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Eastwood goes on rampage in Mosey Wales’plays PlaiinedO I/O v J WESTPORT, Conn.“The Outlaw Josey Wales”: (PGl. withClint Eastwood, Chief Dsn George and Son-tira Loeke, directed by Eastwood, at the Camel-view theater, Round-Up and Cinema Park drive-ins.By MIKE PETRYN1Ever since A Fistfull of Dollars,” Clint Eastwood has been t h e smoothest running killing machine the movies ever created.He has been so consistent in his slaughter, that it is likely all his massive following wants to hear about “The Outlaw Josey Wales” is probably that he does it again.Using three handguns, a buffalo rifle, and even resorting to a Gattling gun in one scene, Eastwood harvests the other side like a field of wheat. “Variety,” the movie-industry’s trade paper, recently noted that the killing here works out to one corpse every 90 seconds during the movie’s 135-minute running time.It*s too bad, and maybe even contemptible, that Eastwood, who also directed, figures he has to resort to body counts on Biblical or Homeric proportions to bring out the crowds since “The Outlaw Josey Wales” also has considerable appealin its elegiac depletion of the West, in its even handed treatment of Indians and in its able portrayal of lonely people clinging fragjlely together on the frontier.Kansas Redlegs kill his principle and because he family, a rampage that continues after he rejectsthe Union amnesty (on suspects, rightfully, some deceit in the amnesty) after the Civil War.The story, adapted byPhil Kaufman (who was fired in the early going as director by Eastwood) and Sonia Chernus from a novel by Forrest Carter, has Eastwood as a Missouri farmer who goes on a revenge rampage afterRunning from the law, Eastwood then collects and protects a family of vertible misfits: a bungling old Indian (Chief Dan George), a tribeless squaw (Geraldine Keams), a salty grandma (Paula Trueman), a ten* d e r romantic interest (Sondra I-ocke) and assorted other broke gamblers, bored bartenders.Entertainment briefsHOLLYWOOD fUPD -Michael York will play Marty Feldman’s twinbrother in “The Last Remake of Beau Geste” at Universal Pictures..replacing Barbara Walters for the summer.Grand Hotel” will be renlade by M G M and Warner Bros.Betty Furness will be co-host the Today” show,blowzy hookers andbeaten-down fiddleplayers.Eastwood, as a director, handles this motley crew with easygoing humor and warm affection. The killer star is a gentle director.And with the help of Bruce Surtees’ excellent cinematography. E a s t-wood pulls as much beauty and more mood out of the Arizona countryside than Arizona Highways. The story may be set in Kansas and Texas, but the movie was shot in Page and Patagonia.(UPT) — The Connecticut Theatre Foundation’s third season at the Westport Country Playhouse covers seven major productions. They are Jerome Kern’s “Roberta,” Richard Kiley in “Noel Coward in Two Keys,” “The Fatal Weakness,” Clifford Odets’ Awake and Sing” with Howard Dasilva, Theodore Bikel in Zorba,” Eli Wallaeh and Anne Jackson in The House of Blue Leaves,” and the world premiere of Allen Swift's comic drama “Checking out.”Maureen Stapleton willnlnti Dim HiTnmm Sm I*' T h e Outlaw Josey Wales” is a little too languid at times and a little overlong but it’s still one of Eastwood’s best movies, despite thecarnage- -AUTHOR DATEDWASHINGTON (AP) -Edmund Hoyle, author of a famous book • on card game rules, died, in IT69.CALI JIM FOR FREE FIRM BIDSAsk About The Fabulous Rheentaira UnitJIM WOLFE AIR CONDITIONING997*4972DBAINS UNBLOCKEDKITCHEN' SINK FLOOR DRAINSSHOW HUS i • TUBS •UTILITY LINKS
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Phoenix Arizona Republic
Phoenix, Arizona, US
Mon, Jul 19, 1976
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