4, ENTERTAINMENT, THE HERALD, Wed. Aug. 18, 1976

Thrilsphere de
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Move aside, Mad Mouse.
Roll over, Roller Coaster.
Here comes Thrilsphere!
- From the experience of.
Fairs throughout North
America this year, it seems
certain that an 11-minute
movie will take over as top
Playland attraction at this
year’s Pacific National
Exhibition August 21st
through September 6th.

“It’s a phenomenon,”

says “Gerry Crawshaw,
general manager of Burrard
Amusements Ltd., ‘‘An
overwhelming success
everywhere: it stops.

125 Air Conditioned Suite & Rooms With View —

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Thrilsphere is a 35-foot
high dome, 50 feet in
diameter, where patrons
are bombarded with thrill
sensations. — .

For the price of $1.25
visitors to Thrilsphere at
Playland ‘will be able to:

- be attacked by a 1,000-Ib.
tiger shark.

- go on a wild plane ride in

‘the Grand Canyon.

- jump off a 900-foot cliff in.
Hawaii on a hang glider.

- plunge into a live
volcano.

- hrilsphere — described

a ‘‘monument — to

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masochism "’ one
reporter — is in effect, 3-D
without glasses.

.“You have to take it
standing up,’’ Crawshaw
explained. ‘‘There are no
seats inside the
Thrilsphere.”

“The: innovative spherical
projection system was
developed by Frank Capra,
Jr.; producer of ‘Planet of
the Apes’.

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the Apes" |

Another innovation at the
Playland-Kiddieland |
complex this year IS the
introduction of the
Universal Coupon System.

This means that
Fairgoers will no longer
have. to buy individual
tickets for individual rides.
Instead, they will be able to
buy coupons which can be
used on every ride and show
on the Midway. All rides and__

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shows will be clearly
marked to show the number
of coupons required. |

Cost of a single coupon is
25 cents but, to launch the
new system, Burrard
Amusements is offering.
bonus books. A 20-coupon
book will cost $4.50 for a
saving of 50 cents, while a
40-coupon book will cost $8
— a saving of $2.

DANTE’S INFERNO

1935 Spencer Tracey, Claire
Trevor, Henry B. Walthall,,Alan
Dinehart, Rita Hayworth.
Greed for wealth and power
drives a man’ to his own
destruction when his jerry-built
Coney Island spectacular
concession toppled hundreds to
their deaths.

MALLORY

Raymond Burr stars as a once-
popular lawyer whose
reputation has been tarnished

by accusations of perjury. He

attempts to re-estabfish his
credibility in a case involving a
homicide commitied In jall.
Mark-Hamill, Robert Loggia.

DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE
BIKINI MACHINE

1965 Stars Vincent Price,
Frankie Avalon, Susan Hart,
Dwayne Hickman. Scheming
doctor devises a plan to acquire
the fortunes of susceptible men
by manufacturing alluring
robots. _

THE CLONING OF CLIFFORD
SWIMMER

1974 Stars Peter Haskell, Sheree
North, Lance Kerwin. Faced
with marital and financial
problems, a man finds a bizarre
way fo escape his respon-
sibilities through a’
psychogeneticist, who creates
an exact double of him, a clone.

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THE CRIMSON CULT .
1968 Stars Borls Karloff,
Christopher Lee, Barbara
Steele. Young man searching
for his brother arrives ‘at |
Greymarsh Lodge in time for
the annual ceremony of ‘bur-
ning’ the black witch of
Greymarsh who tlved 200 years
ago. °

CALLING NORTHSIDE 777
1948 James Stewart. Helen
Walker, Richard Conte. Smail
ad In personal column marks
the beginning of a reporter’s:
efforts to free an innocent man
from prison. Suspenseful film.
| WANT TO LIVE

1958 Stars Susan Hayward,
Simon Oakland, Virginla-
Vincent. Beautiful girl, shill,
prostitute, and racketeer, In-
nocently becomes enmeshed In
murder, with false evidence
plling up — so the verdict is
guilty. A grim. shocking social
documentary of Barbara
Graham. Susan Hayward
received the Best Actress
Award In the 1959 Academ
Awards.
LITTLE CIGARS

1973 Stars Angel Tompkins,
Billy Curtis. Girl‘running away
from her gangster boyfriend
becomes involved with a team -
of midgets who are crooks.

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