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FURY AT FURNACE CREEK
Starring
VICTOR MATURE COLEEN GRAY
GLENN LANGAN REGINALD GARDINER,
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When the British flm indus- try puts its fingers in a film classic, it usually turns out an excellent fare evidenced by "Hamlet." But when it goes modern and has a try at straight comedy, it flops, us Spring In Park Lane,' coming to the King's Theatre next week will show.
"Spring in Park Lane," describ- ed us a comedy, is as funny as a stale Joke told by a bore, not- withstanding that such person- alities of the British entertain- ment world 08 Anna Neagle. Micheal Wilding, reported to be today's screen hero of Britain's bobby-soxers, and Herbert Wil- cox, directing, feature in it.
On the contrary, these names make the disappointment of the film more neute.
"Spring In Park Lane" labours through almost two hours on an old theme long worn out by Hollywood.
It is a story of a blue blood of the Marquis rank who enters in- to the service of n commoner who can afford mansion in Park Lane, footman, a charming secretary, expensive paintings and frequent pleasure trips to South Africa.
very
Of course the blue blood didn't really have to go to work as a
footman. But he doesn't realise
this until the end of the picture, after he has made a number of successful pusses, of what seems to be true modern blue blood technique, at the rich commoner's charming niece-secretary.
Of course,
and he enjoys it.
Michael Wilding is the blue blood turned footman
And of course, Anna Neagle is the piece-secretary, otherwise she
wouldn't be so
so charming, These two
HAYWARD AND O'KEEFE Formulac On Handkerchiefs
Spy Thriller Sees FBI Team Up
With Scotland Yard
Told
s
with graphic, heart-in-mouth realism, Colum- bio's "Walk a Crooked Mile," starring Louis Hayward and Dennis O'Keofe, will open next week-end at Queen's Theatre. A suspense-laden tale of laboratory of the project itself.
Having how the FBI combined with
discovered that the Scotland Yard to fight a spy secret atomle formulae are being handkerchiefs ring that pried into America's led out of
belanging tn Dr. TRIU Neva top secrets, the film emerges
attractive (Louise Allbritton), exciting and fascinating secretory of the scientists, sus- entertainment.
pleion naturally attaches to her George Bruce's script has en- and her fiancee Dr. Ritter Van charming couple on the screen, dowed the aim with violent and Stolb (Corl Esmond), brilliant even if Wilding looks a trific brutal action and not a few muran. like Anna's baby brother than ders. From the very
lead is dissipated, however, moment he does her eventual benu.
when Dan
(O'Keefe) when Van Stolb is murdered. But O'Hara Michael Wilding, as an actor, teams of the death
of an FBI the sleuths, having now discover- watching over the security ed
ed the gang, grimly hang on to the film ferret out the master spy. Another suspect unwittingly leads them to the end of the trall. There, in a lonely house, the FBI wipes out the gang in a furious gunfight and the master spy is unmasked,
make
rather
atomle
pace.
bas still a_long way to go, 理 agent "Spring in
ing in Park Lane" is any in- of an dication of his worth.
The role calling for a dashing,
proceeds at a % Project,
O'Hara who senses a desperate debonair type (something like attempt by unknown opponents to Rip Kirby's Beaumont), receives gain hold of atomic secrets, is something
а of self-concious confirmed in his belief when he Etonian sheep-in-wolf's-clothing is
is joined by Philip Graysont. an (Continued in next Col) agent from Scotland Yard. They find they are up against an in- ternational spy ring, whose pur kuit lends them into the very
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performance from Wilding. He mugs like an uncooked ham,
Anna on the other hand gives the most of a rather unexciting role.
Performances of the
the principali
are good. O'Keefe gives a well acted
performance 09 the FBI shrewdly man, while Hayward. deductive at the crilles moments,
convincing Miss Allbritton makes an aïtractive herpine and cay sustains the romantle Lur- den with Eamond,
Gordon Douglas' direction har She is beautiful, graceful, lifted this well above the or
of spy-and-sleuth
charming, but hardly funny. dinary Fun
Only show is worth Its time in the hard-holled action predominating
one scene in the whole drama. Its unflagging pace, with
film and that is the dreamland all the way, keeps the audience dance bit of Anna and Michael absorbed. Grant Whytock's realls- the towards the end of the film. The tie backgrounds, showing
and beginning
the rest it is workings of FBI, has imparted a Spring in Park Lane" on a wet true-to-life, on-the-spot flavour
to the Glm.
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Main box office attractions in the United States these days are Western films, and "Fury At Furnace Creek," which is coming to the Roxy Theatre, attempts to show why.
The Western, ns every movie- goer should know by now, satls- fles the demand of the masses by dishing tip plenty of action in the form of rough riding and hard shooting, and oy taxing John Q. Citizen's ability to think 10 a minimum.
Bearing these two points in mind, "Fury At Furnace Creek" should be a good draw at the box office. it possesses action and lo and behold!-is$ endowed with a fairly interesting story.
Victor Mature, perhaps, docs not live up to our ideal frontiers- man (give un Gary Cooper or John Wayne any day), but let it be said here that he does better than expected of a fellow popu- larly referred to as a hunk of a man.
"Fury A Furnace Creek" is a saga of vengeance and heroism, born in the winning of the Amerl- can West. Set in the Apache
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In its telling, the film highlights fast and reckless action and taut drama that marked the gren! march Westward into the land of promise and danger.
The brothers (Glen Langlan is the other) play, a lone hand, and the climax is rather well timed to and com and comes as a welcome end the suspense that plies up towarde Director the end of the picture. Bruce Humberstone's staging of and the the wagon-train massacre wild siege and burning of Fort Furnace Creek provide plenty of satisfy even action and should the most blood-thirsty movie fan,
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