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3 IP bli RE2X REE T.lovic, f.lovic': boring, boring X1' mm '4 If 1 4.m.JiA I Trish Van Devere and Harry Hamlin In a tense moment in "Mevte, Movie." mOVIE, MOVIE (opening today at the Sutton) is the latest illustration of the Hollywood defeatist attitude that if you run out of Tew ideas, just rehash the old ones. It's the latest in a long and boring series of remakes, this time in an attempt to rekindle some of the old movie enthusiasms by sending up one of the old movie double features. Thus director Stanley Donen, scriptwriter Larry Gelbart -and a- host of talented performers have actually needlepointed two movies for the price of one. There's a black-and-white boxing picture called "Dynamite Hands," a preview of coming attractions that looks hilariously like it came out of an old vault at Monogram, and a Technicolor musical called "Baxter's Beauties of 1933," and the result is sweet, innocent and entertaining. My only reservation is that so many bright and capable people should have concentrated so much of their resources energy on deja vu when they could have created something new and original and ultimately more meaningful.

All 'they've proved is that they can make old movies that are just as dumb as they made them 40 years ago; in their, at- tempts at jarody, they've ended up creating the same thing they're sending tip. "Dynamite Hands," the first feature on the bill, incorporates cliches from every boxing movie ever made, from Kid Dynamite to Body and Soul and right up to Rocky. Joey Popchik, a delivery boy "from a Polish delicatessen, must forego Harvard Law School to save his kid sis ter from going blind. On go the boxing gloves and before you can say "Jimmy Cagney sent me," Joey is up to his ears in gangsters, fixed fights at the Garden and a sultry golddigger named Troubles Moran (Ann Rein king). Waiting on the roof with the pigeons is the good girl librarian (Trish Van Devere), the impoverished but honest parents (Jocelyn Brando and Michael Kidd), and the golden-hearted, cigar-chomping manager named Gloves Malloy (George C.

Scott), who gives his life to see Joey go straight The sets are right off the Warners backlot, the lines fight game's a jungle no people, just are right out of Damon Runyon's old trunk, and the cliches are as stale as the popcorn. Red Buttons is perfect as a punchy trainer named Peanuts, Eli Wal-lach is properly slimy as a thug named Vince Marlowe, Art Carney-lends bumbling support as the family doctor, and a new discovery named Harry Hamlin makes an appealing debut as Joey. All concerned seem to have a genuine affection for what they're sending up, though there is no conclusive evidence that: what they're sending up is really worth tt3 effort The best part of Movie, Movie is the musical pastiche that forms the second half of the bill. It is obvious that Stanley Donen's knowledge and visual flair excel when it comes to musicals, and the creator of such film classics as SinguT in the Rain and Funny Face doesn't miss a beat Borrowing every trick from Busby Berkeley to Earl Carroll's Vani- ties, he brings real joy to this takeoff on the plotless old hack formula of movie raisicals. T-v George C.

Scott is back in a different disguise, playing Spats Baxter, a way producer with a month to live who wants to go out the only way he knows with a hit show! Barry Bostwick is so wonderful as Dick Cummings, the mild accountant who whips up a brand new score in 24 hours, that I long to see someone write an original musical just for him to star in. Barbara Harris is Trixie Lane, the tired chorine whose silent adoration of her boss pays off when the chips are down. Van Devere, in a change of pace, has a fling as the alcoholic, bitchy star of the show (she must have seen all of the old Patrice Wymore movies on TV). Art Carney is back as the family doctor, and newcomer Rebecca York plays the Ruby Keeler unknown who knows all the routines by heart and steps into the star's shoes in time to save the show. (She ends up being the long-lost daughter of the producer, too, reunited just in time for that final production number in the -sky.) Michael Kidd's choreography for the big numbers has just the right flavor.

It's supposed to be gaudy and ovepro- duced, but it made me long for Ziegfeld Girl on the late show. Ralph Burns' musical arrangements are dazzling embodiments of everything MGM used to do at its zenith. And Bruce Surtees, camera knows how to get as many legs as possible into every shot The special songs, by Larry Gelbart, Sheldon Keller, Ralph Burns and Buster Davis are meant to be corny, but I found them an endearing change of pace from the noise we're getting lately in movies. I've alway admired Donen immensely. I've seen all of his film countless times, and practically memorized whole sections of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Funny Face, Singin' in the Rain, Royal Wedding, On the Town, Give a Girl a Break, and It's Always Fair Weather.

There is no director better qualified to make the musical portions of Movie, Movie come to life with dash, wit and style. But I still left Movie, Movie, saying "So what?" and wishing, more than ever, for an original Donen musical to ignite the screen now, when we need it most. He should be making screen history of his own, not remaking everyone else's. GREGORY PECK AND LAURENCE OLIVIER ARE PARTICULARLY COMPELLING." ClARKt TAYLOR NtwYoffcfoM "A COMIC ASSAULT' -TIME MAGAZINE "ADWLLlANT BLACK FARCE" -neweek magazine 1M r-fT I lY1 I "A WEDDING" DESI ARNAZ JR. CAROL BURNETT GERALDINE CHAPLIN HOWARD DUFF MIA FARROW VITTORIO GAS5MAN LILLIAN GI5H LAUREN HUTTON VIVECALINDFORS PAT McCORMICK DINA MERRILL NINA VAN PALLANDT (AND 32 ASSORTED FRIENDS.

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