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DETROIT FREE PRESS itf-C Friday, Feb. 20, '70 fThe best fun infnSe's the besl private I pvft in the hntfnpce 'The Honeymoon A Gruesome Tale of Horror Just ask the people he i It: does business with. BEQMl nominated for Academy Awards including BEST DIRECTOR SYDNEY POLLACK BEST ACTRESS JANE FONDA BEST SUPPORTING BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR ACTRESS GIG YOUNG SUSANNAH YORK i INI I I I I HI DAVID LJ i i I Hi i i' I 'fill in limrnttgitn HEMMINGS JOANNA PETTET co-starring GsorflB Sanders Dany Robin (x) Eastmancolor sii 7 Van r. s. does what is often a sensitive job as the tormented Martha and Tony LeBianco makes himself suitably slimy and sleezy as Fernandez.

Most of the viotioms, too, are splendid while they're still around. Personally, though I got mildly nauseated and could hardly wait to get out of there. UUULbCiE ooojosDcaxnj THE HONEYMOON KILLERS At the Grand Circus THS CAST Wsrttva Bck Srrh-lav Staler Ray Fernanda Tonv LoBianco Janet Fay Marv Jane Hlabv Bunny Doris Roberts Delphlna Downing RIpMcArdle Myrtle Youno Marilyn Chris Mrs. Beck Dortha Duckworth Evelyn Long Barbara Cason Doris Ann Harris Ralnelle Dovmlna Mary Breen "The Honeymoon KIHers." A Cinerama Releasing Corp. picture.

Produced bv Warren Stelbel. Written end directed by Leon a rd Kastle. mm NOW! IXCLUSIVI SHOWINGI jnnE Fononi" -New York Film Critics IF BY HARVEY TAYLOR Praa Praia Staff Wrltar Lonely women who are prone to tempted to answer ads in pulp magazines for pen pals or escorts might do well to see 'Cbe Honeymoon Killers" j-Hif they have strong stomachs or a natural liking tor the morbid. Leonard Kastle, who wrote and directed this macabre and often disgusting effort, has flone a painfully conscientious job in telling the story of "The Jjonely Hearts as gruesome a pair of criminal psychopaths as ever lived. Many Detroiters will recall the case, which came to a head with their arrest In Grand Rapids in 1949 for the killing of Mrs.

Delphlne Downing and her 21 -month-old daughter, Ralnell (who Is made to be six years old in the picture) They were extradited to New York for an earlier murder and electro-' cuted In Sing Sing prison two years later. They were Raymond Fer-, nande, 34, and his obese, 200-pound mistress, Martha Beck, 29, who, according to Kastle'B version, called the police because of self-disgust and her paramour's Infidelities. At the time, Fernandez told the Kent County prosecutor, Roger McMahon that "I ought to be killed" and Michigan au-thorites were happy to oblige and ship them back to New York State and capital punishment. That much is history. TAT MARTHA, a Mobile, hi PICTURES CORP.

PRESENTS PALOMW PICTURE A CHARTOf WINKLERPOLUCK PRODUCTION STARRING JANE FONDA MICHAEL SARRASN SUSANNAH YORK "THEY SNOOT HORSES, THEY?" GIG YOUNG BONNIE BE DELIA AND RED BUTTONS SCREENPLAY BY JAMES P0E AND ROBERT E. THOMPSON BASED ON THE NOVEL BY HORACE McCOY ASSOCIATE PRODUCER-MUSIC JOHN GREEK EXECUTIVE PRODUCER THEODORE B. SILLS PRODUCED BY IRWIN WINKLER AND ROBERT CHARTOFf DIRECTED BY SYDNEY POLLACK COLOR PANAVISION' Onfliml Soundtfk Rwwding on A Bwref dt( A SUBSIDIARY OF THE AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANIES, INC DISTRIBUTED BY CINERAMA RELEASING CORPORATION WOMIfWTED FOR 2 ACADEMY AWARDS BEST ACTRESS-LIZA MINNEUI 1 '-ti riTmTTL4( Exclusive Engagement NOW SHOWING with a hammer. Just to make sure, however, Fernandez strangles her with a stocking and Kastle records her death throes down to the last twitch. Then there's a poisoning or two with Fat Martha using her nursing expertise.

In another case a gun is held to a woman's head and her brains are blown out. 1 This is all done in the sort of flat, over-exposed photography that proclaims that this is a film intended to be taken seriously by the intellectuals. There's a token pass at hinting as to why Martha got thai mother and rich foods. There's no explaining Fernandez' villainy. TO ITS CREDIT, however, the film offers some excellent performances.

Shirley Staler BEST SONG "Cme Saturday Altnint" Poramount Pictures Presents An nul J. rOKUO Production Cuckoo Wiiat's lovable, luscious, irresistible decidedly IwLUTUHI Wendell Burton TimMdntire jnne based upon the novl executive producer rreenployby produced ond directed music cored by by John Nichols David Lange Alvin Sargent byAlan J. Pakula Fred Karlin Technicdor1 wipttwliea fun, THE SMILE THAT KILLS! PARAMOUNT PICTURES Nobody beat Caco at hit own game, becausa even if you you loiel KEN BARNARD DEL NEWS a masterpiece, SAN FRANCISCO Russ Tamblyn In 'Last Movie' HOLLYWOOD (DPS Former Juvenile star Russ Tamblyn landed a co-starring role In "The Last Movie" which stars Dermis Hopper. Orchestra Visits STOCKHOLM (TJPD The CHRONICLE Ala. nurse, fell for Fernandez' prose style after exchanging letters with him and deserted her job to move in on htai In New York, where she fell for his suave Latin con and he for her ample, porcine charms.

began the weird partnership with Martha posing as his sister as they went after woman after woman most of them aging widows or spinsters. Kastle hasn't missed a trick 1b pandering to the public's desire for the morbid and the brutal and there seems to; be just such a desire. -Thus, the audience Is privileged to See, for example, a woman bludgeoned to death ACE HIGH rrnpunr mi I Stockholm Philharmonic Orches BUD SPENCER LIVIO LORENZON STEFFEN ZACHARIAS I tKtnbt MILL BROCK PETERS KEVIN MCCARTHY tra flew to New York Thursday robust comedu and a whale of a show vto boot? to begin a concert tour of 18 U.S. cities, the second American tour in its 56-year history. The first was in 1968.

NOW SHOWING AT THESE THEATRES AND DRIVE-INS THEATRES rSMlil MMfj hi i ii 1 YOU HAVE KEVIX SEW DRIVE-IHS i mum ii mwm Jl WW I ANYTHI9CS lj in nn ma 1IKI XV'II I Starts Friday mju. iii Win (i IX STANLEY KRAMER'S Production stirring ANTHONY OUINN VIRNAUSI HARDY KRUGER SU NOW SHOWING EXCLUSIVELY SERGIO FRANCHI ANNA EXCLUSIVE SHOWING! FRI. 6:05, 1:06, 10:10 panavision technicolor United Artists SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION! "OPERATION SWITCH" IMnS'ISEKRIiVII I WOODWARD NEAR MILK TO30 I mm aBBilHBiiHBHBIIil 1lliMiTllfrtiP irffrrmraflWPf CD You could have read It fn the papers. Maybe you did. He was a coo! but cool.

She was a fat butfat They were lovers who tedrwrteymoons. Other people's. From which the other people never returned. a mu biiii a i MM -jmm All New! All the more IaiiiiiIiii imvI I Honeymoon Killers' is one of the best and, curiously, most beautiful American movies in recent years!" Roger Gmnspun, N.Y.Tlme "A natural for trus crime buffs. A seedy, sordid crime sensation thaf absorbing thanks to fine performances!" -Judith Crist, N.Y.

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