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aonq fbr the 2-H Friday, July 4, '69 DETROIT FREE PRESS SPECIAL MATINEE TODAY, 2 P.M. WfD 2 P.M. ACADEMY AWARDS WINNER OF 1 4 1 l.r M. Ill 1 IVES. 8:15 7:30 r.m.

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SO. Ml. 4 6006 JcMtMon "SLAVES" At the Fox THE CAST MacKay Stephen Bovd Luke Ossie Davis Cassv D'Onn Warwick Dame de New Orleans Tale Sonderpaard Esther Barbara Arm Teer Jericho Robert Kva-Hill Directed bv Herbert J. Biber-man from a screenplay by John 0. Killen, Alida Sherman and Mr.

Biberman. Produced by Philip Langner. A Theatre Guild Films production In association with the Walter Reade Oraanlzation, Inc. A Continental release. Grout Point VA.

2 17JO- VA. J. 3670 iroupi: shone ANN IQUIRII. tSXmi, ForthesJave-courage knew no chains- Fortheniaster-desircknewno color in the savage world ofthe Old South! fT uaui euAWiue nun gnwiiinu CETA III W4 i Sh jm2. wj ufifl CONTINUOUS 'GOODBYE.

COLUMBUS' IS THE WARMEST, AT POPULAR PRICES "A NEW YORK VERSION OF THE GRADUATE! Remarkably faithful to the Philip Roth novel in spirit and substance! 'GOODBYE, COLUMBUS' is universal, permitting both remembrance of things past FRIENDLIEST, FUNNIEST, MOST HUGGABLE FILM I'VE SEEN IN A VERY LONG TIME. I PLAN TO SEE IT DIRECT FROM ITS RCSERVFD SEAT AGAIN AND AGAIN UNTIL IT BECOMES AN OLD FRIEND. I've met all the people in 'Goodbye, Columbus' I before. They're real, all right. Real and delightful to know.

and a refreshing recognition of things present.1. IRRESISTIBLE!" "RARE MOMENTS. INTIMATE LOVE SCENES!" The entire cast is tiawiess. -t Itttrf, Wmn'l Wl Do.ljr "UNCOMMONLY REFRESHING! A MEMORABLE FILM! This is about as faithful a transference of a liters rv piece of film as any vet done it has caught DickVanTlyke the necessary atmospheres so tellingly!" Hollx Alrf, Solurdoy eit "REFRESHING TO SEE AS IT IS RARE TO FIND! ri pari THF WORK OF TALENTED SENSITIVE BY BRUCE VILANCH Free Press Staff Writer "Slaves" is a movie with its moral in the right place but the wrong time, a cheap, poorly executed, thinly-veiled plea for black militancy. In Hollywood's former days it would have been called a "heavy mel-ler," or melodrama gone sour, but in 1969 it is just a shade above sheer exploitation.

Amazingly, the Theater Guild, which usually has an eye for good drama, is behind the thing, but Wednesday's huge audience at the Fox, almost entirely black, did not seem to be. They laughed at all the contrived, wordy dialogue, stooping good-versus-evil metaphor and intolerable message scenes. Of course, they also cheered when Ossie Davis, as an Uncle Tom turned moderate militant, informed Stephen Boyd, as a plantation owner, that he was superior to hdm. But It's easy to see why anyone would cheer Ossie after all he's been through at the hands of Boyd. That moment aside, "Slaves" does not have much to recommend it.

Set in 1850 and shot behind a cloud, it recounts the forced sale of two alaves from their happy Kentucky home to a mean Mississippi Cotton magnate, and proceeds to tell how they escape with a new-born babe to that freedom road with its horn of plenty. The film ends with a shot of the baby's face gurgling Into the camera as Ossie Davis solemnly intonea the news that someday, somewhere they will all be free. WELL, THIS is all admira-ble and it would be difficult to find anyone who does not share these sentiments, but that doea not make "Slaves" worthwhile. All the nobleness of purpose and great righteous indignation In the world (and there is lots of it here) simply does not suffice in the theater. There must be some craftsmanship, some reason for this sentiment to be presented as a film work.

't Message doea not justify it- self in art, or even in craft, simply by being message. The creators of "Slaves," have tried to show that standing still and waiting for i I j- HSfeaMi'J "'GOODBYE, COLUMBUS' IS BOUND TO BE A GREAT SUCCESS!" HUMOROUS PEOPLE!" Wcharrf Schjclraf, tir AtogaxfA things to happen just will not help the black man. They have thrown in all sorts of obvious, attenuated parallels intended to make the story relevant to today, but instead it just looks silly. What Is more important to black culture than the script is perhaps the acting debut of Dionne Warwick, a very stylized singer who shows that her talents may not be confined to Burt Baeharach's arrangement. She has been pelted with one of the nist steadily baffling roles in recent memory.

She's a slave who by day picks cotton and by night wallows lasciviously in the bed of her master. Between times she prances around the plantation In wildly colorful African garb and tribal makeup, a bourbon bottle under her arm and vengeance in her heart. Except for one exceptionally embarrassing drunk scene during which she sings a lovely song perfectly on key with charming piano backup (she is staggering around an open field at the time), Miss Warwick is very nice. Stephen Boyd is bland, but evil, as he approaches his mistress on his quest for what he oafs a "man -woman truth." But OsHie Davis has the funniest line in the movie when he produces a piece of sod he brought south from Ohio and tells his wife to "smell a little piece of that freedom land." The audience at the Fox howled. Sally Ann "Hovits -NtwlwMk "TENDER, LOVING, FUNNY-SAD! -KoIMmii Ctmtl, N.

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