The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 91

mt THE KANSAS CITY STAR 5 Films This Week in Kansas City reduced prices DAILY TWI-LITE hour AT AIL NON-RESERVE SEAT THEATRES mmwnoi) THEATRES This is "The who know he had courage until courage was all he had left Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 1 by Bernard Malamud the fixer Alan Bates wioi ing ill Dirk Bogarde Hugh Griffith Elizabeth Hartma Ian Holm David Warner Carol White I METROCOLOR MGN fcj I BEGINS whose life is collapsing about her but she can not redeem this coarsened bungled filming of a fine stage Cliff Robertson does a fine job as a retarded man given a brilliant mind through surgery However the film pretentiously directed by Ralph Nelson from a glib script by Stirling is really a sci-fi soap opera posing as something "THE FLIM-FLAM George Scott is the Flim-Flam man and he raises the hilarious devil down South as he cheats and runs from the To Open (Wednesday at Rnskin Ranch Mart Centre Granada in Kansas City Kansas Englewood and Metro) Hunting and fishing documentary "UP (Wednesday at the Isis Dickinson and drive-ins) Drama about the black starring Raymond St Jacques and Ruby Dee Wednesday at the Bernard novel about a Russian Jew accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy is brought to the screen under the direction of John Franken-heimer William A Bryant producer and photographer of this hunting and fishing adventure is seen with one of his trophies Bryant spent five years in the United States Alaska and Africa making the picture which will open Wednesday at the Ruskin Ranch Mart Centre Granada in Kansas City Kansas Englewood and Metro make this film a superb dramatic "THE Rod Steiger is excellent as a soldier of 26 years experience who develops an unsoldierlv attachment to a young private in his company "GONE WITH THE back again this time expertly converted in 70mm for wide-screen display Anyone who doubts is the greatest romantic movie ever made is hereby invited to correct his KILLING OF SISTER (Plaza) Beryl Reid has moments of nearbrilliance as a lesbian TV star Kith i cont conventioneers 1 AH featuring newest Buries jsrm ExlraMThReADevil't Vl AeWafsT Comedians 1 On screen are these films regarded by the motion picture department as among those of more than routine interest or importance Key to symbols: Suggested for general audiences Suggested for mature audiences parental discretion advised Restricted (persons under 16 not admitted unless accompanied by parent or adult guardian Persons under 16 not admitted (All ratings except those marked by an asterisk are by the motion picture industry Those marked with an asterisk are by The Star motion picture department) (Glenwood II) Bart's musical may have slight flaws (certainly it bowdlerizes Dickens) but under Carol direction it makes a rich tense and engaging among the best film musicals of recent years A special reason to see it besides fine music and those lusty Hogarthian production numbers is a brilliant portrayal by Ron Moody of the most artful dodger of them all sly (Roxy Here is lean mean perfection in the treatment of a screen standard the detective melodrama Steve McQueen is in top form as the convention-flouting cop involved thwarting gangsters dodging a self-seeking politician (Robert Vaughn) and romancing Jacqueline Bisset Peter direction especially during a horrific car chase is "ROMEO AND (Brnokside) Writer-director Franco Zeffirelli does some major surgery on the fabric of drama and finds a vibrant surging full-blooded new life beneath The film is deeply compelling especially in the portrayals by Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey as the title pair) not to mention beautiful to see and amazingly relevant to our times (Kimo) John Cassavetes as filmmaker not actor presents a devastating-ly personal abrasive series of sketches of a group of middle-aged well-to-do Californians Despite some flaws this is a powerful and important film with a documentary naturalism seldom equaled "ICE STATION Rock Hudson is the captain of a nuclear submarine sent to the North Pole on a special mission Other stars in the Cinerama suspense film are Ernest Borgnine Patrick McGoohan and Jim Brown "THE Screening Room Alienated youth and the predatory world that alienates are studied from about every hilarious angle in this touching devastating exuberant comedy directed by-Mike Nichols hard to say which is best the direction the script or the performances by Dustin Hoffman Katherine Ross and Anne Bancroft Together they achieve a major American film triumph (Glenwood) The musical portrait of the late Gertrude Lawrence is opaque and suffers from a bad case of giantism Even so star Julie Andrews has attractive (if unenlightening) mo- IT'S FRESH EXCITING A MOD AND A WOMAN 20TH CENTURY FOX COLOR BY DELUXE NO ONE UNDER 16 ADMITTED ments as she sings and maneuvers her way from show to show romance to "FUNNY (Midland) Streisand repeating her Broadway role as Fanny Brice is the best of all possible reasons to see the movie version of the musical In short she is which saves the film as a whole from suffocating under its own glossy ill-conceived hugeness CHITTY BANG Shades of Mary Dick Van Dyke back again with a different leading lady Sally Ann Howes) to charm the youngsters with a tale about a nutty inventor "THE HEART IS A LONELY A good screenplay based on the novel by Carson McCullers and an outstanding performance by Alan Arkia as a gentle deaf mute who desperately wants to belong combine to THEATER plus CUFF ROBERTSON CKA5I CLAIRE BLOOM TfCHN on Screen Bold andReveahM 'IN HOT BLOOD and Spec' $Ho 4:00 MOVid Downtown 9J ADULTS ONLYl TOWNE 2 TECHNICOLOR EMBASSY I EMBASSY II TWI-UTEHOUK IZSj TODAY AT TWI-LITE HOUR ADULTS 90c Emb 1114 MAIN RD 438 NICHOLS US 2:00 PM CONT Color Color 'karlEmaldenn 'BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN SINATRA "THE NAKED RUNNER" CARTOONS I PARK 2712 Te 1-9018 A Colores OMAR SHARIF Oliver Cordero BARBRA STREISAND Como Pescar "MEXICAN NEWS "CARTOONS' PARK 2712 TE 1-9018 Maricruz Joaquin YELLOW 4:00 7:10 LI 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Super and Metrocplpr -Leo Mishkin Morning Telegraph second time I saw Oliver I found it even more enjoyable than il Sheilah Graham TriG Tirbli Syndicated Columnist A big robust i A 12 jrxitidfrf Liz Smith i 1 1 1 Ci ill Cosmopolitan Magazine TO ORDER TICKETS BY MAIL indicatedate tune number of tit kets Sendcheck or money order payable to Midland Theatre and enclose stamped self addressed envelope TO ORDER TICKETS BY MAIL Indicatedate time number of tickets Send check or money order payable to Empire Theatre and enclose stamped self addressed envelope rviccUEEIN AS 'BULLITT TD FOR MATURE AUt fCES TECHNICOLOR FROM WERNfR BROS SEVER ARTS TODAY AT 1 3 PRICE AND fndor Sjnoor Wetnetder Tiur UP- it under end me 1 tundor Thwtd or Neuwy Uiwdof SCHEDULI I PM 00 ML 0BML 2 00 ML 130 ML MI0LAM0 GOtO 275 275 300 275 2 00 ORCHESTRA 225 2 25 2 50 225 2 00 a no I 10 ML TO tt 275 2 7 S3 00 ti 79 S7 9290 MATINEE AT 2:00 TONIGHTAT 8:00 MATINEE AT 4:30 TONIGHT AT 7:30 CALL GR 1-8525FROM9 AM BOXOFFICE OPEN FROM NOON TO 8:30 TWI-LITE HOUR 500-530 ADULTS 5125 CALI GR 1-7725 FROM 9 A BOXOFFICE OPEN FROM NOON TO 8:00 MIDLAND 1228 MAIN STREET OLIVER" IS AMONG THE BEST MOVIE MUSICALS OF RECENT Giles fowler KC Star Him CHITTY BANG BANG FLIES 3 TIMES TODAY! 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CALL GR 1-8525 FROM 9AM BOXOFFICE PPFN FROM NOON TO 8 00 RON MM OLIVER RED HAPRSECOMBE asfsgm asc af and SHAM 'vyAiDaTDv' SI SupgtoUd for GENERAL udinc tv 'A) iNTne ArtfJ tfedger'aasi tyJO All) Bo BARI PYMxed bv lX)HN VvODLF Drsdeo Dv CAROL REED Sallery and Library Film Programs Char-e last silent ill be shown at 2:30 today at the Nel-nn Gallery of Art "The (Emmet telly clown tells of the ire us) and (cartoon) will be hown at 7:30 londay night at the Van lorn branch library Yiesday night at the outhwest branch Wed-lesday night at the South-ast branch Thursday light at the Westport iranch and Friday night it -the main library "American Music: From "oik to Jazz to will ie shown at 11:45 and 2:45 Tuesday at he main library The an deegeren (fam-us art hoax) will be in--luded in a program of ilms about art at 730 Wednesday night it the Plaza branch A film on French cook-ng with Julie Child will be shown at 2 iaturday at the Plaza branch NEGATIVES eegins Friday BRUARY 28th UNIVERSAL present DAVID WARNER CILLA BLACK ZIA MOHYEDDIN DAVID WALLER ELIZABETH SPRIGGS ONE WEEK ENGAGEMENT ONLY! 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