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Show I .. V"l 'V i Sign welcomes visitors to Heber Valley; but four Denver-bound travelers travel-ers disagree that little Heber is the "Paradise of the Rockies." Bedeviled boys try to free captive bison in new movie liy DAN WATKISS Editor-in-Chief fo lice themselves from l lie liama and isolation of adverse home lives and hostile families, six "bedeviled" boys set out to free a herd of buffalo from their foith-coming slaughter. These six boys and their pilgrimage pil-grimage to free the herd, is the topic of Stanley Kramer's yet-to-be-released motion picture "Bless the Beasts and Children". The audience is first introduced intro-duced to the six unruly pranksters prank-sters at their home away from home, a boys' ranch in thevieini-ly thevieini-ly of Las Vegas, Nevada. To add lo the ridiculousness of being a boys' ranch just outside of Las Vegas, the camp's advertisement claims "Send Us a Boy and We"ll Send You a Cowboy." The cowboy camp is divided into several smaller camps and the six important cowboys reside re-side in the "bed-welter" camp. They acquired this distinction, by being the least progressive group in the ranch. Defensively, the six attribute I lie i r "success" lo the fact that they're all misfits. mis-fits. The boys are all from wealthy lamilies, their parents ranging from comedians toairforcepilots. Their problems also vary from compulsive bed-wetting to regression. re-gression. Overall, they have only one thing in conimon-they arc all misfits. But this clement binds them with tight bonds. The foreboding homes of the boys are revealed through the artistic use of cinematic flashbacks. flash-backs. As the camera traces the actions of each individual cowboy, cow-boy, the screen divides to introduce intro-duce the audience to portions of that boy's prior life. These flashbacks are intermittently intermit-tently used while the misfits arc carrying out camp rituals, from shooting 22's at the camp director direc-tor to masterbating in the privacy pri-vacy of their beds. The plot of the movie takes shape when the boys reveal their plan to leave the camp, setting out for a near-by hunting club where an annual buffalo shoot will soon take place. The boys plan to free the buffalo from bondage, in hopes of preventing their mass slaughter by hunters. The scheme had been a year in planning beginning when the camp director took the boys to the previous year's shoot so he could "bag" one of the magnificent magnifi-cent creatures. At the time the boys were so appalled by the massive buffalo slaughter they swore they would prevent a repeat re-peat performance. They also felt obscurely related to the beasts: for both groups are misfits. "Bless the Beasts and Children", Child-ren", adopted from a book by Cilendon Swarthout. was the United States' entry in the Berlin Film Festival and is being honored by a special showing at the Moscow Film Festival. Its world preview was June 30 at the Alice Tully Theatre in New York's Lincoln Center. |
