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mi 11 ej i snouies DETROIT FREE PRESSFRIDAY. JAN. 26. 1979 2B mmm i Even George C. Scott has a good time MOVIE, MOVIE Area Theaters Donen.

Equally clearly, he ha done his homework. His remembrance of musicals and melodramas past puts accuracy and affection where other, less rewarding nostalgia pieces put the slapdash, tinny trappings of uous librarian of the first story and more like a drag queen than a prima donna in the second. Film newcomers who shine are Harry Hamlin as the kid who makes it big as a boxer and Barry Bostwick (a former Tony award winner), building strong, original characters. Here, he gets to work with types the gruff trainer with a heart of gold In the first story and the dapper theatrical impresario in the second. For Scott, that kind of work is a piece of cake, a month in the country, a rest cure.

There Is one shot of him as the impresario, grinning and bobbing his head and his fingers to a classic "June- "Baxter's Beauties of 1933" Spats Baxter C. Scott Trixle Lane Barbara Harris Dick Barry Bostwick Isobel Stuart Van Devere Jinks Murphy Red Buttons Pop Ell Wallach Kltly Rebecca York Dr. Bowers Art Carney "Dynamite Hands' Clovet Mallov Omt C. Scott Red Button Betty McGuIre Trllh Van Devere Vlnct Mwlowt Eli Wallach Joev Popchlk Harry Hamlin Troubles Moran Ann Relnkina Angie Popchlk Kathleen Beller Dr. Blaine Art Carney TONIGHTS TOMORROW as the lanky, wide-eyed tunes-mith who gets his big break on Broadway In impresario Scott's show.

When all Is said and ddone, though, the star of "Movie, Movie" is its style frontal and fantastical at the same time, and all heart. Clearly, the film was a labor of love for Moon-Croon" tune of the period, that says it all. The sight A Warner Bros, release, produced and directed by Stanley Donen; executive producer, Martin Slargar; screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller: r'Dynamlte Hands" photography by Charles Rosher "Baxter's Beauties of 1933" photography by Bruce Surtees; music by Ralph Burns; musical numbers staged by Michael Kldd; song lyrics by Gelbart and Keller music by Burns and Buster Davis. "Dynamite Hands" in black and white. "Baxter's Beauties of 1933" in color.

Rated G. of Scott in a comedy, having a imuiiiiihi uhi.iu nummi-mu iwtjwumi. 1 it mMMii ii. 1 1 1 nri tHi-iHWi ill Ml HI By SUSAN STARK Fro Prtu Film Critic Stanley Donen "Movie Movie" revives the fun of '30s film fare, when, as George Burns points out in his introductory message, "good always triumphed over evil, the boy always got the girl, and the only four-letter word in the theater was Donen gives us satire of the sweetest kind, looking back with affection upon the kinds of stories the movies gave us 40 years ago, and also reverting to the style in which those screen stories were told. Those who remember montages with train wheels clacking out the passage of time and newspaper headlines shouting advancements' of plot will get nostalgia's special pleasure out of "Movie, Movie." Those who have never seen that kind of montage, or the use of the "iris" to mark scene changes, or even the obligatory overhead "kaleidoscope" shot of a Busby Berkeley production number, will find the film educational as well as entertaining.

good time, is not only novel, It is contagious. Look out, or you'll find yourself smiling the entire time he's on screen. the story of an Ingenue who, after a perilous brush with total rejection, becomes a Broadway star and finds her true love and her long-lost daddy to boot FOR SCOTT, "Movie, Movie" comes as a delightful vacation from the business of Among the other established members of the cast, Eli Wallach is most striking In a gleeful characterization of a sharpie boxing promotor with a glint in his beady eyes. Trlsh Vandervere, however, looks far too worldly as the ingen- DANCE LESSONS New Class! SUrtitt Fib. 7 al 8 p.m.

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29101 GREENFIELD them, particularly Hamlin and Bostwick. The one-hour-and-45-mln-ute show consists of a double feature plus a glimpse at "coming attractions," just like the good old days. The first half of the double bill, a black-and-white melodrama titled "Dynamite Hands," shows where movies like "Somebody Up There Likes Me" and, even more closely, "Rocky" come from. It's the story of a clean-cut kid from the wrong side of the tracks who makes it big as a fighter, flirts with the devilish pleasures of the high life, and returns to his family, his girl and his ideals In the end. The second film, a color musical called "Baxter's Beauties of 1933," puts tap-dancing and lots of sequins to AT 12 MILE ROAD v7m i 2533S Von Dyke.

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Movie goers may not recognize that second group of names now, but after "Movie, Movie," they will find themselves scanning cast lists in search of second part of "Movie, One of the year's 1 best New York Times Time Magazine Rona Barrett, ABC-TV National Board of ReviewNew TimesCue Magazine FREDA PAYNE THRU SATURDAY 27TH "FUNNY! FUNNY! One of the funniest movies in a long Gene Shalit. NBC-TV B.C. KING FEB. 5 -10 JOHN GARY FEB. 12-17 Music by Johnny Trudeil's Orchestra ENTERTAINMENT CHARGE: THRU 23 RESERVATIONS SUGGESTED Mon.

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