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Flint' Tries, Fails
By STEVE DIMEO
Entertainment Editor
It was inevitable. A picture ha<i
finally emerged front the Bond
genre that tries too hard and dies
much more easily. It only par
tially escapes being out of pace
with the Bond bill*
"Our Man Flint,” now at the
McDonald, generates at first a
posh processional with a fluorlsh
of strumpets and a galaxy of gad
gets But midway it take* a recess
that never ends until its degen
erated end
A potentially intricate plot of
farcical espionage suddenly be
come* unadulterated "adult” sci
ence fiction and therefore sub
ject to hypercriticism from an
antiquated drama critic who used
to be a devotedly blind science
fiction fan.
The world is suddenly endan
gered by a villainous group whose
intentions of course are quite
honorable Having the power to
eonlrol weather, it threatens to
melt the icebergs and flood all
the important ports if the rest of
the world doesn't consent to their
pacificistic ways of pleasure and
prostitution.
ZOW IK Consults UN'IVAC
Zonal Organization World In
telligcnce Espionage (the words
don't make much sense but they
do spell ZOWIK), now at its wit's
end i the movie never gets to the
wit's beginning), sacrifices itself
to the wit of UN1VAC which con
eludes that Derek Flint (James
Coburn) is the man to put this
group down
Lee J Cobb, ZOWlK's head
reluctantly consents and eventu
ally so does Coburn.
This adventure takes Coburn
to the impressive arms of impres
sionable Gila Golan and eventu
ally to Galaxy Island where the
three scientists control the world
and the rest of the unrestive
males take Exotica (erotica would
have been a more apt name; it’s
an aphrodisiac) to accommodate
the hoard of females bored but
unbored as "pleasure units."
Coburn rescues hi.s shanghied
harem (numbering four) plus one
((ilia, of course, who Fleming ly
steps to his side) and destroys
the evil island with his manly
hands.
Farce Too Banal to Kxrite
From the time the three sci
entists jam the airways and broad
cast their threat over every TV
channel to the time the thunder
ir.g rocks fall atop the frantic
denizens of an explosively crum
bling brave new world while the
hero and his fleshy damsels in
dis-dress make a hasty escape,
you swear you've seen it all before
from American International The
oath is one well-taken.
But nowhere does tiie dialogue
ever complement or hack the
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President Johnson, after Cobb
tells him over a red phone to
stall on TV, utter one of his most
meaningful, most oratorical lines:
"Uhhhhh. .
The sets are imposingly beauti
ful and may set the rods and
cones of the eyes of most science
fiction followers jumping. The
special effects, though never real
ly spectacular to the critical eye,
are at least adequate; the color
shadows of shaking shapes behind
the credits, for example, emerge
effective — partially because
they’re so partially clad
Music Scores
What deserve* honorable men
tion above all, though, is the
winning total of Jerry Goldsmith’s
musical score.
James Coburn has very little
acting to do. He’s not exactly
handsome enough to make a play
ful spark out of Flint very real,
but it’s really his witless lines
that do him an injustice.
Lee J. Cobb, who also is poten
tially a great actor, produces not
humor, but discomfort from a
similar burden of script.
Edward Mulhare, the real vil
lain of the bunch, seems to be at
home in such vapid science fic
tion; he's as corny as Vincent
I'rice and therefore just as funny.
And Gila Golan, who also play
ed in "Ship of Fools," is luscious.
They've tried so very hard but
they never quite make ’’Our Man
Flint’’ Bond for the course. On
the island "paradise" the bikinied
females even flaunt their wiggling
struts to achieve some kind of
sexual effect in a desperate at
tempt to make something in the
movie effective
The result, like most of the pic
ture, leaves just a bad taste in
the mouth—and it's not even the
taste of a melted aphrodisiac.
Friday, Saturday
Feature Times
EUGENE DRIVE IN The Group—7 :1 5,
12 IS; Whu’i New. Puuyut»—10 :1 5.
FOX Those Munificent Men in Their
Plying Machine*—12 JO. 3:15, 6. 8:45.
HEILIC The Sard* of Calthari—1:40,
5:45. 9 45; Kid RodeUo—3 45. 7:50.
MAYFLOWER: A Patch of Blue. 8.
9:30.
McDONALD Return of Mr Moto—
1 30. 4 45. 8:10; Our Man Flint—2:50.
6:15. 9:30. Friday only Surprise Pre
view—8:10; Our Man Flint—10:4j.
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Bitter, Sweet Notes Planned
By STEVE DIMEO
Entertainment Editor
A folk ainger and a minstrel
show will be responsible for
sweet and sour notes on this
weekend that will debut some new
films at three theatres.
At 8 p.m tonight in Mac
Court, Glenn Yarbrough with the
Stanyon Street Quartet and
BifT Rose will be featured. Cheap
seats are $4 for reserved seats,
$3.50 and $3 reserved section, and
$2.50 for general admission.
Cheaper seats for students will
go for $3, $2.50, $2, and $1.50.
The following night the San
Francisco Mime Troupe will pre
sent its controversally-biting "A
Minstrel Show: or Civil Rights in
a Cracker Barrel.” The perform
ance, recommended for an adult
audience (what’s it doing on cam
pus then?), will be in black and
white and unscreened from pub
lic view.
Prices
To start at 8 p m. Saturday in
the SU ballroom, the entertain
ment will cost $2 for adults and
$1.50 for students.
The drama department is also
getting ready to be active again.
The University theatre will run
the musical drama, “Susannah,"
April 15-17 and 21-23. The play
has received the New York Mu
sic Critics Award for the best
opera in 1956.
Reserved tickets will be $2.50.
The Mayflower has opened the
academy a w a r d nominated "A
Patch of Blue” in black and
white Starring Sidney Poitier
and Elizabeth Hartman, it is a
story of a blind girl of an im
poverished family who finds love
and meaning from a Negro.
“Post-Vassar”
Sex has a dominant role in the
story of seven Vassar girls in
their post-Vassar functions. 'The
Group,” playing this week at the
Eugene Drive-In. was produced
by Sidney Lumet who has also
given us, among others, “Twelve
Angry Men.” This picture is in
color.
“W h a t's New, Pussycat?",
i Woody Allen’s witty sex farce,
1 gives the lighter side of the
Group’s main activities.
“Those Magnificent Men in
Their Flying Machines” is still
in flight at the Fox It stars,
among others, Stuart Whitman,
Sarah Miles, James Fox and Rob
: ert Morley.
The end of a plane flight is the
beginning of a colorful adventure
for Susannah York (“Tom
Jones”), Theodore Bikel and Stu
art Whitman (again) in ‘The
Sands of Calihari” blowing over
at the Hcilig this week.
Leigh, Murray
Janet Leigh and Don Murray
have a cowboy time of it in “Kid
Rodello,” a black and white co
feature at the Heilig about the
flight and plight of ex-convicts.
Sunday Debbie Reynolds will
enter stage left with a black and
white cowl as “The Singing Nun” i
at the Heilig. The co-feature will
be ‘The Laughing ’20’s” a compil
ation of some Laurel and Hardy
cuts.
The McDonald is holding over
“Our Man Flint" with the same
cofeature, “Return of Mr. Moto.”
There will be a surprise preview
tonight of a movie featuring
James Stewart and Richard At
tenborough.
Another gentle reminder for
those who get this far in this
column about the academy award
prediction contest sponsored by
the Fox, McDonald and partially
by the Heilig: the fewer the en
tries, the more likely the prizes
for those that entered.
Richard Burton, who has been
nominated for best actor, gets to
steal the scenes and other things
in “The Spy Who Came in From
the Cold” which is having anoth
er chance at the McKenzie this
week. Co-feature is “The Young
Furies” which stars Rory Calhoun
and Virginia Mayo.
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