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Wednesday, March 14, 1973
University Daily Kansan
'Deliverance' Strikes Man's Basic Fear
By ROBERT MILLER
Kansan Reviewer
In defending the use of violence in films, Fritz Lang has said that because modern movies are designed for him to fear is pain. Director John Boeromax exploits the hilt this last fear of mankind in his latest picture "deliverance," and the result is a truly frightening
Boarman is no stranger to murder and mayhem on the screen. In "Point Blank," he gave us Lee Marvin as an automaton-like professional killer who turned against (and systematically exterminates) his own organization. The main difference in their approaches is that involves four precisely sketched and utterly believable characters.
James Dickey's story about the series of catastrophes that befalls four golfing buddies on a canoe trip in the Appalachians, and the team's standing performances from Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox, Reynolds is cast as Louis, the seasoned and egotistical outdoorman, who leads the way to orders to his less experienced companions.
Voight is Ed, a younger man of completely opposite character. Cox, as Drew,
displays a surface calm that eventually gives way to terror when the quartet encounters sodomy and death in the backwoods country. Beauty has the thankless job of cleaning up the sloppy and unintelligent character needed to focus audience sympathies on Ed.
Our attention is first drawn to Louis, whose brash statements about survival in the open lead one to suspect that circumstances will soon put him to the test. Draw attention interest and read carefully the burden of survival falls on the less-than-confident shoulders of Ed. The process of maturation he undergoes in having to take the lead, and endure intense pain, makes the film a very grueling and tense experience. Even the sense of release afforded the audience whenEd finally uts is safety is not secure from nightmares.
Though Reynolds has little to do in the last part of the film but writes in agony from his injuries, he does so with such convincing grimaces and shudders that a disturbing sense of spectator empathy is unavoidable. The Men of the Mountains are an unknown quantity to most of us, and Deliverance makes for a mighty scary and distasteful introduction. But taken only as a movie, it's so good it hurts.
Week Scene
Ozark Mountain Daredevils In Concert This Weekend
CHILD'S PLAY: An exciting mystery starring James Mason and Robert Preston. Shows begin at 7:20 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. at Hirstick 3 Theater.
MOVIES
RULING CLASS: A far-out comedy that may or may not be a spoof on high society. Peter O'Toole stars in this flick that breeds many different opinions. Shows begin at 7:10 p.m. and 9:50 p.m. Wednesday through next Tuesday at Hillcrest 2 Theater.
CABARET: Liza Minnelli stars in a musical that has been nominated for 10 academy awards. She begins at 7:35 p.m. on Tuesday through Tuesday at Hillcrest 3 Theater.
DELIVERANCE: Four friends go on a canoe trip and only three make it back—and they have a great time. Vought and Burt Reynolds star. Show begins at 7:30 p.m. and 9:40 p.m. Wednesday through next Tuesday at the Granada. On Saturday at 8:35 p.m. Saturday and Sunday afternoons.
STEARYDWAL BLUES: A hooker, a demolition derby driver, a nut, a hippie and a comedy. Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland and Peter Boyle have the leading roles. Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. and next Tuesday at the Varsity Theater
THE DIRTY GANG, THE SAVAGE SEVEN, AND THE KILLERS THREE: three men and women starting at 7:30 p.m. daily through Saturday at the Sunset Drive In Theater.
PRIME CUT AND THE REVENGERS:
"Prime Cut" stars Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman, was filmed in the Lawrence area and had a pictorial spread in Playboy magazine. Marvin and Hackman have a stockyard, but they don't sell cows. "The Revengeers" is a western in the style of the 1950s and focuses on Ernest Borgnegirl head the cast. Double starts at 7:30 p.m. Sunday through Tuesday at the Sunset Drive In Theater.
AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY AND THE STORY OF LOUIS PASTEUR: "An American Tragedy" is about a weak-willed young man who falls in love with a rich girl but can't disentangle himself from a factory girl he has seduced. "The Story of Louis Pastur" is the biography of the famous Dr. Pastur, featuring his historic medical博客. Bots of these films come from the 1930 era. First on p. on Friday at the United Ministries Center, 1204 Oread. Double feature admission price is $1.50.
KIRU (TO LIVE): This one is part of the SUA Classical Film Series, made in Japan in 1962. Stars Takashi Shimura. Shows begin at 7:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Wednesday in Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
MUSIC
SPEECHES
FRANKLIN D. MURPHY: This former chancellor returns to the KU campus to deliver a talk entitled "From Birth to Years—An Oversimplified Analogy." Speech begins at 7:30 Wednesday night in the Hall. The speech at Murphy Hall.
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All books placed in our store PRIOR TO OCTOBER 1, 1972 must be picked up NO LATER THAN THURSDAY. MARCH 15, 1973. If not picked up, books become the property of The Emporium.
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