Story of folk hero

Press, 15 October 1982, Page 15

Story of folk hero

“Don’t Look Back,” the movie on One tomorrow night at 8.30, is,the story of a great American folk hero — a man whose athletic prowess on the baseball diamond is legend and whose colourful style and personality made him an instant crowd pleaser. But the story of Leroy “Satchel" Paige (Louis Gossett, jun.) is much more than a sports biography. It is about a time in American history when a person’s colour counted for more than his talent. It is also. an inspiring example of how a man’s dream, fed by memories of a poverty-hardened past and supported by the love of a woman, can be made a reality. "Don’t Look Back” stars Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland and Hilary Mason.

The movie on Two tomorrow night, at 10.20, is one of Jean Renoir's most charming, nonsensical, unconventional movies, “Dejeuner Sur L'Herbe” (Lunch on the Grass). Described by reviewers as “impudent,” “a frolic," “a delightful assault on convention,” the film takes a stuffy scientist, a sensuous peasant girl, and a campaign for the presidency of Europe as the basis for its plot and then proceeds io ignore the fact that there could be a plot at all. What happens is just whatever happens — and what eventuates is a somewhat pagan celebration of life, says TVNZ. The professor is played by Paul Meurisse and the peasant girl by Catherine Rouvel. The dialogue is French, with sub titles.