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7 entertaininc > \ Capsule Reviews i J 007 returr By CHUCK CROMER Entertainment Editor NOTE: All campus movies are sponsored b> House University Union Cinematic Arts Commi Kn cliAitm C?OA rv m ? */! A ?v? O. wv ouunii av u.ou p.m. auu U p.111. OUlIUtt^ II1IUU) in the Russell House Theatre. Films are f students who present a validated ID Sunc Tuesday, while a $1 admission is charged for \ and Thursday's films. Campus Films THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK SMARTER BROTHER ? (1975) ? Gene Wil and starred in this comic satire of the Sherl genre. Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, and C costar. Charles Champlin wrote, "A swiftly j mixture not only of the Holmes tradition but of I the musical, the swashbuckler, and the absui 'I'lilirCfloif #1 m. iiui ouajr x. ACE IN THE HOLE (THE BIG CARNIVAL) Director Billy Wilder's ("Sunset Boulevard," It Hot") bitter satire of an American's que?t foi notoriety. Kirk Douglas stars as an enterprisin who organizes an enormous publicity stunt an trapped in a New Mexico cave to garner nation and other financial rewards. Bosley Crowther York Times wrote, "Beyond any question, the < done a spectacular job of visioning the monstro of mob behavior as influenced by a weird < Wilder has given us a masterly film, unique as the morbid psychology of crowds." Sunday. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (1932) ? Voluptuo Dietrich stars as Shanghai Lily who, while on th 'Moreai By CHUCK CROMER 1 Entertainment Editor I "The Island of Dr. Moreau," based on an H.G. Wells novel is f) mpHift^ro fnrmnln < . _ . ?, ... v> .ttvuiw* v iv/t IIIUlQ 1 horror film that lacks any comprehensible < or creditible statement about mankind's i constant attempts to alter natural laws. 2 The film's theme is so shallow and un- J stable, for example, that its producers, 4 realizing that something must be salvaged 1 from this nonsense, rewrote the climax in 1 midstream changing it from one of obvious 1 terror to a commercial, happy ending. 1 The plot is simple, traditional, and thus t quite predictable. Andrew Braddock (Michael York) and a shipwrecked friend 1 dock ashore on a mysterious island after Aa%to ?* rA * uv.vuvwii <jajo ai aca. ouoii auerwaras, t Braddock's shipmate disappears, and I Braddock is rescued from an attack by I linlcnnujn onimolo Kw "" * ?MHiiuaio ujr mum^uiucry WNigei i Davenport) a taciturn man who takes him r to a fenced compound carved out of the f middle of the jungle. There he meets the T island's owner, Dr. Moreau (Burt I^an- \ caster), a scientist, and a mysterious c beauty, Maria (Barbara Carrera). AS BRADDOCK recuperates, he becomes curious about Moreau's work and -.V V 'lit ftM HWI * B Hi m ' the Russell ^ L^^gt'btoZggM^J ttee and will :jb ;h Thursday ^^BRKS^Sj^J ree to USC IB lay through ? Vednesday's g ?'j^B^ .%A. HOLMES' jer d j i*t3C ted flBmH8PS^imPx^^^^*^^wF*ll8BmBHBSBmHlB55 ock Holmes Kassem (Amidou) cries out om DeLuise laden truck driven by Victor (I \roiwtnrniii. vj^wwi VUO the Western, Peking to Shanghai, is caught in the m clist farce." civil war where a rebellious war lord s creates havoc with Lily and the other pai by Josef Von Sternberg, the film won ai ? (1951) ? for Cinematography. Monday. I'" "* LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (1967) ? Ir ,cr tr?,Jr?oi!of setting, an antique dealer on vacation Vauchau) is fascinated by Haydee (H young girl nicknamed "la collectionnei nf nIw seems to collect men. Though initially an J eventually tries to seduce Haydee. Vincei us Vulgarity ?!_this fi!m' dir^ted by Eric Rohmer, "A< <AtA?tmnh? u,e prototype lor jean-ix>uis o ?nftr^SvOf Maud's" and Jerome of "Claire's Kne< with an almost obsessive distrust of idle passion equals disorder, chaos and JW Mnriprtp civilization, and is, therefore, the ultin us Mariene ^ e tram from J i medioci discovers that the doctor is trying to HfiJXfl isolate the chromosomes in every living IPIllp thing which determine its shape, using p?||illi various animals as subjects. Braddock '] soon stumbles onto the results of Moreau's experiments: creatures having some semblance to basic animal species and >ome appearance of humanity, but who jry > are actually in limbo between the two ? U 'humanimals." Because of Braddock's :*.s\ . J| neddlings, Moreau experiments on him, ** rying to turn him into an animal. The /f ||?p esult is a bloody confrontation between VIoreau, Braddock, the humanimals and he wild beasts that also inhabit the island. There is nothing original about "The Island of Dr. Moreau." The standard horror-science fiction ?enre elements are employed whereby a t||pJap brilliant but mad scientist searches for x>wer or notoriety (in this case, the ontrol of heredity), and is combated bv a noraiistic and intelligent youth who op>oses the madman's attempts to play God. Jfi ['he result is nearly always the same, a fiolent clash between the two camps, with ur hero emerging as the winner. The HUNDREDS OF films have successfully result] perim See DR. MOREAU, page 9 as the nltro- appears perilou Iruno Cremer) "Sorcerer." iddle of a Chinese n tops the train and ssengers. Directed sorcfrfr _ ni i Academy Award sorcerer Dirf of suspense and fatalL pasts, but possessing r i a Mediterranean Pfw't'f ?f N? own. ? , Adrien (Patrick ? "? ? aydee Politoff) a fe conce?hn8 "f use" because she American backwater noyed with her, he miles away, four me it Canby once said igStSlTSSdS! i drien is very much ? y, 06 P810 W,' f "My Night At whlc^ W*? J, an intellectual thf spy who i < passion, as if idle . , * ? u tT th* nr adventure that has Bo 7" . f~yrt beautiful female Russi .ate immorality.' is stea,lng ^ gover Valley. re horrc ~-. -*feaSfc-re^,aj?g^g tnJjf'v" ^^tKii V\?H18se?: half-men, half-beasts the jig from the bizarre ex- Moi pnta nf Hr - - - M VMII J J* WJdpsWHv Tt?*?!< . ?mpii /JII iWTnflBll Pjj jy sf I A o I J 11 ntown Films ictor William Friedkin's masterpiece sm about four criminals fleeing their to futures. Each criminal escapes the ociety only to be destined to serve a g hell, where the four men think they selves from their pasts in a South village. When an oil drill explodes 200 n are needed to transport by truck to the drill site to extinguish the Are. 000 if they survive the ordeal. Guess s job? Jefferson Square. >VED ME ? Another James Bond nd (Roger Moore) cooperating with a j Ian spy to solve the puzzle as to who nment's nuclear submarines. Spring See CAPSULES, page 9 ir film 4*9 JHU body of the overseer shot by reau out of the compound. i