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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1978
Page
12
Mike Deupree reviews The Lord of the Rings at Stage 2 Theater, a Ralph Bakshi production blending live action and animation. The film covers half the Tolkien trilogy ending mid The Two Towers, praised for mood and fidelity but likely to confuse nonfans.
In Los Angeles Edward Fox criticizes the Yugoslav shoot for Force 10 from Navarone noting budget overruns and overlong schedules. He recalls tense mountain-set filming with locals, calls American TV ads horrible, and mentions co stars Harrison Ford Richard Kiel and Robert Shaw.
AP reports The Lord of the Rings movie opens nationwide as a major Christmas season film based on J R R Tolkien's books. The feature follows Tolkien from child linguist to Oxford professor and WWI veteran shaping a mythology for the modern world.
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