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By JANE ROBERTS
COMING
Ish Richart Todd, Ilar with This quite kasuan) state of get more and mure would have been a match for his affairs will probably prevall hazardous.
whch the National Anthein is
after have played
"LITTLE BOY LOST even though the scene is the weakest.
"CHARGE OF
and who knows but tint her THE better Ride might not
LANCERS", which would, I brought out a gentler facet
пік nature.
WAM
for ying
MARIKA" turned out to bar alattie 1 Continental for our
Fun.
"OLIVER TWIST" completely the bout, due to brushness and staying power of the evergreen Mr Flynn helpet out, of course, by the delectable Olivin Dellavilland.
phinge taking the into this week's bunch. heres what is scheduled at the time of going to press.
So
now.
The HOOVER hos at Inst opened and m Thursday there saw THE SWORD AND THE
you
his
at
rearing sense of humour, sudden rages and lightning changes to sweetness again, How James Robertson Justice test have joved playing the part, he did it M. well,
F
In fact ther
10.
He
jast
A
to
13
not
the
Bored on a tale by Russian writer Puskin, Its action lakes pinco In the time of Catherine the Grent-the of the enlightened despots.
BEO
Although basically the story revolves round a young officer, junior in rank but superior in station to the father of his br loved, the background of politi- ότι Integral cal Intrigue forms part of the picture,
les trois
It-
•
the
AND
think, have amused you and
As it was, all the wooing and The merest suggestion of not suffered at all from the winning of Charles Brandon small toy brutally treated proximity of a gritty-jawed came from Mary and before the enough to sur most
pleture was over one could see
rage, but the Errol Flynn an “THE CHARGE ready to be led by the nose pathetically "lost" in spirit, Bame boy
Vittorio Gassman is not the OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE" All his life.
dissolute A very bad thing through neglect or crucky, but her, but a
young withdrawn before it for Mary's character too-con- becauso be has no parents
officer who envies the manners and atarted and will probably be demned to having her own way give the sympathy and care that and position of the other
for the rest Of her life she'd
only such close relatives can,
his success with the captatu's Młowi later on the Errol
probably develop into a shrow.
the emotion aroused is much daughter. Flynn re-issue having beru put Henry VII wan still a fine gender.
Both
and Gammad
the rother hastily
ChrisHan because gure of a man in these days
Fourcade in
hayo himself Cossack rebel Pogaciov The cheerless Katherine of
1sn't (1
tearful small boy.
Intelligent parts to piny OF "THE DAUGHTERS
Avagon was his wife at the time, fart it's his complete neeeptance in ntrast to the rather weak DESTINY proved ♫ Hitle but he more than made up for of the necessarily strict (iscipline nobleman Piotr, Pugactoy is br heavy
regular her narrowness with
of the convent in which turns cruel, childlike, dignited, he lives that makes his situa vacllating and arm. His is glueina grera.
tion seem so much more pli- ue performance giving much able The fact that he could Insight into the
character of be Bing Crosby's child by his this strange mixture
ture of a man action-loving public too, so her
adored! French wife, klied by who defer the great Catherine reign was a tile shorter than
the Cermans
and
Crosby's herself in 16th century Russia. anticipated The vutasequent
TRUE TO LIFE
efforts to obtain pront one way The ampitelty and barbariem Telescoping made room for
"AMBUSH AT TOMAHAWK or the other is the theme of of the tribes Ilving on "THE WOODEN HORSE" which
in colour, is delalely the picture.
borders of European Russia and I hope you
mnraged to see if GAP
That it's not as simple as that, Siberia has been well caught couldn't during its Arst one of the better Western, It's
although got a feasible story, the twists in the argument put forward by and
The accents Was rackr in Italy in the plot are unexpected and Bing Crosby's friend, played by t the end is certainly not a fore- Claude Dauphin,
polna and dubbed into sonre-
Americanised gone conclusion. What is more, out that although human nature what
English) gave me twinges from me to retribution doesn't overtake all usually wants to reproduce
to the time, I fell more a part of the the "bad" characters and good self and acknowledge
world product of fortune the good.
own mini story than in many films about and body, by
on wi-
Wi- present day life. personalities are frue enough to mixture
questionable
that the
In spite of its creakiness in fe to be the quer
muli bay is actually
Do his, of good, bad and indifferent we
parts, it's well worth seeing. 1ore adopting him, all are.
Crosby is only wallowing in a sentimentat
FIRST RATE Although in the odd spot I
memory
of the love between his wife
himself. and
The
ot In their le blurb found the temps dragged u bli
out of fashion enough dead II was
have beginning of "GILBERT trouble in child in question could find the same ROSE Hoving tried to tell 10
"HIGH NOON") for the most been his he has shown interest SULLIVAN, London Flims, in about the film fram
the part
the boy to have unstaternent signed by Alexan- picture enough enjoyeu the insatisfactory viewpoint of
settled him for return to the der Korda, review their produc- Press Book can now give yo
thoroughly.
Briefly, the story
is about convent in any case-then why tions on this, their 21st birth- Arst hand information--which is
does he not give him all the day. They feel that some con four men reicased from a five- Infinitely preferable.
the AL
KING'S and
the year sentence in Tucson Gaol advantages that someone in his be remembered with justifiable
and with
humility who set out to find the money position can, by adopting him? pride
would PRINCESS. "AMBUSH AT
from the robbery they were It's immaterial whether the boy. Beknowledge that some TOMAHAWK GAP" will be on
they forgotten as ho better
they One of commiting. then convicted of
have Bing Crooby's side is the - themselves week-eral,
tried to do. over 1
the partners was never caught tural one of a man n wanting "ROMAN
They need HOLLIDAY
make no opology back
while, with and they're not sure if he's now for a short
an his, for the picture with which they search to bring up any or dead, Their Bing Crosby a delightful ve them to the old ghost while there's a possibility that celebrate their coming of age "GILBERT AND "LITTLE BOY LOST follow. town
town of Tomahawk ghost perhaps somewhere in the world however. ing that,
an excellent cast and I have coincide with the KING'S and this one was in its lyday ve solved, as the last scene
The EMPIRE, who sometimes towns always intrigue me and our own child in existing with- SULLIVAN" has witty dialogue,
the one brief flashback to what out him, unloved.
The probiern is never quite never heard the music of this pro- clever pair played to botter the PRINCESS, join them with years previously serves to in- "LITTLE HOY LOST". Atensify the present loneliness of Crete proof for which Bing advantage.
Crosby has been searching. I say all this with a slight precede it with *THE CAP the place.
won't spoil the climax by telling feeling of amazement, as Gilbert TAIN'S DAUGHTER" after
It's difficult to grade the stan- you whether
have boy and Sullivan's operettas "THE WOODEN HORSE".
dard of acting of the four main turns out to be bis.
never appealed to me. The The QUEEN'S And AL-
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clever, words, though
havo HAMBRA
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always seemed more suited to a films for the next week, follow Ray Teal as the old man of
The Mother Superior of the book of comic verse and the "THE MILLION ing
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bad, convent in which the little boy tunes no better than those com- the quartet, not wholly NOTE with an Italian picture draws the character well and has been placed at the end at ing out, of hurdy gurdy called "HUMAN TORPEDOES the
the vicious younger man, David the war
played well by machine. "HELL AND HIGH WATER" Brian, deals competently with Gabrielle Dorziat.
The script Yot from this film alone I've rolo.
given
been discovered what it is that makes youngest
standing at the ROXY and at the GREAT
French nun record shops place of the four, John better in parts-a WORLD
LEE and
descend to the orders for the operas. Derek bears a striking resem would hardly "GILBERT AND SULLIVAN" blance
Hines "Now
More emphasis is placed on got 10 younger Errol chorus girls for about five days, with, after Flynn and although he doesn't out", but she soars majestically the personality of Sullivan than that, MEET ME TONIGHT", have quite as much to do
above such breaches of good Gilbert the latter and D'Oyly then 'WINGS OF THE HAWK“.
Carte being given parts of equal the others, is still convincing, taste. ENTERTAINING
magnificent abd
Bing himself goes through the importance. This has had the picture with that
and in the ghost town where
effect of making Sullivan the I was agreeably surprised to storm in And that I liked "THE SWORD these uneasy companions are Assurance we've come to expect more dominating of the three
though his actual character AND THE ROSE very much searching and the tension be of him in all his post-war ple- appears the weaker. Indeed. I want, expecting some tween them-confined
by the tures He's the "ordinary guy" thing rather juvenile, I came storm to
in an old faced with a complex problem one room
best to solve away feeling that I'd seen two saloon-la admirably conveyed. that he tries his Maria Elena
Marquee, with with his own uncomplexed in- understandable Understand
dialogue tellect
comes
alive
contimies until about the 18th ber
be
very good performances from Glynis Johns and James Robert- son Justice, a mediocre one from Richard Todd and a very enter taining plcture,
far as he wanted and she know-
trume
There's
the
Is his child or not.
serious
child
or cot the
Is
her could
havo
due
VERY HUMAN
Marlen Evans has made him a most likeable man and very,
(throughout the film she speaks One of the songs he's given→→ very human, His laulis are not in Navajo dialect, which is singing to the little boy about minimised in the slightest and never translated) plays her part the trouts in staro from books one feels that here is very reat The brother and dster rela- well. It's not meant to be a
as he grows up-scerned a little person indeed, Robert Morley's tionship between James Robert-
purt at all, in the true sense of
thought. The Glibert is a little more of son Justice (Henry VIII) and the
unnovostary
caricature, though word 1
strains of an orchestral song child Martyn Groen and Elleen think, murely
most amusing, Glynis Johns (Mary Tudor) was very well handled he allowing characters strike flinte,
stono from which the ollier companiment croeping quietly
Into the middle of an outdoor Horla as the D'Oyly Carles are himself to be taken in just as There are one or
muitable for a a charming palt-Eileen Herlie's or two points scone is more.
than a polse is exceptionally pleasing. ing just how for she could pre-never quite cleared up, but in Betty Grable musical
stead of detracting from
wouldn't All this excellent acting plus plɑlure--(it the on his indulgence ́and intelligence.
feeling of pleasurO one gets even be explained away by Bing the actual ment of the film (Lo. Having covered the story last after having seen a mood film, having been cast as a singer the music and singing) being
theso week there's no need for me to
Ittle mental question has a red French song had scenes, a market scene ho's a newspaper correspondent) frst rate and great attention been...paid to detall repeat I don't even know if marks sedm to increase the it has a factual foundation and
general sense of satisfaction. on rallway platform didn't
etc.), this is a picture of which have much point either. It doesn't matter one way or They leave you wondering. ́ ́
But "LITTLE BOY LOST is ably be proud.
London Films can very justii- the other.
EMOTIONAL PICTURE Michael Gough (as Bucking-
o very good film, in spite of ham) appeared a much
After an emotional picture, these minor points with which officials abound in "WINGS OF sympathotic villain
Ta it's always than
a bit embarrassing: I disagree.
An pictured from the Press Book. whon the lights go up. True, he was a schemer, but awful lot of people are caught except thot it would have surreptitiously stuffing handker- spolled the plot. I'd have much chiefs into lundbags, (and even
malés rather seen him marry Mary strong-minded. Gassman
Tudor than the milk and water- them in trouser pockets).
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