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- * ^ ent^rtainmc \\ Caosule Reviews ;j "" I 007 1 return 9> By CHUCK CROMER Entertainment Editor NOTE: All campus movies are sponsored by House University Union Cinematic Arts Commit! Kp chnwn ot fi-IA n m anH Q *> ?*i vv, Wlavvvl, MV v.uv p.AAA. UIIU i/ p.Hi. uuiiuaj' till UU^I in the Russell House Theatre. Films are fr< students who present a validated ID Sunda Tuesday, while a $1 admission is charged for W and Thursday's films. Campus Films THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK SMARTER BROTHER ? (1975) ? Gene Wildi atlH st.lrrpH in tVlic nnmi/1 ?* 41? ol * wv. viuo vvimv oaiii c ui uit? aneno genre. Madeline Kalin, Marty Feldman, and Do costar. Charles Champlin wrote, "A swiftly pr mixture not only of the Holmes tradition but of til the musical, the swashbuckler, and the absurd Thursday $1. ACE IN THE HOLE (THE BIG CARNIVAL) Director Billy Wilder's ("Sunset Boulevard," "i It Hot") bitter satire of an American's que^t for1 notoriety. Kirk Douglas stars as an enterprising who organizes an enormous publicity stunt aroi trapped in a New Mexico cave to gamer national and other financial rewards. Bosley Crowther c York Times wrote, "Beyond any question, the di done a SDectaOlllar ifth of vicinnirwt m v. T.^.vmiJg iliu IliUIUSUUU. of mob behavior as influenced by a weird ca Wilder has given us a masterly film, unique as a the morbid psychology of crowds." Sunday. SHANGHAI EXPRESS (1932) ? Voluptuoui Dietrich stars as Shanghai Lily who, while on the 'Moreau By CHUCK CROMER di Entertainment Editor isi th "The Island of Dr. Moreau," based on an v? H.G. Wells novel, is a mediocre formula so horror film that lacks any comprehensible e> or creditible statement about mankind's se constant attempts to alter natural laws. so The film's theme is so shallow and un- ar stable, for example, that its producers, "h realizing that something must be salvaged mi from this nnnspnsp r??\*.rnfo th? ?-? w, . VI iv VIIIIIQA 111 I* J midstream changing it from one of obvious re; L terror to a commercial, happy ending. Mi The plot is simple, traditional, and thus th< quite predictable. Andrew Braddock (Michael York) and a shipwrecked friend Isl dock ashore on a mysterious island after 1 |; \ seventeen days at sea. Soon afterwards, gei W;\ Braddock's shipmate disappears, and bri Braddock is rescued from an attack by po< ggfe^i unnnown animals by Montgomery (Nigel coi Davenport) a taciturn man who takes him mc <g&to a fenced compound carved out of the pof Jjpiiddle of the jungle. There he meets the Tb ^|and's owner, Dr. Moreau (Burt I^an- vio ygter), a scientist, and a mysterious oui %uty, Maria (Barbara Carrera). % BRADDOCK recuperates, he beefy es curious about Moreau's work and nt BflRgJl * Ik MB \ ^ <ty ' t ^| the Russell gBj^HLE ft xk ee and will 'flR&^BaB A Wg|y^?A;h^^| 1 Thursday fflU^k ^^BP^SBBL - W y through 9 ?I^^a|||j^pEl!. ednesday's j' lWp^^^'%^3^5r directed 1' i. ii.-i -- ... ? ?? civ iiuuuca ivassem lAmiaou) cries out i m DeLuise laden truck driven by Victor (Br eposterous ie Western, Peking to Shanghai, is caught in the mid list farce." civil war where a rebellious war lord sto; creates havoc with Lily and the other pass* by Josef Von Sternberg, the film won an i - (1951) ? for Best Cinematography. Monday. weaiu/and LA COLLECTIONNEUSE (1967) ? In ? imirnoiilf setting, an antique dealer on vacation, , inda man Vauchau) is fascinated by Haydee (Haj I headlines y?wg girl nicknamed "la collectionneus if fhp npw seems to collect men. Though initially anno K__ eventually tries to seduce Haydee. Vincent vulearitv of directed by Er^c Rohmer, "Adr iafsfrnnh/ the earty prototype for Jean-Louis of mWnf Maud's" and Jerome of "Claire's Knee,' i mirror 01 an aimost obsessive distrust of idle pi passion equals disorder, chaos and tl M . civilization, and is, therefore, the ultima! s Mariene Tuesday. train from 3 i' medioci scovers that the doctor is trying to KjSMfli olate the chromosomes in every living ing which determine its shape, using |||&g||gg^ irious animals as subjects. Braddock on stumbles onto the results of Moreau's :periments: creatures having some BfJRp mhlance to basic animal species and Kflt/ me appearance of humanity, but who pW e actually in limbo between the two ? | rf u lumanimals." Because of Braddock's M eddlings, Moreau experiments on him, / ^ML?' /ing to turn him into an animal. The , { suit is a bloody confrontation between )reau, Braddock, the humanimals and * WilH hpnctc tlloJ olen ? * " uiai hi uiuctuii uie lsiana. rhere 'is nothing original about "The and of Dr. Moreau." rhe standard horror-science fiction nre elements are employed whereby a HP /vPiH lliant but mad scientist searches for wer or notoriety (in this case, the uroi 01 nereaity), and is combated by a v'la ralistic and intelligent youth who op- ifiWiJI >es the madman's attempts to play God. Mw JBS e result is nearly always the same, a lent clash between the two camps, with hero emerging as the winner. rfhe IUNDREDS OF films have successfully resulting penmen See DR. MORKAU, page 9 . ^wdSifiw^BBfc^^^'u. **> c^xis^n as the nitro- appears perilou uno Cremer) "Sorcerer." die of a Chinese n ps the train and OOW SemyAwart SORCERER ? Dip of suspense and fatali pasts, but possessing: i Mediterranean penaltif of his own s Adrien (Patrick llfe sentence in a livir rdee Politoff) a *re concefhng them p" hponncA eho American backwater yed^ter, hi ^ ?" Canby once said volatile nitroglycerin ien is very much 1 "c^w!" 06 P310 W "My Night At wh,c^ drivers ?et th? ' an intellectual _ ission, as if idle . Y *v he collapse of adventure that has Bo te immorality." beautiful 'emale Russ is stealing their govei Valley. L e norrc ^Bs flHp ^ ^pfV* y.,' half-men, half-beasts the { from the bizarre ex- Moi ts of Dr. Moreau carry ittttBf 99 w mb isly close to tlppin^ovSTn ntown Films ector William Friedkin's masterpiece ism about four criminals fleeing their no futures. Each criminal escapes the society only to be destined to serve a ig 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 fire. ,000 if they survive the ordeal. Guess ; job? Jefferson Square. OVED ME ? Another James Bond md (Roger Moore) cooperating with a ian spy to solve the puzzle as to who mment's nuclear submarines. Spring See CAPSULES, page 9 >rfilm | body of the overseer shot by *eau out of the compound.