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Station Six-Sahara. Not again. Not a re-re-re-release of that steamy old Lustspiel about several hairy males marooned in an outpost with Jean Harlow. No, this time it's different. This time several hairy males are marooned in an outpost with Carroll Baker. But never mind. Carroll doesn't turn up till the show's almost half over, and till she does it's pretty interesting...
Peter Van Eyck, a big blond German who looks like the Sportspalast sculpture of Superman, plays the chief engineer of an isolated oil-pumping station somewhere in the northern Sahara: a tyrannical infant with an infantile solution to the problem of suffering-he gives pain to other people and keeps pleasure for himself...
Dinner, alas, is served-feathers and all. Carroll swoops down on Station Six like a dea ex machina: a dea wearing ermine and riding in a 1958 machina called a Mercury. All this in the central Sahara, mind, and no explanations offered. The spectator can only assume that the lady came to the wrong oasis-she was looking, maybe, for the one on Sunset Strip...
...mountain was Colonel Mohammed Chaabani, 32, onetime member of Ben Bella's ruling Politburo and the Algerian army's general staff. A tough, capable guerrilla leader during Algeria's 71-year war with France, Chaabani had turned the Aures and part of the Sahara south of the range into his personal fief. His men-historically mutinous Chaouia tribesmen whose ancestors had rebelled against Romans, Byzantines and Arabs alike-are equipped with armored cars, tanks and artillery, thus representing a more serious military threat to Ben Bella than the 2,000 Berber rebels under Hocine Ait Ahmed...
Viva Las Vegas has the wholesome, mindless spontaneity it takes to create a successful Elvis Presley movie. This one gambles on hips, not chips. Chorus girls scamper through such neon fleshpots as the Stardust, Flamingo, Tropicana and Sahara, and Elvis himself, as wrinkleproof an example of modern packaging as anyone has yet produced, sings, dances, swims, water-skis, flies a helicopter and finally enters his baby-blue racing car in a big, exciting race referred to as the Las Vegas Grand Free...