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By Barry
Oimtcock SI
The possibility of faking i
explored in Capricorn One
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some exciting moments.
The plot of the movie, no
Mall Cinema, focuses on ?
posed to culminate with a
astronauts, led by Charles ]
But a foul-up in the life
spacecraft ruins the missi
FACED WITH a cutoff o
director (Hal Holbrook) foi
the mission. imDrisoniniz tl
to simulate the Martian t
explorations take place in t
public has the wool pulled
The real action in the n
entry the empty space
Holbrook is left with three i
of-three men who the publi
ai ^ Ywjr uiuvii an v c ui a wa
desert. Most of the movie
from this wilderness prisoi
back to civilization to tell
killed by Holbrook first.
Director and writer Pete
interesting story here, but i
mediocre acting. The cha
deeply enough. O.J. Sim;
play the other two astron
characters. Waters ton
wisecracking soul, but IS
football. A case in points
movie is "I think I'm goi
said.
BROLIN, BILLED as tlx
Gould, is really pretty dull,
of the group to escape an
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DRAFT BE!
>rn One' ha
J. Glenn scheme.
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connect*
i space mission to Mars is disappe.
), and despite some often the man
Eds, the movie does have does w<
derneatl
iw showing at Bush River Karen
he mission, which is sun- nearanc
i walk on Mars by three and thei
Brubaker (James Brolin). Savalas
support systems of the ploys tc
on before liftoff. though 1
the mov
f funds, the space agency
*ces the three men to fake Caprh
lem in a studio decorated scenes,
iurface. The landing and Gould's
his remote studio, and the thmntfh
. over their eyes. he miss*
river wl
riotfie begins when on re- 0ne Qj
graft disintegrates. So cro_ du
astronauts he must get rid hpHrnnt,
ic thinks are dead but who
rehouse somewhere in the gtunte j
i centers on their escape fliWflVS
1 and their attempt to get y
their story without being
PERU
theprob
r Hyams has fashioned an
t is injured by some pretty
racters are not explored " .
won and Sam Waters ton
auts, but they are minor i4~rriQ,
is pretty good as a id
Jimpson should stick to
Simpson's first line in the f
ng to throw up." Enough wor^g
leaving
Credit s
5 co-star along with Elliott interest
He is the most determined fortune!
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Mime to apj
Jill Dalton (left),
graduate student an
complished actor mime ar
display her talents Wee
| Thursday and Friday, Aug
31 and Sept. 1, at the Univ<
South Carolina's Lor
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theatrical performance f
scene and mime work,
presented by Ms. Dalton s
evening in USC's Loi
Theatre. Admission is fit
shows, which are part
Dalton's master's degree
theatre.
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NFLATION NITE
r TUESDAY NITE
iR I Budweiser
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ill not run out!!
s its mon
Gould plays an ambitious rep
tear trying to find out why on
sd with the space program
ared. Gould delivers a good f
trying to crack the fraud. Lik
ill as the space agency bos
h all his friendliness.
l Black and Telly Savalas m
es. Black is terrible as Goul(
ir encounters are the low poii
plays a crop duster pilot, wl
t search for the astronauts.
us roie is Driet and comes in i
ie, is humorous and enjoyab
:orn One contains some pret
however unbelievable. When
car fail there is a pretty wild
the crowded streets of Houstoi
es all the traffic and finally
lere he swims easily to safet
I the final scenes involves a cl
8tine olane. carrvinc the hi:
ers, bearing the hunters.
; some pretty fast action and s
lowever, the shots fired at th<
miss the occupants.
I APS THESE unbelievable o<
lem with the film. There are ol
ing. Brolin travels across the
water. Trapped in a cave, h
attlesnake for food. Can thif
ed to strenuous astronaut tra
i this movie seems at times lil
by Jones," in which a few good
!, but the heroes survive i
is with superhuman luck or <
or all its predictability, Capr
an action film. But the action
little time for the characters U
hould go to director Hyams f<
ing possibility. But Capric
;ely, is one of those flicks tha
on televtainn within si* mnnt
jear _ . ?
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Savalas, even { |
near the end of 1 J 1,
le.
ty good action
the brakes on <
runaway scene
i. But of course ... i ^
plunges into a ?
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; plane seem to
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desert for davs
e miraculously \
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lining?
ce an episode of flR
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moves quickly,
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