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Hints of 'Poseidon Adventure 9 in 'Juggernau
There's a short documentary
film being shown before "Jug
gernaut" at the. Douglas The
ater, and it has to do with the
making of "The Towering Infer
no," the new all-star extrava
ganza due for release this
Christmas compliments of the
makers of "Poseidon Adven
ture." "The Towering Inferno" is
supposedly another of those
large-scale disaster fi!ms, the
kind "so big that it took..." etc,
etc, etc. Anyway, during this
short filler the narrator makes an
apparently serious declaration
that the huge, multi-million
special-effects blockbuster may
be the next art form of the 20th
Century.
This incredible statement
manes one stop and wonder just
who some movie executives are
trying to kid. They know a movie
like "Poseidon Adventure,"
"The Towering Inferno" and
even "Juggernaut" will haul in
a bundleso why try to pass off
all the aesthetic garble?
Many of us will see these films
and probably look forward to
them. But if we do it "will be
because we simply enjoy watch
ing those big-name performers
or because the movies can be
great pieces of popular enter
tainment. Why try to be artsy
craftsy about this melodrama
when the only thing present is
the craft?
'AII things must pass'
Same of the sciiNivasl f roo3
"Poseidon Adventure" were
worse than a TV soap opera, yet
it was all quite harmless and
enjoyable. The market for this
type. of movie will fade, largely
because a good watcnwora ror
movie trends in the past few
years has been 'all things must
pass', even if only for a short
time.
The America cinema is in the
process of resurrecting and
remaking old cliches and genres,
but it's a little surprising (but
perhaps not) that it is taking the
current, popular recession into
these disaster-blockbusters so
seriously. There are some things
movies will just outgrow.
Which leads us into "Jugger
naut", a movie that is a lot
better than its sensationalistic
publicity indicates. (Be careful
of those newspaper ads with the
little pictures of ail its stars
captioned with phrases like "It
was his life against 1200 ot!
ers!", or "Now, for the first
time in his life he was forced to
face the truth!.)
The picture is not really a
disaster-blockbuster, although
there's a lot of 'impending
doom' hovering throughout it.
It's a well made, exciting, algeit
mindless film from the director
Richard Lester.
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Time bombs
The movie features Omar
Sharif as the captain of a British
ocean liner that is sabotaged by'
aKfWowrv, lunatic wha:$$!$ i
himself Juggernaut. Juggernaut
has planted seven, booby
trapped time bombs through the
ship, all set to go off at once
unless the shipping company
agrees to pay him a huge
ransom. The government, as so
often happens these days, re
fuses to pay the sum for fear of
encouraging future terrorists.
Enter Richard Harris, a man
living on borrowed time by way
of being one of world's foremost
demolition experts. Harris and
his crew (including actor David
Hemmings) are parachuted
down near the ship In the middle
of a North Atlantic storm in
some breathtaking action foot
age. The ensuing action cross cuts
between Scotland Yarders in
England as they track down the
mysterious Juggernaut, and the
ship, as Harris tries to deacti
vate the bombs. These dismantl
ing scenes don't add much to all
the other times you've seen it
done but they are handled well
enough (Do I cut the blue wire or
the red wire?) to create the
proper amount of queasy reac
tions. Token role for Sharif
Sharif has little more than a
token role but does add some
stability to the film. Besides
Harris, the next biggest part
goes to puzzling bombs he
squares off against. Lester even
uses a subjective camera shot
from the rear of the bomb's
intricacies as it 'looks' back at
Harris while he tries to keep
from triqgerinq the boobv-traps.
Richard Lester ("A Hard
Day's Night", "Help!") had a
long dry spell between 1968 and
73 after several previous finan
cial failures. Then last spring
came "The Three Musketeers"
and now "Juggernaut," a coup
le of commercial projects that
should put him back in the
running. ' ' I
If nothing else, Lester's two
recent films are showing that
he may be the cinema's most
blatant purveyor of human folly.
Ail the pseudo-slapstick, clown
ish bumbling from "The Three
Musketeers" is now manifesting
itself in the tense uneasiness of
the ship passengers. Never has a
movie crammed itself with so
many little, everday, human
goof-ups. Passengers and crew
are forever knocking, bumping,
falling down, stepping on things
and generally getting into each
others' way.
"Juggernaut" could have
been done better, probably by
someone like Don Seigel, who is
a master at this type of paranoic
thriller. There are a few too
many untied ends when the
movie is over, but this is a new
type of film for Lester. Ultimate
ly, the best thing about "Jug
ernaut" was finding out that it
wasn't ail it was cracked up to
be.
Fairbanks film showing
This week's Lincoln Silent
Film Society showing is Douglas
Fairbank, S.'s 1926 version of
The BISck Pirate." Fairbanks
was the greatest swashbuckling
adventurer of the silent era and
"The Black Pirate" contains all
the enthusiastic verve found in
.his other 20s movies! Jike "Then
Thief, of Baghdad," "Robin
Hood" and "The Mark of
Zorro."
Showings are at 7:30 p.m. on
Tuesday and Thursday in the
YWCA.
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