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FILMS?bedbills. It has the requisite violence, only one scene of which7 t-n {~in a bar aPtly named the Gaytu C LJdy C a b a 11 e r o—could really be4*P. J.”called disgusting.(At the Uptown, Antioch, Metcalf, Granada in Kansas City, Kansas). Detect'v* melodrama with screenplay by Philip Reisman, jr., produced by Edward J, Montaqne, directed by John Guillerrrun and released by Universald ^ !iese Prir,ciDal players:5#-ir, Detweiler Georqe Peppard°ob,Si?,n ....... Raymond Burr»«SiLreen ,Trebl* Gavle Hunnicutt'A/aterpark ...... _ Brock Peter*;Billinas Browne . Wilfrid Hyde WhltlNo, the real problem is Peppard, andsuppost what helacks might be called character. Meaning (as long as he s trying to copy Bogart) a sardonicism.flinty honesty and austere kindof grace that seem trulv hisBy Giles M. Fowler(The Star's Motion Picture Editor)THE MUSIC of thumping fists, gun shots and wisecracks ringsout loud enough and clearenough. But George Peppard just isn’t Humphrey Bogart.Which is the difference betweengraceown. Peppard, by contrast to the old master, looks soft and imitative; he tries for the Bogey style and misses it by a thousandyears.a really gratifying pri-vate-eye melodrama, of the kind Bogey used to make, and a mediocre copy like “P. J.”As P. J. of the title, he is hiredto be Miss Hunnicutt s bodyguard, which is some task, considering her body and all the by-zantine intrigues that come with the job. The action jumps from New York to the British West In-Even if the story is no “Maltese Falcon,” even if the lan-strainsidies, and also provides appearances by Brock Peters and Wilfrid Hyde-White.guage strains a bit for snap-crackling effect, “P. J.” still has a workable plot of the old-timekind, with enough arabesquesand double twists to retain interest.Phone Sunday Want Ads Jn before noon Saturday. BA 1-5500.—AdvTruman CapotIt has thoroughly hateworthyantagonist (Raymond Burr),who likes wounding rabbits witha shotgun and wounding heartswith verbal sadism. It has a sexin cold eBLOODobject played by Gayle Hunni-cutt, who can’t act but looks gor-Wr.nen for the screen ond directed byRichard Brooks7:20-9:30 Positively No Children Admittedrrrrrr: \
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Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Thu, Mar 07, 1968
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