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Page Colorado Springe Gazette Tclegrapti Saturday, July 26,1969 CIIMEMA 70 lUC 24 BEST CTURE OF THE YEAR! WINNER 6 ACADEMYAWARDS OLIVER REED RON MOODY iHJ TtCHNICOLOR TODAY AT SUNDAY ATaOM Itt.M) AU SIATStESEIVID OHtrs Acctotml TKRITSONSALEATOOOt AS USUAI IhenSI.SO hitar til SOc 3rd FUN WEEK! FEATURES 1:10.3:10,5:30, 7:30 and 9:40. WALT DISNEY Sl.ai KiOt 7ii4 Ends Tonight! Dean Martin The ms Wrcclcins Crew 41 10 EAK Mi til 2, tliMSI.SO CkildroM At 2:52,6:09,9:26 TfCHNICOLOR SKY VUE Drive In Gale, Showt 0:45 3 4 BIG WilKI TIMUY AS TODAYS NEADLINES OtSS in Pluf at 11 i 19 in cDler Glanii Fard of the evil gun" TPC in color MORE BI6 THRALS AT 1:15, fiAUAJI 8 th STREET 7:30 liAD lABlY ailD CAATOONS 3 Big Hits! aiSTACTOt I PC A MINUTE TO PiAY A SECOND TO DiE Alldot 12t1S iMatad in ro dmoo Mcttnoo tuiidoy 3:30 MOOCOMIDY Jack Lemmon and. Catherine Deneuve are April Trchtticolor PLANETS AMPIRES Now Showing At the Peak Ever since EkJison invented his in 1883, talented have been consistently new fields, new themes, and new subjects for films of special entertainment value. After 74 years, with so many fields already explored, not often that someone develops an imaginative new idea for a film. Charles H.

Schneer does, however, in the Warner Arts production of Valley of presented in exciting and Technicolor, now at the Peak Theatre. This unusual adventure film directed by James starring James Franciscus, Gila Golan, and Richard Ison, introduces the concept of the science fiction western to the screen for the first time. Valley of reunites Schneer with associate producer Ray iiarryhausen for the seventh time. This dynamic duo developed the spectacular Dynamation process, which is being used for key scenes involving prehistoric creatures discovered in a hidden valley by a touring wild-west show at the turn of the century. The names, Schneer-Harryhausen, have become synonymous with visual innovation combined with action-pack- dual efforts as Came from Beneath the TVL bad Voyage of Sln- Although the film takes riacc in Mexico, Valley of was shot by Erwin Hilher, one of top cinematographers, on in and Cuencas, Spain For scenes in the plaza de toros, Schneer ar- with authorities to delay beginning of the bullfight season for two weeks.

Local aficionados were furious until they were invited to watch the wild- west show staged there for a iiim sequence. not a single motwized vehicle used in the film but are plenty of horses and a burro. Vintage buggies and wagons of the 1912 era were brought from as far away as in the fUm. director easily found dark-haired, brown-eyed types in to portray North American Indians, he had to have their waded, leather costumes and fathered headdresses made in England. Also from England young, trained The fast-moving actkm itory deals with a traveling show of 1912 which stumbles upon a valley where suCh prehistoric creatures as the sty- racosaurus, the pterodactyl, and the allosaurus are still livii.

Valley of starring James Franciscus, Gila Golan, and Richard Carlson, costars veteran character actor Laurence Naismith, fresh from his role of Merlin in Warner Gustavo Rojo, Arden, a youngster from London, Freda Jackson, Arizona cowboy Dennis Kilbane, and Spanish actors Barros and Jose Burgos. II AT THE PEAK monster time at the Peak Theatre where Valley ol the is now showing. On the same program is Golden Tht VUlMt Iitn KSTAURANT PUB LOUNGE 217 East Pikes Peak Ave. 3 ffORPOR HITS! VIST A VIEW OHIVEIN HITS! TONIGHT ONLY On OLD HIGHWAY S5 17, 3V2-S17S YOU among the crawling creatures of evil that make the night hideous with their inhuman craving I.