The Montreal Star from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 33

dm iMMm ItfjItaMMItllHaaMMaMMdUlMllliMMMia 'WM -V4rV au-iMR trr wi 4 0 4 9 I o' 4 111 -r HT THE MONTREAL STAR FRIDAY MARCH IS 1981 the Westmount Al Odcon Atwater New Japanese film tells it 4like it was Burton Taylor and old Kit Marlowe Tracy boivs out in a brilliant role American a 1 1 and cruelty She becomes a street- walker then a FOR ADULTS ONLY (II y) the story of a Danish Barmaid who loved every customer and vice versa Tokyo merchant family whose parents were both killed in an American air raid When the movie begins To-shiko is living with a family in Kyoto to show her appreciation for their hospitality she gives them a pair of nylon stockings and a package of American cigarettes Just then a Japanese policeman swaggers to toe door and leads Toshiko away for investigation of possessing occupation Fawningly he hands her over to three American soldiers who take her into the woods and rape her in the glare of their jeep's headlights On toe streets Finding her way to Tokyo Toshiko is mistakenly picked up in a roundup of prostitutes and taken to a hospital where she is found to have a veneral disease Later three truckloads of American troops led by a lieutenant drive up to the hospital and systematically rape' all toe women and nurses inride They crush two newborn babies to death with their combat boots And so it goes as poor Toshiko sinks deeper and deeper into the morass of By ANTHONY LUKAS (r) New York Timet Serving TOKYO March 15 Japanese who lived through seven years of American occupation are getting a dramatic vep sion these days of what it was like At movie theatres across the country audiences 'are watching a film called Saga of Postwar which purports to show how American soldiers ran the country from 1945 to 1952 The film loses no time in making its point Even before the titles it shows a beautiful Japanese girl seized on a dark street by a drunken soldier who rapes and kills her on the banks of a canal A somber male voice ex- Elalns "The war has ended ut cruelty remains cruelty just like that which the Japanese showed in Nanking and the United States is again showing in Viet Distributed by Dal Ei one of five major film companies "The Saga of Postwar Cruelty" uses dozens of Europeans and Latin Americans to portray American soldiers The film is the story of To-shiko Ono the daughter of a By JOAN IRWIN JF "Guess Who's Coming to bad nothing to offer beyond the fact that it is the ninth teaming of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy 8M the final film of long illustrious career (he died soon after completing his scenes) it would probably be enough But the film has a great deal more to offer than the pleasure tinged with sorrow of watching two fine performers at work together for the last time a strong honest and remarkably sensitive film dealing with the problem of Inter-racial marriage Every prejudice and argument for and against such a marriage is examined with candor and often with humor not in a general preachy context but as it relates to the two particular people in question This is no harangue on the subject of Indiscriminate brotherly love nor yet a sentimental treatment of a very real problem It is a fine film full of strength and tenderness played with great subtlety and wit by an entirely superb cast Tracy Is a liberal crusading newspaper publisher happily married to an equally broadminded understanding human being played by Katharine Hepburn Their daughter suddenly returns early from a vacation bring- ing with her the man with whom she has fallen in love and intends to marry a handsome brilliant doctor who happens to be a Negro The liberal beliefs are put to the test: Do the parents honestly 1 1 that skin pigmentation counts fin noth kept woman and finally the mistress of a captain with a penchant for bizarre sexual games 'K v- rt 1 -r'-v -VVl i nsN-v'i-k -o 1 I-YI 5 YPW Jk V- wr it -J- i- VJ7 '1 i COLOR KARINA ii ris ITP PI AC I aOWaVEHTUai TEL--Fd s- "DOCTOR which opened at the West mount Theatre last night is the film version of the Oxford University Dramatic production of Christopher 380-year-old play "The Tragical Ilistory of Dr Faustus" starring in the film as in the play Richard Burton who with Nevill Coghill corrected the picture from Professor Coghill's script First let no moviegoer or Marlowe student be put off by the fact that supporting cast is composed uf members of the Oxford Uni-v 1 ty Dramatic Society The Society's standard of acting is much better than one meets in the average movie the performance of Andreas Teuber In the role of Mephl-stopheles being not only strong enough to stand up to Burton's virtuosity but one of the outstanding features of this unusual film But this is Burton's show and one would guess that it is a genuine labor of love art for sake Burton and Elizabeth Taylor (who is seen but not heard in the film) put up the money for the lion and in addition to co-directing and starring in what is substantially a ninety-minute monologue (Burton is never off the screen) he has also co-produced it with Richard McWhorter The result is Burton at his Russian art for auction in Nac York Xauttra NEW YORX March 15 -The first Russian works of art to be released by the Soviet government for sale in the US will be auctioned here late this year Parke-Bernet galleries announced Parke-Bernet said the works would include imperial Russian porcelaine and a large group of ikons The date of the auction has not yet been set but it may coincide with the April 28 New York premiere of the Russian movie version of "War and There was no Immediate indication of the number of items to be auctioned or their total estimated value classical best in a bravura rformance that does full stice to a stream of poetry and prose that only Shakespeare could match Marlowe killed at twenty-nine was never able to perfect his techniques as Shakespeare did and there are many dull stretches in his text but the Judicious cutting of Professor Coghill and Burton's reading of the lines leaves the visual effects of the direction and photography far behind the spoken word The cutting nevertheless is responsible for one of the several causes for possible confusion in the mind of toe average moviegoer who naturally expects to understand the whole story of a film without having to study a text or synopsis before going to the theatre It takes so long before Dr Faustus completes his transaction with the Devil that one is taken aback to find that twenty-four years have whizzed by and Faustus is being called to account What we see of his experiences make the deal hardly worthwhile (unless you consider a few looks at Elizabeth Taylor and one bodily contact worth an eternity of damnation) The glimpses Faustusis given of the carnal delights of the seven deadly sins did not seem to me either very imaginative or attractive As a straight film then this story of the young medieval scholar who sold his soul to the Devil for superhuman wisdom and worldly power is in itself neither visually nor emotionally exciting despite some very good atmospheric color photography and special effects The film is not sufficiently spectacular and this lack of visual imagination leaves the spectator with the feeling that the middle has been taken out of the film leaving onto the beginning and the end of the Faustus story But regarded as a film version of the stage play with theemphasls directed towards the best parts of Map text this film is a wonderful opportunity to see the play acted in masterly fashion against an atmospheric and evocative background impossible on htoge and I would strongly recommend it to those interested in classical drama in good acting and in Richard Burton at his historic best SJ TODAY AT 5:30 PM FAMOUS PLAYERS Newest Theatre CINEMA ing in the fine young man for whom they quickly develop admiration and respect or will they find high-sounding excuses to oppose the map riage? The family maid who has helped to bring up the girl is bitterly opposed to the who plans to ruin her life The family friend awarm -hearted priest is delighted with the happiness the girl has found and supports the young couple in their determination to marry When the parents fly into town to have dinner with the happy pair never dreaming that the girl is white the cast is complete and the already tense situation becomes charged with emotion intheagonlzlng quest for a humane and just solution The screenplay by William Rose is a marvel of insight and honest feeling the dialogue is nothing short of pep feet and Stanley Kramer's direction combines every possible visual and vocal satisfaction with a wonderfully deft sure pace Hepburn is splendid as always Tracy ia his warm gruff self though showing signs of fatigue in the face of his illness Sidney Poitier is entirely convincing as the young doctor Katharine Houghton niece) makes an impressive film debut as the daughter and another newcomer Isabell Sanford scores strongly as the family maid Cedi Kellaway is irresistible as the family friend and Beah Richards and Roy Glenn Sr are excellent as the parents 15 feet ii rt: 105 115 520 750 040 Latt Caaiplata Shaw fOS pm 7 week ALBERT CAMUS ANNA FMtiMi laa sit Located in Centre Laval Shopping Plaza corner Boul St Martin end Autoroute Exit 7 (Chomedey) Laval FOURTH WEEK! 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