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poh 7 a a a Bear Island by Terry Dupuis Bear Island is an exciting and well- produced adventure suspense drama adapted from one of Alistair MacLean's many novels. Previous MacLean novels to be transferred to the screen have included The Guns Of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare, Ice Station Zebra and Puppet On A Chain. Bear Island is on the whole better than any of them, except possibly The Guns of Navarone. Bear Island deals with a team of experts who are sent from the United Nations to an island off the coast of Norway. Here the small expedition is to study the changes in the world-weather situation. They are to be isolated at this outpost for a period of six months. Intrigue soon begins to rear its head after several members of the expedition are mysteriously killed. It turns out that there is a fortune in gold bars on the island; the site was previously a base for German submarines during the Second World War. A modern-day Nazi group wants the treasure back for its coffers, and someone in the expedition is an agent who has been sent to retrieve it, willing to kill anyone who stands in his way or stumbles across the secret. Bear Island is a Canadian-British co- production, and at $9 million it stands as one of the most expensive movies to have been made here. Along with The Changeling it also well-produced adventure drama stands as the best Canadian feature film I've seen so far this year. Bear Island has a good cast which includes Canadian, British and American players. But most of them are playing members of an international expedition which includes Germans, Russians and Norwegians, and their accents are not always convincing. Richard Widmark in particular comes off rather poorly playing the old German scientist who is the leader of the expedition. Also in the cast are Canadian Donald Sutherland as the movie's hero marine biologist; Vanessa Redgrave as a Norwegian nurse; Christopher Lee as a Polish scientist, and American players Lloyd Bridges and Barbara Parkins. Also prominent in the cast is Canadian actor Lawrence Dane in the role of Widmark's assistant. The Characterizations in Bear Island may be a little thin and sketchy, but it's the type of movie in which characterization is usually of secondary importance. More important to these stories are the action, suspense and intrigue, and Bear Island has these in abundance. Also, production-wise Bear Island is top- notch, particularly in its fine color camerawork. There is some beautiful breath- taking scenery in it. The movie was shot at Stewart, British Columbia, and in Glacier Bay, Alaska. oe ; : Reasons to be happy You'd be smiling too, if you had won one of a) a new Ford Mustand or b) a one week vacation in the Bahamas. The car and the trip were the top prizes in the Midland Y's Men's Club's Car Draw, held June 7 at Midland's Centennial Arena. From left are: John Scott (Huronia Travel), John Gianetto (trip winner), Chester Graham (Draw Chairman), Steve Ogden (car winner), and Des Carpenter (Courtesy Ford). Zz mT = is > O° ©) A sine FRECT Teen Dance: Friday, June 13 Time: 8til Midnight Place: Midland Civic Centre | OPEN DANCE: Sat., June 14 Time: 9p.m.tilla.m. Place: Midland Civic Centre Licensed Bar Advance tickets: $4.00 Page 22, Friday, June 13, 1980 At the door: $5.00 The guys and the gals see golfing action at MGCC A total of 56 golfers teed off Wednesday night for a regular weekly match at Midland Golf and Country Club. Gary Hooper and Roy Lavin burned up the course with equal scores of 37. Net winners in the first flight were Ken Tannahill and Garvey Whale. A 39 by Bruce Stickler and a 41 by Rick Duval captured gross in the second flight. Jim Pedan was first low net and Ovi Lemesurier was second net. Third flight gross victory went to Bill Gray with Ray Miller placing second. Net winners were John Moss and Roy Head. The Finlayson Cup, for women, took place at MGCC_ yesterday and although no results were available at press time it is understood 60 golfers from Midland, Orillia, Collingwood and Barrie teed off at 11 a.m. for a day of golfing under almost ideal conditions, weather- wise. And earlier this week the gals, 26 in all, braved wet almost snow-like weather to compete in a Tuesday match. There was a three- way tie for first in the Two Ball-Better Ball Tourney: Zena Seldon and Mary Moseley came up winners as did Eva Regan and Shirley Stokes along with May Seldon and _ Bileen Cousineau's pitching, team hits down Mr. Sub 7-2 In Wednesday's Olympia Fastball league game, Peter Robson's pitcher Earl Cousineau pitched his team to a 7-2 victory over Mr. Submarine. Back up by 12 hits, Peter Robson's team scored two runs in the second, third and fourth Truc innings and added a seventh run in the bottom of the fifth. Mr. Submarine scored runs in the top of the second and fourth in- nings. Dennis Gignac took the loss for Mr. Submarine. His team managed only five hits off Earl Cousineau. O'Shaughnessy. And getting back to the Finlayson for just a moment, going into yesterday's play, Midland was leading by 21 points over second place Collingwood and third place Barrie. LET'S GO Arrange your group and travel to the O'Keefe Centre or Royal Alex in a12or 15 passenger van rental from Huronia Van Rentals. McKee's Tire Service The Tire Specialists Hwy. 24 South of Collingwood 445-2711 * * k Tires Car Tires | Tractor Tires Uniroyal B. F. Goodrich Michelin Firestone Farm Tires Kelly Springfield WE SELL THE BEST - FIX THE REST McKee's Tire Service The Tire Specialists Hwy. 24 South of Collingwood 445-2711 : L St