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a 'Little Jo: Fillies stage a liorse opera By PAVE KEHR Dady Nevus McweCntc Gfeenwald's cinematic model isn't the expansive West of the Hawks and Ford classics, but the dank, smelly, pointlessly violent West of such revisionist early '70s films as "The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid" and "Dirty Little Billy." It isn't a place where you'd want to spend much time, even to prove a feminist point. nese railroad worker (David Chung) as her secret lover (more frolicking). Together, the lovers smoke a lot of opium a powerful drug that Greenwald seems to have confused, in its effects, duration and addictive potential, with marijuana. THE BALLAD OF LITTLE JO. Suzy Arms, Ian McKetten.

Directed by Maggie GreenwakJ. Runrang tune: 120 rrans. Rated R. CWHEM IN ORLANDO VISIT UNIVERSAL STUDIOS 363-8000) Amis' Jo Monaghan begins moving West, apparently on foot, only to discover that every white male in the vicinity wants to rape her (including, in one curious passage, a seemingly gay character played by Ian McKellen). Her only defense is to dress in flannels and denims and cut a symbolic scar into her cheek, which, as it changes in length and shape from scene to scene, at least provides some low-level entertainment value.

Impersonating a man, Amis does little more than lower her voice and narrow her eyes, though with her hair "cut short she does bear a disturbing resemblance to Michael J. Fox. In said guise, she establishes a sheep ranch (many shots of Amis frolicking with fuzzy animals) and takes a Chi ZTV ENTL' RIDES THE RANGE 7 in this tedious, politically pro-Li gramed anti-Western that stars Suzy Amis as an Eastern debutante who becomes a Western homesteader in Ralph Lauren drag. Writer-director Maggie Greenwald doesn't come up with many ideas beyond the obvious ironies of the plot, which is said to be based on a true story. Banished by her father when she gives birth to an illegitimate "A Mgical Fantasy, Blending Laughs axd teaes.

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