Salient. Victoria University of Wellington Students' Newspaper. Volume 32, No. 18. July 30, 1969
Films — Che!
Films
Che!
Whatever possessed one of the major Hollywood film studios to make a film about revolutionary hero Che Guevara, killed fighting American imperiaism? Simple. In hit hotel suite in Paris last year, after Che's death, Darryl Zanuck, head of 20th Century-Fox, looked at a dozen or more magazine covers from all parts of the world with Che't picture on them and said: "Any guy who can get coverage like that should have a story in him." And so we now have a film which stars Omar Sharif as Che and Jack Palance at Fidel Castro, costing five million Yankee dollars. The producer, Sy Bartlett, and director Richard Fleishcher ("The Boston Strangler", "Dr. Dolittle") pro-led the film is objective. And compared with John Wayne's "The Green Berets" it probably will be. The film opens in Wellington after "Bullitt" at the Kings.