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Page 2 College iStation, Texas Friday, November 6, 1970 THE BATTALION CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle .V„ V., j a • \ . Making the films ‘Monty Walsh’ good Marvin show By BOB STUMP Lee Marvin has made another one of his memorable western movies, this time playing the part of a Cowboy during the dying days of the profession enduring a di minishing demand for his trade — branding cows and busting broncs. As Monte Walsh (also the ti tle), Marvin is introduced as a rough-hewn cowboy returning with his partner (played by Jack Palance) from the mountains, where they have spent the past winter working for a ranch. They find the rancher has gone broke and left town, leaving them one month’s pay for their troubles. Disappointed, they accept work on another ranch and, for a while, the movie concentrates on depict ing what the life of the cowboy is really like and why Marvin refuses to give it up. But soon the ranch is forced to lay off three of the youngest hands, and from here it is a down hill road for Marvin and his life style. Palance is the first to give it up, getting married and moving into town. Next to go is Marvin’s girl (played by Jean Moreau), who moves to another town forty miles away. And finally, the ranch itself is shut down, victim of hard times that Marvin cannot under stand. He is offered a job performing as a cowboy with a Wild West show in the East, but turns the offer down, saying “I’m not spit- tin’ on my whole life.” There is the whole philosophy of Monte Walsh, symbolizing his attitude against progress and his determination to continue the life he was brought up to. Monte Walsh exemplifies the true cowboy, content to live only the life of bacon friedi over a sagebrush fire and cornbread downed with burnt coffee. The film shows the conflict un dergone by Marvin in coping with the fact that his kind is a seclud ed lot, far removed from anything in contemporary society. One day at the ranch, he and Palance are sent to the outer fringe to deliver some fencing supplies. When they arrive, they find an old man mending the fence. He is one of the “old ones,” a cowboy past working on the range and forced to spend the remainder of his days doing odd, lonely jobs. They listen to the old man re count some episodes from his life and, when he has finished, he says “I’ve had a good life,” and bends down to resume fixing the end less fence in his life. The incident forces both of them to realize they will one day face the same fate when they too become too old for the range. Later, during a round-up, the old man comes galloping down a ridgeline on his horse and is thrown off to his death. All the hands gather around the body and mourn the death in their own sort of way. One says that he lost his head, another one suggests they ought to go see about the horse. It is a crude sort of respect they have among themselves, but it is very binding one and they all share in it. Lee Marvin plays the part of Monte Walsh with a genuine sense of realness and perception for the part, and responds to his situation with the intensity and purpose that you would expect from someone of Monte Walsh’s type. The film is strikingly in volving for a western, one in which you get caught up in the nostalgia and urgency of the time it portrays. tonight on the tube Numbers in () denote channels 7:30 3 (5) Heasmaster 5:00 3 (5) General Hospital on the cable. 8:00 3 (5) Movie—The Art 15 (12) Misterogers’ 2:30 3 (5) Edge of Night of Love Neighborhood 15 (12) This Land (PBS) 15 (12) A&M-Arkansas (NET) 3:00 3 (5) Gomer Pyle football game 5:30 3 (5) CBS News 15 (12) Gettysburg (PBS) WEEKEND FOOTBALL 15 (12) Playschool (PBS) 3:30 3 (5) Town Talk SATURDAY (Repeat) 15 (12) Our Vanishing 12:30 3 (5) A&M vs. SMU 6:00 3 (5) Evening News Wilderness (PBS) 15 (12) Playschool (PBS) 4:00 3 (5) Dark Shadows SUNDAY (Repeat) 15 (12) Film Scene (PBS) 12:00 3 (5) Dallas vs. 6:30 3 (5) Gunsmoke 4:30 3 (5) Bewitched N.Y. 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Copyright See us for prompt and cour teous service in filling your prescriptions. Joe Shaffer’s REDMOND TERRACE DRUGS 1402 Hwy. 6 South 846-5701 FAST FREE DELIVERY Bulletin Board TONIGHT Society of Iranian Students will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the So cial Room of the MSC. Inter national Adviser Robert L. Mel- cher will give a talk and answer questions. Robert Elliot, a Peace Corps worker who was in Iran for three years, will give his ob servations. American Association of Uni versity Women B-CS Branch will meet at 7:45 p.m. at the Hillel Foundation Building at Jersey and Dexter. Techniques for com munity change will be discussed. Finance Association will meet at 2 p.m. at 400 S. Ackard in Dallas for a field trip to the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas. SATURDAY Game Club will meet at 9 a.m. in room 3D of the MSC. SUNDAY Rainbow Girls will meet at 12:30 p.m. at the Ramada Inn to hold their Grand Cross Mystic Banquet. Those interested can call Mrs. Hansons by noon Thursday at 823-8157. TUESDAY Rugby Club of A&M will meet at 8 p.m. in room 310 of the En gineering Building to discuss ex hibition schedule and Lone Star Beer tourney. Petroleum Engineering Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 211 of the Doherty Building. R. O. Frederick will speak on small business management. Range and Forestry Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 112- 113 of the Plant Sciences Build ing. American Marketing Society will meet at 8 p.m. in rooms 3B- C of the MSC to hear Will Mas ters from Sanger Harris in Dal las. WEDNESDAY Laredo Hometown Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 108 of the Academic Building to se lect a sweetheart and discuss Christmas party plans. Texas A&M Sports Car Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. at the old College Station city hall, 101 N. Church. THURSDAY Sociology Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. in room 2C of the MSC to hear Dr. Donovan of the Gen etics Department. All sociology majors will meet at 6:45 on the steps of the MSC to have Aggie- land pictures taken. 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EDITOR DAVID MIDDLEBROOKE Managing Editor Fran Haugen News Editor , Hayden Whitsett Women’s Editor Diane Griffin Sports Editor Clifford Broyles TONIGHT —8 P.M. —MSC BALLROOM FALL FILM PRESENTS The Marx Brothers In HORSE FEATHERS The Marx Brothers gallop through a campus in their own lunatic style. While chasing co-eds and pestering professors, they manage to turn a football game into a rolicking riot. Because of a different contractural agreement from the rest of the series this film can be shown on a single admission basis for those who do not hold season tickets. Therefore single admission tickets will be available at the door. TO-NITE Relax to the music of Bryan’s Newest Vocal Group. ‘Statutory Grape’ SEBASTIANS’ CLUB 1313 So. 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