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The Herald Statesman from Yonkers, New York • 9

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Yonkers, New York
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tt i r. 1 d'' y. i "THE HERALD YONKERS, N.Y., FRU AUGUST 20r IV7I I The New Movies y. Tfy lrV Handsome, nally been made for you eyes alone! A 20th Century-Fox Picture at Sutton Theater. The.

script is pointless, the direction, woefully inadequate, and why embarrass thh nice actors any 'further? Twitchera of the world, a picture has fl- and Benjamin is left alone at Laguna Beach to twitch by himself, until a psychiatrist, Patricia Is called In, but who, instead of gotten how good Brynner can' Mike' Nichols to direct It. It be, and so, we suspect, had He. was called The Graduate But hes superb In this. and 'eqough aaldow he has tkeB enrther Webb novel, Ihr the rest, ltlsthestoryof a Young Stockbroker," engaged Loren- three Jewish horsethieves. Ell I il i i i Tom OHorgan To Direct Jesus Christ Superstar uSS? Jr wroteTur- straightening things out, is the end decided to direct it whose livelihoods era threatened when the Cossacks A STORY- OF HEROES STEVE McQUEEN 'LE MANS' i I rWMMSOiXaWWOlUM.

commandeer all horses when the Russo-Japanese War breaks out. 20XC i STARTS TODAY AT FLAGSHIP THEATRES New lawPrica Palky. lOO FM. I dink SAT. 1 50 LOVE STORY AM McGrow Ryan O'Neil Shown At 7dl J0 Tom 0 1 or a a whou ihowy staging is an element in Hair" and Lenny," to direct Jeeus Christ Superstar," the Broadway stage version of the spectacularly popular rock music record album version of the New Testament He re- Frank Corsaro on the The show Is listed to open Oct 28 at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

Meanwhile, a modified treatment Is having a successful one-nighter tour. -Richard Chamberlain, who graduated from the "Young Dr. Kildare" television series to start at the Birmingham (England) Repertory and "Richard IT with a' stock company in Seattle, will portray the title character in Bechet' this lall-wini By BERNARD DREW Abraham Polonsky, who wrote and directed "Force of Evil: and 'Ten Them Willie Boy Is Here" and who prate John Garfield's "Body and Soul," credits enough for any one men, hat tuned his attention to the Russian- occupied Poland of 1904, to the shtetl, where the po or Jewish peaa-. ants, forbidden 'by the Coe- -1 sacks to do anything else, traded horses, stole horsesl and horsed around," In "Ro- -mance of a Horsethief." Beautiful possibilities for -Polonsky, but alas, thisjs not. Ms stoiyr1 David --Opatoahul wrote the screenplay and therein lies the tragedy.

Opa-; toshua little Jokes are not that funny, hia characterizations are 'merely cute without any real spine, and the. essential -drama underlying the various comic situations, are notreal- ized. is simply a folk operfi without tongs, for all of Shumans pleasant. mu-' sic, although Lalnie Kazan and -Serge Galnsbourg do Uft up their voices on a couple ol occasions. Polonsky, serving solely as director, has had to settle- for creating a series of -Renoirish tableaux vivants, and Inspiring, Yul Brynner to -give hls best-performance since King and as the Cbssack captain, in restless exile from Saint Petersburg -because of-too many amatory exploits.

We had almost for This time, everybodys luck run out, for the picture, which stars Richard Benjamin in -the title xrie and Joanna RMmkut as hia confused wife, Is a disaster, containing not one alngle believable moment. Jt Is the story of a young -stockbroker wfioj not happy in stockfaroking, nor in his marriage, although he loves his wife dearly. For some reason, he is Inadequate aa a lover (it has something to do with stockbrokkig, but it Is never really explained, Just llker everything else In the picture) and accordingly has taken to voyeuring. This upsets hia wife, who starts to and who, In desperation, takes a cab from Laguna Beach to Pasadena, to A few yean ago, producer' stay with her lister, Elizabeth Lawrenoe -Turman bought a Ashley, who has already css-novel by, Charles Webb and trated her husband, had the good eense to engage Adam West (they, too, are The resulting complications may be bqagfeed but Opa to-. shu has not hod the requisite Ingenuity be wit to create much more than one picturesque and attenuated Joke.

Fibned-in crystalline color, the picture is beautiful to behold and charm-ing In spots, but oh, what it might have been had Polonsky written it! An -Allied Artists Film at Loews Tower East Theater. 1 Marriage? Made For Twitchers wifh the Center Theater Group i at the Ahmanson Theater, Los Angeles Debbie Reynolds Is being sought for a revival of "Irene, a 1919-20 musical, which Harry Rigby is putting together for Broadway. sdk Warner will use the entire original Broadway cast in his movie edition of the Sherman Edwarda-Peter Stone musical, "1778." Playing the roles they portrayed on the stage win be Daniels as John Adams, Ken Howard as -Thomas Jefferson, 1 Howard DaSilva as Benjamin Franklin, John Cullum as Edward Rutledge, -David Ford as John Ronald Holgate as Richard Henry Lee, Virginia Vestoff as Abigail Adams and Lindsay1 Wanger Mrs. Thomu Jefferson. Theres eometlmes a tenden-cy, In making a film treatment successful stage-show, to follow the original version too closely, A striking example was the movie of "Mary, Mary," which emerged as a stiff, stilted imitation of the Jean Kerr comedy.

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Years Available:
1891-1998