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Show ' Oklahoma Crude:' good film with flaws and mentality that would be out of place in Oklahoma even Fv Jerry Osier Knight News Writer NEW YORK If it had only let its people be people a instead of stereotv pes, Crude could have been an exceptional movie It is frustrating to h3ve to report that it is only vey good (The h'm, rated PC. opens Wednesday at the Fox Cottonwood Mall and Highland dm ) The problem is anaeronts-mi- c screenwriter Marc Norman. He sets his story m ltd 3, but his style and sensibilities are mired m the 1970s It is as though he has looked at the of the beginnings through aviator glasses, tinted with modernity The barest bone, of toe been would have story enough' Lena (Faye Diina-vay ) is determined to bring m a wildcat oilwell, she gets help from her estranged father (John Mills), who loves her, and a drifter (George C. Scott), who loves money and she is her; eventually, opposed bv the monopolistic Oil Company and its evil enforcer (Jack Palana) 'Y - today After hearing her, from a distance, open the movie with an inelegant son of a bitih. we see that she is br.iess beneath her longjohns. If 1 had a choice, she say s. l'd want to be a third sex, in between men and women, wi'h iv.o sex organs, one of each Osla-hom- AV C n i r i - , V t va k Oklahoma Crude matures as it goes and it drops ils along, preoccupation with Lens Fortunately, to deal with a more significant (ami the angumh of havtiieim ing lo i boost what to ni.ike of one s lilt The problem of ihotit m a familiar one for Kramer Some of the best of his 90 mid movies 'High Noon Pome of the Brave. 'The Wild One." Itu Caine have had it as Mutiny non-seua- v ff S. U s'' v. o' . . ,1. - Pan-Oki- ; '? coers Oil in George C, Scott, Faye Dunaway Oklahoma Crude, opening Wednesday at the io Cottonwood Mall, Highland drhe-in- . INTERMOUNTAIN -- T'iVi A wild raunchy rip n. - Kramer has ,dso li.uullid well a problem of filming in Panov ision. vvlnae ciioimeiislv wide screen makes ilnsoups He pra tic ally impossible oviic'imis tins limitation bv placing bis characteis in a coiner of the flame against r' n wood urn itr ) GEORGE C. scon 3'- - r ? v , uv11 ii V for TIMES CALL -- SARAH MILES 4 gw ' p CLINT EASTWOOD fUHtUi mr.Ti pt.attjs nnTwri? nmmomioi emmwmm Of Class w I SOOGfSTre 6U0AHC nmi MMm EH. "zZ4Dirt 9 both ?c "jX BURT REYNOLDS r IdtiT'.nvia'.'0 - ic I? OS 0C6 lvOb 6 THEATRES! world. But its the only world they know. And theyre the only DUNAWAY h' l'l vear old Wiijit. t'.di'oiiiui (ollege student will nuke las movie debut with lav Zandv 's I limunn in Bi ide for W ai ner Bros a flts a grubby, violent, dangerous FAYE - it pi) steveti ' V I lVluts (olli'jro laid fj 3 x W THEATRES, INC. 486-744- The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing. fj 'V o'k A Touch George Segal roaring yarn! f. 'Oklahoma Ciude. lias a score by Henry Mannm that is delightfully 'American " If onlv its scnpl vveren t so Now y ?rr; r'l Burt Reynolds is r i l; An Alex composer hiHioimg say lov e POD ((I'll -Godfrey Cambridge tack of for Liverpool. England, to to star with Genevieve Pace the line story in Michelle, of a British clerk wmker HOLLY But Norman and director Stanley Kramer have made Lena more than just an they've made her a Now Woman with a manner 4r !7tti Fast tiigene .lelesmk will conduit the Salt 1 ake Philharmonic Orchestra in a piogrnm Cambriilgi Abroad Now Woman Guest artists for the evening will be George Alexander, Billie Loukas and Bob lkivis. Hie concert is rponsoied by the Salt Lake City Parks Department. the Mu ic Peiform-anc- e Tru-- t Finds of the Recording Indiistnes and Comm.s-sione- r Conrad B Hamson derson. annual pioneer days celebration will be the Pavs of 97 Pops Conceit, Tuesday at S dll p m m the Highland High School their subject And as be did in those movies, Kramer in Oklaho- ma Crude" accentuates this inner struggle by plating n in e t'tahs Kukirg otf And the faces are eloquent Scott says volumes with hes and lips alone, eyebrows Palanee's lulled skin is the definition of evil, to see Pave Runaway s Lev crumble as she tries to roll a cigaiet after her father lias be en killed is to hear of the love she would never let heiself The excellence of tins mov le is in its simplicity; Normans aript, cxiept when it lets l.en.i ramble, is minimal and Kramer has a notable wav of treating the spaces between the words. He has a sense of the cautious w ay people mov e about each other without speaking when they're scared or when tliev're falling m J 1U, Pop Concert Tonight at Highland backgrounds whose lightning forces attention on their faces. n the si np'est of settings this case, a domed .nil crowned by a shack and an ml derrick. The lull's isolation, as bv Robert photographed Surtees, is profound. IiivhUu.v, Juiv the jil l.,int Inbuilt, vMl nans fcfs UVEfgJv. james friends Eddie has. JOHN MILLS ft 33r ijj; i LOVEfS GBTOHiiOiHO PALAKCE uKLiOMrt CRUDE") m? iosuj jost tsn od to 5e t5is years sleeper tod emulate the lYAY!it,1tei8AJlOSWa si. AI 2 THEATRES. . . and HIGHLAND DRIVE-I- WESTERN PREMIERE COTTONWOOD MALL lAnaWll iTJirmn TR gawimx: f ftMKSffll N I'ftrTED STATES CO MJLPSMAL PG Co Hit"WHERE DOES -- iUvi (nnVaLdujjiialS JOHN WAYNE COlWWOTWlllX I FOX 2S4TSl"7 IT HURT 2" iS ROGER MOORE . s CHfTtD STATtS MAKSH4L AND :nds tonite! 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