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The Bijou Rei Upcoming BY DAVID SIMPSON . AND - TERRY DUGAS THE ADVENTURES OF HUCK FINN A watered-down kiddie show with cutesy Eddie Hodges as Huck and boxer Archie Moore as Tom, or Uncle Tom as the case may be. Stay home and read the book. Richland Mall. ARISTOCATS and SONG OF THE SOUTH Walt Disney lives again in talk ing cats and walking animals. Skip the cats but "Song" is bearable. Dutch Square North. BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES Apes versus mutated humans. - -- Shows ~MiI5M5UZ2I 3-5-7-91 141MAIN %Toffy Clint's NEWEST! 7 LATE SHOWS FRI.& SAT.-11:15 AliI- NO'k riews SFilms Cr Guess who wins. Plaza III. EMPEROR OF THE NORTH POLE A savage but almost comic fAI about a railroad bum's show down with the most savage brake man ever to ride the rails. Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine ham It up. Late show Friday and Sat urday at the Fox. EXTREME CLOSEUP Michael Crichton tries his hand at movie making in a film we know nothing about. Fox theatre. GONE WITH THE WIND Are there -any tears that hav en't been jerked? Gamecock II. HITLER: THE LAST TEN DAYS Alec Guineas as a mustache and Simon Ward as Young Win ston with a Bavarian accent. Jef ferson Square. HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER Bang-bang, here he comes again. Clint Eastwood as the Marn With 4. . . .. ., .... STARTS FRIDAY shows: 1:30, 3:30. 5:30, 7:30, & 9:30 ' LUM Dnt Ro OPEN 11:1 ~ 2005 ( In,' 1 Campus No Name. Palmet.to Theatre. LAST AMERICAN HERO . The life story of Junior John son, from moonshiner to stock car champion. A southern sucess story. Miracle Theatre. NEPTUNE FACTOR Soggy sea story sending sev eral sailors swimming and search ing for sunken sealab. Sans the High Rise: While the city slept last week, that great scourge of mankind, pornography, crept in and stole away the morals of our people. I am referring to the hard core film "jgh Rise" which has been playingat the Atlantic II theatre. Reviewed in such prestigious publications as "Variety," "Pent house", and the "Naked News," the consensus has been that "High Rise" Is the best produced and most skillfully done sex flick e ver to pace the smut houses of BLOOD DONORS NEEDED! IMMEDIATE CASH PAYMENT Age Limitations, 18-60 NEW HOURS 9:30 a.m. '115 p.m. Mon.-Fri. CAROLNA BLOOD BANK 1317 Tay*or 253-2M Easy To Open Gamecock Charge Account *100 L1nu BRITTON S SPECIAL ft Beer ~st Beef h & Chips N) AM 'TEL 12:00 PM Mon.-Sat. ~reen Street 'ive Points and In To Seaview. Dutch Square. NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA Boring spectacle about the last czar and czarina of Russia. Gamecock I. TRADER HORN Remake of the '30's camp classic with Rod Taylor as the Great White Bwana being hamled Porno In 0 New York City. "High Rise" makes no pre tense at being "art." The pro ducers set out to make a superior porno film and they succeeded admirably. The plot is unimpor tant since the viewer sees the crew preparing for each shot. The effect is one of viewing a porno film In the making. Tb keep the viewers' interest, the producers use strikin#y u. nique camera shots, (ever em cunnilingus performed upside down?) in bizarre sets, coupled with a very funny musical score ("I've been bitten by the kissing bug.") Shot in perfect color and focus, often from a distance of three inches, the result is interest ing, both from an erotic and a technical standpoint. The end re Era Ends 14 It's over. The end of an era. The saga of a world ruled by apes has come to a close with Battle for the Planet of the Apes. Thank God. Not only has the idea thin ned out considerably, but the story line seems as if it were con structed by some desperate, young writer stashed away some where in the bowels of 20th Century Fox. It's amazing to see how much a studio can squeeze out of its product. In the "Apes" case, it was also peeled, plucked, and pulverized. No other film in the last twenty years has produced as many sequels than PLANET OF THE APES. In this case, as with sequels to other films, the quality and the care that was apparent in the parent film continually di minishes in the offspring. Where once there was a desire to pre sent a fresh, witty subject to the screen, the desire is eventually overpowered by the studio's con tinual drive to exploit the pock etbooks of the public. But studios are out to make money, you say? Correct. But why can't they make it by pre senting a product that wouldn't insult the intelligence of a ten Get a bike tha where you're COME SI THE( 4( S1 umter St 1 wn by the local cannibls. Carolina Theatre. HIGH RISE The best skin flick ever made. Atlantic II. SWEET JESUS, PREACHER MAN Blacks exploiting blacks again. Atlantic I. ur Midst suit of "High Rise" is to show that pornography can rise above the "Deep Throats" of the genre and have class as well as sex. Only time will tell whether the instances of violent crimes will rise this week because of this plague of explicitness. The most significant aspect of all this is that, at the end of the 8:30 show Friday night, there was a carload of uniformed po1e-sUp- standing in the back of the theatWe. Despte this official surveil lance, the flim has n"t been shut down, although it em"id be ruled obscene by any Southern judge. If necessary, I will testify that, being the definitive satire on skin flicks, "High Rise" occupies an important place in cinema. Meanwhile, bring your rain coats. TERRY DUGAS 'ith Movie year old? Because the public likes the kind of fiOw you don't have to spend three hours trying to figure out when it was only ninety minutes long to begin with. It's good fare for the kids, you say. Sure. It's only full of nasty, mutated human beings liv ing together in underground air shafts who decide to get rid of the apes altogether one day. So they set out in their moldy jeeps and school bus (yes, school bus) and attack the village of the apes. Caught by surprise, the apes almost succumb before they finally use their animal instinct and jump out of trees just like monkeys. And there are a lot of explosions with apes and muta tions flying all over the place. Eat it up kids. For some sort of social re deeming value or (sic) message, John Huston comes on as the Lawgiver of the apes, explaining quite morally (as all Lawgivers are apt to do) that the fate of apes and men lies In the future. Well, so much for the fate of man and apes. And so much for BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES. DAVID SIMPSON I'll get you going! E US DYCLISIT Open 1- 5