I'.
if Ente:
Triad Check it out
C* t Oates Acclaimed By
\j Audiences, Critics
O Warren Oates who stars as Hammond
Maxwell in "Drum," United
Artists release opening Now at
the ParkviewTheatre, is one of
America's finest actors* shooting to
Mthe top some years ago when critics
and audiences took note of his
extraordinary performances in two
films released simultaneously: as
Arch in Peter Fonda's "The Hired
I Hand" and as the fantastic GTO_
in Monte Hellman's "Two Lane
Blacktop."
His mo9t recent films include (in
reverse order) "Drum*" "92 in the
N Shade," "Race With the Devil,"
"Born to Kill," "Bring Me The
Head of Alfredo Garcia."
-^ Warren Oates was born in Depoy,
Kentucky, a poverty pocket
Gtown deep in the coal mining district.
His father ran the general
store there until the depression
_ __ when he was forced to close his
business and find work on the road.
As a child, Oates picked strawberries
for two cents a quart, wormed
m tobacco for .25 cents a day and
lr?ad?>d ennrt. onto trurW for road
/ builders.
At 18 Oates joined the Marines
/ JL and after a two-year stint as an airplane
mechanic, entered the University
of Louisville and was introTduced
to drama when he read Eugene
O'Neill's "Mourning Becomes
Electra."
In 1954 he headed for Broadway
and began to get work on live TV
in New York playing roles on
Tsuch long-gone shows as "Studio
One" and "Philco Television Playhouse."
When live TV ended in
New York, Oates borrowed $50 and
drove to Hollywood?a bumpy road
that finally led to fame and fortune.
I?
|1 On Location
? t / ! t <(T\ . M
" in dan Juan njming xor i^rum,
I'nited Artists release opening
at the Theatre, was
done at famed El Morro Fort, the
ancient bastion built more than 250
years ago by two Irish-Spanish Army
officers, Marshal Alejandro
O'Reilly and Engineer Thomas
CO'Daly. It was here that scenes of
some 250 blacks, just off the slave
ship, move up from the docks to
an auction block to be sold to
plantation owners.
m i Oil kJS a
T! The Cast j
I Warren Oates
I Isela Vega
rj Ken Norton
: :
? ram unci J
Yaphet Kotto
O; lohn Colicos
; Fiona Lewis 2
Paula Kelly 2
Nj Royal Dano I
Lillian Hayman I
Rainbeaux Smith 2
Alain Patrick ;
S2 Brenda Sykes *
1 Clay Tanner j
2 Lila-Finn ;
.2 Henry Wills
*v ".'.'-.uj mmmrn. ?? >
BHIII1I ill 111 PP
rtaini
t!
Ken Norton Finds
Fighting. Acting
Quite Similar
Fighting and acting are rathei
similar, says Ken Norton, the No
1 challenger to Muhammad Ali'i
world championship title.
Norton, starring with Warret
Gates, Isela Vega, Pam Grier, Ya
phet Kotto anthTtrhn^trHcos ii
"Drum," the United Artists release
certainly has the knowledge an<
ability to make a statement lik
that.
He has been boxing since 196*3
at which time he was in the Ma
rine corps and friends got hitn ir
(crested in the fight game.
And he starred in a motion pic
ture prior to "Drum," the boxoffic
hit "Mandingo." "Drum," whic
will open . Now at the Parkvi
Theatre, has the same theme an
setting as "Mandingo."
Tn "Drum." Rcrinted bv Normal
Wexler from the Kyle On9tott besl
selling novel, Norton stars in th
title role, the principle characte
who tries to stem a slave revol
The film is set against the turbi
lent background of the 1850's jui
before the Civil War in the Ne
Orleans area and deals with tY
slave trade and life on a plantatioi
Also, Norton mixes it up in
bare knuckles fight with Kotto, wh
played Jack Johnson on Broadwa
in "The Great White Hope" an
was highly acclaimed for his rol
of Crunch in "Report to the Com
missioner."
To Norton, fighting professiona
1? 1 ?- ? ? ? ? nvmilfi* Waoaita
ly snu acting mc ouujiai uvwuc
both are demanding pursuits, esp<
cially if you wish to.succeed i
them. Both require much prepare
tion, research, and then in th
actual performance are strennou
pushing one to the limit, Norte
knows. ^^
irag
^H WM^^m
I
nient
*
^Ik-* %
^np. j^ / ^K t * */*^^^
? Slill DR-10 1A
An enraged Ken Norton raises
^ his pistol in preparation to
e storming a plantation manor
and burning it. Norton has the
f title role in "Drum," a United
y Artists release opening . Now -I
at the Parkview Theatre.
Mexican Actress
>t
e Appears in 'Drum'
h lsela Vega, who stars in the pulsew
ating drama "Drum," which opens
? at the .... Theatre through
United Artists release, is a sensational
Mexican actress, who rose
r i i .1
irom secondary roles in more tnan
j score of films in her native country
to where she ha? now become
e
Latin America's biggest box office
' female attraction with more than
25 films to her credit.
It's been that way since the late
5t
1960's when she began to be cast
w
opposite such prominent leading
men in Mexico as Jorge Rivero,
Mauricio Garces, Jorge Luke (her
second husband) and Mario More_
no (Cantinflas) among others. She
a
has appeared in one other American-made
motion picture?also opj
posite Warren Oates?in "Bring Me
The Head of Alfredo Garcia.*
i
6I)
?,
2ND BIG WE!
1:00 - 3:05 - Si
1^84-022^8
? *? - 7:15 - 9:20
"MANDINGO
^ Lit the Fuse
1HE UFkD ? TH/?99
PIX Lrntiiu
wFi& The Explosio
? "DRUM"
[|^ft KEN NORTON *PAM GR
H YAPHET KOTTO
WARREN OATES
The Chronicle - Saturday October 9,1976 Page 11
\^s |
1 ^ Randy's Book Mart ,
I 829 Reynolds Rd.
I ?| ^ Films "Mags.
I Locker Room Novelities *6001(8
I fjlfi ?!!?. Open - 10:30
WL SHOWS 2 *4 *6 *8 *10 MM hteM^MMAVBT?KnMUTOicaaccw?feao^ta*MB
\^^^BrnSiTO8ffsSSil^^^^^^B51^^^^^E35So!Si5SWRsiS>CTjjw5S^r
. *
101 At 11:30 p.m.
n I "The Home" of Super I
k I Soul Late Shows - See I
>1 "The Mack" I
AH ^ ~rn AA -THIS WEEKEND ONLY- I
I AH ^_5_#w
I With every large butter com! I
SKATE BOARDING IS "THE SEX WITCH" H
NOW A MOVIE 111^ DIRTY WESTERN" I
f-jM "FREE WHEELEN?B Rate* X- Frl. & hi. J
l2:30-4:10-5:S0-7;30-9tlQ gj lli30 g^m.