Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETER BOGDANOVICH'S Targets, a low-budget oddity of considerable merit, snuck into Boston last week on the bottom half of an exploitation bill at the Center. Paramount, the distributor, doesn't know how to handle the film--a realistic shocker about an All-American boy-turned-sniper on the rampage--and despite good reviews and box office on its initial theatrical engagements, they stuck a plea for gun control arbitrarily before the credits, then decided not to open the film at all. In the depths of his soul, film critic Bogdanovich probably doesn't care. After all, many films...
...Supreme Soviet also dealt with another problem of paramount concern in Russia: youth. Many young Russians are openly uninspired by Communist ideology, bored by the endless propaganda, envious of the luxuries that life in the West offers. Reflecting the official concern, the Supreme Soviet created a new Commission on Youth Affairs, whose lofty and perhaps unattainable mission will be to try and lead the young back to Communism. Failing that, the commission can perhaps at least find some ways to control the rowdies who at present are contributing to the Soviet Union's sharply rising crime rate...
...Heat of the Night--Norman Jewison contemplates race relations, aided by Stirling Silliphant's teleplay and Sidney Poitier's smile. At the PARAMOUNT, Washington St., Boston...
...Thomas Crown Affair--In which Norman Jewison, having tackled a variety of earth-shaking themes, takes a vacation. At the PARAMOUNT, Washington St., Boston...
Shalako--A mildly entertaining Western sorely in need of a good gag-writer and Brigitte Bardot. Luckily they got Bardot. At the PARAMOUNT, Washington St. across from Raymond...