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FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING
The LEE and the GREAT WORLD are giving US Д slice of American history with "COLUMN SOUT" at the moment. When that moves out we'll be seeing **IT HAPPENS EVERY THURSDAY”. then the "THE MAN FROM THE ALAMO".
Loretta Young returma to 118 in "IT HAPPENS EVERY THURSDAY". She and her screen hus- band, John Forsythe, are two New Yorkers whe leave the big town with their young son and take over a small weekly news- paper in a town in Cali- fornia.
By JANE ROBERTS
The film in concerned with Sulla Adams & Glenn Ford in "TIE MAN FROM THE ALAMO”
their misunderstood efforts to
gain the townspeople's con- on the novel "The Man Who ndence. Far from being the Watched The Trains Go By" by flourishing little paper he'd Georges Elmenon and has an dreamed oľ, John Forsythe imposing international cast. finds that its circulation is very The lovely Anouk, who star- low and the only way of bols- red with Tatvor Howard in
to tering it is to pander the "GOLDEN SALAMANDER," IS town's weathervane feelings. on the 1st, but is not the star, The featured players are all It seems a pity that she's ge- familler-Frank McHugh, Edgar cepted a supporting part when Buchanan and Gladys George,
she started off so well.
star is Marta The feminine SAME PLACE
Toren, with,
"The Man". Do you remember some years Claude Rains. aku here an excellent little
Another star of "GOLDEN film called "THE OX BOW
SALAMANDER" Herbert Lom Well, next week is killed off quite
early in rather next week-end, the film and that clever actur we'!!
be visiting
town Marius Goring wil be seen as ugaln
the defective shadowing Claude Not staying very long this Rains. Felix Aylmer is also time-it's something that hap-
distinguished sup- pens
Ox Bow that sends ot Glenn Ford off over the South- west of North America in front
INCIDENT"?
أن
от
armies.
that
won't usk you to sirotch your memories any further to- day and if I do forget myself I threw in that battle cry, of Sam Houston's "Remember
the Ainino don't take it per- sonally!
"THE Here's what
MAN FROM THE ALAMO" is about. The central character
the
amonk porting players,
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ALL WIDMARK
At the CAPITOL and
LIBERTY TAKE
ambition to beconie a successful Jundscape artist.
It's hot a happy stary-in all three of the Maupassant talca there's the sadness that under- lles everything in real life; but 1 does illustrate the fact that without the experience of in- happiness there can be no depth of character.
The hour of pleasure (the connection Jizic in the three
stories) in "Le Masque" takes the form of a last
desperate grab at gufely by a dying man. Wearing the mask of a hand- gome youth, he tries to seal une extra hour of plensure from Father Time before his death. The doctor is Claude Dauphin,
the
I've left Peter Ustinov until Tuls unpredictable enfant terrible of the British stage is in "LE unseen
actor PLAISIR. He is, the voice of Guy
de Maupassant. I would go to see a film containing Peter having scen the Olm "LE Ustinov if he were merely hold- FLAISIR", which is adapted ing up "The End" sign. from these three stories, I can The director, Max Opuls, wan unhesitatingly recommend It. also responsible for "LA
Unfortunately, however, I've RONDE",
not read them and the bn was
previewed before I became the "ART ÅBOVE ALL” occupant of this column. I'm "Art above all" is the theme telling you this so that you can of THE GOLDEN COACH", go to the flim with an open comlag to the KING'S after mind, not thinking that your re "THE viewer wasn't allowed to see it British flim made in Italy, you'll WILD ONE". Being u because it wouldn't bear
have to forgo one of
of your mid- scrutiny.
week engagements to see it and you find yourself out to din- ner on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week, I'd ad-
Let me hasten to add that I if shall be one of the first to book my seat on the first night, Some
of the reasons for this are
(0) the pomes in the cast, (b) I like good French films your host probably wants to and this one has all the cards stacked on its nide,
(c) it is unusual.
vise you to cancel one of them
soe Anna Magnani too!
Sbo's one of a company of Italian strolling
who players have forcod by poverty
lost on
and
A
to
The outline the story bears To start with, let me intro- ve 2 faint resemblance to THE duce you to some of the cast cave their native country and try their Juck in South the pursuing Mexican LAVENDER HILL MOB", with ladies first. There are those
delightful stors
America. Claude ftolus Instead of Alec two
whose
"The Spanish colony they "THE BIG Guinness as Remember Loo
the honest little names are well known
to us, arrive in though, isn't a great HEAT? its revenge that spur employee who suddenly suc- Danielle Darrieux and Simone arriv
inhabitants Improvement. The Glenn Ford on again "THE cumbs to temptation
and steals Simon MAN FROM THE ALAMO".
his company's money.
Danielle Darrieux appears in are poor and immorant and the the second of the stories lovely music of Vivaldi is quito Maison Tellier". Briefly it's an
them. Madame
But though account of how
the finer points THE HIGH her girls (whose occupation will of the opera "Comedia del Arbe
to them, Anna become soon
obvious to you) are obscure GROUND" will take over after close their House to attend the Magnani's charms are not. The "THE GREAT WALTZ". This is First Communion ceremony
only of people love her and not a Richard Widmark picture
In Mademo's niece.
prople. colour
Besides having It's in a neighbourig town
patient, It's Widmark all the
way and nobody there knows the quiet lover in the troupe, she other big-name
collects two more in the new of course, Glenn Food, Sent through-no
profession of the beautiful
colony-Ramon, back
Gradually,
4 handsome from the Alamo battle as stars to stend his thunder he's grandes
messen. In nearly every shot and his is during the ceremony,
matador and the girls
the aristocratic the most truslavarthy
ta the last word in every situation Ber to be found, his job is
Fuler. the the throughout the picture. On the named families the Wear
real seillers at Ox Bow that Santa few occasions when people are Ana's Mexicans--with rather ven chance to answer back-- sticky reputations in the cruelty they're sorry for t Hrane making for the town
sec, Widmark, is an in- What he finds at Ox Bow fantry instructor in the US. starts the story proper".
Army-we never see him given From the Press Book, this the treatment he metes out to looks like being a good action the poor unfortunates he has to fim. There
two train, so presumably the law is ture.qne or familar angles a small town newspaper run by a tough old
Not that I had much sympathy man as fearless with his guns for the particular bunch of as he is with his copy the recruits he takes through "TAKE hero branded
coward be- THE HIGH GROUND" cause the
at
on his side.
pro
dames.
with of what
She is offered devotion by the purity means
actor,
celebrity by Ramon and Ius dimcult to explain the power by the Colony's ruler. Eense of poignant sadness at Anna Magnani panders-and never being able
to recapture chooses to remain a strolling this innocence of heart. I don't player and keep the love of the know whether the film manages people. to convey
it, but I mean to Jean and Claude Renoir comTM find out. Also in this is an- bined to produce this Olm. The other well-known French actor, former (the son of the famous Jean Gabin.
paintor) directed and his nep- "Le Modele', the third story, how supervised the colour pro- is about the love of two young owsing. It is the first Italian people-an artist and his model. Ilm to be produced in Tech- Simone Simon is the model and bicolour.
THE men who know the whining lot I found most of them anyone who recalls her piquant
VANQUISHED", in truth have all been massacred and Widmark's handling of them she is cast. She's the inspim- GOLDEN
little face will realise how well Technicolour, succeeds THE Victor Jary once more cast was the only way in which they tion of the painter, who, will PLAISIR",
COACH" and "LE as a renegade, but being
but more could have benefited from the philosophical mood today, I'm prepared to believe that all mengro 10 weeks of training her coming, had failed in his next week. life events are a series of re allowed them.
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petitions and that "THE MAN Speaking of this, to produce FROM THE ALAMO" could combat-trained soldiers from be as true to any other stories civilians in four months takes of the fighting Tescaner.
some swallowing-I'm sure it Julla Adams and Chill Wills can't be done in the one course share top billing with Glenn we see. There seems to be no Ford and the picture
into Initial and in division Technicolour.
Advanced Training at all.
"You're complex and a drunk I liko and BROADWAY
simple and sober," them
On put "GOD NEEDS Buys Widmark to Elaine Stewart,
THE
There you have the girl. The atter
LADY CHATTERLY'S
Of other featured player is LOVER JAPAN" and then we shall be Maiden. seeing Claude Rains in "PARIS EXPRESS".
The ROXY
will MAN"
Sad to say, I've been abio to glcan almost no information on "GOD NEEDS MAN".
Karl
The
MAUPASSANT'S On at the EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS at the moment is "THE WILD ONE”, What I have, I lay before you. EMPIRE and It possesses an all-French cast follow with "LE PLAISIR" and takes us back to about 100 while the KING'S plays "THE YCATE ngo. Tho locale is a GOLDEN COACH". After that, mall town in France where all three will start "THE VAN-
the priests QUISHED" next Friday.
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The groggy British film industry is getting another kick in the pants.
With fewer and fewer films going on
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And they are succeeding with reading the glowing Now York a commodity in which wo have reviews of our aims, think they never traded: Sex.
are playing to standing room One by one the brown-haired ghly all over the States. bombshells of Italy, Gina Lollobrigida, Silvina Mangano, It is not so. Many are shown cinemas Cosselta Greco, Sivana Pam only in the from their positions of authority I wish I could say, with truth, panini, Brunella Bovo, etc., are which specialise in foreign at- and take the law into their own that having read' Guy de Mau- conquering the US. screens tractions, as some of London's hands.
three stories,
Now Le tro
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