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colossal lineups at Charlottetown Cinema One is _the*Hannah Weinstein production STIR CRAZY, headlining Gene Wilder

r and Richard Pryor (the movie was made prior to his accident).

‘ Sydney Poitier directs the comedy which, after viewing, remains memorable solely for the comical sequences involving the stars. '

Gene Wilder plays a naive playwright who seemingly comes out ’of every unlikely situa- tion smelling like a rose; Pryor is his com- plete opposite. The two

them being framed. The robbery and assult charge earns the mo a mere 125 years in Prison.

Pryor's expressive antics and Wilder's fear— less innocence combine for some extremely funny jail scenes. The story-

,line becomes all too familiar and the movie tends to go dawnhill when we learn the corrupt Warden needs Wilder's ‘ brmoo riding expertise to win a bet with a

rival corrupt prison warden in the "annual prison redeo".

The rodeo serVes as a means for an escape ' attempt by Wilder, Pryor and their cell mates,

are apparently friends

at the beginning of the movie and it is Wilder who convinces Pryor to leave the madnessof

New York and go to‘Holly- wood. Due to a van break— down along the way some— where in the Southwest, they decide to stop and \ earn some money. Dressed

GENE WILDER

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and RICHARD PRYOR

as woodpeckers, they do a promotional song and dance routine fora bank. The costumes, however, are

used. in an actual bank ‘

STIR CRAZY

aided by a 300 pound mass killer who has been mellowed by Wilder's compassion and under— standing.

'I'ne ending is anti— climatic, detracting from the movie's over- all appeal. The movie, for all intensive pur- poses, rests entirely on Wilder's and Pryor's talents and while they won't win- any academy awards, they'll probably make you laugh, at least once. '

: robbery, whidr leads to

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leslie (Philip Yack) , a They could be studying British soldier captured Old English, or fixing by the I.R.A.; Teresa dangling modifiers. Hencher, (Sherry Miller), a lovely especially, will pay, He's young country (girl who in my class. tries to help him; Bobo, Sometimes these Colette, and Ropeen' students even break into (Cathy Campbell, Katlin lusty song. What they Schmidt, andAnn‘Reynolds) , don't realize is that "a ladies of the night in the lot of the songs in this broken-down lodging house play could get them and this which is the setting; and ' university into real trouble. Rio Rita and Princess For example : "The bells Grace (John knobsr and Of hell/ Go ting-a—ling- Robert Kickham) , also a-ling/ For you but not ladies of the night, sort. for me~/ 0h death Where is of. ' thy/ Sting—a—ling—a—ling/ Or grave thy victory?"

This is,of course, a _ \ 'Ihese irreverent words

‘ waste of all. their time.

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could easily be taken as a further divisive comment on the new Business School.

Nor is it much consideration that the director, Ron Irving, guides with a mature and . . gifted hand, and has a string, of both professional and amateur trimzfphs to his recent credit. He'd have to be mature and gifted to pull this one off.

I suppose it's nice to know that Ron is backed by a capable production crew headed by Ian MacDonald, the Director of'Extensi-on. But I'm on that crew, and I

know the inside story. For example, they're looking for students to paint the set one day soon. Probably

/ be beer available, lots of

laughs, yukking it up. When they could be learning about the phonem.

There's nothing more to say, really, at least not frcm the students' point of. View. Except, oh yes, that the details are Friday and Saturday, March 13 and 14, 8:00 p.m., Confederation Centre, $3.00 and $5.00, if you really want to go.

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