The Daily Item from Port Chester, New York • 49

TTa-v Jf v- Jf- fw -fcVyi THE DAILY ITEM Port Cheslar NY Wad Dec 26 1273 haJ3 reunites idols Chiago con men who hope Uv fleece a big New York gang lord (Robert Shaw) because he has Mlledheirfrieitd and who are tfiem selves followed by a viciotrf Chicago copxon the take maybe the FBI and God knows whom else each conning the other Here and there is a chase here apd there a murder here and there a twist There is a nifty one towards the end and the final one is good and genuinely surprising but it takes too long to get there IT IS SET in 1936 and there By BERNARD DREW What would be more natural than for Paul Newman and Rotert Bedford the superstars of the supper "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" to team up again along with its director George Roy Hill in a slambang ripoff of Chicago gangster movies of the Thirties called "The Sting" Right? Wrong "The is not a ripoff at all As written by David Ward it is a nest of Chinese boxes wheels within wheels within whelles and a highly convuiuted plot of two are some amusing Saturday Evening josttype oLillustra- were drawn by Clarence dington Kelland for -the opening titles and these are retained throughout the movie along with rlcky-tick music on the track And that is indicative of what is wrong with the film What is 'piquant and even nostalgic used once becomes precious and cutesy if repeated endlessly and "The Sting" which runs for more than two hours has no more than three or four good jokes in it and Famous quality Polyester Tires with steel Safety Spikes to bite through packed snow and ice settles the est of the time for sh ticks gimmicks and twists which reach a point of diminishing returns beftfre the motile is palf over THUS Robert Redford is the innocent young con man who gets into trouble with crooked cop Charles Durning and New York racket boss Shaw and os he must flee to the hideout a' deserted merry go-round which doubles as a whorehouse of older big-time con man Newman who is hiding out from the FBI On the 20th Century Limited they fleece Shaw in a cleverly arranged poker game and then set upa phony gambling house there to entice him and finish 'the Job while the cops are knocking at the door REDFORD is his boyish self and we always root for' Clark Gable playing in "San and "Manhattan moustached and Shaw who not only hah a moustache but a limp and an Irish brogue Skeeler Davis Sin A7S-13 tutalcss blackmail pgr lira Fed Ea Tax no trade needed iWadnmudtfc: Teheleia lgj NASHVILLE Tenn (AP) -Country music singer Skeeter Davis suspended from the Grand Ole Opry said she is going on tour with the "Christ is the Answer Crusade" "It is going to be a real challenge to represent Christ on the road" she said I'm not singing in the Opry A pair gives you the traction you need to go in Ice Mud Snow Strong4-ply Polyester Cord Body' Rugged cleats built to handle winter Use of metal studded tires is prohibited in some States Gheck your local law quits Miss Davis and other Opry performers have said it was because she criticised the Nashville police for making the arrests Crusade leader Bill Lowrey who will accompany Miss Davis on the tour said he has rented performance halls in St Louis Mo Davenport Iowa and Peoria and Decatur On Tuesday Miss Davis attended a free Christmas lunch giveii by the crusade for about 200 persons "These people have made us more aware of what the rest of us Christians have not hem doing" she said Tuesdsay reminded many of us about what it means to be a Christian" Sixteen members of the group have been arrested since their arrival in Nashville The arrests stemmed from complaints of shoppers who said they were being bar assed by the evangelists at shopping centers Lowrey said the tour mil return to Nashville Jan 3 After that he said the would move on to Florida another now I might as well use my time helping" Miss difficulties with the Opry stemmed from remarks she made on the air about Nashville police arrest ing members of the crusade Although Opry Manager Bud Wendell has made no comment about her union bosses ifcnps gamblers all sorts of lowlifes who' are so highly connected that the law cannot touch them so-that various Fascist cops have taken the law into their own hands and are acting as saintly executioners Eastwood utter suchChkho-vian dialogue as never been wrong yet have and "There's nothing wrong with shooting All the best people get and a Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight A Warner Brothers picture at Criterion and 86th Street East Thea res New York City Master fulTire 125 Em 3rd St 67-7900 Parkview Tim 314 Now Moin St 965-0300 CIRIMAHflRmSOnlW "Dirty rides again in the preson of Clint East-wood in "Magnum Force" which is I suppose Warner Brothers' Christmas gift to all the dirty people who go for this sort of thing "Dirty 'Harry" was rotten enough but at least Don Siegel directed it -with style and panache and he is one man who can somehow persuade East-wood to simulate something other than a aPithecantropos Erectus Ted Post has no such' gifts nor does the screenplay provided by John Milius and Michael Cimino provide any help Dirty Harry Caiiahan prowls the hills of San Francisco having been reduced from Homicide to stakeout because he is too quick with his trigger1 However a series of mur-ders have beep occurring all over the Bay Cities corrupt GUARANTEED TO PLEASE NEARLY EVERYONE BY ALL MEANS GO AND SEE IT!" 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