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Page 4-D Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph Saturday, July 29, Fillmore Captures Rock-Roll Great White Shark Deadly Quest (continued from prior page) as a street scrapper) and nurtures the struggles of his past into a mammoth character that seems larger than life. Why did he close the Fill- mores? scene has changed. In the long run, we are all, to one degree or another, at fault All that I see around me now does not seem to be a logical, creative extension of that For Want Ads Dial-632-4641. Cinema Center Water, White which opens Wednesday at the Vista Vue Drive-In Theatre, chronicles the amazing larger-than- life adventure of four divers- and their around-the-world quest for the Great White ar the deadliest blooded predator in the sea. National General release of Water, White is an extraordinary film that has already been acclaimed by major criticis as unlike anything that has ever before appeared on the screen.

Time Magazine calls it cinematic and Vincent Canby in the New York Times calls it pure that as poetic as anything seen on the screen in a long, long time, including some of the most smashing, man-against-beast footage ever filmed by anyone anywhere at any Wanda Hale of the New York Daily News calls it thrill of a our mission was to confront, not commented Peter Gimble, a member of the department store family, who led the expedition, preoc- Barney wanted women in the worst way. And the way got them. DOORS OPEN 1:00 TODAY-ADM. $2.00 NOW SHOWING! (touts prestntt "Last of the Red Hot Cota by LAS ftoat 1:30,3:30,5:30,7:30,9:30 DOORS OPEN 1:00 TODAY-ADM. $2.00 FEATURES AT: 1:30,3:30,5:30 7:30,9:30 TODAY! best comedy of the year and the best love -NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE Made For Each Othe COLOR by DE cupation with finding the Great White made us at once the hunter and the This is a film about people who were subjected to this very special kind of pressure, outside ordinary experience, but totally real.

Water, White tells of this search by Gimble and his crew. is a shark apart from other Gim bel says of the Great White. is the ultimate shark. like comparing a Siberian tiger to a pussycat. It is the perfect eating machine, two thousand pounds of streamlined The expedition spanned six months and covered more than 12,000 miles, from South Africa and Ceylon to South Dangerous Reef, where the color cameras probed fathoms below the ocean to reveal the world encircling us.

Gimbel, tan Waterman and Ron Taylor, all of whom have had extensive experience in underwater photography, worked as cameramen for the underwater sequences. Hieir travels brought the underwater experts face-to-face with many of the largest and most spectacular marine creatures that exist, in- eluding various species of sharks (the divers often left their protective aluminum cages to swim among hundreds of sharks), moray eels, and giant turtles, large groupers and barracudas. The Australian husband and wife diving team of Ron and Valerie Taylor, of the most honored underwater experts, joined the crew of the Terrier VIII as it journeyed around the world, eventually finding and photographing the Great White Shark off Dangerous Reef, South Australia. Every technical aspect of und wa er filming was preplanned to capture the sounds of the divers and the rough-and- tumble adventure they were on. wanted to see to what extent you could expose yourself in the open Gimbel says, determine what the limits were in an alien environment.

The tone of the film is tense and determined, but not solemn. Light moments and funny ones are part of our Everything is the way it really was in Water, White with original treatment capturing the dramatic and spirited quest. The search for the most dangerous predator in the world reveals the power of the sea, its complex world, and the people who challenge its force. The New York Post raves Blue Water, White is experience as exciting as it is and Judith Crist in New York Magazine acclaims the motion picture as 1 a Vincent Canby of the New York Times says since I a 6 have I been so pleasantly exhausted by an armchair II Seven In Their Fourth Movie Magnificent Seven starring Lee Van Cleef, is the fourth film in the tradition of the highly-successful 1960 movie, Magnificent with Yul Bryner and Eli Wallach. Yet the new film is not a sequel in any sense.

Walter Mirisch, President of the Miri- sch Production Company, under whose aegis the picture was made, regards Arthur original screenplay of Magnificent Seven as one of the most exciting and inventive scripts of the Western genre. All of the films are released by United Artists, an entertainment service of Transamerica Corporation. It will open Wednesday at the Chief Theatre. Set in the tum-of-the-century Arizona Territory, the story centers around a famous marshal (Van Cleef) who must defend a border town against a horde of bandits the town has been decimated of its men, leaving only women and children. The marshall has only one available ally, a tenderfoot Eastern journalist who has come west to write the biography.

The lawman conceives a daring plan. Five dangerous but resourceful felons are released from prison to his custody, given a chance to earn pardons by serving as his posse. All are personal enemies of the marshal, who has put each of them behind bars. How the marshall keeps i strange, menacing together and organizes defense of the town against sixty well-armed marauders tacing the Seven with townswomen teaming the Seven with townswomen provides the unique and violent climatic sequences of the story. Night of Lepus To Open Friday Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh and Rory Calhoun star in the science fiction suspense thriller from MGM, of the opening Friday at Cooper 3 theatre.

Whitman and Miss Leigh portray a husband-wife science team attempting to control nature without destroying natural balance. As a result of their experiments, a mutant breed of monsters terrorizes the southwest. William F. Claxton directed for producer A. C.

Lyles. Don Holliday and Gene R. Kearney wrote the screenplay based on the novel by Russell Braddon. Deforest Kelley, Paul Fix and Melanie Fullerton co-star in the unusual story of what can happen when man tampers with nature..