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Dr. J\Aoreau_ Fro implemented this formula, but it is requires careful thought and brisk tl: storytelling to keep the plot from becoming mundane and boring. Unfortlinntplv r*? u , uu vviui JL/U(1 IM Taylor ("Great Scout and fil Cathouse Thursday," "Echoes of a ai Summer"), is incompetent as a th storyteller as he obviously lacks h( the confidence in his own con- fa victions that is necessary to keep th the viewers' interest. w There are too many "1 aiiaviiiviuoiiio aiiU ^iCI ['ICA1UC5 OH making several of the major plot w! twists totally confusing and the di continuity indecipherable. For st example, numerous hints are hi dropped in the film about Maria nc being one of Moreau's successful pi experiments in changing an M animal into a human. At one point, be Moreau even sends Maria to make ta love to Braddock with the intent of m impressing him with his ex- sc periments. Yet this major subplot I ~1 11 ^p^jcCBNlu ARMS PtiAJRMACY/L^ ch PHONE 7B9 ISQ6 SUMTER t, PENW.ETO* STS. 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But how can that be, hen the "humanimals" law, ctated by Dr. Moreau, and rictly adhered to by the imanimals, states that they must >t kill. If they do kill, Moreau inishes them unmercifully. Yet oreau doesn't punish them cause no killing is suppose to ke place even though we see the an dragged off bloodily reaming. BESIDES WEAK continuity and 'nlondtUnn ? ? ? * - piuuaiiuus, ine j?ri eenpiay s ilogue is awful, making the aracters look ridiculous. Feet,fe Wear Earth Shoe sandals. CI ANDROMEDA (799-31 You can buy an Earth Brand Shoe only al EARTH is the registered trademark of Ka MHBHHB HM IViT-it?TMj||f; joui'i lancaster iooks Dored. Who wouldn't be if they had to keep repeating "It's truly amazing how the flesh reasserts itself." IllSB^aigE "The Island of Dr. Moreau" could have been partially suecessful if Taylor had established PIMJPHIi sympathetic identification between the viewer and the humanimals. Instead, our sympathy generates first into pity and then disgust as the humanimals aimlessly wander the island and then violently attack the human compound, seeking to annihilate oil Vll.mnnn ? S^SI^SSSeSs?. ail iiuuiauo. nicy a I C cllllllllUUiea, though, when they pointlessly free all of the wild animals in the '|||pl|||?|S compound and then challenge them to fatal wrestling matches. Hgps*-*5" THE TOTAL RESULT of "The Mf||l|B Island of Dr. Moreau" is a feeling of inestimable waste of both time |Yi0||0y "The Island of Dr. Moreau" ^ /# could have been worse, but not much. This is one rare instance when watching television is more innr* i n preferable to going to a movie. nun i^a a scientis ^Of THE DEI Yates ("Bui! ^"Mother, . centers "Th ventures of and David ( Nick Nolte), discover a medallion morphine on off Bermudi with a local p m Treecer (Ro TrpO promising / V/l I I become the Bermuda <i own death. 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