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Show 6C DESERET NEvVS Frdciy, January 1970 16 'Paint Wagon A Hit - jsV Swedes Make S-IH- With Mixed Reviews Film our in 4 Bv SHLILAH GRAHAM HOLLYWOOD ollvwood Cnco M I N NEAP01.1S Mi NX. (DPI) The story of tin Swedish who imnngrans settled In tile Midwest moi than a century ago is t on nig to life again in a five hour fiOtion picture, the longest and most expensive evei pio duced in Sw eden becomes the fxrtt in his parish to leave for the United States. Except that ninth of ft is hot being filmed in Sweden Instead, the Swedes have come back to Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin to do the Slates consisted of part The 'Santa Vittoria' To Open Secret of Santa Vittona tlie comedy starring Anthony Quinn and Anna Mngnam, will open next at the Tower Thea ter and Hie Cottonwood Mall The story takes place in the dosing days of World War II in Italy. Nazis have corrie mto a small community of their tune Wherever the Swedes went, the local people were pleaseu both to meet i em snd to hear about the movie. A few of the younger set got a chance to Immi- worm grants." Total cost ta estimated at inure than $1 million, a bugs sum for a Swedish movie. Anthony Quinn and Helmut Dantine in "Secret of Santa Vittorio," coming to Tower and Mall. The director, Jan Tioeil, did his own camera work not for economic reasons but be cause thats the way he works best. Until five years ago he was a school teacher, shooting documentaries in his spare At a time whPn Hollywood producers, mindful of costs, are filming their epics in the highlands of Spam and the forests of Yugoslavia, a Swedish movie company sent a group of producers and actors to the United States twice to film hi the T ruled of just 40 per- 14 actors. sons, including Axberg doubled on sound. job. He wrote the book and Alan has been m and out of Hollywood for the past two ears, working on the film version of his stage musical, Paint Your Wagon The reviews or the film but were mixed, he said the business is great In one week in b5 theaters. It made $900 000 this is what it cot to put Coco on he board-- I told him I had enjoyed the book and the lyrics of Coro, which had received some sniffs from the critics. Critics, as far as popular taste is concerned, have never His wife, Kristina, is played Jiv I liman, a Korwegian seen in ai tress frequently Swedish movies. His younger brother, Rofiert, is Eddie Axlierg, at 22 quite the rage in Sweden. group -H- for the ivrics. by The (NANA) no place women single or married s nd Alan Jay Lerner, pausing for a breather afrer his latest Broadwav hit Cities U. S. i as extras. of books by - I P.M. nr he - 2 AND TOMORROW "Votor OToolt u (the seme mnt mrnH n ewsemdy odetvWe end rudt My digtrottpd bv Petuie OeHi pSimmoang twinkle. The O'Teel pgftenn-enc11 predif w(fy aubde " - SMITH d me e is right If the people h, d believed the critic- The Sound Of Music, always our (in-sexample, would have failed It is a strange thing, but the cutics resent big money spent on pictures. They say if you had not spent so much on the big picture, you would have more money for moit small pictures, he said You dont mind the bad reviews as long as .oure treated on the level you tried to wide it lie laughed "Just before My I air I.iulv (with Erednc Loevvo doing the music), a critic wrote. Why doesnt Alan Berner give up writing musi-cals-? P.M. e COSMOPOLITE 1 ic BEST ACTOR AND BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR . . . SAYS NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW OF MOTION PICTURES. BOY OFFICE OPEN 12 TO 9 PM. EVENINGS 8 P -- 2 P M. MATINEES VUN THRU IRl SAI VI THORS -PREH0L-- S3 M 00 This was after RATED Brigudoon! onetime allies and seek to confiscate the wine, a million bottles of which have been hidden by the townspeople under direction of their mayor This role is taken by Quiim, who then proceeds to protect his secret from the Nazis. A romantic side plot also furnishes laughs. " 'THE REIVERS' !S ROLLICKING!" WILL TURN YOU ON! P Km kiL N THE MUSICAL HAPPENING OF THE DECADE! i r' ,Q$OffOffOffOfiOffOgOftOQOr This is not an "I Am Curious (Yellow) enterprise. If is an attempt to tell of how the Swedes came to this part of America and helped to make ii great It is pax t of Minnesotas heiitage, and of the United States and of Swedens. The film is based on a se- ries for much, (in Med TODAY -- ii V ;V s Vilhelm Mob erg, a contemporary Swedish writer, about a group of farmers who left Sweden in 1850 and settled near Stillwater, Minn. The books have outsold any others ever written in Sweden and have been translated into a number of languages, ineluding English. Swedes have picked The their top talent for nts." Max Von Sydow, who starred in The Greatest Story Ever Told in the United States and a number of Swedish movies, has one of the leads. NATALIE WOOD The Immlgra ROBERT CULP 1 LiS'iutrzTn&n elliott gould cannon h y vsvri iHJaaa tutant hanuM ehi Si um iucm oukm t, MW Pmluai t W. HWKMKIt unWf I. dyanimuWCTEP 1C PWl jfE wt SHOWS AT 12; 001:50 plays Karl Oskar, a farmer who, despairing of He -- cto turraiir iniiimmmgiitf E1L0,ECLLT! 3:455:5O7-50.9-5exciuSivO poverty and starvation, mm smsm 0 S .EN3A0EWENTJ woe ntlTSTANDING NO ONE UNDER 18 ADMITTED! CO-fe- ati id . Wh would have suspected the sergeant? 1:30 r? aa mmf', SH18EANT TECHNICOLOR' i Happened To Aunt Alice?" Geraldine Page Ruth Gordon Matinee Set. 4:45 San. 1:39 p.m. VDUR WAGON , . gets a viagon full of vavasf "ABlG BAWDY fSEJEEm "What Ever A PAINT STUMS - nveiiuf Evening Perfarmancns fri. A Sat. 8:30 p.m. RIPR0RIN6 MUSICAL i" -- " HeU Nm foM Otop Mma HILARIOUS MV ENTERTAINING!" Jr "LUSTY ENTERTAINMENT' "A BIG MUSICAL HIT-I-N IHE WINNERS CORNER!' AN EXUBERANT WESTERN MUSICAL!' "THI SCfNIRY THI MOrOQMMT Hit THU ONI IN JEW CUNT MARVIN EASTWOOD SffiERG Hurdon ihtlriwfandlor mu lurrinf Daniele Gaubert NmoCastelnuovo RMNTYOURWAGOft A RADLEY METZGER production Rilinta through AUDUBON FILMS aipfe PA.N AVIRION RWMSION ALANIA) edt induetes OP tKw film wot iwbrn red under Motion Picture of Sf ftjgte!in Hv Suggested for nod end Cod QENERAt audiences Suggested for IM THE SUNDANCE K!0 aMTjiiee Sat l.isia-lS- . No oudiences (parental lion advised) "U 3 H I J0 DEL DIABLO" Fwtnttt Joequta Cordtre-Ai- m CFahir- pies VlfcNTO TUS PfNAS 'LANZA rlr It discre Persons under !6 not odmitted unless accompanied by porent or oduft guord'Oft (x) Person under 18 not admitted. w BUTCH CASSIDY AMO ft MATURE c ALANIA) LERNER if RNER 7c n.. wwOBib mawJOSHUALOCAN iwVNDREPtBlN nvwsovncavicaor (iwwwiMnniif & Evening Performances Fri. & Sat. 8:30 p.m. Matinee Sat. 1:30 & 4:45 Sun. 1:30 p.m. RESTRICTED TICKETS OK SALE AT CENTURY 21 THEATRE TICHNICOLOR HARVEHESNELL tei.FHE0RlCKlJOEM la 11 Ml CASS J WINSTON N.V POST 1)0 A TLjn.lVI 1 1 I fl f k 1 1 TICKETS ALSO ON SALE AT 1 Z.C.M.I., SEARS, I FIRST SECURITY I HILL A.F.P XlPERSQNS UliDER 18 K9T ADMITTED "CAMILLE HAS HER FLINGS IN HIGH STYLE." n Y. limit I |
