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"Money From Home"
is the current show running at three cinemas
By JANE ROBERTS
the King's, Princess and Em-
the Arst pire and
two if a second print arrives will be following it with in time for the scheduled another outer space tale oponing, both theatres will "Invadera From
Mars", follow with "Rose Marie"".
The Empire will por- sibly play a French ple ture as the mid-week feu. ture.
September launches itself
with us on
"Beat The Devil". At the Lee and Greal World. the grout outdoors provides the back. ground for "Tumbleweed" and "The Seckers".
The Roxy and Broadway have on today "The Sabre And The Arrow".
the
If you like boxing, Hoover is showing "The Joe Louis Story" for another day, changing tomorrow to "War Paint".
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Faced with the prospect of being lynched for having sup- posedly deserted a wagon train ambushed by redsking. Audie Murphy's only friend as he shuffles off into Apache country “MONEY FROM HOME" is this home Tumbleweed, features that crazy couple,
More Red Indians, more Martin' and Lewla, in a Damon
Inflexiblo Runyon story about hores, scalping knives, crooked racing and people with sherriff, etc, odd naines.
In addition to Audie Murphy Martin answers to the name and the horse, there are Lort of "Honey Talk" Nelson while Nelson and Chill Wills,
partner 18 "Virgil" Yokum.
13 saddled with
MAORI LEGEND
Having got himself into the
"THE SEEKERS" opens with clutches of some crooked book- makers by a serica of unlucky one of the most tranquil and bets, Honey Talk's only way of beautiful pieces of photography paying them back is by getting I've seen. a ruce "Axed" for them.
New The country shown is drawn Zealand and while the camera Naturally Virgil
vlt and just roams across mountains, valleys, Into the
natures streams
and great caverns, a ioovitably their botter prevail.
volee off screen tells the Maori The two girls in the picture legend of the creation of man,
Marjie Millar and are
Pat it's a wonderful curtain raiser, ("FOREVER Crowley
**RED
The ensuing violence as Marjie wins Doan action swings to 1820 and the when Jack Rury almost Maori's sympathise with Pat Crowley Hawkins and Noel Purcell (two Ume-she gets Jerry of the crew of a sailing ship) this
unwillingly violate their burial 10:4 Arresting Marthat has a chance-several ground is irs fact--10 air that very plon- contrast, sunt singing voice of his, though CADDY" nearly unlike "THE all the songs are old favourites.
FEMALE" FE CARTER). Martin
Lewis.
und
and
can
<fforts
the
Their last stand fa in a dopert ed little Spanish mission.
THE JOE LOUIS STORY" inishes today and I fully Intend scoing it before It closes, whint- ever cise I miss.
Heving been a boxing fan for interested to see how closely a number of years, I shall be Coley Walinga's Bahling technid= que resembles that of the Brown Bomber, The comparison should be fairly easy to make, as many film recurds of Joe Louis' Aghts are inserted into the picture.
tho
It is claimed that Alan is an
of blography authentic champion, starting at the begin ning of his career in 1932 and following it through to his de- feat at the hands of Rocky Marciano in 1951.
The term "fabulous" to en easy one to apply to Joe Louis, both for his long stay in tho Championship ists and for the quality of his fighting while at this the top; anyone coming Into category is always tair gume for the gossips, and if the makers of this picture have Luthfully they'l sifted fact and fletion have done a lot for the reputa tion of this coloured sportsman.
NO LONGER MUTE
getting so used to US. Cuvairy-lato 10th Cen- of fury vintage--that I'm sure
cordel
inspection exactly where may - thing was wrong with uniform or equipment.
Robert
the
1
The subsequent these two to colonise and build costl
theme of the picture, It seems that "MONEY FROM home in New Zealand is the and top
HOME is the tenth picture this
rather together to Cynis Jotus have marie
tian a
Stack is our lates as Hawkins' date, which
point to goody-goody role sems to
cominander to lead his The success of the partnership. wile which she manages to make armiy
Unnigh treacherous red - agrecable enough, but I'm afraid men he's not a bu happy in their skins to his objective. love scenes, The poor man always locks so emburrussed, as that camera Iceja frun though he
be recording such shoudidn't details.
ON NODDING TERMS
wack's Visitors space are from the planet that I almost feri on nodding terins with, since it's sent so many of
down Its ambassadors
should it be up) to 115. It's thrilling enough and the Maori
Mars
COUTEO.
F'king
about
(ur However, the action shots are
daceng a farrome thing Lo watch. Though I couldn't giggle when STY repress a I wonder why Itul often- neighbour whispered "Shades nive, most natural colour, green, of Twickenhamni
almost should have brep
one universally chosen
nost
for Bil Melunce.
as the
nst flung
fiction
monsters. Colour
aggerates the
Thing
this
which is
Two Americas Lake ปาก parts of the natives in picture- practice beeting more and more pr*. feature vate as the Indianis more prominently as charactors Ten years ago all do inwerterns.
o redskin was required to was fall down wifen the pro- ducer signalled that he'd been stot.
Now that it's become the fashion to attribute FOJTES Fort
of
hatred
use
The most pertinent
of motive to their cmb think of to say about the the white man, speaking parts ex- part German, part French, part have been allotted them, mok-
Df Javanesa danger Laya Raki is ing it almost essential to horror angle
ber but I that
dance makes Jone trained actors instead of extras. these features, I admit.
in THE FRENCH should have thought red would Russell's have been a much more effective LINE" kook like something de- choice.
signed for a children's party.
An infra-red ray gun is the Weapon by which the Murtions the attempt to subdue their prey in "INVADERS FROM MARS".
Is
The traditional professor part is taken by Arthur Franz, and his partner in anti-space crime Helena Carter who usually manages to produce in edmost English accent la her Aims by talking with her mouth nearly closed.
HORSE THE HERO
the
In spite of being the wife of Maari chieftain who be
Hawkins, she's more friendis
white than ready to lure the man from the side of his wife.
Keith Larsen and Joan Taylor are the brother and sister who harry the Cavalry in "WAR being PAINT"-Miss Taylor's the only feminine role in the picture.
SEAS BETWEEN
Her apparent enthusiasm for this is one of the most natural- I dealt with "DESTINATION seeming
Jast pieces of acting I've TOKYO"
week the seg for some time. Parting QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA'S that's why Jack Hawkins was picture at the moment.
Some- able to register embarrassment thing quite different is next on
their so convincingly!
programme;
erest French comedian Fernandel The colouring (Eastman) is appears in "PUBLIC ENEMY superb and my only regret on NUMBER ONE",
that
the mechanical side Wus that
It's got unlike Norman Wis- A horse
hero
become + of (having
complete dom's TROUBLE IN STORE" convert Not a racer "TUMBLEWEED".
to CinemaScope for in that the comedians in both or oven a well-fed pony, but a outdoor flm) "THE SEEKERS"
are employed CBSC
in very been filmed in looking sway-backed hadn't
this humble mangy
positions in à large animal that looks as though it process,
multiple store.
It's hardly couldn't cross the road without
necessary for me to add the buckling at the knees,
rider that there's a very, very large stretch of water between the artists though.
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STERLING HAYDEN MERCEDES MCCAMBRIDGE SCOTT BRADY
Bached by 100MILAN KAI DESA REPOOLJE PICȚILE -
Kon Annakin directed.
NO WEAKNESS
With a lift of the eyebrow, a There's no weakness in this barely perceptible gesture or a week's Broderick Crawford, brief movement of the shoulder, Compared with the drink sodden Fernandel can indicato a moun- fellow he played in "THE LAST tain of fooling. Wisdom's comedy POSSE", his sergeant in "THE is of the far broader kind, re- SABRE AND THE ARROW" l» quiring a series of somersaults a toughie indeed.
and an elaborate comedy ward- robe (too tight suit, cloth cap, Incidentally he must feel that broken down shoes) as DTOPS. Just stands are lucky for him...... the title of "THE SABRE AND Continuing the comparison of THE ARROW" when I was "PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER made was "THE LAST OF THE ONE" and TROUBLE IN COMANCHES", Don't ask me STORE"," Fernandel also gets in- why they ohanged it-possibly volved with crooks, but although fike Istanbul, people just liked he leads them to justice in the it better that way.
ind, unlike Wisdom he gots him- self branded as one of them first, On the face of it, "THE Hence the title. SABRE AND THE AHÁOW” is yet another of those last ditch On hond
supply the stands against the redskins. If glamour that Lana Morris was I started to make a list of all called upon to dispense in the the Alma I've seen with varia- English picture is the famous lang on this well worn thems for should it be notorious) Zsa
probably take up the whole Kea Gabor.
today's China Stall. How- ever, (dare I mention that name William Heldon gave again? the old routine a new twist in
to
ALL IN ONE PIECE
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"QUO VADIS" je being shown BRAVO" 30 why shouldn't all in one piece at normal prices. Broderick Crawford do it in this ploture?
It really doce murit many of the superlativer Tavished upon He's a tough U.B. Cavalry it, not only for its spectacular sergant (they only make two quilling but for some of the
india-the pugh and the tear- noting too.
fu)) who's shown at the begin- ning of the alm leading the rem Peter Udinov's Nero is a nants of his troop' and a few grotesque place of characteriza- other survivors' of an Indian tion that makes the vacillating the desert to- madman appear so much more wands safety, in the form of sintatue bocation, so much more the shelter of Fort Macki Ampradictable thats history paints
Barbara Hebe is discovered in its
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A stagecoach on the way therm Patronitas, the worldly sethple -though why the Forts com- played by Leo Gern, is another trender allows his sister to go good pieco of whyk, as is Finlay gallivanting about the country Currie's Polse. Deborah Kerr
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