OCR Text |
Show The Salt Lake Tribune, Thursday, August B C 9, 1973 By Ernest Leogrande New Yoric News Wnter as it wiped them out successively. Oates succeeds tn being both appealing and dangerous. Johnson makes Purvis bebev-abl- e the broadly despite sketched Freudian terms tn which his character is drawn. Singer Michelle Phillips, of the Mamas and the Papas, with professional performs - -- "Dillinger Glamorized Hoovers Wish Denied NEW YORK Dillinger" opening Wednesday in Salt Lake City, is Bonnie and revisited. We have Gyde Warren Oates as John telling Michelle Phillips as a girl he meets m a bar, I rob banks for a livin. W'hadda We have Dillinger you do? his rural boyhood to returning wisthome for a reunion scene ful, with the folks We have the 0'$ Dill-ing- last-tim- glossy, picturesque deaths We also have the comfictionalreshape, pressed, ized .lstory For one thing, there is much obvious concentration on using the physical similarities of Oates and but Ben Johnson, who p'ays his FBI nemesis Melvin Purvis, is a burly older man who doesn't resemble the real Purvis, who was slightly built and of Dillingers own age The purists now may repair to their research files and begin compiling the evidence for and against John Milius fol-- ' lowing the facts. The others can examine it solely as entertainment, which Is what it seems to intend as Dillinger' strongly henchman, Homer Van Meter, who is given the assignment the movies comic. Steve Kanaly as Pretty Boy Floyd and Richard Dreyfuss as Baby Face Nelson seem to of being the with depresstoo song, We're in the Money and ends Ironically with J. Edgar , Hoover's voice saying he hoped no one would gtamort these gunmen. The gfamortza-tio- As for the Woman in Red, the Chicago madam who Angered Dillinger for the outside a movie theater, there is no denying the enduring fascination of her moment Gons Leachman Is given more than enough opportunity to milk the characterization in a long, overblown, doseup scene in which she agrees to the assignment out 'Hail to Chief Movie e The movie opens Ironically for be tn the movie merely spectacular death scenes. her first movie role as Dilimgerfs girl friend. Harry Dean Stanton stands skill ki n was Inevitable. DiUinger earefuJy reproduces the period tn settings and costumes but lets the story have its head. Maybe romantic villains are to de-- , mand tgain today. blood-spattere- V H:- Dill-mge- - From left, Geoffrey Louis as Harunidentified with ry Iierpont Miactress as Mrs, I'ierpont, chelle Phillips and Warren Oates as John Dillinger and his gal, may be seen uhen Dillinger opens Wednesday In Salt Lake City at the Itah and Iteduood Drive In. Kidnap Hitler? Mime Troupe to Perform Friday Seven Deadly Sins and a dance number based on the Ophelia theme from Shakespeare's Hamlet The Sell Lake City Mime Troupe will present an evening of pjntmniine Friday at SO p m at the Music Hall of the Iniversity of Huh The concert will unhide five comic and five serious pieces, all conceived by Troupe members. Featured ns ill be an adaptaentitled tion of Everyman director-screenwrit- It is account reer of do side a slick, of the careening caan American desperaby side with the growing pains of another American legend, the FBI. The FBI, with its Academy Award-typlistings of men as Public Enemies No. 1, 2, 3, etc., gave heroic proportions to these men while gaining stature for itself Fuller En Le LONDON Folie," a ?uny slapstick comedy about a bumbling attempt during World War II by three French soldiers to kidnap Hitler from his mountaintop retreat, is currently filming in The Troupe has tieen performing for the past five months in concerts at the U. of U and Westminster College as well as informally in the downtown area Tough Parody to Sell Le Fuhrer En Folie stars the French mimic, Henri Tisot. as the Fuhrer, We have Polaroid Land cameras by the truckload! istn It's true! Come in and choose the camera that's right for you MR P Square Shooter 2 The Colorpack $933 Easy-to-us- Built-- flash 108 for the other pack cameras 3?3 of MARY 12, SIMPLY FASCINATING! - It's not a case blind faith in a having film, contends zfzTSi I Levinson couldnt digest the fact that people could not look the government in the face & But something happened to change all that, namely Watergate. There is no question that Watergate was a lucky break for Levinson. His film was rediscovered, and Levinson suddenly found himself being hailed as something of a prophet, a prophet of doom, that ' per pacN LET HER the fairer fth South tis&mo (tal teJXns 9:45) Sui transom. NOS TRUSS. 'the taper nuzzle &3T9 at the year jvarHLmT.ii Yarktbgwne ROBERT ALTMANS JU0ES tXClUSIYI SUSANNAH YORK km A Mftraw 0 the at thr Cannes s ' Award Ft vai with bo escape' HARRY H. NOVAK z rdays 30to 9 00 p m Brunch Sunday, 9 30 am to 2 30 p m COud U 1 Ester Swim free in the outdoor heated pool SI OFF per couple with this coupon, offer good August 10,11,12 o,,jO 11:15 IliMN m 0. (TATS IT. PRESENTS 5:15 SB. LVSISTRATA Bridal Beil 1:30 EM; August 01108 IUPPY NOW? August 328-858- 9 OGDEN & MURRAY STORE HOURS: SAT. 9-SUN. 1 OPEN DAILY 9-GLENDALE STORE HOURS: SAT. 1 0-SUN. OPEN DAILY 1 0-- l! Diseoonv gghygr XY.VCIO 8, mm- 7, cme&AM&rPAM SPECIAL CHINESE DINNER fTW0 g Aagagt8.om.9 1XT&30PAI. THE ORDER IS LOVE . BY CAROL LYNN PEARSON 1 AO mm PUX1 Mg ARE 36.1731 j m. V 1o7J 7440 South ftqto S3 Eo 3 lit South JJ-6- ,, SALOON I8.U Kn-nail- a.t 6 CC P M VVednevloy tidwfs ovoilabk of of ZCM1 Stars, ail ) aha 2 AiVSv 1- -6 7, 9, 12 TO C.L4.VSFUTWY SO. OOMM MUMAY II Phone OGPIN ITORI (133 WASH ENSEMBLE REPERTORY TOE Vim PLAZA NO. CAMKMNtA AVI. J S.H. lourH Trip and en very THAT ITORI 4 wevtf ARROW MURRAY imouNDAii es. Moo Times Esparto PkiCES EFFECTIVE AUG. 9TH THRU AUG. 12TH OLENDAlt 53 presents CREATCOODFUai - m IstWN! two young girl. trapped. "A Gourmet dining in an unhurried mountain atmosphere DinlngFriday and Satu- P.M. HELP YOU CHOOSE THE CAMERA IS JUST RIGHT FOR YOUR FAMILY. 12.00 4.00 8.08 2.256:2510:30 Far from presuming to be a like evprophet, Levinson is in a state of eryone else shocked disbelief. It astounds him that some of the facts blithely tossed into the picture are happening right now. Even more uncanny is the fact that actual lines have come out of the Senate W'atergate hearings that almost match some of the dialogue in the film. IN ALTA CANYON Alta. Utah 84070 11-- 5 Maiguzine is. PERUVIAN! . . Gitt S23Sg POLAROID CAMERA GIRL will be in our store . . . ITH. Ne WOMEN THE 1 JuJ-t- Burl Reynolds "FUZZ'Vc, F7771lTjri AECA SAT., AUG. 2 20, 6 20, 10:20 NOW it TCAQSDlSrr There are three other models in the 400 ne and each oilers you a special combination of features and versatility 88 4, 8 SUPERB! HURRY! LAST 13 DAYS! i Focused Flash puts the right amount of light on your shots Electric eye and electronic shutter Double window range and viewfinder Detachable camera cover Adiustable carrying s'rap And of course big color pictures in a minute, black and white shots in seconds uses per pack That hurt. Ifalt Disney Co Hit Now You See Him, Now You Don't" It Model 420 with Focused Flash 1 (88 mak- 88 Vi pictures in Takes big 3y4- color or black and white Uses either standard or flashcubes for flash pictures up to 12 feet away Built-idevelopment timer Electric eye and electronic shutter for automatic exposures focusing lens Sharp ush Attractive black pebble-gra- EH3 Type In desperation, Levinson tried to sneak the film himself Boslon in Eighty people showed up. Levinson, who has spent 20 years directing TV commercials that sell such things as a mint that goes bang m the mouth (his latest commercial), couldnt get the American public to buy his film. no-n- ing of Hat!! To the Chief has been one long saga of frustration and disappointment. Hail! To the Chief, to borrow the description of its creator, Fred Levinson, is a senes of political cartoons that suggest, m their malicious way, that the men who run this country are not only totally inept, they are quite mad The President himself, made deliberately bland in the person of actor Dan Resin, is all together paranoid He sits in the Oval Office whimpering that theres no one I can He names a really trust. Southern bigot to the Supreme Court because he's dependable. On the subject of ConThey gress, he turns livid never liked me, he pouts. This whole asylum is filled with yes men, he complains to the Secretary of Health. People who say yes when they mean no, no when they mean yes. Three years ago, the idea that anyone would make a movie about madmen running the Executive Branch of our was judged as government sheer madness. Levinson had actually tempered the original idea. He had started with a short story that named Richard Nixon. I couldnt do it, says Levinson. It was slanderous Instead, Levinson decided to make the character of the President a composite of several Presidents, including Nixon, Johnson and Kennedy. The behavioral traits he gave the character of the President (such as the card playing) were all based, he insists, on actual news reports of presidential activity Levinson then pursued the jsui Atim m mtu van byki Model 420 without Focused Flash flashcubes Polaroid Colorpack Land Film t Type 68 for Square Shooters matic For these reasons, the His troubles began when he first showed it at the Cannes Film Festival. They thought it was a revolutionary film, says Levinson, who is still stunned over the Cannes reaction. He was attacked by the the fans of Godard people, leftist French filmmaker Jean Luc Godard. They called Levinson a Fascist Still others called him a radical. As for the film, one critic dismissed it as being Polaroid's 400s with Focused Flash $2966 Uses Polaroid s least expensive square color film that lets you save on every instant color picture you take Electric eye and electronic shutter for automatic exposures. e rangefinder helps determine the distance lor most shots Sharp focusing iens - Movies that NEW YORK even in fun that suggest there might be something wrong with the men who run this country have traditionally been scorned by Hollywood. First off, movies of a politically explosive nature have a reputation for being . ison at the box office. Never open to criticism, Americans tend to avoid them like the plague. Secondly, the major movie companies are very conscious of maintaining friendly relations with whatever political party is in power. Its simply good business It is not good business to offend that party, and any movie that threatens to do so is Considered by most of the majors to be an auto e Fans idea of turning all this into a wild cartoon so that it would not be seen as a serious attack on the presidency. It didnt work. It has taken Levinson three years to find someone to release his political satire. By Kathleen Carroll New York News W riter Arc 15 466-93- a 2 52 CKMESI FOOD iUOVlT (fice ue otote? TILL 10 KM. SVERY DAY OPEN fJLY U30 JU. T3 2:00 AJL t ?w laDTABEPNAClfjEBERfaTY. 95 North Mofin ? |