Daily News from New York, New York • 171

MOVIES "SOMETHING WILD ON PLAZA SCREEN AMD 4WK theiaayVoo Simply kLARouSo'ff r' ft iiiaani-ai Ralph Meeker and Carroll Baker Bv WANDA II ALE 11161, the year that movie makers leame infatuated with rape, will not pass without another on the subject slipping in for holiday presentation by the Plaza theatre. "Som thins Wild" "Something Wild." a United Artists release. Produced hy George driecte.l bv Jack Caifein fro ma screenplay by fiarfi in and Alex Karniel based on the novel bv Karmel. Running time: 1 hour, o2 HK -T- Around Carroll Faker the victim, a City Collepe student who is thrown balance emotionally by the hot-kinc expeHerire. JACK (' ARK KIN, Miss Baker's husband.

male "Something Wild" fir I'nited Artist release. The novel from wliirh he adapted the tory is "Mary Ann" by Alex Karme! and with the author tlar-fein wrote the screenplay. The only possible reason for Carfcin's filming the unpleasant story was to present his wife with a tour de foM-e. The character the fine yonnr a.tress portrays appears in virtually every scene, a lor.ely. girl who is completely undone by a humiliation implex but.

in the lonjr run, coin-pleteiv recovers. IN CONSTRI CTION: "Something" Wild" is very jr'od, Gnr-fein's diieition is tiirrit and smooth. Kxcellent photography. I 'ack ami white, captures li film's moods, showinir Manhattan in all its ugliness and desola ion. Raker's performance is dramatically impressive.

Ralph Meeker, assisting the star, is convincing as an inarticulate fellow who has a hard time expressing himself but puts his desires across to the lonely, frightened girl All these good points produce fin efffct of intensity but, at tne same time, unfortunately one of aitifii iality. The girl's motives for her strange behavior and Wisien are questionable and I couldn't figure out what purpose the author had in mind, what point the picture is trying to put over. tJKANTKD THAT Mary Ann COLOR by DE LUXE GmeaScopE: CC Taj THELMA JULIET STEVE KEN RITTER PROWSE FORREST SCOTT b. VACENT SHEPl'tSI tl'M Hi Wl tPCVH "evbips a di-grace fixation from her horrifying exoerime. Rut her Mihseouent line notion is hard to believe.

Confiding in no one. she biaeks all contact with her middle class mother anil stepfather, takes a mom no nice girl would consider living in and goes to work in a "-ard-10-eent store. 1'iu omfo table among the prying, dllv girls there, desperately tin-happy, -die attempts suicide but is thwartei bv a stranger v. ho takes her to his hovel, keep her a prisoner, begging her to marry him becaus he need her. presumably to have him from an alcoholic's fate.

Kcaping, Mary Ann realizes that her fixation is gone, that she needs Mike as much a he needs her and goes bark to him. IS MKY ANN amputating herself from the conventions and mentality of the middle class? Is that she is too retiring and sensitive to aim higher? Is she victimized by this hiir. fearsome city, which no born New Yorker should he? Anyway, "Something Wild" carries a moral for the feminine -ex: I'on't walk in the city's parks aione after dark. Doors Open 9 30 A.M. tomorrow! PARAMOUNT LATE FEATU RE 12.

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