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ZANE GREY AT HIS MIGHTIEST! THE WEST AT ITS WILDESTI
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BY STARS IN ROXY ATTRACTION
Rating:
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"Britannio Mews," week-end fare at the Roxy Theatre, is en attempt to show that art teachers are definitely not to be trusted, and that girls who throw themselves at a man may well find themselves eating their heart out over a bottle of gin unless a gallant and carefree lad comes to the rescue.
Although the film has a few weak spots-among them a slow-moving plot-the acting of the main stars is simple and sincere enough to warrant praise.
century, who finds her art teacher so charming despite his short- comings that she promptly mat- ries him over her parental objec-| tions.
Dana Andrews, playing two parts, does well as the art teacher tumed fortune hunter and as the noble lad who pulls Maureen O'hara out of the moriss of a London slum. His separation of Since the woman who has suc- the two characters is excellent. cecxled in fundamentally chany- Miss O'Hara, who demonstrates ing her spouse has yet to be born. again that Irish beauty is some-Miss O'Hara soon finds herself playing second fiddle to a bottle of gin, and warped artistic ambi-Out
MAUREEN O'HARA What Price Respectability thing that calls for a low whistle, succeeds in imparting to her role just the right amount of pity and hardness to make her portrayal worth while.
The story, in brief, Concerns well-to-do young lady of the last
tion. Luckily for her, the floun- dering artist falls to his death while in a drunken stupor, and
The Roxy Theatre is giv ing a
charity per special formance of "Britannia Mews" on Monday, at 11.30 am. The entire proceeds of this show Will be turned over to the Poppy Day Fund.
RAY MILLAND and FLORENCE MARLY
Her Lips Weren't Sealed
Controversial Issue Coming To King's
Rating:
of the trouble and danger that was Germany a few years ago
comes a film to dramatise the part played by the Allies in bringing Nazi criminals to justice.
It is Paramount's picturisation of the novel, "Seal- ed Verdict," which opens at the King's Theatre this week-end. The picture stars Ray Milland with Florence Marly, and its setting is a small city in post-war Germany. during one of the many war crimes trials.
Milland is seen as the Ameri In addition to being an enjoy- Miss O'Hara is hopeful of lesvan prosecuting attorney whose able thriller, "Sealed Verdict ing Britannia Mews, dum street responsibility it is to obtain a goes beyond the headlines to re- to which the art teacher brought | noriviction against the Nazi gen- veal some sensational facts about his bride.
Some subtle blackmail by the Mews "witch" however. binds her fast to the neighbourhood she so despises and, as the years pass, Miss O'Hara finds herself gradually becoming a part of the Mews.
The appearance of a carefree but poor ex-lawyer (played well by Dara Andrews) changes her life, however, and, fired by his ambition and common sense, she manages to throw, of the shackles of the past, and all's well that ends well.
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"Hellfire," coming to the Lee Theatre on Sunday, is a picture that tries very hard to keep its head above the water line of the average Western. If it succeeds at times, it is due to the novel twist given to the story by the producers.
eral known as the "Scarface Mar
Mass fraternisation.
its
Murderer of Leerach will portrayed by John Hoy: The conviction is obtained, with punishment of death by hanging. but Milland suddenly begins to doubt the very basis upon which
his
entire testimony against the general has been based
He is faced with the dilemma
of man, trained in Anglo-Saxon law, who knows that you cannot convict a
prisoner-no matter how deserving of death he may be except upon truthful tes- timony.
His doubts are inspired by the only person to testify in the Gen- eral's favour a beautiful Pari- sian model whose reasons for coming to the criminal's defence shrouded in mystery. Miss Marly, lovely Continental favou- rite, makes her American 5lm debut as the model who prevails upon Milland to re-open the case, an act which puts him in great disfavour with his superiors. The town's underground spreads the rumour that the General will never hang and Milland is told he will be held responsible for the chaos sure to follow in that even- tuality..
Milland's emotional involve-i meat with the beautiful Marly colours his actions and succeeds
An itinerant minister of the in getting him into plenty of trou- gospel, Brother Joseph (H. B. ble before he traps the General
Warner), saves the life of gam-beyond a doubt.
bler Zeb Smith (William Ellott)
(Continued From Col 4).
Zeb saves Doll from capture time and again as they search for her younger sister, Jane.
in a bar room brawl, but loses his own in so doing. Zeb makes a death-bed promise to the preach- er to carry out his mission-to build a church according to the precepts of the Bible, not by violent means.
Unknown as Doll's companion. Circumstances bring Zeb and meeting Bucky on friendly contact with the notorious lady terms, Zeb learns that the Mar bandit, Doll Brown (Marie shal is happily married to Jane Windsor), who has adopted man's and wants to spare, her the know- SUNDAY MORNING SHOW Farb and methods in retaliation!
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against a man's world. With a ledge that her sister is an out- price of $5,000 on her head Zeb law. Sworn to secrecy, Zeb re- figures he can turn her in, en fuses to reveal his information lect the reward and build the to Doll-and she decides to go church. But it is part of the bar after Bucky herself. gain that he use gentle means.
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so he must touch the girl's heart to retum,to and convince her Texas and give herself. up.
As part of his plan, Zeb be comes Doll's
accoroplice in her fight from U.S. Marshal Bucky and McLean (Forrest Tucker) the ruthless Stoper Boys Gyp (Jim Davis); Dusty (Paul Fix) and Red (Louis R. Faust) whose. brother Lew (Harry Woods), her husband, she has killed Roam. ing through the broad stretches of the country from town to town, (Continued On Còl, 5)
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