The Charlotte Observer from Charlotte, North Carolina • 10

10A THE CHARLOTTE OESERVER Monday Oct 2 1967 'V If a i i fi iSav i fy i(m )i 4 45 iry 5 J- rlUrf Absent-mWed fefesbf GrantfMx JAMES GARNER EVA MARIE SAINT THE STORK'S CHATEAUBRIAND STEAK HOUSE Co-Star Sjdncy Poitier In Corner His Accustomed Place He Gets Out Funniest Thing That Ever Happened In The Carolina CALL 536-2635 3911 1ND BLVD Open 5 PM-12 Frl-Sat-l AM Home of Bubbles 'n Beef ezzn TASTY APPETIZERS with EACH MEAL! TOP CHOICE SIRLOIN DINNER $375 mzz3 BROWN BAGGING PERMITTED ALSO STORKS AT nNumioit cotQt it ouuie GEORGE SCOTT Last 2 Days Steiger Poitier 0 iEarn Oscars Fo fV Carrying Message mm? Vv FRENCH Serving' The Finest USDA Prime Steaks Open Doily Except Sunday 5 pm 'til 11:30 pm North 1-85 and Derita Road Cloverleaf a Man'7 WINNER 111 lANQ A WOMAN i I 30-3 303 30-7 30-9 30 COIOR CHARLOTTE'S LEADING THEATRES EBSSQS NOW A truly different motion picture! THRU TUES Mark Damon "JOHNNY YUMA" Jhows 1 3 7 Read Observer Ads Daily For Bargains In the heat of the night won Sidney Poitier Rod Steiger Warren Oates Quentin Dean James Patterson William Schallert Lee Grant Scott Wilson Anthony James and Larry Gates directed by Norman Jewison based on the novel by John Ball in color At Cinema I A REVIEW BY DICK BANKS Observer Staff Writer Hod Steiger and Sidney Poitier should share an Oscar lor the intermeshed portrayals they accomplish to give a solid core of honesty to the excite-Tnent of The Heat Of The Night" Neck and neck like matched mile runners they pace each LASTdays "THE ENDLESS SUMMER" Surfing at Its best shows 1 RHONE TOR 1 RESERVATIONS 537-1234 537 7414 UNIVERSAL JULIE ANDREWS MlLLirl MART TYLER MOORE CAROL CUANNING JAMES OX in ROSS HUNTEP ptoduclion ol MoSMitUL NORTH 29-SOUTH 29 THURSDAY ssa ngsrj mttr MATINEE WfD-SAT-A SUN 2 15PM EVSNINSS 315 TECHK1C0L0R BEATRICE LILLIE STARTS OCTOBER 18th! SPECIAL LIMITED ENGAGEMENT1 fPARITERRACyiHEATRE EVERY MONDAY NIGHT IS- FAMILY STEAK NIGHT FROM 5 PM 'TIL MIDNIGHT AT IWAII LAST 3 DAYS! Ph 864 8776 IVIRITT Emrn EREtOOM WLUGeVSMOPWNG CENTElf 1 EXCITING SHOWS 2-4-6-8-10 IN COLOR! LAST 2 DAYS! GASTONIA other through this film down to the wire Can an overweight smalltown Mississippi sheriff find anything to like about a lean hard-eyed Negro homic ide sleuth fiom Philadelphia Pa? That In more-or-lcss soap opera terms is what this strangely original motion picture is about The whole bit 'sounds farfetched? Well just so much more credit must go to these actors for selling successfully this lesson in racial respect Steiger is stuck with a very murder case A visiting industrialist has been conked in the head Poitier in town to visit his mother ascends from stranger-suspect to recognition as the best brain in towm when it comes to cracking murders And at the same time Poitier fights an admirable running battle to sustain the dignity of his race That he should survive to see another day after trading slap for slap with the Mississippi white bigshot is of course mighty farfetched But the intensity the picture generates takes it skimmihg the thin tee of 'situations like this Actually Poitier has the easier role lie has only to be his own proud rugged self Steiger admirably and generally believably shifts from his first-reel attitude toward the Negro to the camaraderie of the finale when he totes suitcase to a northbound train Most motion pictures dealing with race problems of the South reek of bias The objectivity of this film strikes its message home WEEATTY EuiiAWAy Iff? 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CONTINUOUS SHOWS DAILY AT 2 3 8 SUN AT 2 8 Low Low Prlcesl $1 25 75c K'-ith 4ovmz FULL LENGTH IN COLOR THRU El CilAlilPASNE Dick Van Dyke Debbie Reynolds "Divorce American Slyle" In Color Something LUV with Jack Lemmon Peter Fa Elaine Way and Nina Wayne directed by Clive Donner in color At the Visulite Theater A REVIEW Bv DICK BVXKS Observer Staff Writer The motion picture veision of is di oil but hardly hilarious The zippy pace of the stage piesentation there It's haid to believe that any comedy with Jack Lemmon Peter Falk and Elaine May for front-runners shake the house but somehow they manage to miss dead-center with this film Stick a pin in the celluloid at any givrn spot and ou'll get laughter But put it all together and what you hae is less than any of its single seqiu nces All the best comedy scenes are the sex-frequency chart the hand-on chest enn-veision to lo and the vrong-man-ovei-thc-iail The sly mockery of most cherished com ei satioiw belies is given full value Time's even a revamped finale to help do away with the sense of incnmplelcnos the ougmal pLy Apparently it was this effort to do full justice to the bright facets of Munav Sclusgul play that betraved the The sirren is over-stu'd If Lcmmmi talk and May had just junked and stiuek out on their own they would have given a moie Delectable UJ minutes of fun You'll Love The "FLIM FLAM MAN" Double Dealing Delight In Color p-9v Bio Spectacular! 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