PAGE 10, THE TOWNSMAN, Thursday June 2, 1977

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head-'emoff-at-the-pass
movie that is fun to see. It is
a comic strip come to life
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swords, ray gulls, s' ie
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ip 2) In ifs first six days, the
ae movie grossed $2.5 million
in only 41 theatres. It’s the
Py biggest hit ever in 50 years
’ at the Chinese Theatre in 07.00".
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breaking records all over. wees
{ Stoo! Star Wars borrows
: ae — heavily from the past in a
. nostalgic salute to western,
. gangster, pirate and war
BEETLE BAILEY BY MOBS WALRIEL movies, but writer-director
1 . George Lucas, who pre-
SIR, THERES GOING | DON'T WORRY, viously made American
TO BE LIVE AMMO NOTHINGS GOING Graffiti, Pas made it nue

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DOES, CAN I

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poES? the innocence of the farm

I DON'T THINK " ° boy hero, Luke Skywalker,
YOu SHOULD and the way two bumbling:
GO OUT Laurel and Hardy robots,

Threepio and ArtooDetoo,
strive to be like humans.

The delineation between
goad and evil is so sharp

at the hero wears white
and the villain wears black.
. Mark Hamill stars as
Luke Skywalker, an ad-
venturous farm bey who
sudden! finds that he is
YES, CHAPLAIN. z | po you | virtually the only one
WAS JUST WISHING | HAVE TIME | standing between the
z HAD AN APPLE FOR A villainous Darth Vader and
CONVERSION! destruction of freedom in
the galaxy.

Luke yearns to leave the
farm run by his aunt and
uncle on the desert planet
Tatooine when Threepio and.
Arto-Detoo bring word that
rebel Princess Leia (Carrie
Fisher) has been kidnapped
by Darth Vader.

They are dropped off at
the farm by desert scrap
j collectors. Luke enlists the

aid of Ben Kenobi (Alec
Guinness), an old wizard,
and Han Solo (Harrison
‘Ford), a soldier of fortune .
al and captain of a pirate
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ACCOMPLISHED LOOK AT YOUR JOB=- : ONLY CONSIDER YOUR The movie has many
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ANYTHING GOOD YOUR FAMILY ="~ corny lines, but instead of
oaning , the audience loves
em, whistling and

cheering. It’s like reliving

childhood fantasies, yet
more imaginative, more in-
triguing, more spectacular
than you ever dreamed.
Hamill, who previously
played in the TV series The

Texas Wheelers aud five TV

movies, said he didn’t find

his role difficult.
“Te was a role that
required little more from

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ARCHIE, COULD COLUMBUS WAS WRONG: {E THINGS DON'T SHAPE UP, me than to be the innocent
YOU LENO ME SOME THE WORLD |S FLAT’ TILL HAVE TO DO —< adventurous farm boy who
BREAD? I'DLIKE A SOMETHING longed to see what's on the

; L I CAN'T BORROW A CENT DRASTIC! WHAT'S
SANDWICH! p oDay: : THAT? other side of the horizon,”

Hamill said he believes
jaicas plans a Star Wars
trilogy because all the ac-
tors are under contract for
two more films.

“The moviestarts off at 60
miles an hour, and even
when it slows down to give
our backgrounds it’s still
moving so fast,” the actor
said. +