rather stupid youth, through his off-stage life, beset and controlled by a pair of the most venal and unprincipled theatrical types yet seen on film. There is some brilliant, cold satire in these early scenes and Jones, in his first role, makes the young man a rather pathetic and appeal-ingly confused character. But then the picture begins to build ominously. The Establishment and the Church fear that the youth of England are getting out of hand and threatening the status quo.

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