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"South of St. Louis,” an action-jammed historical yarn about the American West which is the week-end attraction at the King's and Lee Theatres, is a film thor should ~plráse eve the most adventurous cinema fan.
Starring Joel McCrea, Alexis Smith, Sachary Scott and Dorothy Malone, the film boasts of some lovely Technicolor shots and a story that, abounds with the thrills usually found in movies of a "rostin-tootin" noture.
South of St. Louis was the zo-| man's land of the American Civil War. It was that vast area of Texas and the South West in which, for the most part, the war was fought on a guerilla basis, although there were organised amay groups on both sides.
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O'HARA, YOUNG "and WEBB The Sitter Weers Pants,
Bring The Family To
Notes And The Roxy, Broadway
News For Film-Goers
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Rating:
Twentieth Century Fox's delightfully entertaining comedy, "Sitting Pretty," which starts today of the Roxy and Broadway Theatres, is a show for the family.
The film depicts the taut, per- sonal drama of three hard-riding
Jean Simmons has won men of the range set against the coveted role of Prue Sarn in Two background of the open spaces, Cities' film adaptation of Mary Smuggling was rampant then and Webb's famous novel. "Precious It
the reckless tempo of the time: made life exciting and dangerous.
hire.
Bane."
Gideon.
Robert Newton,
possible
Soskin's
"Waterfront" when Disney Puts
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is a comedy that made Clifton Webb the "Mr." Belvedere,' 21 under which name the actor is now known to film fans.
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Miss Simmons says that she McCrea plays Kip Davis whase will certainly adopt the hare-lip purpose in the tale is to restore which was the cause of many of
"Sitting Pretty" has the setting pected twist which brings the the ranching land berned and pillaged, by guerillas in Union the troubles of this tempestuous what must be accepted as a show to a happy climax, with
hat typically middle class American everyone content heroine. It is
and
nobody Stewart Granger will play home.
hurt. The King children are mo- Running the home are Robert delled into little angels; such is Miss Smith departs from her
Filming starts early Young and Maureen O'Hara as the power of Mr. Belvedere. entertainer of the old West, al- usual roles to that of a flamboyant Pext year.
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and Mrs. King And running "Sitting Pretty is a about the home are their three which is better than good. It has though her eye-lid's see still at
children who are sorgetimes more not one moment of boredom, the half-mast. As Rouge de Lisle,
than a handful, until, of course, comedy ruming all the while to she displays a completely
now playing ide to her talents not mentioning Long John Silver in Walt Dis- Mr. Belvedere appears.
keep the audience interested and The domestic help in the King's amused. ney's English production of Ro- nice pair of
of legs. Zach Scott bert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure household walks out. Mrs. King plays a cowboy, not exactly new role, as he hails from Texas leading part in Paul
Island," will go straight into a O'Hara in her first domestic role) (warmly portrayed by Maureen
years on a ranch. and spent many of his younger
an ad Miss Malose, vacates the studio.
in the papers for baby sitter. completing the roster of stars, is
Immediately comes the reply cast as Deborah, who is loved by McCrea but who loves another.
After that, Mr. Newton will and immediately the King house- play a London boarding household undergoes ruch a topsy tury change, that it will have you in stitches
Replying to the ad is one Lynne Belvedere. The King household works overtime to give the new help something that will guaran- her staying longer than the. previous applicants
however, Lynne Belvedere, turns out to be a male and the male is Clifton Webb whose act- ing has brought something to the screen at par with Monty Wool- ley's "The Man Who Came to Dinner."
Most of the film was shot on keeper in a picture at present
"location," at the Warner ranch called
"Spotlight" which
Vil in Calabassas, California, at Victorio de Sica, the Italian who torville and in the San Fernando made "Shoe Shine" will direct valley.
of the greatest ac-The script is by another Italian, Some tion spectacle scenes to be filmed Zavatini, who wrote "Four Steps last year were made, with a in the Clouds."
great cast. scores of horses, in The chief character in "Spot- Western panoramic settings ca-light" is an old man, living in hanced by Technicolor.
the boarding house, whose only friend in the world is his dog
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Glynis Johns will play opposite: But Mr. Eclvedere, a sort of Douglas Fairbanks in
State jack-of-all-trades-and-master-cf- Secret" which Individual Pic-them-all genius, thwarts the in- tures will make for London tensions of Mr. and Mrs. King to' Films, with Sidney Gilliat
The as boot him out
fun begins director. Unit and stars will go from there.
After a scries of comical situa- unex- tions the story takes an
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"Knock On Any Door" Coming To Queen's
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Sometimes tender, sometimes shocking and but very compelling, Columbia Pictures' "Knock On Any Door," which stars Humphrey Bogart at the Queen's Theatre, is the record of a Skid Row killer who wants to live fast, die young and have a good looking corpse.
The story of Nick Romano, a Row and therefore capable of sensitive youngster who dreams understanding and opposing the of stars and stumbles into a gut- violence in the boy's like. His is ter, the Columbia drama traces a moving and accusing character- his inevitable disintegration. He isation, pointing up the realism of knows all the angles, loves all the the film
hates all the cops and his girls, bates
Screen newcomer John Derek, efforts to escape from his Skid on ex-paratrooper, inpresses BS Row surroundings into a decent, "Pretty Boy" Romana, Bandsome, normal world grow increasingly talented, Derek brings to the fols weaker under the pressure of his all the requisite sensitivity and environment,
toughness demanded by the novel The of "Pretty Boy and by the screen play adaptation. Romano's trail is as grim and Nicholas Ray directed "Knock On Any Door" making it a taut spellbinding as is his life.
Humphrey Bogart is well cast and even terrifying picture of a as "Pretty Boy's defence attor-egment of, America-the Skid
of 'any ney, himself a graduate of Sind Row
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The oscor winner of 1948,
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Kieron Moore
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ANNA KARENINA
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