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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1951.
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis,
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SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 Another New Programme of Technicolor Cartoons
NOW
ON FOURTH BIG WEEK
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH | TALKS ABOUT
B
Six Life-savers For British Films
RITISH FILM PRO- bis artists. Works in an at-
DUCTIONS take
mosphere of mered dedication.
MICHAEL POWELL: Closest idea of a fim
on
unconscionable time to die. to the layman'ndous enthusiasm
Economists and financiers director.
are continually pronouncing for what he's doing; bursting with experiment. Sweeps aside the body dead. ***
all difficulties, objections, and
The corpse, however, stli
chow's remarkable signs of life. y mentions with the awful ́ques,'
I think I always will..
Today. Brilish studios are turning out fewer Alma nu during the days of hope im inediately after the war, but cut best films are s: as good as any in the world.
manity
"Why?"
SYDNEY GILLIAT: Makes enjoyable filma because he finds Alm-making so enjoyable. Has a quiet, dry wit and an unerring alm sense. Could charm the hide off a rhino,
PETER UBTINOV: Plays all his cast....Shattering! the parts bigger and better than
Tough luck
OBERT DONAT will miss one I of the biggest occasions of his film career when royalty göcs to the September premiere of
The Magic Box.
Has America produced any thing in the last two years to surpass the Imaginative qualities and technical
of The Tales of
Has France bettered the gentle humour and observation of The Lavender Hill Mob?
Could the Itallun Alm-makers He'll be in hospital recovering have endowed Seven Days to from a serious operation. Tough simplicity and sense of actuality? recovery. Noon with a more convincing luck, Bob-here's tou quick
BUD
For my money, the answer is an cmphatic
"NO"
Adml. Nervo
DUD FLANAGAN, king of the Crazy Gang, has bought an- A yearling, it other racehorse, was to have been called Crazy Gangway,
but Bud has had a
And the horizon is bright with a hope which I'm convinced is justlied. Soon you will be see ing An Outenst of the Islands, The Man in the White Suit, Second thought, and is now call- Scrooge, High Treason, The ing it Admiral Nervo Sound Barrier, and The Magic Box.
These are some of the films
2. Why? Its father was Admiral's
and Its mother Nervous
Strain,
Says Bud: Neither father nor that will make a vintage year for mother has over won anything
special."
British flm production.
A
Says I:
rash prophecy? I don't think so. Like Randolph Turpin, Knox his own horse's parents."
"It's a fine man who
What a screen. ATEST story about the cinema and television is of
I am quietly confident.
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KNOW, WISE 'GUY
'TEEN-AGERS ADVISE HOLLYWOOD
For the frst time in the history of the film industry school children are serving as technical advisers on ä big-budget motion picture.
The picture lo Filmakers' RKO Raillo drama, "On the Loose," starring Joan Evane, Melvyn Douglas and Lynn Bari
in a cinema tale of teen-ago problems.
The youthful technical ad- visers, selected by members of the Los Angeles Board of Educa- tion, are Marion Hendrickson and Hugh Lester, from Holly- wood High School, and Bobelto Bentley and Vance Gillesple,
Richard Attenborough and his from Los Angeles High.
wife.
THEY'RE HUMAN "We took the view originally, Producer Collier Young pointed. Squadron, are deep in negotin-out, that American 'teen-agers, tions for a new Service film to be are human beings.
Going on made next summer.
from there, we were determined to make our picture about the
This time it is to be about the week-end Allers of the RNVR.
Full Admiralty co-operation is hoped for.
I asked Johnny how he felt about "rejoining" the Navy. He said, "Well, unless I get back into uniform once every six months I begin to get a bit worried."
D'
Squeaks
IRECTOR
Macken-
Sandy drick and sound editor Mary Hadderfield are claiming they've invented the answer to the zither. It has no name. It isn't an in- strument. It isn't even music.
But preview audiences have already howled their heads of
at it.
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AT 12.00 NOON "BEST OF THE
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IN TECHNICOLOR
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BEST OF THE BADMEN
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ALSO, WALT DISNEY'S COLOR.CARTOON
STARRING SEDAN
ROBERT RYAN CLAIRE TREVOR JACK BUETEL ROBERT PRESTON with WALTER BRENNAN' ISKS LESBER LAWRENCE SFERsty'
AT THE MAJESTIC
ALSO, WALT DISNEY'S *SE COLOR CARTOON
problems of high school kids and "Mickey & The Seal" "Chip And Dale'
their parents л realistic and honest story, dealing with the real problems of adolescenco,"
Even before
"On
the Loose" went into production the Your students high school
sat in an story conferences with Producer
Young, Associate Producer
Malvin Wold and Director Charles Lederer.
to
and
"One of this first things we': did," said Bobette, Bentley, was asure everybody that high school pupils don't use funny words
funny phrases. Those are for junior high kids and for the movies-the movies we mean, that so often imagine high school boys and girls to bt quite unlike they really are,"
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W tributes mast to the quality, a woman who went to a cinema to a texile Invention by Ale For "Half Breed”
It's the sund, accompaniment
There is only one for the first time in months and White Suit,.
· Guinness in The Man in the s came out gushing superlatives.
"The film wasn't
It plays in strict tempo all that great," she said, "but it was such rhythm and Cintis squeaks, A shortage of cheroot
squeals, and squirts.
of a film? answer--the director
What are directors like? Here are glimpses of some I have worked for:----
DAVID LEAN; A man with the profile of a poet and, the single-mindedness of a fanatic. Shy-In-manner-and-positivo in his artistic judgments. Has his mind
C1 one of
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a large screen."
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he had
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TENNIS MAKESTM
Bon
For an entire week RKO Radio "used more than 100 extrus in a Western dance hall scene for
Half
VYROBE
POWER
HAYWARD
Rawhide
NONSIDER (ho embarrassment |
of assistant director...CUM Owen, working on the star-laden of Iwo things Magic Box. the scene he
FILM STORY Harassed for months with more has just or is about to do.
blg námes than any assistant!
The ROXY ADDED LATEST MOVIETONE NEWS, FEATURING JOHN BOULTING: The should be forced to suffer in a "Hard, Fal and Beautifurts Technicolour feature,
Breed"! starring exhibited produced by Filmakers for RKO
Robert "WHAT IS HAPPENING BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN blue
denims
Carter and Jack and the on-like toot. shirt that he wears never quite
Young, Janis Then he Radio, is the first full-length feature over made about amateur
Bucie. get together. Chain smokes
To create the right atmosphere other people's cigarettes, Knows
In the sudden silence of the tennis and its ramifications..
Edward Ludwig had all actly what he
want's and studio he trawled: "On the set
males smoking cheroots. makes you feel it's
your idea. now, please, Mr Hulbert and Mr
Each man averaged from five to With his arm round your Olivier " shoulder takes you -20 yards
six chroots ber dayay the Everybody winced except Sir from the unit to whispers Laurence,
department was cleaned out, whose expression very good but.....*
never changed,
also couldn't find a cheroot of the desired type in town
+
slipped.
Starring Claire Trevor and Sally Forrest, the flim presents Sally as a young American tennis champlon.
She was coached in her role
developed, imong others, such
ROY BOULTING: Sartorially 'Pickwick' plan by Eleanor Tennant, who inore elegant than his twin. S Hollywood turns more and International net stars as Pauline Doesn't scrounge cigarettes, Pre- A fers to scrounge pipe tobacco. Sure of his touch he controls his, camera as rigidly as he controls
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producers ara | Niggs,
musicals, British
моге to Westerns and Betz, Allca Marble and Bobby finding the non-copyright classica big box-office attractions.
e
the seventh
rescue by phoning San Diego A local wholesaler came to the
and having a fresh supply of 'cliproots, Bown to Lda Angeles.u
Having released Tom Brown's FIRST JUNGLE TARZAN CLUB
Schooldays
and
completed
Sertioge, George Minter now plans to make Pickwick Papers.
With 800 pages and 98 charac ters, scriptwriter Noel Langley has qulie a job on his bands,'
'Rejoining'
TUST heard from John Mill
that ho and Anthony Kimmins, who is an Honorary Commander of an RNVR Air
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