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Monday, December 6, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Hair-Raising 'Wilderness
By BARBARA SCHMIDT Kansan Reviews Editor
There's an unspoken rule observed by most habitual movigoers: Shun Saturday matinees of GF. or Grated inherently wrong with these films, but many of their audiences are too much to take in. You must be a school escapee who run up and down the aisles whispering "Mama, where's the bathroom?" with such melodramatic fervor that self becomes incomprehensible.
Saturday afternoon I broke the rule and went to the Varsity Theatre to see "Man in the Wilderness" with some attractions, the kids were restless, but within minutes after the movie began, everyone was silent and giled to his seat. During the next two hours no one entered the room, and not once did I get a bubble gum in my hair.
This story may seem silly and inconsequential, but it serves far better than reams of glorified
film criticism to say what should be said about *Man in the Wilderness* off its *usually* an absorbing movie. But you simply can't take your eyes off it.
"Man" belongs to the current crop of "realistic western." "McCabe & Mrs Miller" capitalized or so super-intelligent that a worthwhile plot and "Doe" best historical fact to achieve its own
die. The two men were scared off by approaching Indians and Bass was left to die alone.
But the desire for revenge kept Bass alive. "Man" is the story of his struggle for survival hundreds of miles away from anyone but hostile Indians. It shows him virtually crawling his way to find someone who is emotionally gradually changing, from that of a bitter man living
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brass of dumy, gritty truth. Bu "Man" succeeds, where its predecessors failed and is the well-rounded film of the three.
In the fall of 1830 a fur trapping expedition in the Northwest Territories started making its way westward toward the Great Winter set in Along the way Zach Bass was mailed by a grizzly. Captain Henry, the expedition's leader, ordered two men to stay camp and watch for danger until died—and to kill him if he didn't.
solely for revenge to the spirit of a caring, forgiving man in search of peace and harmony.
Richard Harris and John Huston put in fine performances as the embittered Bass and the saintly Henry Jack de Witt's script is leans and subduy religious. And Richard Harris has reminiscent of both the magnificence and tenderness in the score to "How the West Was"
one shell of a boring movie. Fisher and Sarafian overcome mononyton by presenting meticulously framed shots that stress the Northwest's natural coastline, including drying brown leaves, the crystal clear streams, the snow and the rugged terrain.
Finally, Sarafian proves to be a capable director of action sequence by the brazy Sarafian shot in cut after shot of the bear lunging forward, grabbing onto him and then running away but Sarafian treats it so unfortunate that we hardly need to get nauseated before the whole thing happens.
'Spoon River' Life Reflects Joy, Pain
There's very little worth condemning in "Man in the Wilderness." The title sounds so much like a Walt Disney nature movie, and there are too many symbolic red herrings in the film (such as a music box Bass had as a child that resembles "Otizen Kane" or "Borat" or "Balakala," except that it's only shown one). But that's being picky.
Besides, if the Saturday matinee crowd approved, "Mam in the Wilderness" must have something going for it.
By MARILYN K. KING
Kansas Reviewer
If you're from a small town you must see "Spoon River Anthology." If you are not, see it anyway. It is the most moving product stamped in Exhibition Unknown, Soldier and His Wife.
"Spoon River" is a postscript on life in a small Illinois town near the Mississippi River. The characters are all shades of Spoon River citizens.
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