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FILMS-CURRENT AND
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There will be variety of films from which to choose during the week- end and next week. Most of these are not scheduled for very long runs which, with the party tempo quickening up. will mean that if
you have only one free night, you may miss the very one you want to see.
By JANE ROBERTS
Jonutied nerves, A further com- the good tooling pleation is
rice. Dana Andrews. This picture doem't go in for subtlety, but there's plenty
I hope we ste more of look at. Peter Finch,
dais Bloom
COMING
1
has actually committed a murder. His reputation Is spotless. He's a well known author, smooth and reasonable in spite of Barbara Carrying the comparison
Stanwyck's apparent delusions tile farther, however, It was Indented in "Executive Suite" and anonymous letters he starts that sorre of the protagonista to receive have been typed on
her rachino, For tu were completely unsultable
the position and when William
To cap it all, there's no body. Holden got the job in the
last His
reluctant suggestion that Aceno the argument for his selee she's a victim of hallucinations is
on had been fairly stated ani
but the accepted by everyone proved,
police lieutenant. Gary Merrill, love affair develops lu "A A mild
two nice between these
and her Is to convince him The only hope
that she's telling the truth.
The beginning of this film is excellently done.
sequence, be as an accomplished That This picture provokes
IN ONE PACKAGE "Innocents in Paris" is a series Here's the picture: Spec- of stories, the central character
The three contestants and tuele
drama
of each being a visitor to Paris. in "Elephant Walk" at the
The cant list reads well and Woman's World" are ali
are fellows, and I don't "think themselves the incidents EMPIRE, KING'S and
script writer makes out a good sumusing, touching and unexpect PRINCESS will give way to
es; one ly even family sugges enough ease for the finalist. la the more intimate setting live.
dition to the winner not being Tha the whole
as the personality he of "Innocents in Paris." quite hong together as a com- shown
be to justify George Sanders acts 134
I This will be showing at the plote tieture is unfortunate, but would need to Webb's does not destiny each individum Clifton
choice, the should imagine any killer would. Jaffer two cinemas only.
wives, in any event, were not the Being confronted with a situs- The LEE and GREAT
Claude decling, factor they were meant tion În which a person Jus
con do WORLD Lake
him harm, he kills that person "The In- Dauphin
xzed kફ one I be
without mach
much thought of the truder" and will follow it
charmer, she as a fresh unspoiled
An CONSCIŢUENCES.
Intelligent with a Chinese picture.
Kirl, This English
and the thought however, is in its favour
man, he nevertheless forgets a
t "A
World" Ronald Shiner episode are the and I would urge you Woman's
lot of important details ut the takes over the ROXY and best. In fact it might have been see it, whatever your
time of the kilting, calmness and entertaininen!.
calculation setting in afterwards. BROADWAY Theatres now better if the producer had con-
Webb's beautifully There's an
Interval after centrated on the two, rather that The Barefoot C'on- than overwhelmed us with six. modulated volçe speaks the pro- police have left, satisfied with his Lesen has left, while neross
logue, the camera following him expl
explanation that nothing hap HOOVER
along as he mures witht
pened In his apartment and the read at the
that that satisfaction
could
The woman who says she "The th
showing
eritatlag in a smaller man, on the whole thing dreamed it all. Hunter." After
the enormous empire that he's when he paces up and down in a thriller..
Jnherited from his father; on the uandary. Then, from indecision
It und Work Hawkins back doing way he's increased
on his mood changes to anger that the smoothness
which li The
and what he does best, that is, being the CAPITOL
one single woman witness should Some
spoken have got him into this defensive LIBERTY will be bringing anglerstanding leader, always runs.
and underplaying in thoughts coursing through his
position. back two renat quite new dent
tradional Brush hero
hend are very wilty. I especially films after "The Flame and al
liked his definition of the con- vertible car the company manu- fuctures.
Fortune
That we come a "Witness to Murder."
Pe
vers nice to see one's favourite British stars all to
In one jacknge, th
USED INTELLIGENTLY "The Intruder" is a tale welt tai, tati of interes; and pruna a
is
shaming
style.
融 even
i
the flesh.” Both star Air Corkney tough into playing the
Visitor, Ava Gardner, gu
The Mashbuck treatment in Clark Gable in
inteligently in "The In- with her. They are, respec- truder 'The Justilention for tively. "Mogambo" and using it is if it draws the viewer "Knights of the
Round back into the past at the correct Table." The Voice of Mario psychological moment 'ue him in have a better understanding of Banz call he heurd on the
what's going
on in the present. 23rd LEI
The
Student In The Intruder the flashbork Prince."
in perfectly
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Laichined Me win has the unke 心 During the war bei byen
is former culonel.
He escapes before
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not eve
Tławkins to queste m
Clifton
with
tom to
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"Our convertible", he drily comments, "is designed to con- vert your raplal into our divi- dend".
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Also:
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this fo
George Up
point Sanders shows that he really can act when called upon to do so It's a pity that an unreal fam- boynney is written into his part in the Alm, and his acting de- teriorates proportionately. The Barce wives have de- As a thriller though, it thrills
type-cast, but to in spite of ane Anitely been the
udvantage of the picture. aerplabl: situations. Lauren Bacali IS Fred Mac- Murray's wife: coul, poised, well- dressed and with a nice line in dignitted wisecracks,
For
two -
instance, although Barbarn Stanwyck had been exposed le the horror of two days in the chservation ward of a mental in- altution in the company of three neurofle wonnen, ghoulishly
contemplated would she have suicide, even though nobody be- lieved her story?
have And would the pollee YOUT
Von made such a cursory examina- tion of the apartment of some- ene accused of murder? raake amends by saying that it's
a very gripping picture.
June Allyson Is the pleasant little wife type; homely, shy and overawed by the Big City.
Tight dresses, slinky talk and no inhibitions are Arlene Dahl's stock in trade and they pearly succeed in gotläng Heffin the coveted job.
The
element ka suspense after overdung, I think, but a
Clifton Webb so obylously loves
1
to dominate the scene and does I so well, his long-windedness in making his Oral choler known can be forgiven.
As the three men under the
なぜ
"A Bullet is Waiting" at the QUEEN'S and AL-
a cherry, rehable soldier in Jack HAMBRA will be
Bu Hawkin's company, living for ceeded by
Italian the day and friendly with every- picture "Temptation"
As with AU mnny people, will and then
come "Don
Laitila more mur Juan," This is not a new
problem to cope with dann the picture, but a
good routine
of life very
in the Galler
him swashbuckler starring Errol Army Tragedy overtakes Flynn and Viveca Lindfors. on has first day home and it's this that turns him into the arme:t In "Elephant Walk" Elizabeth Taylor is nate sympathetic than thug who breaks into the hat of before, with a more fragile ap- peal thin she usually
prorets her In quite of
undoubetdiy M Tayol has als wins secined rather cold, even in her love scenes, Perhaps it's the influence of the wa
WARN
Clamute of Ceylon or possibly it's due to the challenge of taking over a role reluctantly relinquished by Peers and men of the tank re-
They both be Vivien Leigh.
the Kiment to which whulever etuse, Merel, à let more warmth longed.
"The Fortune Hunter" I a Freling
that he might have
Western starring John Derek. She's
taken more trouble 10 keep tr ordinary little Eng-
Cattle stampede, guns chatter in lish pir in the parture. who, touch with his men after giving
the streets and the
girls after her viage to a wealthy up his wartime command to be-
piled-up hats and too-length rome a stockbroker, young planter, whirled from
The dresses.
The name of the saloon her quiet existence as the lucal br's partly responsible for
Ginger Edwards,
(no Western ly complete without bookshop to an enormous palace changed of a house built by her husband's Hawkins sels out to find and is "The Banner" and al- It, I'm seen father
talk to the various men in the though I haven't
willing to bet that there'll be a holo
bar-nom cutie who'll be dressed in an off the shoulder top and
thon tesuni
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Perhaps I'm too fussy-let me
ONE OF HER BEST
If you haven't yet seen "The Flame and the Flesh" today is your last chance to do so; und
Fred MacMurray if you like Lana Turner this is
The'll not even realised whose microscope, Cornel Wilde, Van fat he was burgling) but, before Refin doing so, reveals that he's been In touch with one of the men in photograph in the Bat It's u group snap taken of some of the
and
the
Everything is larger than life size, including the Influence PROVOKES THOUGHT wielded by the dead father. Tu "A Woman's World" is
Suite" Buswor to "Excentive All ber arguments and queries the receives the same answer: but the treatment is different "The old master did I this way. enough to save it from becoming
n mere copy.
mon
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come
Suite" by
the Iden is the same.
could hardly have been bettered. I've put them in what I consider to be their orter of meril, bul all were praiseworthy,
undoubtedly one of her best.
in
It proves beyond doubt that.
spite of all the up and con-
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10 displace her from her own particular throng. She is still way
Jean Negulesen directed this in stars, nobody has been able
very worthwhile pleture
Inen tights.
GRIPPING
ta
at ahead in portraying earthy llure uncomplicated by scruples, and her role in "The Flame and the Flesh" is tailored to fit her like a glove.
Kum
A
Bear Colleano, for once not looking as though he's about to chew
and break into torhug routine any moment, is a nest sympathelle charneier. His engerness to please the stray enough girl he befriends has manliness in it to save
!! from becoming
sugary and Pler Angeli is pretty enough in an angular way to make her wide. eyed innocence appealing rather than Iliating.
r being the understand- Fron
Strange how a flap of thunder, a street at night, the wind whirl- ing, pleasant young
But it's Lana's picture and she had couried her in England, her A top executive in a large firm ing a piece of paper down that husband. Peter Finch, becomes has died and his place has be street, can create such an eerie compels attention all the way
In vacunt.
"Executivo atmosphere, an arrogant tyrant neglecting her
L's a recipe that's through. by day for his work [und
it was the
Carlos Thompson vole of the been used many times, but it
you either night for his hard-drinking major shareholders that was the still sends an anticipatory shiver like or you don't, friends who tum the house into deciding factor in choosing his of excitement down one's spine.
the curtain raiser a club.
successor, in "A Woman's World"
vixenish "Witness to Murder". Over all looms the menace of It Is the all-powerful, the
The shot is held for a minute elephants. In fils domineering head of the company--Clifton fashion, the old man had built Webb.
or so, the awning over the apart. the house in the direct path of
flaps de The lobbying and jockeying ment house entrance the elephant herds who had for position was done by the men solutely in the wind and slowly used it for centuries to get to in the carlier picture; in the new the camera moves up to a win- their water hole. Thir screams one, as the title suggests, It's the dow in one of the flats,
Barbara Stanwyck is Inside, 22 trumpelingy are like the women who are supposed to br
Rory Calhoun is his prisoner slow drip of water on the girl's the deelding feature,
usleep. The movement of her
and his crime is the alleged kill- window blind wakens her and
We sleepily she goes to the window ng of McNally's brother.
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