Streisand Shines in Funny Lady Film Review
Ann Schrader surveys Funny Lady starring Barbra Streisand James Caan and Omar Sharif. The piece praises Streisand and Caan delivering strong performances while noting vibrant production design and standout songs though criticizes a few plot flaws and an epilogue.
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Streisand
Barbra Streisand
James Caan
Omar Sharif
Raystar
Columbia Pictures
Billy Rose
Hollywood
Fanny Brice
Brice
Rose
Nick Arnstein
Buffalo
New York
Nick
Caan
Roddy McDowell
Carole Wells
National Velvet
French Connection II Sequel Delivers Gripping Marseille Pursuit
Movie review notes Gene Hackman reprises Popeye Doyle in Marseille pursuing Charnier. Inspector Barthelemy helps and betrays, Popeye endures heroin withdrawal, and the film earns an R rating for explicit addiction and street dialogue.
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New York
Popeye Doyle
Gene Hackman
Charnier
Fernando Rey
Marseille
Popeye
Barthelemy
Bernard Fresson
Cody
Police Department
Rey
Fresson
Hackman
John Frankenheimer
Frankenheimer
The Happy Hooker opens in Cedar Rapids amid mixed reviews
The Happy Hooker starring Lynn Redgrave and Lovelady Powell opened at Stage 1 in Cedar Rapids to mixed audience reaction. Critics fault the film’s tame adaptation of Xaviera Hollander’s book, noting its lack of humor and explicit sexuality, with Variety labeling it not funny or sexy.
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Lynn Redgrave
Lovelady Powell
Double H Film Co
Cannon Group
Stage 1
Hollywood
New York
Xaviera Hollander
Cedar Rapids
Xaviera
Carl
Redgrave
Variety
Death Race 2000 film review notes violence and satire
A film overview for Death Race 2000 notes a cross country race where drivers gain points for harming people including the elderly, with Frankenstein played by David Carradine and Machine Gun Joe Viterbo by Sylvester Stallone. The piece mentions revolutionaries, political blame shifting to France, limited nudity, and a warning about mowing pedestrians.
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New York
Los Angeles
Frankenstein
David Carradine
Joe Viterbo
Sylvester Stallone
Thomasina Paine
Simone Griffeth
Soresmar
Robert Thom
Charles
Gruffit
Omnia
Stower
Mrelchmor Prapucep
Roger Cormann
Meenin
Paul Bamete
Metrocolor
AME
Ella Romines
Night Moves provides three plots tangled with crime
Gene Hackman stars as Harry Moseby a private eye drawn into a missing girl case and a tangled web of family secrets in Florida. The film mixes crime smuggling a stepfather and a volatile mother with later scenes of danger and personal reckoning rooted in past hurts.
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Dick Harry Moseby
Hackman
Florida
Harry
Little Tat
Mommy
Theater Schedule and Movie Timings by Towns
Thursday schedule lists Paramount What's Up Doc at 7 45 and 9 45. Iowa French Connection II shows at 1 30 3 35 5 40 7 45 9 50. World Soldier Blue runs 1 30 3 30 5 30 7 30 9 30. Times The Other Side of the Mountain 1 30 3 25 5 20 7 20 9 15. Plaza Bambi 2 25 4 15 6 05 7 55 9 40 plus shorts 2 3 45 5 35 7 25 9 15. Stage 1 The Happy Hooker 7 50 9 40. Stage 2 The Return of the Pink Panther 7 40 9 50. Stage 3 Death Race 2000 8 0 9 40. Stage 4 Moves 7 45 9 40. Eastown 1 Funny Lady 7 9 45. Eastown 2 Jaws 7 45 10. Collins Death Race 2000 9 10 Big Bad Mama 10 50. Twixt Town Mando 9 15 The Klansman 11 35. Twin West The Reincarnation of Peter Proud 9 20 W 11 20. Twin East The Four Musketeers 9 20 The Phantom of the Paradise 11 25. Marion Features at 13 1 3 8 7 CINEMAX Features at HL.
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Ann Schrader
Robert L. Rosen
20Th Century-Fox
Iowa Theater
By Suzanne Barnes
Oscar
Hunter
By Mike Deupree
Berlin
Don Steele
New World Pictures
Roger Corman
Stage 3
Collins
Bill Lavelette
America
Molotov
Bering Straits
Russia
Bruaght Lite AY & Satu “the
Gene Cross
Old 218
16Th Ave
Playboy
C.R
Iowa
Ayee
Andrea True Middleton
Oy Jonas
Bruce Williamson
Peni
PSSA
Paramou
Tonite Xaviera Hollander
Tonite
K Mart West
Walt Disney
Bambi
Peter Sellers
Pink Panther
Are
Eekr Eastown
Boy Scheider
Robert Shaw
Richard Dreyfuss
FINN
Pete
James Mason
Warner Bros
Arthur Penn
Stage 4
By Tom Fruehling
Penn
Paramount
Doc
PLAZA
Eastown
Mandingo
Peter Proud
Marion
Cinemax
Pere el Lse
Collins Road Drive-In
DEATH
Angie de Nara Etal
Big Bad Mama
Musketeers
Michael Sarrazin
Jennifer O’ Neill
STREE
Nti
Twiggy
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