Movie Releases - 21 June 1978

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976) 

"Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos" (original title)

Stars: Sonia Braga, José Wilker, Mauro Mendonça

Director: Bruno Barreto

Writers: Jorge Amado (novel), Bruno Barreto

Genre: Comedy

Carnaval Unifilm, Coline, Companhia Cinematográfica Serrador

Time: 110 min

Rating: G

Plot

In a small city of Brazil, Flor (a very good looking woman) marries Vadinho, a very handsome and erotic man. Once married she finds he is a good-for-nothing. She works teaching cooking to her neighbours but he takes all her money to gamble. One day he dies. Flor misses the goods of the marriage so she marries again with a very correct gentleman - the owner of the drugstore (Teodoro). Now she's very happy with her man, but misses the erotic moments with her previous husband. Then the ghost of Vadhino comes to earth to chase her.

Movie Releases - 20 November 1977

Iphigenia (1977) "Ifigeneia" (original title)

Stars: Irene Papas, Kostas Kazakos, Kostas Karras

Director: Mihalis Kakogiannis

Writers: Euripides (play), Mihalis Kakogiannis

Genre: Drama

Greek Film Center

Time: 127 min

Rating: Not Rated

Plot

The Greek army is about to set sail to a great battle, but the winds refuse to blow. Their leader, King Agamemnon, seeks to provide better food, but accidentally slays a sacred deer. His punishment from the gods, the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.

Movie Releases - 15 December 1974

Young Frankenstein (1974)

Stars: Gene Wilder, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman

Director: Mel Brooks

Writers: Gene Wilder (screen story and screenplay), Mel Brooks (screen story and screenplay)

Genre: Comedy

Gruskoff/Venture Films, Crossbow Productions, Jouer Limited

Time: 106 min

Rating: PG

Plot

A young neurosurgeon (Gene Wilder) inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback called Igor, a pretty lab assistant named Inga and the old housekeeper, frau Blucher -iiiiihhh!-. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather is only crap, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind...

In the News – 10 January 1974

   Doctors have tested tissue from Bing Crosby’s afflicted lung and found no indication of cancer.

   The 69-year-old singer entered in Burlingame, Calif., Peninsula Hospital New Year’s Eve for what was then diagnosed as pleurisy.

   Crosby’s family doctor Dr. Stanley Hantling, says a team of chest and lung specialists has been called in to help determine how best to treat Crosby’s condition.

The Vancouver Sun

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   Actor Richard Harris is engaged to Anne Turkel, the daughter of a Scarsdale, N.Y., clothing manufacturer.

   Harris met Miss Turkel last fall when they appeared together in a movie.  The couple will be married in New York in April.

The Vancouver Sun

In the News – 7 January 1974

   Bing Crosby, in hospital in Burlingame, Calif., with pleurisy, was reported in good spirits as he watched a telecast of the annual Pro-Am golf tourney that he normally hosts at Pebble Beach.

   Crosby’s condition remained satisfactory, the nursing supervisor at Peninsula Hospital said.

The Vancouver Sun

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   Sam Goldwyn, 91, last of the pioneer Hollywood film tycoons, is expected to be released soon after recuperating for the past two weeks at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif.

   Doctors refused to give the nature of the Goldwyn’s ailment, but the producer has been in fragile health since suffering a stroke in 1968.

   The producer, who gave his name to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, produced some of the screen’s most memorable films from the silent screen era to the 1960s, making household names of dozens of stars.

The Vancouver Sun

In the News - 4 January 1974

   Comedian Jack Benny claims his donation of show business memorabilia to the University of California at Los Angeles entitled him to a $156,000 federal tax deduction, but the Internal Revenue Service disagrees.

   Instead, the tax men assert, Benny and his wife owe $109,081 in back taxes for 1967 and 1968.

   Benny’s lawyer said the claimed deduction for the charitable contribution is similar to the one President Richard Nixon took for donating his vice-presidential papers to the national Archives, Nixon’s claim was accepted.

The Vancouver Sun

Movie Releases - 3 November 1971

Fiddler on the Roof (1971)

Stars: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey

Director: Norman Jewison

Writers: Tommy Abbott (adapted for the screen by), Joseph Stein (based on the stageplay "Fiddler on the Roof" by)

Genre: Drama/Family/History

Mirisch Production Company, The, Cartier Productions

Time: 181 min

Rating: G

Plot

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man that has been married for twenty-five years with Golde and they have five daughters. When the local matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older daughter Tzeitel and the old widow butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the wedding. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel Kamzoil and they ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter. Then his second daughter Hodel (Michele Marsh) and the revolutionary student Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. When Perchik is arrested by the Czar troops and sent to Siberia, Hodel decides to leave her family and homeland and travel to Siberia to be with her beloved Perchik....