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HUMPHREY
BOGART
AUDREY HEPBURN
WILLIAM
HOLDEN
LMAKTUBUHANPtes, pues WiLDAMES
MARENS BUM - BULAN KARD
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FPRINCESS
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COMBINING THE FXCITING, TALENTS OF FOUR ACADEMY WARD INNERS
ALLY
Sabrina
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1955,
FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING
What fun "Sabrina" is. By JANE ROBERTS
Fun, that is, except for one unfunny
in which William Holden is pushed into a chair by his brother,
Bogart, who
known that in his pockets The New Films At A Glance
are two champagne glasses. Had the scene just been left there perhaps it wouldn't have been too bad-one could have dismissed it as the one Bour note in an otherwise delightful concoction. Ub- fortunately it is played to the death it should have been consigned to before reaching the screen.
SHOWING
CAPITOL and LIBERTY: “Beautiful Stranger". Crime and romance on the Riviers, Gloger Rogers. Herbert Lom, Stanley Baker, Jacques Bergerse.
EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS: “Sabricá”, Light comedy Involving a chauffeur's daughter and the sons of the houme. William Holden, Whitmphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn.
countrymen, cellow when which. the girl. Later, seeing him in a #ocs with his friend's girl...-- nice, but brassy, and the type, he had presumably associated with before meeling the totally dif Leyter Olle
I felt that he was playing the part as an assured young made would when? cơ- fronted with a shy girl.
to converge
The streets of London form a dramatic background to the first half of this film. As the girl and the boy, complete strangers au yet, hurry from different direc tions
on Covent Garden, the London evening
ལས་་་ crowd pushes indifferently, on its way past them. You'd have to do something pretty starting to distract a busy Londoner tent on his own business, and the loneliness it is possible to fool 13 a foreignor in is macio
HOOVER: "Madame Du Barry". The rise and fall of the
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wonderful city Martine Carol, Daniel Ivernei, Gianna Maria Canale.
The silly thing about the Incident is that it is not even in charneter for Bogart, He's not a vicious dull maybe, but it certainly wasn't necessary to indicate In his increasing interest Hepburn (symbolising the
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incident of this type.
Believing as I do in get- ling my grouses over first, let me now get down to the more pleasaATI!. business of attractive picking out the things about "Sabrina."
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For a start there's Sabrina herself Audrey Hepburn. What delight it is to listen lo her voice with its beautifully clear diction and intonation. She pleasing
speaks a sort of prologue in- treducing us to the wealthy Larrabee family to whom her father is the very much You'll respected chauffeur. recognise him the police- masa aku trapped wily Ray Milland in "Dial M For Murder.'
One may or may not de- precate the orgy of publicity attendiant on her meteoric rise to stardom, but one can- her charm and not ignore the naturalness that is three-quarters art.
14
Audrey Hepburn's father Lene of those inverted subs who
be en stral contact between the cupants of different sides of the car's glæs ereen. His con- cern at his daughter's rebovigin infokaatten for
playboy heather. Willmun Holden, enther touching and very
the
"One Summer of Rappiness". The short-lived happi- ness of two young loveTS, Ulla Jacobsson and Folko Sundquist.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD:
Chinese picture.
"The Heroine".
A
Carney as a "White feat”. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
gangster, Mayo an his wife. James Cagney, Virginia Mayo. ROXY and BROADWAY: "Prince of Players". The life of Edwin Booth, Richard Burton, Raymond Massey, Diaggio McNamara, John Derek.
COMING
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fiction.
Naval Air Armi "Men of the Fighting Lady".
Van Johnson, Walter action during the war in Korea. Pidgeon, Louis Calbern, Dewey Martin, Keenan Wynn, Frank Lovejoy.
EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS: "About Mr Lenite". lady of the title looks at her turbulent past. Buoth. Robert Ryan.
Tho Shirley
HOOVER: "Zorro's Dream". A French-Italian production
with English sub-titton.
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Howard. Maria Trevor Elizabeth Allan.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD; "The Square Ring". Boxing. Kay Kendall, Jack Warner, Roberi Boutty,
The Young Lovers". Two ideologies and their in- Odile Versols, David Knight, nocent victims.
-19th Man". Can the A-bomb QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
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Show business. Be romance and "A Star Is Born". tragedy. Judy Garland. James Mason. Jack Carsan.
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ROXY and BROADWAY: "A Life in The Balance". Murder.
with
Ricardo Montalban, Anno child as witness. Bancroft, Jose Perez.
Kot
actor
of
apparent
this very
Then the everyday world is suddenly shut out as these two, both dreamers at heart, brought by chance into adjoining seats, to the themselves surrendier
of haunting slow
movement
something Swan Lake.
Ballet is
of one can't explain in terms
E arabesques and entrechats. It best conveyed by watching the its disciples. absorption of one of its The parted lips and rapt expres sion of Odile Versols make un- necessary any other communien- tion between the young people, and when she is suddenly over- come by memories and asocia- tions and rughed weeping from the auditorium, it is completely natural that he should follow her.
world From this fairy tale that has allowed them to meet, untroubled by the stress and suspiciom of their own, we are taken into their real lives.
She th daughter of an officiel
of a foreign state, ob- viously unfriendly To the West- the ho powers;
Is with
ern
America Embassy, and us puche subject to security checks and periodical loyalty testa,
neither
For several reasons report their meeting and subse quent friendship, naively imagin ing that it has escaped the at- tention of the watchers.
This
in turn generates more suspicion move ie and every innocent given a guilty motive.
in on thesC The web closes two unfortunates, yet so cleverly PTO- is this Alan directed and duced that the intrusion of the coarse realistic forces outside
the smallest detail, neem never to penetrate the delicato veli surrounding them.
characters All the supporting are pertool, making this a film that no lover of sensitive acting should pass by.
Brly believes that there shoul impressive in fl. Speaking and celu:ful Booth cone alive for their love affair, though suthen-
port us. The situations and dialogue tie to for the moot behaving quietly "Beautiful Stranger" Just don't give him any scope. he manager to suggest a dormant far moro violence
thom Liye popular frightening ecanteseption of a villain.
As his wife, Margaret Rawlings is theatrical without the case of manner that the cinema demands and Herbert Lom also incor- porates too many mannerlans into his characterisation of tho spiceless little crook.
F|
well
Willian Holden himself has light-hearted role with which he hay great fun and for whee Humphrey Bogart sheds his This is a British picture and worldly-wise air and brcomes the emphasis on detail that we've inst chill. 1 felt uncomfortably come to expect from such pro- near to becoming sorry for han ductions is there once again,
at times which is obviously what producer-director Billy Wilder intended.
aa CVCE
DU BARRY: A LADY?
Martine Carol makes Madame
Martha Hyer Hooks as beautiful de Barry a pert miss who is not amoral. in her featherweight so much immoral as part, and the Larraber father, Coming into the life of the age played by Walter Hampden, has ing Louis XV when he badly probably some of the best lines needed a cure for his boredom, the real Madame du Barry was in the picture.
a clever scheme.
Guaranteed to be painless, this is a piece of light entertainment you shouldn't miss.
NEW GINGER ROGERS
Once or twice while watching Beautiful Stranger" I reflected on the stock reactions that were
In the pleture, however, she's mther a strident young woman, the careless with the money King gives her and endly led by her "protectors”.
After geelog ***Treasure the Blerra Madre" I thought John Derek had distinct pos- abilities on a dramatic On his showing as John Wilken aswaverin of President Booth, Lincoln and brother of Edwin it beers bpparent that he should! have stuck to Westerns,
He is meant to be an envio 13, hothead. empty-pated young All he succeeds in being is dressed up, self-conscious youngster who needs to learn how to act.
For French
a
Film Fans
After having slated the rest of the cust so soundly I hardly to mention Maggie Me- dare Namura. Her ghastly recitation that fits of only word the the Juliet Ines is embarrassing the extreme and only the shoty of Burton's expressive face as he the scene from listens, saves
farce. Her deteriorating into
the letter 12 difficulty with didn't show up in "The Moon is Blue" or "Three Coins in the Fountain," but in "Prince Player it is most irritating as te her habit of rhyming "our"
"batter", substituting with " for the double "t".
of
ล
"Prince of Playero?" comes off
The dialogue is much quicker than in the average French ple- and ture that we see out here although the sub-tities cover all Ginger Rogers needed in her to broad outline of the action, today. dancing days. Twinkling feet
a great deal remains untran- happy personality were stated. As usual the humour is
and a
ས་
her stock in trade then and with
broad and ofthough bec¢AY-
leave
much
to
the
the casual altitude of youth sho prated by metaphorical winks,
did not give much doesn't probably thought to her post-30 carGET,
imagination.
Martine Carol, in spite of the Hghtness of her build and the delicacy of her features, manages to suggest that this royal mis tress was a bit of hoyder-the stately beauty of Glanna Maria Camale offering a decided con trast,
Something must haye happen- ed to change that altituie be- cause first, In "Forever Female and now in "Beautiful Stranger" she shows that she must have been learning something other
than dance routines.
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FILMS IN BRIEF
Lt
that it was unfortunate Was dovided to show
**The Fantastic Adventures of Baton Munchhausen" after this column to prese last Friday. had gone It is now too late to urge you to see this picture, It had its short- Hved sun sising on Wednesday and setting on Thursday.
"The Heart of the Matter" will be having a very short run at the Loe theatro next week and it is very much worth I ecting.
This is £ well-constructed thriller, touching 3ightly on her position as the mistress of a
How I wish I could any wealthy counterfelter and mare deeply on her love affair with thoroughly enjoyed "Prines Of
Trevor Howard, Maria Scholl a young artist. The story is Players" I went fubly preparizi
Elizabeth Allan aro al! credible and lacking in the to and even when, after three-
of an hour of dis excellent and the atmosphere of melodrama usually associated quarters with international crime, with jointedness and flamboyancy I Colonial life has been faithfully was reluctantly forced to admit caught and transmitted to the out becoming fint because of its absence.
that I wae bonest, I still tried screen. to find something pleasant to think about. ft.
the
Particularly likable fa new young man Jacques That "Something plans," Bergerac, Knowing that this ly emerged as Raymond May's his first excursion into films and playing of the drunken, omad, that ho is Ginger
Hogers inspired father of Richard Bur husband leads one to anticipate ton. that he might not be very good
'Sad to say however, he was' and that she might be carrying
early him. Not at all. He's perfectly hear of comparatively
in the sure of himself, and projects a
ploture to leave the incerity Uncommon In in stage free fort kis-kwa postur experfanood actor, Perhaps bryg forw
and
SENSITIVE ACTING"
The Year Loverén is tender acustive picture, only very 'occasionally descending into the corranonplace. .
The two people at the title aro Odile Verrols, whose bogaty, unlike the chocolate-box type. Beams to ebine from S: ATLEINE- dellency, ether, then from are
should have mid "inexperienced for such an introd young, regularity of fastures, and DaviS
adiere**** because hiraeton e Richard Burton to lobic Tonight, an American fochnique was leachad it the, kucomfortable str •hia gust, he theatre.
mons... himosLE, HAVE
Do thring, the fires tad zisingu Natided Low a cociting though Edwin of the fim 1 'felt that Stanley Balder avë më gulbe noth's : 10% - mom buvo beam, & pity to có chức tha
surprise too. The lack in the fewer play won't dating, i I can remember
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Monday's ploture la romantic comedy called "Inifetta" with Dany Robin in the title role. # ls a light piece with the theme of girl meeting boy, com- plications arising and girl the finishing with boy in final reel,
"Yeux Interdits" is on a very different subject.
J
tragedies the Based От
It brought about by war, tella of two lonely children the middle of the who, in the destruction, are so obsessed by the feeling of
death
that
they This Grand
Flim
stound them make a game of it. ploture won the Prix at the Caunes Fentyal in 1953,
The third picture, to be shown on February 25 s Not also tragic in theme.
the tragedy of death, but of life. "Le Garoon Sauvage" the son of Marie, a pro- siliate. Up to the age of 11 h in iralled from one plase, to another as Marie's clrcumstances change. Sud- denly Marie mees what she thinks in the one grest
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