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SPEARMAN!
AS THE SPEARMAN HURIS THE SPEAR,
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4-19
★ ★ ★ A SEAT IN THE STALLS ★ ★ ★
Dilys Powell Looks
Back Over
THE CINEMA IN 1951
MAX
et
as
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THE ANIMALS
CAME IN
TO-DAY
QUEENS ALHAMBRA
CLARKGABLES
THE WIDE MISSOURI
5 SHOWS
ONE BY ONE TO-MORROW
By Melrose Gower Hollywood.
Sid Fogel, who has spent the past quarter of a cen- tury rounding up fauna, fowl and fish to act in RKO Radio films, heaved a sigh that started from 'way down between his two
"S'elp me." he muttered, "I'll And a wooden-legged duck, and a one-ayed cat that won't eat birds, before this movie needs
Box"; Alastair Early in the year which son of "Miss Julie; for here is Laurence Olivier in a tiny part) has led 1 recommended a film which repeatedly surprises in "The Magic
a ferocious by its in aginative understanding Sim in "Laughter in Paradise" and "Lady Godiva Rides Again"; to my readers
of Strindberg and its ability to documentary film from bring out ideas submerged in the Kathleen Harrison in "Scrooge
Two other foreign films, Kay Welsh in "Encore"; and, to Praze. "La Vie Commerce text.
have given return to the American cinema, Demain." I still recommend both from France,
Judy Holiday in "Born Yester- Jacques pleasure:
Gilbert Roland in "The Nicole Vedres's piere, but I exceptional
Becker's enchanting comedy of a day,'
Bulighter and the Lady," Lee stomach ulcers. Edouard could wish that its optimis domestic tiff,
the shoplifter and tie fille had been borne out Caroline."
Ophuls's Grant
of William Wyler's "Detective rendering by the year's cinema which sour-sweet
"La Ronde," whien Story" (which goes in the accomm- Schnitzler's followed. Not that 1951 has after eight months is still all the plished class), Jose Ferrer i
Nor shall been without its successes; rage at the Curzon--rightly, for "Cyrano de Bergerac." I prop ese to remind you I don't remember seeing its like I forget (sneaking back to the now of some of them; but for combining elegant indelicacy Continental cinema so unpopular with a kind of bitter pathos. And, with some of my readers), Sylvie none, think, brought the though either is in the class of in "Sous le Ciel de Paris" shock of startled delight the three I have just mentioned, Gino Cervi as the pitying guard
in "Unwanted Women." with which a year earlier two more Continental pieces
Opera has been handled we greeted "On the Town" deserve to be recalled from Italy, luxuriantly in the Powell-Press- Luciono Eminer's "Sunday in or Coetrau's "Orphee."
its exquisite dancing and is Ou and thoughts perhaps | August" from Switzerland, Leo- burger "Tales of Hoffmann," with
pold Lindtberg's "Four in
drooping middle and end, and ought except Sjoberg's vv-
Jeep."
charmingly in the Italian Alm of Rossini's "Cinderella."
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& 9,30 P.M.
BOGART
You bet
BERGMAN
We're
HENREID
They
а
America has sent us great number of acomplished films and
ja stall number of remarkable
urad
Welles has shown us his notion
'em."
Forri was referring to Gabriel Pascal's production of the late Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy. "Androcles and the Lion," now before the cameras with greater variety of four-footed
n
→
winged actors than any Hollywood picture has boasted in the last 21 years.
BRUTES AND BIRDS
of "Macbeth" (just before giving his brute and bird thespians on Sid Fogel started rounding up a magnificent Feb. the stage 119
1951. Including the
duck and wooden-legged
the
1.
unes. Among the accomplished performance in "Othello"). put such melodramas as "Ace in Stereophony, at the Telekinema, non-bird-eating, one-eyed cat the Hole," "Storm Warning," and has been added to stereoscopy,
(which he'll get "s'elp me"). "Fourteen Hours": among the And I must not forget the good he has 56 animals, eight birds remarkable, two war films, John two-dimensional short flims
ms and one reptile working Huston's "The Red Badge of which have given me pleasure pic Courage" and Lewis Milestone's in 1951. Paul Haeserts's Visit to
picture-driving Director Ches ter Erskine daft, and doing A Walk in the Sun" "The Red Picasso." Disney's "Beaver their cussed best to steal scenes
| Badge of Courage" deals superbly Valley," Bert Haanstra's "Miroir
in a style reminiscent of D. W. de Hollande," and a delightful Griffith with the background of cartoon, "Gerald McBoing-
me
Jesa
Jane Russell
the
from film stars Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans and Alan Young (as Androcles).
The Fogel fold includes 7 lions, 4 dogs, 18 burros, 7 ducks, 6 sheep, 16 horses, 1 goat, 2 cats, raven, 2 oxen and tortoise-all trained. Ain't that
some'p'n? And A Battle
battle; on reflection it seems to Boing."
with the successful figures in the foreground, whereas from the Milestone Alm I remember a tender stylisation of the soldier in a foreign field. Hitchcock returned to something like his old brilliance in "Strangers on Train"; "An
Z
(directed American in Paris"
Minnelli), though by Vincente less good then "On the Town,' had a first-rate ballet sequence. One Alm which can't be left out-George Stevens's version of Dreiser's "Al Ain dimculty Tragedy"-
"--puts me in a Obviously its direction playing set it in a class above the upper sixth of accomplish- ment. But I still don't feel that WARNER BROS HIT! this beautifully made piece lives up to its reputation as a serious work; I place it with those best- sellers in the printed word ICT which, well as they are written,
can't quite be called literature.
Holding CASABLANCA
HALB. CLAUDE RAINS VEIDT WALLIS GREENSTREET LORRE CUTTIZ
----
TO-MORROW
"Treasure Island”
COMING SOON!
LONG AWAITED-LONG
+
HE REMEMBERED
BURT
and
Of Wits
Ster of the Ilon pack is Jackie, owned and trained by Mel Koontz. He has the savage абрест of a head hunting aborigine and the gentle heart Red Cross nurse. His of a
A deadly battle of wita salary is $750 a week-just $490
Woman,
QUACKLESS DUCKS
special
is developed in "His Kind of a week more than Koontz re-
romantic melo-ceives! drama which Howard Hughes
presents with The ducks are
of Muscovies, quite Robert Mitchum and Jane brand Russell in the starring roles. quackless. Left alone, one
will wander all over Mitchum portrays a gambler Muscovy
A who blindly accepts an offer of
creation.
group, however, fifty thousand dollars to Koi Wherefore, Fogel had the ducks always follow a leader. remote resort on the Mexican together two weeks in advance
coast for reasons that will be explained to him later.
will
of
was
The British cinema has given
the picture's start until one duck decided he was the boss. us during the year Paul Rotha's There he meets Miss Russell, After that everything touching "No Resting Place" Pat a singer on a vacation, and a
hotsy-totsy on the sound stage. Jackson's finely directed "White group of mysterious men who off stepped Mussolin Muscovy Corridors," and Alexander seem to know all about his and all the docile, dominated Mackendrick's ingenious "The mission.
ducks trailed sedately behind Man in the White Suit: three
Then he discovers they intend him. films I should be glad to see to kill him, and his subsequent The sheep were 'problem again; I have not seen and cannot efforts to get clear lead to the children, too. They were supposed give an opinion on "The stirring climax of the RKO Lavender HIL Mob"
(from Radio picture, now showing at way leading from Brindisium to America too came a plece which the King's and Majestic
constantly Rome, but Theatres.
I still hope to see some day, John Ford's "Wagonmaster"). It
to trot along the broad high-
they
the borders of the highway were made of real sod and, to
Vincent Price, Tim Holt and strayed aside. Why? Because is a pleasure to recall also some Charles McGraw have important
of the acting of the year: Michael roles in the John Farrow pro- a sheep, tasted delicious. Fogel
Redgrave in Anthony Asquith's duction which
introduces new finally solved that
TANCASTER|ensively directed "The Brown- song numbers as
TEN TALL MEN
WATCH FOR THE OPENING DATE AND THEATRE
Version"; Robert Donat (and Miss Russell.
RUSSELL MEETS BEN
of Jan Roval Command
rendered by spraying the sod
LYON
one by with
chemical-one taste of the fiery Fogel fodder, and the roaming ruminants promptly hightailed It hastily to the highway.
JIMMY THE RAVEN
Jimmy, the raven in the film, is one of Hollywood's most tamous scene stealers, Owned and trained by Curly Twiford, "Jimmy" is so doggone smart he can even operate a typewriter with his beak.
"And they'd probably unve made him do it, too," glumly averred Vic Mature; the
nesar's had been known in
day."
Studios don't get uns animal, bird
and
reptile cast like this peanuts, Sid Fogel drove some mighty shrewd bargains,. but RKO still had to shell out $9,000 in salaries to the beasts, birds, the tortoise, and, their several trainers,
Animals con
shouts
heck on
stazo," yes.
Bu
And
here
Every
wants to work in the
by two
he stretch wat the own suddenly, almost to
st's the matter, you dumika
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