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BOB GET-AN-OSCAR HOPE — Bob Hope, master o ceremonies for the 34th annual Academy Awards
Presentation, has an award-winning idea of his own. Ihe April 9tli program will be rebroadcast over
KFAR-TV, Channel 2.
THE HUSTLER' RETURNING TO FAIRBANKS
The'driving and ruthless lust
of a young pool shark to be
come the nation’s all-time
champion is the crux of Robert
Rossen’s fast-paced production
“The Hustler,” opening today
at the Lacey Street Theater.
The CinemaScope film stars
Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason,
Piper Laurie, George C. Scott
and Myron McCormick, and was
shot against the authentic back
grounds of New York’s thousand
levels of life, its multiple under
worlds, its fashionable and pseudo
elegant society, the daily flow and
flux of the world's greatest melting
pot.
“Fast” Eddie (Paul Newman), hai
arrived in the big city with his
friend and manager Charlie Burns
(Myron McCormick* after a hus
tling career in the west. Obsessed
with one aim only, to take on the
legendary Minnesota Fats (Jackit
Gleason), undisputed champion in
the field, Eddie is equipped wit*
cash and a cold resolve that beat!
out all other loyalties.
The game is on, a nerve-grind
ing. exhausting battle of skills, wits
and stamina. Eddie loses, but he has
been watched by Bert (George
Scott), a big-time money man who
exploits poolroom talent for per
centages.
Defeat draws Eddie into the aura
.of a desperate street waif named
Sarah (Piper Laurie), a strange,
lame, humiliated girl whose own in
security has turned her toward al
coholism and isolation. Her under
standing of Eddie's blind need to be
a winner, gives Sarah a new pur
pose, and she attempts, through
love, to awaken some instinct of
decency in him.
SPACE ST Ait — Ann Smyrner
stars in American International’s
science fiction thriller, “Journey
to the 7th Planet,’’ which opens
today at the New Empress The
ater. Also starring in the space
exploration adventure are Jnhn
Agar, Greta Thyssen and Mimi
Heinrich.
She gives him shelter, nurses him
when his thumbs are brutally brok
en by a tough water-front pool
room gang, and strives to steer him
away from Bert, to whom he has
sold himself in a betrayal of his
old manager.
Failing to reshape Eddie, her will
to persevere is lost in the welter of
poverty and perversion that have
overwhelmed all of them, and she
takes her own life.
Regenerated
It is in this act that she accom
plishes the regeneration of Eddie,
who, now aware of the waste of
human life for which he has been
responsible, returns to beat Min
nesota Fats in a climactic and per
fect game, and, in a showdown with
Bert, regains his personal self
respect.
Paul Newman delivers an in
cisive and electrifying performance
as the game-crazed young shark to
whom winning is a compulsion and
j passion. Piper Laurie’s wistful
:nd sensitive Sarah is as fine a
characterization as any in the cur
rent film year.
Jackie Gleason is suave and sin
ister as the mountainous Minnesota
Fats, against whom no player can
match wits without coming to disas
ter. The screenplay by Robert Ros
sen and Sidney Carroll is based on
a novel by Walter Tevis.
Terror, Chills Of Unknown
In 'Journey To 7th Planet'
With headlines daily proclaiming man's imminent conquest of
space and with a landing on the Moon predicted within the year,
it is only natural that science fiction on the screen should explore
“tomorrow's” landings on the neighbor planets of our Solar System.
The excitement and chills brought to you by American Inter
national’s terrifying science fiction thriller, “Journey to the 7th
Plan lit, realistically portray the
exploration by Earth's spacemen of
mysterious Uranus, seventh planet
from our Sun.
This memorable adventure into
the unknown, which opens today at
the New Empress Theater, stars
Candid Camera
Features ‘Flying’
Telephone Booth
A “flying" phone booth, amplified
sounds of food being chewed and a
frank dialogue between a nursery
school youngster and Allen Flint
are highlighted on “Candid Cam
era” Sunday at 10 on KTVF, Chan
nel Eleven.
In one of the featured segments
introduced by host Durward Kirby,
users of an outdoor phone booth
are surprised to feel the booth
leaving the ground while they are
telephoning. The booth rests on a
truck lift lowered to ground level.
During their calls, the lift slowly
elevates the booth into the air.
In another portion, Allen Funt
queries a little girl at a play school
in New’ Rochelle, N.Y., about her
family. The nonstop answer he gets
covers not only the youngster’s
family but her likes and dislikes
as well, and ends with a descrip
tion of the type of man she wants
to marry.
In a third vignette. “Candid Cam
era” regular Tom O'Malley delivers
nasty looks to patrons of a dinner
when a hidden amplifier magnifies
the sounds they make in chewing
thejr food.
Boxer Rebels At
Casey’s Decision
When middleweight title con
tender Gunner Garrison collapses.
Dr. Casey rules that the boxer must
undergo a series of tests before he
fights again in “To a Grand and
Natural Finale” on “Ben Casey.”
Wednesday at 9:30 on KFAR-TV.
Channel 2.
Garrison's license is suspended
when Casey files his report with the
Athletic Commission, and the boxer
is billeted in the same hospital ward
with an aged patient who has lost
his wall to live, and a little girl
who feels she must comfort her suf
fering elders.
Accused Cowboy
Saves Matt Dillon
Jeremy Slate appears as a down-on
his-luck cowboy accused of murder
w'ho saves Marshal Dillon's life on
“Gunsmoke” Saturday at 9:30 on
KTVF. Channel Eleven.
Despite the marshal’s interven
tion, the accused man, Pruit Dover,
is sentenced to hang and Dillon has
the difficult task of escorting him to
the place of execution.
John Agar, Greta Thyssen, Ann
Smyrner and Mimi Heinrich.
Through the magic of motion pic
tures, you will be rocketed realis
tically millions of miles beyond the
Moon to experience man's first en
counter with the terrors of Uranus.
Beyond Imagination
There, upon a world where night
brings temperatures of hundreds of
degrees below zero with an atmos
phere where no human can survive
without special space suits, you will
encounter experiences almost be
yond the wildest imagination of the
mind of man.
You will know the fearsome ter
rors of an unknown Thing as a crew
of intrepid spacemen experience
the awesome horrors of seeing the
deepest fears of their innermost
senses come to life. You will probe
with them beneath the surface of
a world like no other ever seen by
man as they fight an unknown ene
my with powers that defy their
weapons and very minds.
‘•Journey to the 7th Planet” brings
to life a tomorrow which may be
with us next year, a tomorrow
which will thrill and chill you for
the most unforgettable motion pic
ture experience of your life.
Defenders Probe
Racketeering In
Garment Center
George Voskovec. now appearing
in the off-Broadway theater hit,
“Brecht on Brecht,” will star in
"The Hickory Indian.” drama about
racketeering in New York’s garment
center, on “The Defenders” Satur
day at 8 on KTVF, Channel Eleven.
As Louis Astor, Voskovec por
trays an enderly man charged with
stealing $6,000 from a dress firm
owned by his son. Jay (Leon PennR
and nephew. Morton Wolfe (Harvey
Lembeck). The elder Astor admits
taking the money to “buy protec
tion” from extortionists in the gar
ment industry but, because he is
fearful for the safety of his family,
refuses to name the racketeers.
Lawrence and Kenneth Preston
(series stars E. G. Marshall and
Robert Reed) defend Astor, on a
grand larceny count. When Prof.
Robert Hopkins (Larry Gates'), a
former law school teacher of Law
rence Preston, enters the case as
special prosecutor appointed by the
governor, the trial becomes the set
ting for a legal duel between the
lawyer and his onetime professor.
REALIST
Anthony Quinn, trying on the cos
tume for his role in “Lawrence of
Arabia” at the film's beach camp
remarked that it looked too new.
He then walked into the ocean
up to his neck and explained: “Let’s
leave it on the sand for a couple
of hours, and it will be properly
aged.”