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With an all-star cast-Robert Redford, James Caan, Laurence Olivier, Liv Ullmann, Ryan O'Neal, Gene Hackman, Michael Caine and Sean Connery -Producer Joseph Levine claims to have already received enough backing from eager distributors to cover his $25 million outlay for A Bridge Too Far. The saga of the abortive Allied attempt to cross the Rhine in 1944 by parachuting 35,000 men behind the lines into Holland, the movie employed an army all by itself. Besides the stars, Director Richard Attenborough recruited 100 young actors in London and trained them to behave and, supposedly, even think...
...three performances of A Matter of Gravity in Los Angeles, Trouper Katie returned to work in a wheelchair. Heavyweight Boxer Jerry Quarry, whose pickup truck rolled when it should have weaved, fractured two vertebrae and will be wearing a steel corset for at least six weeks. Finally, Actor Gene Hackman lay in a London hospital, undergoing treatment for a bruised sciatic nerve in his back. Hackman took a fall while filming a Foreign Legion adventure called March or Die. His horse was frightened by a camel...
...This is part of a great lost tradition, the meanwhile-back-at-the-fort film," Gene Hackman boasts of his new movie. Cheerfully titled March or Die, the picture features Hackman as a West Pointer who finds a commission in the French Foreign Legion and trouble in the Sahara between archaeologists and Arabs. Hackman grumbles: "A whole generation has grown up without ever seeing a Foreign Legion film. Today kids think the only thing on the other side of a sand dune is an oil well." His new role as a French connection, desert style, will surely set them straight...
Night Moves (Arthur Penn directs Gene Hackman) at 4 and 7:35; Force of Evil...
Noncorporate markets for private planes are also growing. More of the ultra-affluent are buying planes, following the example of Actors Cliff Robertson and Gene Hackman, Country Singer Merle Haggard and Attorney F. Lee Bailey. Learjets and other craft that can fly as high as 45,000 ft. or more are popular for aerial photography and mapping. Small planes are being used to seed crops, salt icy highways, conduct geological surveys, and patrol the nation's coasts. Nearly 30% of the industry's sales are to foreign customers-not surprisingly, since 90% of the world's small...