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ms&kf ihleri-ainWjeft;^li.v^i;.:^',y,',v!--., .VvtlV"' t tf:fc,^.-, •.^•^•.•ia..-.Jte^ faesdayj 4ct 13 (NBC) *• " 'iF»ur9(aay,;*>cti 8 ''<€!&>' •;.'.. This is a summary sftd T3BE CUtfiATt RACE {1965) evaluation of prime-time THE NIGHT OF THE films offered by the network ^LLOti^GtDAY (1969) *s I See It To ile televised in twro parts *• to its affiliate stations. (to ^lursday.and; Friday), this Check your local listings to • This vras an attempt by Mar­ is a* deUghtfully entertaining ascertain ft* your channel is lon Brando to make an artsy- spo>af; iqff pldJtaine -movie-making craftsyy ^realistic kidnap pic- 1 scheduling the network of­ • --r all the way from dressing fering. ture* in which four Americans 'Odd Couple- the hero in white and the- vil­ capture a wealthy American lain in, black to a spectacular girl ih Paris and then see their pier-throwing', sequence at the Bibi Aadersson as a Swedish relationshipi disintegrate as they fUrn's endy "' •• 1 try to collect the ransom. Does It Again pianist who , marries him. When V tUfoe great race of the title he is transferred to Rome;; she meets again her past lover Practically all the critics is a turn-of-theKjentury round- agreed that the,attempt failed By Pat Costa the-world auto race between (James Garentino) and she is Leslie Gallant (Tony Curtis) immediately torn between her and that what resulted was arud professor Fate*'~(Jack Lem- passion for the Italian, and her what NCOMP summarized as In a continuing look at the to progress to its logical con­ nvon),, new obligations as a wife and "a bloody exercise in sex and new television season, it seems clusion and Russell's role had mother. She goes off with violence,'' with shoot-outs, dou­ to be abunjdajitlyap.parenit.that -.. him laying, it on too thickly. . Dedicated by director Blake Farentino for an affair in- ble-crossing, sadism and even the entire-schedule is :heavy. Edfcwards to Laurelfand Hardy which; she hopes to rekindle dope. (One of Ihe gang mem­ with situation comedies. Another disappointment "is arul filled with comical sight- their former'love. "" bers, Rita Moreno, is an ad­ CBS' "Arnie", at least for this gags, broad, - characterizations dict.) In a quick count, excluding Herschel Bemardi fan. an.«i slapstick, this film was Originally released only this "Headmaster" which CBS terms ratal A-l by NCOMP and Many _ of the critics criticized a- sit com but whose premiere Bemardi plays a dock fore­ year, it was rated ^Restricted" recoammeinded as superb fam­ by the motion; picture iftdus-. the film, also, for a "cop-out" show indicated it was anything man elevated to an executive ily- entertainment. The two- ending, in which it's revealed but, I tallied 26 of them for the position with' all the attendant try (for scenes that wiU likely, advantages and, problems. Story part showing will insure that be cut on TV) and B, morally that the kidnap victim had week-in, week-out program­ yoni get to see all of the film's ming. development is plagued by a objectionable in part for all, by dreamt the whole thing, a plot sloppy approach and dialogue is riotous 2% hours. Commercial NCOMP, which commented: "If gimmick that one critic called The Mary Tyler Moore Show, nothing to write home about. bneaiks would cause too much it. were not for the lush sound to be left out in a one-night "doubly an insult because it rated here last week as possibly Saddest thing about this one is track, this film would be such lets the film give us a dreary the brightest of the new come­ that with a little more care it showing. an oppressive bore that the load of sex and violence and dies, will have to move over and could be a hit. Roger Bowen audience would leave before share the honors with .the Neil as the maniacal (about polo) then takes it back, takes it all *s Friday, Oct. 9 (CBS) the end of the screen credits" J {• Simon effort, . "The Odd" boss adds a funny touch. . . . "The Story of a Woman" back." Couple,"-, THE CHREAT KACE—Part 2 could only be convincing drama ' "Nancy", NBC's story about (See Thursday, Oct 8) for those who accept for real NCOMP rated it A-3, for • '*• Starring Tony Randall and the daughter of the president adults, but the movie industry i tfack Klu-gman, the first show who, falls, in love with a veter­ the shallow portraitures of Utilized most of the antics of inarian to the chagrin of her Saturday, Oct. lfl (NBC) 'true romance' magazines." rated it R, restricted. the play and movie as airell as" 'r chaperbrie (Celeste Holm) is DEATH OF A GUNFIGHTER the original Coo-Coo Pigeon sis­ neither as bad as its critics (1969) . ters, played by Monica Evans think nor as good 'as it might and and Carole Shelley. be. This is an. off-beat Western tteat is neither for children nor Randall and Klugman are at So Celeste's whipsnapping foer jeople who like to remem­ least as effective as Jack Lem- cracks were not worthy of a ber the Old West "the way it New Film Violence mon and Walter Matthau, prob­ wet linguini. So the star Renne was." ably the best known of the vari Jarrett is a bit bubbly and her ous teams who have played the boyfriend, John Fink, too, Richard Widmark plays a mismatched pair. Verdict: A middle-westemly sincere. Pres­ coatrpetent sheriff who refuses situation comedy that actually idents' daughters do fall in love to* resign, just because the city Need XX Rating? generated some real laughs. with very ordinary fellows as council finds him an embar­ witness the Johnson girls—and rassment now that the town New York — (CPF) — "If Neil Simon's other show on a nation watched them with fathers want to entice industry Blue is headlined: THE MOST ABC, "Barefoot in the Park" the Motion Picture Association SAVAGE FILM IN HISTORY." bated breath. to* -come ino their "modern" of America rated films as does not come off with as hap­ town, He knows too much about py results. Nothing wrong with Afraid, .though, that will not strictly on violence as it does In America magazine, critic trie personal lives of the coun- on sex, this one would be rated the cast. In fact Scoey Mitchell, happen to "Nancy." cilmon, so he can't be pressur­ Moira Walsh also accused Nel­ Tracy Reed, Nipsey Russell and X," commented Variety on the son of using an approach in ABC's "The Partridge Fam­ ed to leave. Their solution: R-rated Soldier Blue. Thelma Carpenter, making up hire a gunman to kill him. Soldier Blue that "seems to an all-negro cast, are particu­ ily*' with Shirley Jones makes me to be both a fraud and an larly engaging. nice music when it's singing. In The Saturday Review, artistic mess and largely self- The rest left something to be Lena Home has a brief co- critic Hollis Alpert questions defeating." But the timing is off, the sit­ desired but it could pick up. starring role as a madam who the supposedly altruistic mo­ uation in the first show failed Miss Jones is attractive as usual. naarries hint just before he tives of film-makers like Sam '^Basically," she said, "the 4 r- dies, and a milquetoast priest is Peckinpah and Ralph Nelson, film operates on the fallacy afraid to protest the council- who have made brutally ex­ that if an atrocity story is atro­ naen's treachery and later "re­ plicit -films — The "Wild Bunch cious -enough it precludes the peats" to a dying Widmark in and Soldier Blue—to show the Bishop to Deliver tlie- church. necessity for accuracy, histori­ "real meaning" of violence in cal perspective, sound drama­ The film got so-so reviews — our history. tic construction, human in­ sight or any other troublesome 2 Radio Messages psroftably because several direc­ l tors had. a hand in making it Tliese are two reactions to a nuances. ' -•.»- steadily increasing explicitness Bishop "Hogan will deliver life of* their children will "be WCOMP found it "only fitfully successful either as a Western hi screen violence that many "Nelson latciies onto an two radio talks directed to par­ the theme of the second t ad­ regard as just as harmful—if actual incident, that was an ishioners in the whole diocese dress. o»r a social document" and rated it A3, for adults, y not more so—than the increas­ aberration even/by the unap­ at 7 o'clock on Saturday eve­ ing explicitness in screen sex. nings, Oct 17 and 31, over a petizing standards of the fron­ tier, takes it out of context and seven-station network on the Most of the criticism is cur­ subjects of parish education Sunday, Oct. 11 (ABC) falsifies details and tries to Foliage rently being leveled at Soldier make it serve as a generalized and reception of the Sacra­ -EffiOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN Blue, a film about a U.S. cavalry ments. indictment, of our treatment of IN THEIR FLYING massacre of Cheyennes in the Indians. The Bishop will use facilities Report MACHINES (1965) 1864, an incident based on of WSAY, Rochester installed This comedy is subtitled, fact. TtfCOMP has condemned it "Ironically, it is the Indians AJHRONDACK-CHAMPLAIN for its violence. in Ms study at §0 Chestaut St., AREA: "How I Flew from London t& who are the chief victims? of and besides the Rochester sta­ Paris in 25 Hours and 11 this approach, They are never tion will be heard via "WRLX, Ausable Chasm — 20% color, Minutes," and is about a 1910 Directed by Ralph Nelson, portrayed as three-dimensional Auburn, WCLJ.-FM, Corning, on bright reds and golds appear­ international air race. earlier responsible for such people whose fate we become Channel 12 of Elmira TV cable ing; Blue Mountain Lake—peak gentle films as Lilies of the really outraged over because facilities, Channel 6 in the Au­ color; Indian Lake (Prospect It was praised almost unani­ Field and Charlie, Soldier Blue we have become involved with burn cable area, Channel 5 in Mountain} — 30% color, dull mously by the GiitJes as a dis­ features vivid violence: scenes- them as human beings." the Hornell • area and Corning red and yellow; Lake Placid— arming,, charming and funny of impaled arms and heads, cable outlet 88.75. peak, color, major colors red and falm, with Stuart Whitman as blood spurting from a soldier's The National Catholic Office gold; Lake Pleasant-Speculator the American flier, Sarah Miles heart, bullets piercing skulls, for Motion Pictures condemned This network regularly car­ — 60% fed and yellow; Long as the girl he wins, and Terry- women being mutilated. Soldier Blue, calling it repre­ ries the Family Rosary for Lake <— 15% color change, bril­ Thomas as the comically-treach­ sentative of "the sort of gross Peace seven nights each -week at liant red arid yellow predomi­ erous "Sir Percy" who will do It has been claimed that de­ piction of such violence is disservice American film-mak­ *C~ 7 p.m. Msgr< Joseph Cirrincione, nates; Old Ftorge—60% change, fust about anything to win the ers insist on rendering to their pastor of St. Francis of Assisi predominantly red and yellow; race, necessary in order to make Church, founder and director of Americans fully ashamed of the public and their flagging in­ Saranac lake—-80% color, bril­ dustry." the popular devotional program, liance average to bright; , Dhe xeal "stars" of the film, alleged U.S. massacre at My announced that the Bishop will Schroon Lake. — about 50% faoiwever, are the vintage planes Lai and of our treatment of the The violence in the film, said use the facilities twice monthly change, red, gold and yellow themselves, lovingly recon­ American Indian. But the cri­ NCOMP, "leaves one. shocked, this Fall and winter. predominating; Warren County structed and actually flown in tics, almost to a man, have as director Ralph Nelson in­ -^-10% color in northern area, fihe film. Try not to miss the questioned such motives. tended, but shocked in a way He estimates that this net­ opening prologue, an animated work will make ,the Bishop's scattered color in southern sec­ that sickens; not shocked, into tion; Whiteface Mountain — sketch by Ronald Searle on "Never, for one moment, do an awareness of an ugly event messages available to 80 percent such film-makers as Nelson and of the homes of the diocese. 50% color change. mat's early attempts at flight. in the past or into a sense of Peckinpah mention that a sorrow at how the Indians were The first talk will cover1 the FINGER LAKES x JSfCOMP rated this A-l and plethora of blood on the screen abused . . * steps the diocese is taking Penh Yan—10% color, yellow praised, director Ken Annakin is commercially exploitable," to meet the school crisis of fi­ and orange, average brilliance. for "this colorful comedy spec­ complained Alpert in The "The original good inten­ nances, enrollment and person­ tacular," complete with "ton- Saturday Review's put-down of tions, the honest desire to il­ nel. The Bishop will discuss the, HUDSON VALLEY gueiin-eheek script." Soldier Blue. -"Heavens no! luminate a painful segment of prospects for, the strengthening, , Sterling Forest—beginning to ^_ B--> They spend their $3-, $4-, and our history-,' fito perhaps stir $5%illion budgets showing us of the parochial school system turn; Tarxytown — 90 -195% Monday, Oct. 12 $NBC) shame for the'^past in order to and the religious education pro­ green. truth and assisting us in chang­ THE STORY OF A WOMAN achieve justicd' in the present grams for public schoolers. ing our ways. '—all evaporatg before the god SOUTHWEST GATEWAY (1970) y Mammon. Soldier Blue wallows The new guidelines for the re­ Allegany State Park —' 10% 1 Ixtra-marital love is the topic "The advertising arm of the in what it ostensibly abhors, it l. ception of First Confession and change, still mainly green; industry is not so easily takeri of this film starring Robert becomes ah example of precise­ First Holy Communion and the Olean — widely scattered dull in by this kind of bull, how­ ly what it condemns: atrocity 2. parental role in the. sacramental yellows and red's. ». Stack as a U'.Si diplomat and, ever. One big ad for Soldier and dishonesty." 3. 4. Wednesday, October 7, .1970 Page 2-B