The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 143

Cossacks 'on the Plains Argentine 571 movies! i I i i I i4 fi a 7ARAS BULBA" STAR TONY CURTIS AND, PRODUCER HAROLD HECHT The Gauchoi objected to Yul Brynner haircuts their wives and children "see that we worked very hard." Hecht said that he, director J. Lee Thompson and executive production manager Gilbert Kurland had considered filming the picture in the USSR instead of finding another place that resembled the Russian By phyllis HAfcQLD HECHT, who 'helped' produce, the Acnd-. emy Award '''Marly" on a budget of $343,000, is of the opinion that he has "earned his salt more as a producer with the $7,000,000 budget epic "Taras f1 like to do kinds of Hecht assured ua over the telephone from i Hollywood, "but it's more ixciting to work on a pic-lure like this (the new) one, With a picture like when you finish the 'script -you feel it belongs toretty much to the director' Listening to the 55 year old Hecht recite softie of 'the production energy that went into United Artist Corporation's forthcoming Christmas attraction, it be- came clearer just how much the new script "belonged" to him. For instance, the Gau-chos. Ten thousand of these horsemen were recruited from ranches surrounding the Argentine city of Salta.

That's the place where Hecht and his top executives finally decided to film Waldo Salt's version of the Nikolai Gogol classic tale of the Cossacks' 16th century fight for freedom' from Polish domination. "The Gauchos," explained Hecht, "had to portray both the winning and the losing sides the Cossacks and the Turks whom they drove from the Ukraine." (Argentine Cavalrymen took the parts of the Polish fighters.) "Those on the losing side wanted more money for the humilation involved! "In the battle scenes, Nuon "Wiir Lovftf" IZMO, 7.1"'. iw: Edward Albee's Private Seidkinl none of thera wanted to fall from his horse, either that was A terrible thing for theni." Despite the vigorous and virile appearance of the picture's bald-headed co-star. Yul Brynner' (Tony Curtis also- stars, as. Bryn-ner's said he also had to pay a double bonus to Gauchos who would agree to shave their heads to.

more curately represent" their historical roles. "They didn't think it was virile to do it We were paying $4 a day and we ended up paying $12 a day you retreat slowly." Hecht, who asked the U. S. State Department to brief his cast and crew before they went to Argentina, said he thought "we were good ambassadors, but I don't know if the people there liked us very much. "They were fabulous in bringing things," he said, referring to the thousands of horses and sundry other props made available for the filming.

"But they were not particularly co-operative they feel you have all the money in the world." The "lack of co-operation" he attributed largely to the fact that the Gauchos simply were not accustomed to making motion pictures when a scene was shot once, they couldn't see why it had to be shot again. Finally, when shooting was completed, Hecht received a petition signed by the Gauchos asking for a special premiere showing of the movie: they wanted, Hecht was told, to have Tha PLAYHOUSE taaeh I Hyd. PR M42 Thurt. A Tri. Bryt's IT'S ALL (T)OURS Saturday Ht Who Gets Slapptd Albees wzxrfl Th.

American JsJ Dream vAs Steppes However, he added, the Russians were not very interested in such plan since the Poles "are now part of the (Soviet) group and they (the Russians) don't want to foster any ill feeling." Hecht, who is already far among other things, his "personal, private yowl" at the American scene, "an attack on the. substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, emasculation and vacuity; a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen." What Albee yowls about in the American scene is represented in the family gatherings. Mommy does almost all the talking in conversations with Daddy, who merely repeats a few of Mommy's most recently uttered cliches when he does open his mouth. Mrs. Barker, a clubwoman is married to a man in a wheelchair and has managed to preserve her virginity.

There is a young man who represents the once-handsome pioneer degenerated into the surface comeliness of the male model; the lumberjack shirt has become a gray flannel suit and the fellow is a male prostitute. Mommy is played by Beverly Magnuson; Daddy by Con, from 1 1 1 i a.m. 4th WEEK of SUSPENSE! FRANK SINATRA LAURENCE HARVEY JANET LEIGH By Jerry Adams TIRED OF hearing the little woman spout slogans? Concerned about the American male losing his masculinity? Annoyed by frigid females and vapid males? If the answer is yes to any of these queries, then you may find much to sympathize with in the ideas of playwright Edward Albee, whose play, "The American Dream," is sharing the Playhouse stage (at Beach and Hyde Streets) with Holly Beye's "it's All Yours" these Thursday and Friday nights. Albee is the playwright who authored "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" the current Broadway sellout that is creating much controversy by reason of its raw language and piercing analysis of two marriages. The author has said of "The American "Is the play offensive? I certainly hope so; it was my intention to offend as well as amu.se and entertain." Albee added that it is, along on his next release, "Flight from Ashiya," re-, cently returned, from New York, where he attended sneak preview of "Taras Bulba" in Queens.

The comments on the two-hour four-minute film, he reported happily, ''couldn't have been better. Yowl Joseph Buckley; Grandma, Anne Randolph; Mrs. Barker the clubwoman, Eliza Pietsch, and the young man by Clifford Dean. Norma Miller is the director. There is a fair amount of symbolism in the production, much of it more obvious than in some current plays.

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