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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 
     
    
   
   
    
     Together 
     
    
   
   
    
     Again in... I 
     
    
   
   
    
     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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