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, - A ruthless hired killer stalks a band of horse thkres in The Missouri Breaks.
Academy Award winners Jack Nicholson and Marlon Brando star ia the f&si.
Sheldon Theater will offer
three summer film series
Summer Sl&rs, a 12-part Mm series,
began June 3 with Charlie Chaplin's Etst, .
The Gold Rusk, at the Sheldon Fihn
Theater, 12th and R streets.
f The film series features mysteries and
comedies of the lSCOs and 40s, including
My Man Godfrey, Top Eat, Of Human
Bondage, Philadelphia Story and Double
Indemnity.
An independently produced feature
film will be shown with most of the films
in the series, said Dan Ladely, director
of Sheldon Film Theater. A feature film
gives viewers san opportunity Jo see
works other than Hollywood produc
tions, he said.
Seven of the originally scheduled films
have been changed.
Two other film series will be shown
during the summer. Adventures in
Reality, a partial set of British television
documentaries, wEl be shown Sundays.
The third' series is a repeat feature.
Pioneers of Modern Pointing, produced
by art critic Sir Kenneth Clark, explores
six early impressionist painters including
Cezanne, Monet and Rousseau. The films
are owned by the gaSery and are a gift
of patron Mary Reipma Ross.
During the second summer sessson,
five Gins will be screened for film study.
Although the films are shown for a elass,
admission wd not be restricted to
students, Ladery said. .
The summer season ends the third
week in August. The theater needs
volunteers to sell tickets and distribute
posters for the Summer Stars series,
Ladely said. Volunteers will be given
free passes to films.
The screening schedule includes:
Adventures in Reality. 3 p.m.
Sundays, admission free.
Pioneers of Modem Painting: 7 p.m.
Tuesdays, admission free.
-Film Study Class: 10:30 a.m.
Wednesdays and 1:30 p.m. Thursdays,
admission free.
Summer Stars: 7 and 9 p.m.
Thursdays through Saturdays, admission
$1.59.
By llzrclh Synovcc
i Standing out and demanding attention
in The Missouri Breaks, aa Arthur Penn
Cm now showing at the Docglas 3
Theater, are a superb cast and
memorable technical efforts.
The talents cf Jack llxhcteva and
Marlon Brando are paired far the Erst
time in this potpourri western fcixing
humor, drama, romance and hmts cf
moral phsscphy.
Nkhoison is east as Tom Lcgan, a
horse thief whose character is a
juxtaposition cf cunning and ccapsssSca,
who faZs in love with the daughter cf
the rancher who hired a Imshwac&er to
kill him. Delivering a performance
consistent with those which wen him aa
Adacemy Award and five ( award
nominations, Nicholson follows the bas
moods with precision.
Brando, twice an Academy Award
winner and contender seven times,
does not appear until 49 minutes cf the
film have elapsed. He esters as a
pompous, overweight leprechaun whose
antics belie his ruthless callings.
Brando's performance as Lee Clayton,
an eccentric, heartless tared killer, does
not falter. He merges the rote and the
actor.
Nicholson and Brando are comple
mented by a fine supporting cast The
film co-stars Randy Quaid (The Last
Detail), character actor Harry Dean
Stanton as an embittered, aging outlaw
and John McLiam as the rancher who
crumbles as his life turns against him.
Kathleen Lloyd makes her screen
debut as Jane Braxton, the pert and
saucy rancher's daughter who falls in
love with and boldly pursues Nicholson.
riot to be overlooked are the technical
qualities of The Missouri Breaks. From
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the opening pastoral scenes with John
Williams' music to the grueling deaths cf
the horse thieves, the film's production
staff spared Ettla detail to carry the
viewer through the film's varying
moods.
Zlichael Bctlsr directed camera- work
which heightened the interplay between
characters. The close-up views - of
Logan's changing facial expressions
slit-eyed hatred fcr Clayton contrasted
with aw-shucks glances when he
encounters Jane support the film's
contrasting moods.
listed shots as ssen thrccsh Garten's
binoculars lend an ethereal quality to
several scenes. The twdght, lamplight
and sunburst lighting closely resemble
natural light. '
' The Missouri Breaks is cot without
Haws. Although Pesn has dealt with
vislenee-western themes before XAtde
Big Man, Bonnie essd Ctgde and The Left
Banded Gun, a 1SC3 Ln starring Paul
Newman), the , western like the
musical as a Cm genre, belongs to a
past era. '
Perhaps the fUm tries to incorporate
too many moods, burdening it with
inconsistencies and confusing transitions.
The screenplay for the film's lS0s
setting contains occasional anachronisms
and cliches which are disturbing. At
times the conversations between the
characters appear too sophisticated to be
acceptable. Light hearted moments are
inconsistent with inevitable and gory
violence.
The Missouri Breaks is not a gentle
movie, nor is it a simple shoot-em-up
western. Brando and Nicholson are
actors of too high a caliber to let it pass
as that.
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