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The moonlighter and his midnight lady having rid den into the QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA rather expectedly and galloped off again to
un-
make way for "LOVE LOTTERY", there's "really not much point in commenting on their somewhat brief stay, except to Bay that the "WOMEN OF PARIS"
4
couldn't have been exerting all their subtle charms, to have given
way so easily before the very obvious lure of the booted und spurred midnight lady,
After "LOVE LOTTERY", the QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA will be giving us "ISLAND IN THE SKY".
Based On the best-selling novel by Ernest K. Gan, "IS- LAND IN THE SKY" follows the adventures of the crew of transport plane forced down
In the wilds of Labrador. John Wayne is the star and It's a
Wayne-Fellows production.
Wayne himself is the captain
of the aircraft and his co-pilot
By JANE ROBERTS
**
with the child. She's brought up by the forgiving Gefietal and his enfantswife and 'In' spite of all their efforts to keep the truth from her, realises that her mother has a. secret, ja
There are so a very touche ing scenes between mother and daughter and between husband and wife. The painter I found revolting.
The Japanese cast have had their dialogue dubbed Into Mandarin and there are English sub-titles-Burnetimes 11 dimcult to understandi
Universal
NAVAJOS
Tittle
International's "COLUMN SOUTH", which unfortunately I haven't seen previewed, is about a young American 'cavalry officer (play ed by Audie Murphy) who tries to bring peace to the expanding frontiers of 1850 Americu.
The Indians this time are 'Navajos and If you khów the
words of "Empty Saddles" as rung by Bng, you remember that they were a pretty shady bunch of characters-mosi 'un- friendly' In fact. Their chief is manner by Dennis Weaver..
is played by Lloyd Nolan. The Marlon Brando and Mary Murphy in "THE WILD ONE" played in the new sympathetic members of the crew include Sean McClory and James Arness.
for
his men ed. Wayno to keep alive until they are sighted by the rescue party,
Oscar Homolka ly a very nice II you think you can im- a kind of Red Russian In "TOP personate a redskin, then Holly- True, he tries to get wood is obviously the place for of the ments gblu- you these days, Genuine Indian
out of
of George extra players, who used to be In the
im the Bariyortaken belief as plen as swimming pools
RURITANIAN
left a very deep impression of an idylle love affair with Five harrowing days and
of other-worldness SECRET". suspicion nights are upent by the crew of about it. Maybe I was the aircraft in sub-zero tem pressionable. When I think tlons di perntures while
resque opera- back to my recollections of the Cole tlons are got under way back film, made in 1848, the first one
that they're the plans for there, are getting very hard to at headquarters.
new British atombomb, but in and. Those they use to that comes to mind, is that of a Andy Devine (the man
who pleasantly
buxom hockey girl such a nice way that you really up the numbers for western, always makes me want to cough cantering along the fore-shore can't be angry with him. are a hybrid mixture of movla while he's talking) is seen a
atuatmen, part
art time players to in a most this-worldish way. one of the team sent ou! to Parha
and bit players who have made It remains Perhaps my viewpoint's chang- And the lost crew.
"TOP SECRET" is a pleasant specially of impersonating For those of you who haven't little British film that leaves you
Red Indians for so long that acen "BLUE LAGOON" or read at the end with the feeling that there is a saying in the studios the book,
it is the romance of the Other Side aro lot of that they grunt "Ugh" when "ISLAND IN THE SKY"
book two chlidren, shipwrecked on a characters straight from Ruri- they receive their salaries with the author of the
desert island, who grow up in tania and that there's nothing to adviser, des technical acting
Warner un earthly paradise of blue seas worry about at all, filmed with
line and golden sands. Phonic sound and each
handful of 50-called intelligentsia that British
admires the Com slavishly munist way of life are depicted as the half-baked poseurs we'd to think they are and even like Nadia
Gray
a loyal little Russian comrade is allowed the luxury saying that she
Was
of dialogue, each revolution
of
point of
of origin.
be heard by the audience froin exploit them. the
told, usually
I don't know how true thle
When a group of men together, the
the conversation, I'm from their only book-“A Guide
men. To Behaviour For Ladies to women. Gentlemen"--and turns
this doesn't
their
Their solitude 19 broken once the aircraft motors, cach twig only by two very poor products to of civilisation who try snapping in the frosty air will
All that the world children know of the
taken
get beyond their island is
And
before each man
must
The
то
With Audie Murphy in "COLUMN SOUTH".. ntb Joan
Robert Sterling Evans and Audie Murphy understands the Rod Indian point of view-the chief of the Navajos is his friend. Robert Sterling, his commanding officer, doesn't. Need ́ 1 more?
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The Best Farcical Comedy. Since "NINOTCHKAI"!
happens to be, but in the fim, make provision for a situation "despises traitors, of whatever ing back a film called "THE country they're disloyal to!'," GREAT WALTZ!. "I won't call
We are rather good et laugh it an "old" film because it is in Roxy: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 cfs. Broadway: $1.20 & 70 ch. en Arctic blizzard sweeping in which, bewildered by with over them, not much time passes own emotions, they fall in love. ing at ourselves and as long as
costume and na such doesn't starts
In a violent tropical hurricane this double joke is fully under- thinking
the way! of the girl he left behind him. their baby son is born. As the stood by the audience for whom date in One thinks of more than one child grows older, they realise it is designed, "TOP SECRET comedy might. 4 dem
In
years, however, it is old- they
to return
can ni be recommended without gal and another tries to picture that
and reservation.
ten years old to be precise--but the girl he would like to find civilization for his sake
don't let that disside you
Trom Cole is a completely George when ho returns to civilisation, they set out in their small boat
to see it. Milliza Korjus' Wisdom and to my tasto finitely preferable. But then, I something not to be missed since can't take undiluted farce we never on to have to have a bit of a story nowadays on the screen. with a few serious situations to
All this is done by the well- in search of the world beyond different "comic" from Normannenificent coloratura volco is
known flash-back method.
THE GIRLS
The girls is the dreams of tho stranded fliers are Ann Doran, Dawn Bender and
the rect.
Those are the bare facts, but it was a most moving story.
RATHER DIFFERENT
A
in-
Added · to her
S
generous
of living and singing.
azarded a six-pleture contrace LAGOON"-Marlon Brando in place and is
quita content
IST WHEV over Bowing with the
"THE WILD ONE". Again he's
ta
of
I'
and fortune;'
become
with
the delicate Rather
chsan
Rainer, by the way after
rather different nature leaven the mixture, George Cole her wonderful, there's Phyllis Winger, who reportedly has been child takes over after "BLUE is the little mum who knows his ・slay" there. Wisdom, given the for her performance in "ISLAND cast in a tough role, so if you same opportunities of rising IN THE SKY". Of the women players, Ann Doran is, I believe, were getting used to seeing him heights of fame
after his performance as Mark hands und better character actresses Dawn Anthony in "JULIUS CAESAR, Prime Ministeri Bender and Phyllis Winger are
a mord receptive, I've mentioned the three main comparative newcomers I can't to get in
frame
of mind for "THE WILD, characters in TOP SECRET remember ever having
ONE", just lake your mind back George Cole, Oscar Homolka and either of them before.
Now showing FLIGHT TO
DESIRE
tion Wilfrid Hyde-white. I'm Brando plays the leader of a never quite sure why, at the end with Jean Simmons in "THE ans of rough, truculent motor of a long cast list, in a picture
known be one of the screen's as a more sympathetic character would grasp them with both Luyendor' what's happened to
up
The KING'S and are going to follow
probably
the superb showing sho made with Fall Muni in THE.GOOD EARTH”, her absence from the
screen for so long is a great loss,
In this story of an episode Strauss
STREETCAR' NAMED Nadia Gray: Let'mo"alo men- voue of Johann ̧rvet
also see Fernand YET ANOTHER
BULE LAGOON", WOve already cyclists who swagger into all part, we always find tion given me about yet another
the
+
to
When
I read H. de
In which he'bas'a comparative. I've just had some informa Ly
amall town apolling for trouble had this here was the aim it because they've been batred "AND Wilfrid Hyde-White", as new process loining the ranks which
discovery from the track Weish
of a nearby though hela visiting royalty or of Cinemascope, 3D, Donald Houston, was introduced spe
Speedway stadium. "And troubla
I start you be's Panoramic Screen Cinerama they
something 'Vere
find.
entertaining and etc. This one's been produced They wreck a car, intimidato immensely Stacpopig's novel in my teens, the town'e solitary policeman, always turns in a "little gem the Paramount and is called
performance but if he's Vistavision!! insult the townspeople, chase willing to take a supporting role, Its emphasis is on the fact the local girls and generally be let him accept commensurate that "Height" is as important have like hooligans.
ad Width in the presentation
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To add to the town's troubles, Nadia Gray is a very lovely of a motion picture on the atly bum of cyclicts descends girl and although, to wear, she's screen. The Vistavision camera n-it and Wa leader and Brando was even the kind of Russian uses a horizontal double frame Aight a pitched battle in the
streets, the any that all the form we'd expect to see her negative to photograph good citizens are unsympathetic
"Carries #it off' most
Jo Uiese rowdies is putting it fully."{
mildly all of them, chat is,
except the
daughter.
policeman's pretty
A
JAPANESE CHARM
the
photographe images on
an. area, 371⁄2 Emes the, regular 35 MM camera frame. Tho large nogative is then com-
Charm, in the Japanese pressed, by printing, to ha introduce this note of mannd. is displayed in “THE standard 35 MM frame for re-, sofindes into the picture,
LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER Lease, prochücor. Stanley Kramer OF JAPAN”
als pro chose Mary Murphy
process eliminates She This is not quite what you and fuzziness. In addition, the finds Brando attractive to start might expect from the title. Vista vision camera permite the with: Inter, his odd, apparently True, the wife has a child by use of lenses in photographing Indifferent
attitude towards: life
und, with an angle "Varying from: 8
to allow degrees, and will
thephotographing Baccate without distortion due to width to
in general frightens, her after an other than, her
but' Initial tenderness and she leads not the sordid finds her gympathy, for him dis-
WAWELL DONE, GIRLS!A
Those three mon
Chatterley?
excuse for
· Ladzu
complete
she
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