Film Destined for lvunenyess FAMILY” . showing : | “4 Days Only - - Nov. 24 to 27 me ~TILLICUM THEATRE ‘Terrace, B. C. Success. os By BARBARA THOMAS There’ s a new movie loom- - ing'on the horizon that has all the earmarks of becoming another cult film, likened ~ haps to the spirit of* “ illy Jack” (in its early days be-. fore Tom Laughlih went off "the deep end.) “The Adventures of the Wilderness Family,” a family . movie in the purest sense, is the true story of a Los An- geles man who tires of fight- Ang the hassle and takes his - family to the wilds of the Northwest to try and square off with life and the wilder- - ness and experience the world as it was before its ‘Tape by mankind. The film is obviouny iw: | budget and contains a number ‘of technical crudities that would keep it from being . Jabeled a “major” film, the game faults exhibited in the film were using for a loose com “Critics. hated _ 7 “Billy Jack” ‘ at first, but audi- ences: ‘found a sense of truth and a similarity of sensitivi- ; ties in it. As a result, the film ~ made its own movie history. Tt’s premature to say that. ~ . “Wilderness Family” will find that same magic chord and ~ enjoy the same-success hut its _ -beginnings look good. Accord- ~ ing to “Variety,” its first -week’s take in: 86 houses in New York hit $936,667, with .. second. week. figures in 90 _ theaters bringing in ‘ $1,008,- ..396. After five weeks in ihe city, the film has passed the _ x million mark. “2s The, film is. filled with ‘astonishing. wildlife footage, moderate to good perform- © anees and-action that actually brings gasps or sighs of relief, -: pare‘ attributes for that genre o eae - “family aor Above. all it has a sense of 7 honesty that is hard to dis- miss. Now that the days of civil wo ‘activism are ‘all but over, and — ',.. (more ‘and more people are “ disgruncled ‘with their jobs, “thelr. paychecks that buy less. _ and less, urban crime, and the "" problems of coping in.a héc-— ~~ tie, problem-ridden society, a | _ well-done, “back to nature” — -) film has ‘the possibility of ” seoring both as a “cult” and a “family”: product. on “Following the demise of the” . - rebuild their life by giving up’: everything and testing them- ". “activists, those involved in : protest mo oments began ier migration back -to the $1, 000 : poetry prize A grand, prize of $1000 is . being: offered in a new poetry competition s on -.sored by the Worl Poetry, a ~ newsletter ‘for poets. In - addition, there.are-49 cash ‘and merchandise. awards. - Says Poetry Editor Eddie-'. » Lou Cole, “We hope to en- © _ courage-new poets — even. . poets who have written only ; one poem,” For rules and: official . entry. forms write to: World of Poetry;. 801 Portola Dr., Dept; 211,.:San: Francise, ae ° » ened PERE Its a matter of life and breath. _ Cal ifornia 94127. entertain: ~ . envy.in knowing that a family. is still out there.somewhere = monthly ‘Wilderness: Family" earth, to homemade bread, home-grown {ood and gener. ally organic living. Now, in this film, we see the same dis- . satisfaction spreading to Mr. and Mrs, America, He’s a con- struction worker;- she.. the mother of two .tow-haired ‘children. One couldn't ask -for amore wholesome prototype. Robert F. Logan and Susan Damante Shaw play ‘the youthful parents who discover their daughter Jenny (Hollye Holmes) has respiratory prob- lems. as a result of the Los ‘Angeles smog. Off they go into the wild blue yonder with the determination of following - the spirit and traditions of the Indians. They are deposited into the —_ posteard- re wilderness by a bush-pilot and - set about creating their own ~ Eden, working communally to build their own log cabin and grow their own food, acting” out their ‘own “Foxfire” ex: perience. . Producer “Arthur Dubs, a pioneer in the four-waliing method of: film ‘distribution (the filmmaker ‘rents the - theater-and pays for all the. advertising and Teaps all the protits or losses. - Dubs said he became in- volved in four-walling after he became diseouraged -with . “Hollywood’s method of dis- tributing films” “and © ‘most. . especially . with the .distribu- - tors reaction to his first wild-~ life film, “Vanishing Wilder- — ness,” which has gone on to gross $15 million. Stewart. Raffill, who had - worked with Dubs on other films, finished the screenplay, - . directed the film and, says _— Dubs, trained some of the ani- . mals, * “You'll not’ find better ani- mal work than in this one,” " said the producer. One particularly. surly bear, « with the sereen name of Three Toes,” gave the best performance of his film: ca- reer in this one, says Dubs, . who labels the beast as ‘the largest Kodiak in captivity, Somehow,’miraculously, the = film avoids the -pitfall of - Schmaltz, of becoming too sae rine for..some of us eysical 7 critics to swallow, ©: Instead .it inspires a bit of because they had the nerve’ to-- selves against nature. LAST TEN DAYS OF HITLER “. 1973 Stars Alec Guinness, Simon... _-: Ward, Doris Kunstmann.. The.» mo “. frue story of the last days‘of the -' - ‘ dictator — his marriage, his ~ betrayal of loyal comrades ‘and. his last hours on earth. 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