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Summer Nebraskan, Thursday, Aug. 3, 1978
'Sgt. Pepper's 1
not bad movie
By L. Kent Wolgamott
Any movie which includes two of today's hottest
recording acts, performing music written by the
uremier group of the last 20 years and is backed up by
Hpoearances of popular stars is bound to be a
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The surprising thing. about Robert Stigwood's .Scr.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, is that it is not a bad
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movie, which stars Peter Frampton and the Bee
as the title's band, creates a fanciful, if
predictable plot through the use of music written by
John Lellon. Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
Writer Henry Edwards and musical arranger and
director George Martin wove their selections of the
Beatles' music into a story which is supported by a
minimum of dialogue.
Almost all of the spoken words come from George
Burns, as Mr. Kite, the mayor of the town of Heartland
where the story takes place.
This spares us the agony of watching rock stars
attempt to struggle through speaking parts and allows
the director much more freedom to use innovative
production techniques to enhance the story.
Through the use of special effects, varied camera
angles and imaginative sets, director Michael Shultz
manages to hold the movie together despite the
absence of experienced actors.
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The Bee Gees and Peter Framptcu sing along in "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band," the fantasy created by
the Beatles during their experiments with LSD.
However, the factor which gives the movie credibility
is the survival of Beatles' music almost intact.
Any attempt to transform the score into the
homogenized mush of typical Bee Gee's material was
doomed to failure and would have taken the movie with
it.
This is not to say the film escapes all of its potential
trouble areas unscathed.
The plot of hometown boys making good in the big
city and returning to rescue the homeland from the
forces of evil is standard t.v. fare.
The film also seems to drag at times as the characters
meander through a song, when the time has come to
move on.
And Stigwood seems to have given us too much of a
good thing in guest appearances.
The spots with Steve Martin (who seems very out of
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Somehow, something also seems amiss in the use of
the Beatles' music.
The Beatles' album, "St. Pepper's," was the result
of a meeting between the Beatles and LSD and marked
a dramatic change in their music.
To see it performed by stars of the '70s whose
creative enterprise moves to the sound of the cash
register is incongruous.
In short, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , is
not a good movie.
The film does not contain exceptional performances,
the plot is mediocre, and it is very commercial.
But at the same time it is technically well done and
enjoyable.
'Red Dust' at Sheldon
The Sheldon Film Theatre will show Red Dust,
The Shanghai Express, and the Love Parade in August.
Screenings are at 7 & 9 p.m. with matinees at 3 p.m. Fri.
Sun. Red Dust, Aug. 3-6, stars Jean Harlow and Clark
Gable. This tropical melodrama portrays Gable's animal
magnetism in the steamy setting of an Indochinese
rubber plantation. Harlow's sense of humor and innocent
vulgarity find perfect expression in the role of a sassy
river tramp.
The Shanghai Express, showing Aug. 10-13, stars
Marlene Dietrich, Give Brook and Anna May Wong. The
film is dedicated to the proposition of unconditional love,
as the characters find themselves caught up in the
atmosphere of a Chinese civil war.
The Love Parade, showing Aug. 17-20, stars Maurice
Chevalier, Jeannette MacDonald and Lupino Lane. This
musical is a milestone of the early sound film and a
provocative sexual fable. Maurice Chevalier marries
Jeannette MacDonald, ruler of a feminist queendom, and
discovers his true position when the wedding ceremony
pronounces them "wife and man."
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