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77ie Conformist wEl be showing at Sheldon this wedk.
7?je Conformist, a 1970 Italian release,
is tonight's presentation in the Union Pro-,
gram Council's Foreign Classics Series.
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, the film
is a disturbing character study of an Italian
fascist secret service member duing the
1930s.
The Conformist helped bring Bertolucci
to the attention of world wide audiences.
Since then he has become one of the
leading international directors with films
such ss Lest Tcro in Peris. 1
The film will be shown tonight at 7 and
9 pjn. in the Sheldon Film Theatre. Ad
mission is $1.50 for general audience and
$1.00 for holders of a regular Foreign Film
Series ticket.
Birth of a Nation, D. W, Griffith's
classic epic of the Civil War, will be screen
ed for the film study classes at 10 an.
and 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.
There is no admission charge.
Released in 1915, Birth of a Nation is
regarded by many critics as the first great
American film. Although silent, the film
will be shown with an accompanying
musical soundtrack.
This week Sheldon Film Theatre will
present i highly acclaimed Swiss film
hnsh, Who Will Be 25 in the Ycsr 2000.
The film was directed by Alain Tanner,
whose preceding feature Middle of the
World, was shown in last year's Foreign
Film Series.
This week's TV movie highlight is
Hearts of the West, a 1975 film about
Hollywood in the thirties. Jeff Bridges
plays a struggling writer who stumbles into
the movies as a star of B-grade westerns.
However, the best role belongs to Alan
Arkin, who has a field day as a hack direc
tor. Hearts of the West will be shown
tonight at 8 pjn. on NBC.
Lawmen out-fox Wild Bunch outlaws
By Csrla Ensstrom
Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series
on Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. Information is
taken from The Wild Bunch by James Horan, Signet
Books, published by The New American Library, Inc.
New York, N.Y., 75 cents.
In the beginning, the Wild Bunch were only small
bands of train robbers, horse thieves and highwaymen.
Gradually they drifted together forming a tight liaison
under Butch Cassidy, their undisputed leader. Cassidy
made places like the Hole in the Wall and Brown's Hole
famous, since they were the Wild Bunch's principal
hideouts.
Harvey Logan was second in command, but to the Wild
Bunch and the West, he was known as the "deadly Kid
Curry.'' Curry was fast with a gun and deadly because of
"his utter contempt for fear and human life-even his
own, wrote James Horan, author of The Wud Bunch.
didn't look like an outlaw. A Wanted poster would
describe him as short, neat, trimmed black mustache and
black hair parted in the middle.
On the trail, he dressed in a dark blue suit! and a black
bowler. He was probably the only outlaw to own a
"full-dress suit."
Horan concluded from a picture taken in 1902 that
Etta Place, Sundance's wife, was beautiful.
Horan describes Etta as a "tall, slim woman with a pile
of chestnut hair, dark eyes and an aristocratic profile.
'When the Kid told her they (Butch and Sundance)
were leaving the states, she said rather than never see
him again she'd come along, and she did. What became
of her after Butch and the Kid died is not known. But this
we know: she was beautiful and loved the Kid," summed
up Horan.
Women riders
As for the rest of the Wild Bunch, Butch met Elza Lay
The heart of the Wild Bunch was Butch, Curry, the when he sot out of Wyoming State Prison. Butch was
Sundance Kid, Elza Lay, the Tall Texan, Deaf Charley heading for Brown's Hole when Lay teamed up with him.
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He was a train robber and rustler by occupation. His
only weakness was women, Horan wrote, and he never
had trouble finding them. ,
One special woman was Laura Bullion, who could
"ride like a jockey and shoot like Annie Oakley," Horan
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The other main outlaw in the Wild Bunch was Camilla
Hanks, alias Deaf Charley Hanks. Charley was born on a
run-down ranch" and his mother was a "drunken
slattern." . , ,
Charley was completely deaf by age 19. No one "dared
cross Charley's path, he couldn't hear, but was fast on the
draw and ready for a stand-up fight," wrote Horan.
The Wild Bunch was a strong band, but in 1897,
cattlemen first attempted to rid the West of the out-
laws.
"The cowboy-versus-the-rustlers battle clicked across
the wire services of the press and even in New York the
strange name "Hole in the Wall" was becoming well
known," wrote Horan.
But the outlaw's day was almost over and Butch knew
it. The law was becoming more organized and trains
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Their fates could be expected. -
Elza Lay was sentenced to life in prison and later
released. The Texan was killed in a train robbery; Kid
Curry was killed by a posse. Laura Bullion (who married
the Texan) walked out of prison at age 37. Deaf Charley
Hanks was the only one to escape and resume life under
an assumed name. ' , ,
Butch, Sundance and Etta, visited New York, then
fled to Bolivia and robbed silver mine trains. Eventually,
Butch and Sundance found themselves surrounded by
soldiers. The Kid was shot in the chest but Cassidy kept
firing until he was certain he'd be captured, then shot
himself.
Their bodies were dragged into the village square for a
few hours and then buried in a cemetery in San Vicente,.
Bolivia. ;
"On one wooden head board was written Cassidy and
on the other Longbaugh. Under each name was added
Bandido Yanqui (Yankee Outlaw)."
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