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QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
MAYBE THEY CAN'T TALK--IN ANY LANGUAGE, BUT THEY
YES,TRATIONS A CLOSE SHAVE, WASN'T
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SAVED ME FROM THAT METEOR.
2-27
FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING
The best news of the week
that "THREE YOUNG TEXANS," cur.
is
By MARGARET BRUCE
rently showing at the underline the tense situation in Ann Blyth, Robert Taylor and
the background and the stark ROXY and BROADWAY,
is to be followed by "HOW ness of the prisoners' lives.
TO MARRY A MILLION. AIRE." A confection of a film. 11. stara Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable as fortune hunters.
IN THE MUD
is
Stewart Granger.
doesn't amount to Macdonald
much.
Carey is the soft-
hearted Attorney.
*FRANCIS COVERS BIG TOWN" will follow Francia being a talking mule of the other
THE
uh-
In the "good old days" of this
ha film New England bridles the not unmixed pleasure of and the upholder Joining their husbands on two side of the conversation, Donakl I don't think it is or three
around Connor. year cruises
funny but there аге South Seas, very the Horn to the
(Well, it seems like two or thousands who do three years to the at any rate).
Miss Blyth
picturegoer
Taylor
WORTH RESTRAINT
"CRY OF THE HUNTED"
Showing currently
at the CAPITOL and LIBERTY. It is the sort of film that I, quite frankly, loathe. A man hunt in Lauren Bacall is the the most depending detail il man from
and Mr "brains" the trio and tells the story of
of
the bayu swamps of Louisiana are lossed around on the studio
The QUEEN'S and ALHAM- she ronts an expensive
interminably who is imprisoned and refuses lank
until they BRA are showing "MASTER Mr Granger (Mr OF BALLANTRAE." In the belief to divulge information relating come nerosa
I have pent-house
provide both to other members of his gang. Taylor's renegade brother) tuk- written a great deal on this m that it will
ing his case and some very high owing to its various postpone- the bait and the fishing-
This part is played with un- Jinks with Betta St. John on n ments, so I will not labour the
realism
Vittorio Paclile by grounds for their purpose, cmny
Jet Granger, point any mare: but which is summed up in Gassman. Barry Sullivan is the being Ann's ex-boy friend, the remind you that I reeminen: at
policeman who follows him when he escapes after a motor situation hae is tensonese, the A visit to A necident during
District Attorney and they meet where the prisonca's wife still ilves, in the swamp.
the title.
"HOW TO MARRY MILLIONAIRE" tells you the plot as well-the joy of the picture lies in the acting-and looks of the Three stars. Marilyn Mon- star-value-a has sparkling quality-far out- shining the other two al though Lauren Bacall is, in my opinion, by far the best looking.
roo
The wife knocks
.Island,
Mr
A that doesn't fuifli Its Promise, or live up to the star's namus. After scoing "THE WORLD IN HIS ARMS" and the detoc- now this I shall forever think tive out and the pair escape, of Ann Blyth looking out to sea n wind but when he revives Mr Sullivan (or studio tank) with
blowing through hor follows them deeper and deeper machine
After into the mire.
Aght, in hair. cluding the savage French foot nighting, both
crippled enough to cease being hunter and hunted as they have
together fight desperately survival.
Are
to for
A
This is a film to put yout I said I loathed it, which is Full of quite true. But it is a wonder- in a good mood.
exciting melodrama and humour, the little fable is fully beautifully acted, the three a such must be admired, main personalities working powerful hell-broth of violence and sordidity with quile a dusti together surprisingly well
of sex. Depressing to a degree as a team.
it is at the same time an exeit- ing chase, whose
backgrounds
The men in their lives ure of eerie bayou are a tremendous Camerun Mitchell, Rory Cal- asset. houn, David Wayne and Willam
What must be assumed to be Powell. The settings and ward- robes are luscious woman's a happy ending la contrived by fim that men should like. It's letting the policeman bring his a nice change anyway to have man back alive, He serves his
a guy theme on Cinemascope's sentence, gives the information that was required and then re- super-wide screen.
Aurns to his wife and son-in the mud!
BEST EVER MADE
Barry Sullivan gives another of his first class, polished per- *STALAG 17 (KING'S, formances, but we are lucky to PRINCESS and EMPIRE) must find in Vittorio Gassman an surely be the best Prisomer of actor as opposed to a film star. War film ever made. And the His characterisation, choice is wide; apart from the contrary influences of good and quantity of
films inspired by bad in the fugitive, are subtly these sufferings, the quality of stressed throughout. He makes many is superfine. (You
it much more than just another thriller.
ber "THE WOODEN MO
been that
for example). But I don't re-
have member any that have primarily comedies,
and have also malotained the dramu, the utmosphere and told the in- evitable story of altempts at escupe ending in some une or two,
Success
for
It is this very ability to laugh, to wring humour out of the grim situation that makes this particular picture touching and (1 feel certain) real,
50
"STALAG 17" was one of the most notorious of the Geaman Prisoner of War comps during World Wor 11 and the exact bleak and sombre setting is the block where the captured ser geants of the United States Air Corps are housed,
ALMOST A ROUTINE
the
Joel
"SHOOT FIRST." with McCren and Evelyn Keyes, aup- ported by Herbert Lom, Marius Goring and Roland Culver, is a United States Artists Quota fim which will be shown next at these cinemas.
TABLE IS ROUND
"KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE" is also booked for the CAPITOL und LIBERTY in Cinemascope. The best descrip- tion I have heard of it is 11 gigantle comic strip" and it has an equal fascination with this
simplified form of reading.
It is, in fact, supremely easy to watch and get carried along by the fictional figurca who our eyes to the dance before clivector' tuno- say fictional because it is quite certain that resemblance 10 King Arthur and his knigais can only
be coincidental (Oh, it's there;
their table is round
1724*
us good cinema entertainment and worth restraining ang pre- judice you may feel about Errol Flynn.
At any rate it is very much better than the lm that is due to follow !! "THE EDDIE CANTOR STORY." Pil welle about this next week, because it is planned to keep **THL MASTER OF BALLANTRAE” on for at least ten days.
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However, dise fans may like to know that Capitel have recording from the sound track EDDIE CANTOR of "THE STORY" which is compiled into an Eddie Cantor Song Albun, and certainly any fault in this picture does not lie in the sound track.
POOR REDSKINS
The first Cinemascope picturs about the "Frontier is on the *THE way now-it is Warner's
starring iuy COMMAND" Madison and Joan Weldon. remain convinced that Cinema- over the business in the way Talkies" scope will soon take (lid, but until that day It is Robert Taylor continues hts difficult to understand why such Indian Summer as Sir Launcelot
paltry presentation has been
into
now this expensive put who has-as you are aware
medium. sly prank or two with Gu.nevere
On the other hand local Alm when Arthur's back is turned. I
that have always, in this respect,
fans should be delighted
action has been found him a bewildering figure
their taste for so promptly pandered to. as an example of the pure and
of knighthood. And it must be admitted that shining flower However, his temptation the back drop difficulties of Bevere from Ava Gardner's Cinemascope have been largely Juscious yes, succulent- overcome by the subject matter Guinevere.
of this film,
*
With the rolling Western Outstandingly the best per- plalas at the cameraman's com- formance is Mel Ferrer's King mand, the audience doesn't stub Arthur. He appears to have lost its toes on the end of the set in some of the nervous inhibition the outdoor scenes. And then that restrained his performance there another Dimitr! Tiomkia as the crippled dancer in "LILI," musical score, so that fulfils and to have regained the pulse. dagh and savoir faire that was
apparent
"SCARA- in
So
almost every requirement of a Western locale, doesn't it? MOUCHE." It must be that he There is n
2 story too! Captain is happier in costume panta Robert MacClaw (Guy Madison) he certainly seems more al casa is an Army doctor who is forced In them than most actor, and to take command of a Cavalry looks charming beyond words. Troop that la conveying a wagon
hostile trab through
Indian It's an entrancing entertain- country. an American Lieutenant-Colonel, ment. To my taste it fulls every
Ho proves мого than ro- played by Joel McCres, who requirement for cinema enter- sourceful, which openk up a
He tainment. rents a shoot in Dorset
for A mistakes
A remarkably thrilling and unusual spy story, it concerns
Д
stranger
poacher and lets him have a The LEE and GREAT pox with small pox with care-
Is
now future for him because he would inspire no confidence as a medico, mixing up chicken round of buckshot.
When he discovers that the WORLD have a very worthless Icse ibandon.
Western showing now. Except, man is dead, he believes that he
Joan Weldon is an extremely and hides the perhaps, that the star, Ronald has killed him body. However, it is discovered Reagan always a rellable beautiful girl with a tendency and Mr MoCrea finds that he is netor. In "LAW AND ORDER" to nurse everyone in sight and With amazing realism a rough involved in International_es-
he is a UB, Marshal trying hard a considerable help to the hero and bawdy humour permeates pionage and is on the run from to retire to the quiet fe or in his capacity as doctor, this grim abode. I armly state both police and spies, The X leon a ranch.
what one assumes is the quiet also commanding officer. "reallat” because I feel
cilmax sure citing
takes place in
She spreads the discase - to However, Westerners being that without the suggested Madame Tussund's wax museum
cunning but what they are, there's a lot of the enemy in a
Rossing laughter no prisoner could have almost a routine.
This nauseating manner by rome through sane from his Evelyn Keyes plays the part shootin' to be done first.
grubby litle bits of achieved but I about of the experience.
Colonel's sympathetic is successfully wife who becomes maddeningly am not yet convinced that the bandage. Ught Poor Indians; I involved in the danger with right people got hit all the time. was on their side throughout. her husband.
The plot has nothing unusual or noteworthy in it. William Holden is the primo spy suspect when suspicions are aroused by what they all consider to be a foolproof plan for eschps being discovered,
The SUCCCESOT to "SHOOT FIRST"
OLD THEME
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The most exciting Cinema- scopo news is that Walt Disney "EVERY MINUTE COUNTS," has started production on the THE MINIVER the next showing, is one of the first Donald Duck cartoon. STORY." This is another very better films of its type. It's Mr Holden is in charge of old film and one which should the old thing about a man come nearly all the rackets (and never have been made in the demned
circumstantial A film I look forward to very certainly all the small pleasures) first place. Full of the most evidence only for a murder he much is a bit of nonsense. In the camp and his ability. to
charming personalities it WEH for himself auch achievo patkotle treat from the captors ke
originated purely for sety
П
tho
on
didn't commit.
and
as a fresh egg, leads everyone AND THE ROqugis it is 1 origin) entirely Actional "Defence Al- we will see the remarkable
to suppose that he can be up to particular
no good.
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history about the Roman Em- The minutes that count o piro. It's called "THE SIGN much are at the disposal of an OF THE PAGAN" and in it MINIVER" was almost torney who is prepared to sight of Jeff Chandler ns the most delightful flm made snertice his practice, all his high-ranking officer in the Ro Finally Don Taylor, as a and an imposible target to money and the rather superfleis man Army fighting as with the
found Since they
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of his fiances on bokaif strength of u Legion. affection
against Lieutenant, is brought into the follow.
the hordes of Attilla thẹ. Hun. barracks where he tells of an necessary to kill doar Mrs of his silent. ammunition
he doesn't find train he
Incidentally has Miniver off, what a shame it is
It brings to the screen once managed to destroy en route to that they are unable to let her the essential clue until the first
fust prison." As a result he is con- rest in peace
the beautiful ballerina anal minute, for the record, more
Ludmilla Teherina, her firet demned as a coboteur,
Yes, it's one of those!
TALES OF But there really is moslary ploture since and suspense and it is noted HOFFMANTI realism to be
comes down off hor by dew points for a dramatle role: Free Ambuljp Terena Wright, as the a Roman Princess which I think. · Emergency - man. There's not a new twist in Micu release that will be con- condemned man's wife 1 with may be a bad mistake, but a
there? And yet the pre- pentation, which could be no, in to the Colony, sour. It's
Well, of course, Holden un-
moaks the trus villain and at
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