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1 WM worw Rijrhtl Rrorrrd 7W tn thing he does, i3 very intense MOVIES about his acting, He tries hard The Neighbors By George Clark but the odds weigh heavily against him. What he does best is pretend to. play the trumpet. Hey. Man, This Flick the real music coming from Nat Adderley's horn.

Sinatra Jr. looks lost. What he does worst is pre tend to play the trumpet. All but OssVfl 9ufte Hie Mosf dismissed are Peter. Lawford (barely recognizable with a jowly face), inappropriately cast as I IT1 Manny the agent and Ossie Davis, wasted as Adam's stick-through-hell-and-booze friend.

Credit should go to Cicely Ty son, tne nim's most winning asset, with her sensitive acting, striking eyes and dazzling smile, "A Man Called Adam," at EKO and neighborhood theatres, is an bat skimpy film built around that human dynamo, Sammy Davis Jr. Sammy emotes as a uilt-motivated trumpet player. The jazz musician Sammy represents is a walking- caricature. Be drinks too much, smokes too much, blows bis top too much. He is, in fact, too much.

His fel- And then there is that loveable man with a horn, Louis Arm strong, as Willie "Sweet Daddy' Ferguson. When Louis blows, he really blows and the picture's tempo picks up appreciably. Kathleen Carroll Sammy Davis Jr. 'Main Chance Fills the Bill "A Man Called Adam." an Embassy Pictures release. Produced by Ik Jones and Jim Waters and directed by Leo Penn from a screenplay by Les Pine and Tina Rome.

Presented at RKO Circuit and neighborhood theatres. Running: time: 1 hour, 42 minutes. THE CAST: Adam Johnson Sammy It1 Jr. WtUie KrrtuMa Louu Armstrone Main Chance," British made co-feature with "A Man Called Adam" at EKO Circuit and neighborhood theatres, deals "The boy we hired for the summer office job came In late this morning. Says he's sorry and do you want a note from his mother?" dn-it Tysoa Sinatra Jr.

Peter LawforJ Himself Claudia Ferguson Mel Tonne Mirth Xol Falana Jeaoeti Da Soi tng op with the blind piano player). When he's nice, he's very, very nice like teaching Frank Sinatra Jr. the fine points of trumpet playing. When he's bad, he's horrid like threatening his agent with a broken bottle. His life, as stretched out by the film, is a series of comebacks.

After a one night stand on the pawnshop belt, he finally turns up for the farewell concert. One can tell it's his last. He keeps coughing. THE DEATH-WITH-a-horn scene comes too late. The film has already obliterated its more meaningful moments when the simplicity of the acting and staging actually encouraged an emotional response.

Adam is surrounded by mysterious characters, mysterious in Quake in Japan Tokyo, Aug. 8 (Reuters) An with the connivings of jewel thieves. One of them makes crime pay and no one could care less. Character development is superficial. John Knight directs from a script that has no novelty or suspense.

True, there's a surprise double-cross at the conclusion. But it's too late, boredom has taken hold. International film star Gregoire Asian, the police inspector of "Moment, to Moment" smoothly interprets a wealthy, well-man- earthquake destroyed two houses Set A-Sub Launching London, Aug 3 (UPI) Resolution, Britain's first Polaris-equipped atomic submarine, will' be launched Sept. 15 by Queen Mother Elizabeth. low cats can do nothing but wait for him to "explode." "Easy don't make it no more," explains Adam to his chick (Cicely Tyson).

AND EASY DOESN'T. The tautly wired cat vacillates from being nasty (slugging. blind piano player) to being nice (mak- and damaged 92 other buildings in Matsushiro, central Japan, today. jthe sense that their presence is "The most adult motion picture ever released by a Hollywood studio!" ELI 2Z VZ EnTE'3 CMNCST Lf MMAN PftOOUCTOM EDWARD ALB EE'S LTi3E3CiniZfl The Main Chance," an Embassy Pictures release. Produced by Jack Greenwood and directed by John Knight from a screenplay by Richard Harris based on novel by Edgar Wallace.

Presented at RKO Circuit and neighborhood theatres. Running time: 1 hour. THE CAST: TANTALIZING SUSPENSE!" Wanda Holt, T. Doty Hswt "A IIITCIICOCKIAII EXERCISE!" brushed off by the overly conscientious film editor. Sinatra Jr.

appears inexplicably in the hero's apartment and disappears inexplicably in a confusing scuffle. He shows up for the last scene to ever-so-dramatically pick up the mouthpiece belonging to his idol's trumpet. DAVIS, AS HE is about every- Potter Asian Reed GEORGE SEGAL- SANDY DENNIS s-Mt m( mcmois presented by warmer bros Christine Michael Blake Joe Hayes Rom JEdward De Soma tan ley Meadows Jack Smethurst IMPORTANT! NO ONC UNDER 11 WILL Be ADMITTED UNLESS ACCOMPANIE0 BY HIS PARENT. nsmmnn nnonEUis Continuous performances AIR-CONOITIONEO Criterion TheatreLoew's Tower East mi Broadway at 45th St. 72nd St.

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9:30. 11:45 IS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD! III'VH'i' ClttMA, MM MALVFJtNE WILD! ONE OF THE BEST THIS SEASON!" 1 A UNIVERSAL nered crook. Between smuggling activities, he tinkers with electronics. (No, there's no mad scientist scene with helter-skelter explosions.) His beautiful, efficient secretary is played rather coldly by Tracy Reed. Edward De Souza appears as an operator who keeps his eyes open for "the main chance," an opportunity to make a quick fortune.

Asian hires him to pilot a plane across the English Channel. Surmising that the mysterious package being transported contains diamonds, he maneuvers for ownership. The musical background is pretty lively even if the action of the film isn't. Ann Guarino SALISBURY BAR HARBOUR APQUB MST. CftEfNWICH HID TOWN 93th ST.

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