Model Ts Film Falters in Shreveport Premiere
Local critic Mark Melson panned The Charge of the Model Ts for weak screenplay and bland character work while noting some sincere performances. The film opened Christmas Day as a double bill with The Town That Dreaded Sundown at a six-plex in Shreveport, McCullough’s hometown, with Fort Sill cooperation credited.
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Cache-Fort Sill
Lawton
Jim McCullough
McCullough
Shreveport
Mark Melson
Shreveport Times Amusements
Charles Pierce
Melson
Oklahoma
Ben Johnson
Andrew Prine
Lee Somerville
West
Texas
John David Carson
Carol Bagdasarian
Louis Nye
Arte Johnson
Herb Edelman
John Doucette
Edelman
Jim McCullough Jr
Fort Sill
Jon Long
Eagle Park
Welcome, Tex
Cache
Voyage of the Damned earns lavish praise as a moving war film
A glowing review salutes Voyage of the Damned as a heartbreaking, humane epic about the SS St Louis. The critic lauds Stuart Rosenberg’s direction, the authentic period detail, and standout performances by Spinetti Ferrer McDowell Dunaway Werner Hiller Gazzara Schell Ross and others, calling it perceptive and enduring.
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Victor Spinetti
Jose Ferrer
Malcolm McDowell
Faye Dunaway
Oskar Werner
Orson Wells
Helmut Griem
Ben Gazzara
Maria Schell
Katherine Ross
St. Louis
Voyage of the Damned: St Louis and the 1939 refugees
A retrospective on the 1939 voyage of the St Louis carrying 937 Jewish refugees to Cuba, foiled by fake exit permits and Nazi manipulation. The piece highlights Morris Troper and the Jewish Agency’s efforts, the political chess of nations, and the fragile hope amid diplomatic red tape and looming war.
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Cuba
Goebbels
Morris Troper
St. Louis
Atlantic
Lawton Theatre Joins State Play Festival Circuit
Eight theaters enter the Oklahoma Community Theatre Association state play festival set for March 11 to 13 at the Goddard Center Ardmore Lawton entry and director will be announced later this month along with audition schedule Ardmore Little Theatre presents Godspell Norman Community Playhouse Ponca City Playhouse Bartlesville Little Theatre Guild Renegade Theatre Norman Indian Arts Theatre Ensemble Tulsa Southwest Playhouse Clinton.
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Lawton Community Theatre
Oklahoma Community Theatre Association
Goddard Center For the Performing Arts
Ardmore Lawton
Ardmore Little Theatre
Godspell
Norman Community Playhouse
Ponca
City Playhouse
Bartlesville
Little Theatre Guild
Renegate Theatre
Norman
Indian Arts Theatre Ensemble
Tulsa
Southwest Playhouse
Clinton
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Lalo Schifrin
Havana
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Cupid
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Glenn Miller
Big Mama's Boutique
Fon Village
Code Road
Royal Coach Inn
Royal Rib Eye
Royal Sirlom
52Nd
Gore
Reso
Cache Road
Oak
Lawton’s Academy
Caroline van Rossum
Dublisky
Royal Academy of Dancing
London
England
Ree
Walt Disney Produce
Tos
Rex Reed
Bogdanovich
II Welf
Cue Magaz
Ryan O'Neal
Tatum Oneal
Brian Keith
Stella Stevens
Wei
Burt Reynolds
Peter Bogdanovich
Nickelodeon
John Jane Ritter Hitchcock
Tatum UO
Ferris
SPM
W. Gore
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