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THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER Friday, December 23, 1968 Page 8 'Bible' Prologue Throws Huston But Picture's Fine Thereafter ham's leadership winds up Theater shows that he knows what to do with it; makes it fascinating. THE BANISHMENT of Adam and Eve from Eden is done with brilliant sim- E. B. Radcliffe plicity. The curiosity of the inquiring mind upsets their apple cart (bad pun) just as curiosity killed the cat.

The concept of Eden on film is fine. ADAM'S problem with the warring sons, Cain and Abel; the murder of Abel; Cain's terror and pursuit are effectively dramatized. The building of The Tower of Babel and Its fall retain the primitive misdirection of logic that's the point of the story of man's first, futile aim to be as high and mighty as God. Mr. Huston walks away with the picture as a peas-anWike Noah.

He shows a faith that can move mountains; a faith tougher than terrible ridicule directed against it; a faith that demanded love for animals that were natural enemies. In and on Huston's ark there is enviable, if indefinable, charm of outmoded innocence and belief. THE STORY of Abra the picture. George v. Scott is Abraham to match Huston's Noah.

No questioning. Obedience to an inscrutable power, testing and demanding the impossible. A great story highlighted by the destruction of Sodom; shot for legendary credibility rather than carnal shock hokum. Ava Gardner's Sarah is an "outcast." She's wrong for the time, place, and period. BY E.

B. RADCLIFFE Theater Editor THERE ARE instances when a good book can tell a story better than it can be told on stage, screen, TV. One Instance is in The Good Book's account of God's creation of the universe and everything upon it, including man. The poetry of simple description in Genesis is peerless. It sets up a general creation for which every reader or auditor (if the story is readi may fill in.

his own details. The communication of the written or spoken word in this form is limitless in variety, depth, and scope. JOHN HUSTON Is as much poet in his ability to read and interpret a line as he is in his power to the Valley Theater, Huston and his colleagues have set out to tell about the creation of the universe, plus the evolution of man's convictions of what it took in word and deed to survive and live an orderly life in it. In going into specifics of narration, Huston in movie film has the most effective actionful medium there is to do the job. He He comes back strong and he runs a steady, interest-holding, and freshly effective course on familiar story material.

Chalk up him and his colleagues for a great Old Testament movie; far superior to predecessors of 50 years of religious subject movie-making here and abroad. IN TONIGHT'S opener at LWk With Four NEW YORK (1 Robert Whitehead is planning to resume Broadway production activities with four shows scheduled for next season. Included are a new Arthur Miller play, as yet untitled; "The Sorrows of Frederick," an historical drama by Romulus Leeney; and two works already exhibited In London. "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and "In The Matter Of J. Robert Oppen-heimer." Whitehead has been inactive since termination of his activities with the Lincoln Center Repertory Company two years ago.

"GEORGY GIRL is wild and wonderful, as pacy as THE KNACK, as screwy as write one, or make it come to life on screen. As a result, he proves his own undoing in "The Bible," his magnum opus for Producer Dino de Laur-entis. He reads a story of The Creation as prologue; reads it so well that all the rumbling of the waters, plus other fearful and wondrous primary universal events pictured and sounded to give screen image to the words make his cinematic Creation look like A Happening, promoted by a Greenwich Village underground film travelog maker. BIT HUSTON'S picture isn't ruined because he has underestimated the power of the spoken and written word or overestimated the power of sound film. MORGAN and as outrageous as ALFIE!" London Sunday Citizen MOVIE TIMETABLE i i Kvcl Is Indian HOLLYWOOD (UPD Howard Keel will play an Indian in "The War Wagon," a hell-for-leather strrrirr: John Wayne.

PRINCETON: "Alfle." 7:10. 9:20. MARIEMONT: "After The Fox," 7:20, 9:25. HOLLYWOOD: "After The Fox," 7:15, 9:20. MT.

HEALTHY: "Snow Queen," 7. "And Now Miquel," 8:50. "Blindfold," 10:30. OAKLEY: "Murder Row," 9:45. "Three On A Couch," 7:30.

"Good-bye Charlie." 11:40. PIKE 27: "Black Sabbath," 7:20. "The Skull," 9:10. "War Of Zombies," 10:35. CAPITOL: "Murders Row," 12:00, 1:50, 3:45, 5:35, 7:35, 9:30.

VALLEY: "Bible," 8:30. AI.BEE: "Fun In Acapulco." 11:30, 3, 6:37, 10:14. "Girls, Girls, Girls." 1:14, 4:51, 8:28. INTERNATIONAL 70: "Blues or Lovers," 11:33, 2:33, ,:38, 8:33. "I Deal In Danger," 1:01, 4:01, 7:01, 10:01.

CENTURY: "Gambit," 7:15, 9:25. AMBASSADOR: "Russians Are Coming," 7:10, 9:25. TIMES: "Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum," 9:50, 11:25, 1:05, 2:45, 4:25, 6:05, 7:45, 9:30, 11:09. GRAND: "The Professionals," 11:30, 1:33, 3:36. 5:39, 7:42, 9:45.

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