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THE LOVERS
OF VERONE
(LES AMANTS DE VERONE
Directed by ANDRE CAYATTE
A FRENCH FILM WITH ENGLIU SUNTTTLES
COMING SOON TO
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1954,
FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING
two
films
By JANE ROBERTS
...
minded man and Alela, played During the week-end and
by Jeat Dands, is certainly, not next week the. EMPIRE is
that. Tre allows hither to bm bringing back
will be as attractive to female Jured into Fanny's grumbling already shown here. "FLAT something of his former glory
soon is deeply in debt. TOP" is on today and it'll comes when a wealthy cattle audiences as Mile: Lebeau is to prees and very
rancher, played by Charles the melas.
Both of them have boers be followed by "THE Bickford, organises pease Las It's a story with plenty of GLASS MOUNTAIN".
lynch three men who've rubbed movement in it-you're taken to playing for far too high stakes and have Jost. Unsuccessful The CAPITOL too huis, a him.
Kambing chat in the South of
even in his suicide attempt, Crawford's monumental effort France, to Central Africa (and Alain la the classic "GAS re-issue
to gather his drink-sudden wis very authentic looking Central plantation in French Equatorial
shipped off to together to stop the killing is the Africa It la too-no point d and motivating force behind the im. brekdrops here), and water lather pays his debis
and KING'S AL the
they even Africa as a lorry driver. A good petlom picture this. manege to soliceze PRINCESS they are show-
with, in addition to Broderick siling at Juan-les-Pins.
understanding that he will not Ing "SKY COMMANDO"
Crowford and Charles Bickford
sée Fanny again. Detek (AMBUSH AT and then Broderick Craws John
GAP"') ford and Charles Bickford TOMAHAWK battle it out in "THE LAST Wanda Hendrix. POSSM"".
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SKY COMMANDO
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STARKIRA
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NO COY FLUTTERING What I like about most French ims is their realiste attitude to the more natural thanklestations of love. There's no coy #utter- ing round the subject and any of those silly little farves in which tw young people sigh their hearts out on different sides of a decir, are, if made in France at all, made for expert only, I'm sure.
18
by
There are
on
the
DELICATELY DONÉ
It's far too early for Fanny to Madeleine Lebeau, with the innocent face belied by the look ado out of the filth of course, and back she comes again. in her
a gambler eyes, is a
him in his nature. Her expression conveys raising trouble for
gruesome some To follow "THE GLASS
perfectly the knowledge of her new surroundings. ability to capture any man she WED" at the LFE and
It's a delicately done shots & natives greedily slicing wants
sirens off bunks of clephant meat from GREAT WORLD there's u
that the nip-swingtrig constantly paraded before us as a newly kilidà anhnal that made picture called
the Jast word in seductive me feel slightly ill, but I must "L'AVENTURIENE DU
the natives them- melves were beautifully photo- TCHAD", with "BORDER
Innguor look like blatant bar- admit that maids by comparison.
Her affairs with Jean Dunet graphed. RIVER" succeeding it.
The camera manhged to ino the intense sul- "ANNA" is the ROXY
is the uatural outcome of two
attractive people
ple being town capture
of the
country--you BROADWAY's show,
together In the luxury-ludert The controversial parl
South of with Silvam Mangano, and
France with nothing could almost feel the dust and
and consequent usually precliently stated, decopt-
restless- to do but enjoy themselves. the HOOVER's programme ed, and then the more serz nuts
He has
come back from the nos of the plantation workers, is "ROBINSON CRUSOE", business of motives and proetical
Fanny is just the watch needed war restless and determined to followed by 99 RIVER living is explored.
make up for the six years' con- touch off an explosion. And it isn't lack of sensitivity
MORE STETSONS STREET.
French, filtraint-naturally fair game for
"BORDER the part of
More stetsans in lovely Fanny Lacour, a
tinac they're "THE HIGH AND THE makers. For sheer subtlety they typical product of the war. We RIVER"-th
Jock McCrea and MIGHTY", about which I leave us all standing-Americans see nothing of her background, worn by
Pro Armiandariz. hus und English. It's just that they but good breeding is suggesund last week. told you
Jatter last saw the in her
non- appearance and moved into the QUEEN'S deal with the essential things s
much
and don't
brother of more clearly
Cesare Borgia nerisms. und the
ALHAMBRA and bund a tottering skyscraper of
The feeling of Instabilty that lovely Leeresin who tent the managements there are sentiment on the vapings of
FO many people who name to the Aim of that name. "THE adults with adolescent mentally aflets
grew out of their teens as the 's back in his own part of
world In patting on after it
"BORDER ties.
war ended is apparent
lex all the MIAMI STORY".
HIVER"-down Mexico way in A bandit's hideout esBed Zona F's gestures,
COMBUSTIBLE
Libre, Combustible is the word
"That chero-useful Civil Was between the North and the Madeleine these two,
close drawing to a Fanny is not a good propos!- South pretty and Jean Dunet tion for any but a very strong when Joel McCrea tries to buy Brins and ammunition from Armandariz for the Confederate Army.
Most people remember "THE
MOUNTAIN by GLASS
thi music from it. To refresh your the players werd memories, Michal Denison and Dulcle Gray as the young composer and his wife.
The "other woman" he meets Cortese, is Valentina in Italy and Tito. the opera singer fighting for the partisans during the war sequences, is the famous uperatie burtone, Tito Gobbl. He actually was a member of the Italian Resistance Movement and
Gray Dukic
я also Michael Denison's wife in real life.
I'm thinking particularly of the LEE'S new picture "THE AFRICAN ADVENTURESS".
The two stars are both very beautiful people. fentures Lebeau's nearly perfect
The
CINEMASCOPE'S
ADVANCING TECHNIQUES
A demonstration
"GASLIGHT is quite เร advancing techniques of the
ft.
band
who
comes to Joseph Cotton
her
charge
of the
m
jet
rescue
ALS
aircraft to
with featured
the film.
for- Cikfford as a war Francis
with love respondents Duryea's second in command. SHEER ABILITY
13
From
for
much
We
Aa
the
her
The crush he's using 15 18+ motter
million of two dollare stolen from the Union Forces and Armandariz thinks that it be a simple matter to peri Captain Matison ond the Hold
through without going the farmailty of handing aver the ammunition.
the
camera stayed compere, the club dancer,
15
He's reckered without his The CATHAY showed the
girl friend. Yvonne de Carlo, Swedish picture "THE SURF***
though, A determined. girl in during the week, starring Ingrid
little Yvonne and it's she who Bergman and the CAPITOL are
for McCrea-- featuring
this *rly p
actress.
of the tuned with CinemaScope, than saves the day
former single-speaker changing her affection in mid- old
method-and in this it succeed-stream from Armendariz to th but well worth re-visiting.
took place ed, the reason being, of course, southerner. Charles Boyer is with Ingrid CinemaScope
the s the scheming hus-during
week
at the that one track optical isn't near-
AT ONLY 17 Bergman is
ly sufficient to All the drive ROXY Theatre. A month or who attempts to
I was interested to seo, among the Boles de Jurger screen.
I've received on her mad by suggesting that she Iso back I attended $1
DEPTH OF FOCUS
Silvona Mangano's picture really is insane, while the man
of Perspecta
17 is monstration
we
to "ANNA", that she was only passed sound Stereophonic Sound, which vision and extracts from some when she appeared in "BITTER were uscet to RICE". She certainly gave the lo "SKY COMMANDO” we is the method adopted by future releases have something of the same in-
diaw attention to the depth of impression of knowing a great Metro Goldwyn Mayer,
Iceus achieved with the new deal more about life than TOPH gredients as In "FLAT
Warner Brothers and Para- CleumaScope Anamorphic lens.sual for a 17-year-old It's centred around the tough
Cine Films for their
“ANNA" she's A picture that looks a "must" Again in commander, disliked and misub-mount
rather has derstood by his subordinates. CinemaScope
productions; from the short scenes shown worldly miss-or who wins their admiration the latest one is Twentieth from it) is "BROKEN LANCE" ben in her past. It's been lurid the picture draws to a close.
baron potle cattle
ballying her pins by becoming Dan Duryen is the Colonel in Century Fox's contribution with Spencer Tracy as the des-mough for her to try to explate a nun, the changing face of everyone with whom he comes specialising in hospital work.
Vitoria Gassman in the man in contact his sons included. things.
Ono scene he plays with his she was Infatuated with before The first half of the feature
eldest
ing to the hospital son, Richard Widmark, going
and it's consisted of a side by side com-
Ithe scents from part of her parison of 4-track, high fidelity especially impressed me.
and to In which she was a night
life stereophonic
tense, sound was extremely magnetic
that give her the still. and 1-track optical sound and preserve
for dancing and opportunity it was most effective,
There was no panning from singing that fascinating number Durry! F. Zanuck, Fox Fle-
record's tures Vice-President in charge face to face as would have been "Annatho
catch the expres-sale here for some time. of Production (looking most un- necessary to
been photo in front of the stons if it had
Poor Gassman is once again a comfortable
tor
old the co
35 heel.
but judging from camera) explained that his metre Alm. Incidentally, if number of pictures he's been studio had pioneered Cinema-
it's a most successful 71 whatever part he apponis Scope and that now it was a you're interested in Bgures, the he scems right. He
always year · old it was time to stand "wide screen" width to helght profession.
ratio is 1.85 to 1 and Cinema-
for manages to convey the impres back and take stock.
The background music sdsun of having studied the We were treated to a tash- Scope's 2.50 to 1.
"ANNA" is by the composer of
"CLASS MOUNTAIN" From the "BROKEN LANCE" the character from every possibl back to the old single speaker angle and to have Kol cam-method of sound production, extracts I'd say that Riobard score-Nino Rotar
Based qa Dubiel Defoe's pletely inside it.
making it
it appear as though Widmark's acting technique has I'm talking about the
In the scene famous book, "THE ADVEN post every voice come from a single pist advanced,
ROBINSON CHALL THE KING'S MEN spot on the screen, then to the with Tracy he more than beld TURES
Broderick Crawford, naturally. better single magnetle speaker his own-a, dificult feat with an CRUSOE" will be starting to-
the at
HOOVER Until his vivid portrayal of the the voices, however; still
Theatre. the actual wily politician in that pleture, emanating from one place and actor of Spencer Tracy's stature. morrow
Going back to lus apearance in "B" pictures Anally to the full blast of mechanics of the film, the clear- The story of how this fabulous as the leader of the bad men speakers all over the screen. waso's noteworthy,
merdir For this they used a military ness of background figures was character lived for 28 years on a but for his friend Friday and a routine. But since
then, any-band, a train and a fight of lot readily apparent-mountains 20 desert island completely alone
miles away from the Comor thing he appears in causes m-aircraft. Toning things down a
almost every boy's education. bit after that, Albert Newman showing up perfectly and even ship's dog has become part of He's a sherriff in "THE LAST put that excellent orchestra he at the sides of the screen there The excitement has survived POSSE". Once a strong man,
conducts through their paces was a sharpness one would not since 1719 when it was first strong drink has been his down- with Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the have expected. We've got used written.
to these improvements now, to The two main characters In fall and the very town to which Flowers. he's been instrumental in bring The demonstration's object that to have them pointed out the ploture Crusoe and Friday ing law and order has turned on was to show how much better anew was refreshing.
are played by Dan O'Herlihy JANË ROBERTS and Jemes Fernandez. him. His chatice -to
regain is Stereophonic sound, com-
LAST And
to "THE POSSE."
Broderick Crawford, let me
of mit at the oujeet, is one my favourites. Not for looks di acting for sheer course, but ability.
terest.
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