Philadelphia Daily News from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 24

24 Monday. September 24. 1979 Philadelphia Daily News DUCHESS TIMES: 11:00,12:50,2:40 4:30, 6:20, 1:10, 10:00 'Stiop'ls Bad Screen SSiow 160S CHESTNUT SI 563-9881 6QOJU UDffHCg 777- RITTENM00SE II TIMES: 12:00, 1:40, 3:20 5:00, 6:40, 8 JO, 10:00 1911 WALNUT STREET 567-4986 I 'PQ I 1 4 SAMER1C TIMES: 5:30, 7:45 1000 FILM ed original star, Anthony Newley, was well upsetting, to say the least. Since then, Sargent has improved his videotape-to-film process and has tried once again to film "Stop the World," this time with Sammy Davis Jr. re-creating his recent" stage role.

A less-than-subtle actor who never worked very well on screen. Davis manages to make the role and the plot seem even more grotesque. (His version fails in the same way that the Peanut cartoon characters fail on screen: Blown up Amazon proportions, they seem ugly and unpleasant). EVEN WITHOUT HIS trademark jewelry, Davis seems overdone here. The whole point to "Stop the World" is its simplicity simple to the point of being predictable.

But Davis has a way of making even his all-black costume seem gaudy. But the songs are fine "Gonna Build a Mountain," "What Kind of Fool Am and "Once in a Lifetime" reminding us that "Stop the World" was always essentially an album of good songs with live-action liner notes. And then there's the unsinkable Marian Mercer (in of ire I ce his i Asr fclE oftYS 190 CHESTNUTS! 567-004 564-7857 IITOCOOtlllKI UHCOlllPUa NEW IS 1 "Sammy Stops the World." Starring Sammy Davis Jr. and Marian Mercer. Based on "Stop the World 1 Want to Get Off." Directed by Mel Shapiro.

Music and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley. Rating: G. Running minutes. At the Walnut Mall. 39th and Walnut Sts.

By JOE BALTAKE DeOy Hews Unite Reviewer PRODUCER BILL ARGENTS claim to fame is the videotaped movie a dubious art which works well very infrequently (Richard Burton in "Hamlet." "Richard Pryor Live in but more often resembles a kinescope blown op to grotesque proportions. One of his more renowned videotaped failures was his 1965 film version of the the Anthony Newley-Leslie Bricusse stage musical, "Stop the World I Want to Get Off," a vehicle which looked gross in close-up, alternately grainy and muddy, and was marred by its strident and miscast star, Tony Tanner. The story of Littlechap, a British Everyman, just didn't adapt well to the big screen. It would have been bad enough on regular film stock, but shot on videotape and without the participation of its much-need- "ES" Hoi Si ML Ut, 8GNC it to 'L7 ERIC I1HS TWIN WOO0H1TTJIUU4 Unci OpHH talrtbttaattK IBllnsMn ERtC TWIN OUTt Sf DIRECTOR taitmna.n tomkliiMi.Pi I aCtorr, ii U. FOR TIMES BILL MURRAY, JERSEY DELAWARE Tiui tot haaH WYNNE WOOD TIMf 7:.

0:30 252 E. LANCASTER AVI 473-3223 649-5257 18TH SMASH WEEK! --A I WlTjcffWUiii'lilili PG Dnrtatf Artists IITTENHQUSE I TIMES: 1,3:10 K-9fl 7-IK 11907 WALNUT STREET I a 567-0330 I 80 THE POSEIDON "'ALIEN is a corker, a walloper, a rouser, a screecher and a ton Of fun." Gene Shalit. NBC TV 7DMM: TRICK STEREO SOUND IT ERIC'S PUCE 12m 2:130, 4:00, SJ, 1:00. 1030 -OU2M-" TWES i i HY hi CHESTNUT SI 17 NO "ASSES ACCEPTED FOR THIS ENGAGEMENT! praaa i r.nsm:ai V- I 1519-1521 CHESTNUT SI 563-3086 Mi S8mmy Davis stars in 'Stop' her film debut?) as the various women in Littlechap's life. Some plays can't be filmed and this version of "Stop the World" proves that conclusively.

It's simply too gross, too mechanical and too cold for the camera's eye. And so, what might have passed for professionalism on stage looks amateurish on screen. A vanity film for Davis and his fans. Nothing to offend morally, that is. ALL HEW! CHIC STUDIO AVAJUBUfOft AJUTEU8S TO SKETCH 03 PHCTOCftAPH 935 ARCH ST.

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