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At Loews State II. Loews Tower East and 34th St. East. Running time: two hours, five minutes. Rated PG.

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The plot of "The Deep" will intrigue everyone who has ever fantasized about finding sunken treasure in some long-lost Spanish galleon. A young couple uncovers off the Bermuda coa6t a glass ampule filled with a brownish liquid, and from that moment on, director Peter Yates never allows the audience to relax. The ampule, it seems, contains morphine which makes the innocent couple the immediate targets of a Haitian drug smuggler (played with slimy arrogance by Louis Gossett), who tor ITJilde comedv in a Saving revival Sfl If 'ill Jane Greenwood, mind you, but ah, so adorably artificial'. Kathleen Widdoes has never looked more exquisite nor acted with such charm she brings to the part of that wise innocent, Cecily. Mary Louise Wilson is an amusing Miss Prism and G.

Wood a heartily foolish Rev. Chasuble. There is also a nice bit done at the very beginning by Munson Hicks as Algernon's fnnkly deceitful but coolly efficient manservant, Lane. Zack Brown is responsible for the airy, flowery setting, all potted plants, flowers and other greenery, some trailing from pots hung on high and some laid out i.i shallow, tabled boxes for the last two acts, here set in the garden of Worthing's manor house. Ann Roth's costumes are nicely varied and attractive and praise must be accorded Paul Huntley for his wigs and hair styling.

The flattering lighting is by John McLain. This "Importance of Being Earnest," though it drags ever so slightly from time to time, is in most respects a superior revival of the Wilde masterpiece; a pretty way to close a season and a delightful way to begin a summer. TheaterBy DOUGLAS WATT THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. John Glover, Munson Hicks. James Valentine.

Elizabeth Wilson, Patricia Conolly, Kathleen Widdoes, Mary Louise Wilson, G. Wood Thomas Ruisinser. Circle in the Square, 133 Broadway. That prince of high comedies, Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest," glows engagingly in the revival that came to the uptown Circle in the Square last evening. Staged by Stephen Porter with considerable flair in fact, close to perfection and exquisitely designed, it also has the advantage of a spirited cast that rises to most of this brilliant play's many occasions.

If Elizabeth Wilson as Lady Bracknell, is a bit uneasy in her mannerisms and not quite up to the haughty mark of that formidable woman, she serves. And if John Glover, an excellent young actor yet to realize his full dramatic potential, is a bit too youthfully American as the sportive Algernon, he 's at the same time always spirited, attractive and knowing in this lively perform ance. It is, however, on the one hand, James Valentine, who plays John, truly Ernest, Worthing, with full appreciation of the part's values, and, on the other, Patricia Conolly, who brings the right ments the girl with a sickening voodoo ritual. With the action as fierce as it is (one confrontation between two muscle-bound henchmen is as chillingly brutal as the bone-cracking battle scene In "Marathon the characters remain sketchy and poorly defined. But the actors supply all the personality the film really needs.

Jacqueline Bisset and Nick Nolte are agreeably attractive as the determined couple. Eli Wallach is properly shifty-eyed as the wharf rat who, for a pint of rum, acts as a spy for the villainous Gossett. But it is Robert Shaw who dominates the entire movie, playing a hardbitten professional treasure hunter with his usual explosive energy. Kathleen Widdoes and John Glover: love at first sight air of lemony self-assurance and gelid coquetry to the role of Gwendolen, who carry the evening. Valentine, worried lines creasing his spoiled features, is precise and terribly funny in a beautifully sustained performance.

As for the petite Miss Conolly, she is so full of airs that it is only her delightful malice that keeps her on the ground. Not quite 'Heretic' Is Bedeviled THE ONLY WAY AROUND NEW YORK EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC. Richard Burton, Linda Blair. Directed by John Boorman. At the Criterion, Beekman, and Cinema II.

Running timei I hour, 57 minutes. Rated R. For those of you who may have won dered whether or not Regan, the little girl who showed such an extreme dis -j taste for pea soup in "The Exorcist," could ever adjust to normal life again, the answer, needless to say is no. According to "Exorcist II: The Heretic," she "is now, some four years The summer of 77 trip for the summer of '75 price after her terrible ordeal, an outpatient in a clinic for seriously disturbed chil suit is a bit of a jet-setter who, during teh course of the movie, travels to Rome (to see his spritual advisor, who wisely suggests that he go on a long retreat), to a golden city in darkest Africa (where he is given a lecture on how to prevent locusts from spreading their devastation), and eventually, via the Metroliner, to Washington (where, with the help of wind machines, he manages to reduce Regan's former Georgetown home to a pile of rubble). Staring at the destruction around her.

Regan's shaken shrink tells the priest: "I understand now, but the world won't." Nor will the world understand why Warner Bros, failed to suppress this idotic movie. It is an embarrassment for everyone involved particularly foi Burton and Louise Fletcher, whp appear to be in an advanced state of catatonia as if they were silently praying for some kind miraculous release from their contracts. There is, finally, only one possible explanation for this disaster: The devil made them do it. Katleen Carroll Not everything has to cost more this summer than It Ola last. I nere! a way aiuu.

way to cruise around New York. The Circle dren. "Why are you here?" Regan is asked after one of her daily visits to her psychiatrist. "Because I was pos -i ua onf.ro Manhattan Island. You'll exDenence 35 thrilling miles sessed," Regan beams blissfully.

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Actually, REgan (Linda Blair) has every reason to be cheerful. She now lives in a ultramodern New York penthouse within spitting distance of St. Patrick's Cathedral, just another pretty (if slightly overripe) teenager until an aRjOJEIJNE overwrought priest (Richard Burton) appears on the scene, determined to jog her memory of those awesome events. PHONE: 563-32QO It turns out that this glassy-eyed Je.