THE EVENING STAR, Washington, D. C. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. C-6 THIRSDAT. AUGUST *T. 1983 AMUSEMENTS. The Passing Show Screen Hits Power Peak 17 In 'Here to Eternity' THE MAW WITH THE NAME ' By Jay Carmody ¦i VpBW&i I Stripped of its wearisome obscenity, “From Here to Eternity” ¦HItHAT NOBODY has been converted into a movie that should remain at the Trans- Lux from here to Christmas. Quite possibly longer. Underneath its numerous layers of blasphemous verbiage, starts Today James Jones’ novel of soldier life in peacetime Hawaii in the ijt ;Ij| Mt autumn of 1941. turns out to be' :• NEW WIPE SCREEN a muscularly dramatic subject “PROM HBRE TO ETERNITY.” a with which Hollywood has Columbia picture, produced by Buddy Adler, directed by Fred Zinnemann, YOU'LL LAUGH WORE THAN EVER wrought wonders. screenplay by Daniel Taradash. based * ...LOVE HIM on the novel bv James Jones. Song by If I MORE THAN EVER! ¦ In Daniel Taradash’s adapta- James Jones. Fred Karger and Robert tion, brilliantly shaped by Wells, background music by George Dun- Fred ing and musical direction bv Morris Sto- Zinneman’s direction, Jones is lon. At the Trans-Lux. Red revealed as a far powerful THE CAST. SKELTON I more Sgt. Milton Warden . Burt Lancaster observer of soldier life than his Robert L. Lee Prewitt. Montgomery original work disclosed. He has _ „, Clift Karen Holmes Deborah Kerr written a tremendous love and Lorene_ Donna Reed HALF A HERO Angelo Maggio ..-Frank Sinatra I hate story, savage and sadistic a Capt. Dana Holmes Philip Ober document into which are inter- Sgt. Leva Mickey Shaughnessy Mazzioli ... Harrv Bellaver woven threads of sentiment and Sgt. “Fatso” Judson.. Ernest Borgnine just enough Corp. Buskley Jack Warden softness that absorb Set. Ike Galovltch John Dennis of AndeTson g-tAr the shock to make it bearable. S*} Merle Travis Sgt. Pete Karelsen Tim Ryan “From Here to Eternity,” could Treadwell Arthur Keegan easily 1953’s best Mrs. Kipfer Barbara Morrison be film with a Annette jean Willei Sgt. wild scrambled for the year’s Baldy Dhom ... Claude Akins acting Sgt. Turn Thornhill Robert Karnes prizes among such of its _ ” Sat Henderson . Robert Wilke performers as Montgomery Clift, Corp. Champ Wilson Douglas Henderson foaturing the lovely tinging Sgt. Maylon Stark George Reeves Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Friday Clark. Mfflfemsjk Burt Don Dubbin* JOEL —' tr tentetion of the Broedwey hit— Kerr, Donna and Corp. Paluso John Cason Deborah Reed Georgette Kristine Miller "THE KING AND I" others. It represents the screen Capt, Ross John Bryant BARGARA HALE AUX NICOT JL at its best in every department, CHARLES DRAKE Stanley Warner's F Near 10th ’ Including one of the most com- Like her. Miss Reed can thank J3| DOROTHY -k pulsive musical scores. Author Jones for one of her best That it is predestined to be acting opportunities, one of = one of the all-time top money- which she makes the most as the METROPOLITAN makers is already apparent in its girl whom Clift idolizes. [ COMFORTABLY COOL sock success wherever it has Good as these are, none excels SARNOFF been released. Sinatra's performance as the aMr ** * * Mf* recklessly loyal, roistering Pvt. The miracle of the Zinnemann- Angelo Maggio who dies for his Taradash of the » translation friend Clift and the Maggio fam- ROGER RAY .j "Mr. Vaudeville" novel is that it leaves out little ily honor. aave obscene speech. the Not only from It is a lean, hard-hitting, these but all hard-drinking, cynical, emotion- the others, Zinnemann gets the PAULINE THORNE n||C kind of acting that “From ; : ally primitive report on a peace- makes .I i i ii Eternity” ¦ & “Uo time Army that makes it clear Here to one of the MID-WEEK VISITOR—Audrey Hepburn paid a visit here yes- Escorts VAN screen’s most why no mother ever reared her memorable achieve- terday in connection with her new film, “Roman Holiday.” boy to be a soldier. ments. The comedy-drama, which was filmed last summer in Italy, The key figures, among the It is not to be missed. will follow "The Moon Is Blue” at the Playhouse. multitude so angrily etched by \ wtop-tv'j ex-Soldier Jones, are four. These * are Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt Capitol to Drop * (Clift), a man of two desper- Desert Proves No Match BUY ate loves, the Army and a girl Stage Shows (Miss Reed) who works as an at for sol- For Ryan in 'lnferno' Vaudeville will lose its last “entertainer” a club stronghold in Washington diers, and sergeant (Lancas- a By MacArthur October 1 when the Capi- ter) who finds away to make Harry on >-• JOHNSON If you would like to “INFERNO.” a 20th Century-Fox pic- tol Theater drops the stage •. I'om Oi.tnt* line en . r r with his (Miss discover P"isCarl Betz fortunately, he makes the mis- at climax of Sheriff Robert Burton tures with occasional special “Inferno,” at the same time get- Mason Everett Glass take of joining an outfit whose Secretary Adrienne Marden stage attractions as supple- ting the moviegoers Waitress Pepper / I Ober) squarely be- Barbara mental features. captain (Philip • is ob- tween polaroids. Lee Dan White / *7 W winning Army the Fred Parks Henry Carter of vaude- sessed with the Ken Robert Adler Abandonment The Technicolor film, directed ville, a step taken team boxing championship. When by Ray is reluctant- Baker, singularly free ly by the management of his new man refuses to join the of 3-D trickery, ten in boxing however. It has Frances Cockrell’s the Capitol, is ascribed to team, the captain orders remained for Mr. Baker and screenplay, with a fine his sense —'—— “the treatment” for him, with the cost of, and difficulty in — cohorts to with for the humor of the man mercy demonstrate bitter finding, a balanced program no to be shown this side Fox’s first 3-D movie, in fact, who refuses to be i of insanity or death. murdered. of four routine acts. that the dimentional process can Ryan plays the role with a The order is exuberantly car- It is not the intention of j be used for something other than great feel for it, too, and makes ried out by the company the theater to close its back with pelting the customers. “Inferno” portrait of a man finding _• his stage area entirely. As The Captain r the exception of Lancaster’s ser- would acting Says have been a solid melo- himself one of the best special top-flight acts geant. This man, the best top drama lying flat on the screen, jobs he has of suf- kick ever'done in the ficient box-office promise be- Try Friday Special in any man’s army, goes but the depth illusion is employed movies. Our 1 along with the “treatment” only to heighten dramatic come available, they will be effects. Miss Fleming, an excellent ex- booked into the Capitol. to the extent that it does not It accents the vastness of the ! Imperial Crab j interfere with the torrid affair cuse for the use of 3-D and desert and makes more formid- and Lundigan Served with clam chowder, . 1 ; he is carrying on with his su- able the Technicolor, cap- almost unassailable ably fill out the rest of the given for lingering a litte too Saratoga potatoes, perior’s beautiful, frustrated , nature rocky - of canyon walls. triangle. The leading players long over the trials of solo life mixed salad, ( wife. Desert and green rum bun, heat and cold the have some fine support, too, in His This constitutes the brutal es- canyons the desert. “Inferno” de- roll and butter, coffee or tea. treacherous are a vital from Henry Hull, Robert Bur- f sence of Jones’ story of soldier part of the story. Its central serves some sort of notice in life, its merciful relief provided ton and Larry Keating, espe- figure is a millionaire (Robert cially from Mr. Hull, the annals of movie history for in his girl’s surprised reaction as a Served from 11 AM. to Midnight I I Ryan) who has been pretty hard desert-seasoned prospector. the use of 3-D for dramatic to Clift’s devotion and the loy- to get along with because of all Maybe Mr. Baker can be for- rather than shock effect. alty to the latter of his soldier that money. He inherited it and • buddy played by Sinatra. not sure how he would make * * * he’s AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. |> out without O’Donnell’s it. He breaks his Jfe* Zinnemann, one of the great leg in a fall from a horse one camera story-tellers, is remorse- day and soon learns how he 1207-1221 E Street. N.W. lessly insistent in sticking to the would make out. j detail of his remorseless script. ** * * Much of his film was shot at His wife (Rhonda Fleming) Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. and a young prospector (William Fboat^ijjjfflßß It is never less than documen- Lundigan) set out for help, but tarily real as it keeps step with never return. They leave him \TRIPS, its soldiers on the parade there on that canyon ledge to \ Tree dancing to Donnelly James and h*F ground, in the barracks, in the bake by day N. ¦ Orchestra 51.25. Child., doc. Refresh- to death and freeze \, K ments. Get aboard! beer joints, at the beaches, and by night, concocting an elab- MICHUt MORCAM tIRARD FMIIIPI VIVIANE (OMANCt stockade. story disappearance ji the orate of his Marshall Hall Park Mt. Vernon FRANK VILLAID FRANCOIS! ROUT NOII-NOII ISA MIRANDA Never do his cameras set lens to concentrate the search in f Daily 10 A.M. and 2 P.M. Marshall Hall Park: on than scintillating per- another J SI.OO- Mt. Vernon, $1.50. Children. 50c less area. It took *even famous directors to film it... | formance. Clift's Pvt. Prewitt is Revelation of his true plight P,ER N - A AT MAINE AVE. & N ST. S.W. i* ROIERTO ROSSEtIINI • YVES AItIGRtT • CARLO-RIM | his greatest screen role.' He is is not long coming • in to the in- lOUARDO 01 FILIPPO CEORCtS IACOMIE o JEAN DREVIIIE | a soldier who defies the Army to jured man. He starts the almost CLAUDE AUTANMARA break his love for soldiering impossible journey to safety, short ending his life. In the driven in his fight to thwart f of in .11 HI 1«A OfUCHTFUUY All CONDITIONED I face of its most inspired brutali- death by an understandable de- IKOth S rLA4A NEW YORK AVI. AT 14TH ST. - ST 9.4777| ties, he remains loyal just to his sire to confront his wife and the • ¦ private code as he remains faith- other man, maybe giving them . date I I ful to the seimisoiled girl who is some of the same. ¦"ofKI TUM. IEPT. \ , petulantly touched by his de- It is a flaw in “Inferno,” \ votion. though a far from serious one. CARTER BARRON ahead? Lancaster’s sergeant is a man that Director Baker documents THEATER UNDER THE STARS of matching caliber. He, too, is this battle between a man’s in- 16th & Av*. NW. Reck Rerk JAMES STEWART r~GEsfj^~l Col. Creek In love with an Army, even more genuity and the desert a shade 11 w..k« 1 1 so than with the captain’s al- too painstakingly. He could have LAST TIMES (Wen tlep aero.. 130 ««.- I IwfwpMut Bodgrri 9 .nd tperkling. luring wife. Like Clift’s, Lan- made the point just as effec- Hemmeritrln’e 1 10 e.m. .. mld«l«M I FULL'STAGE Febnloua Musical 1 the thr.ih.ld ’info the Dm.«9 caster’s is an exacting role, full ! tively with less film footage. By Chriitopher Fry """‘'l* . . . I of clearly caught subleties be- Still, he is a good man for the with 1 Room for Ji«n.r _y« TjCff££Wr the fUwl.ti F J neath its tough, sinewy surface. ; | sharp dramatic effect, using "THE HAPPY JOE HIMEY” * food »«rvod m t I W// J 1 % TECHNICOLOR i/f.7//l Miss Kerr as the wayward wife contrasts between the aban- By Thornton W ifilor \ % manner for whieft fho I A gives the performance of her doned man’s plight and his mur- \ » sheraten-Carl(on *«»•' »•"•< I **•’ m " v career in this country, a portrait derers’ luxury most tellingly. LAST 5 TIMES; \ h«i b.eome fomou* > ' I •4WIA* ' } suffering, pride, vengefulness, ** * * “My Heart’s In ths Highland*” of Comedy Vary softness, and ultimate despair. 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