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...unusual highlight is a Ray Bolger dance which editors cut from The Wizara of Oz. Just before Dorothy and the Scarecrow hit the Yellow Brick Road, Bolger performs a comic dance in which he flies through the air and, with the help of reverse photography, catapults off rubber fences up and down the lane. Although, in retrospect, Gene Kelly wonders at its exclusion, this bizarre dance clearly clashes with the conventional dancing in the rest of the show...
When Street Hawk does show up later this season, it will join several airy action shows modeled on such hits as Magnum, P.I., Simon & Simon, and Scarecrow and Mrs. King. These prototypes have imparted some valuable lessons for the fall...
Dorothy and Toto will be somewhere over the rainbow again, and so will the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. But OZ, which is now shooting in London, will be neither a musical nor a faithful retelling of the 1939 classic that starred Judy Garland. Based upon three of the books by Oz Creator L. Frank Baum, the $20 million "live-action adventure fantasy" promises to be something of a Star Woz, with veterans of that more modern epic creating special effects and producing the movie for Walt Disney. ("Toto, I really don't think...
Helicopters, cars and computers dominate such action-adventure shows, as Magnum, P.I., Matt Houston, Trauma Center, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Cutter to Houston and The Fall Guy. Coptermania is the current craze. The air waves are bristling with blades, and gyrating, swooping chase sequences have become as common as the earthbound, four-wheeled variety. ABC's new series Blue Thunder (derived from the movie of the same title) features a mean, blackbottle fly of a police chopper that is essentially an aerial machine gun equipped with supersnooping devices. Next week CBS launches Airwolf, about a supersonic CIA attack helicopter...
...many of today's talented directors, moviemaking means swathing a scarecrow story line in rapturous images. Michael Mann's The Keep is one such Museum Movie. It boasts some pictures as pretty as any to be seen on a gallery wall, and, in narrative terms, it is a mess...