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LAURENCE HARVEY
- GLORIA GRAHAME
RICHARD BASEHART
"
19AM COLLINS
JOHN IRELAND - RENE RAY - STAKLEY BAKER MARGAREY LEIGHTON ROBERT MORLEY-
The Good
Die Young
-FREDA JACKSON
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FOREVER AMBER
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FILMS CURRENT
It depends what you want from "Betrayed" whether or If you not you enjoy it. like your Gable tough and infallible, your Turner well covered, sweet and slightly spicy and your Mature flam- boyant then "Belrayed" is for you.
No country would be silly enough to lay bare its counter espionage system to the thousands who frequent the cinema, no although the action is exciting, some of the detalls muy seem a bit far-fetched.
It is possible to believe in the Mayfield Agricultural College hiding complex communiet- ten syntem under a peaceful Belds, but I found it hard to necept a large school for spies
loving
The trainees to mix mi freely together when
The security check on at least one them WIN distinctly unfavourable.
That One ot peteipal players shogich prove betrayer is inevitable. IFIC in de favour, you're lett Auessing until the last
of
to be the
thren
uf
::
They all ve PERSONS for betraying the Julian they profes 1IT love AM 12 Intelligence Colonel Tespirator! and esteemed, Clark Gable first sight would appe above repeatchs. It later appears that who h captured DY
CONDOTTEN. they Appare Chuter lus worth sultierently offer blan bis freedom 1 the price
of beeting a counter py. A pointes refermen German brother-in-law H Westphalia leaves us
us wondering.
to
n
AND
By JANE ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
EMPIRE: "Along Camo Jones", A western. Gary Cooper
and Paulette Goddard. A reissie, HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Betrayed". Spies and counter- sples in Holland during the war, Lana Turner, Clark Gable and Victor Mature. KING'S and PRINCESS:
"The Good Die Young". Crime thriller. Laurence Harvey, Stanley Baker, Margaret Leighton, Richard Basefart, Gloria Grahame. LEE: "Cadet Rousselle". The adventures of a young lad during the French Revolution. Francis Perier, Dasiy Robin and Madeleine læbeau,
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Sea Shall Not Ilave Them”. An Air Bea Rescue launch mving the crew of a ditched Hudson. Michael Redgrave, Anthony
Steel, Dirk Bogarde.
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "The Long Gray Line”. A history of the West Point Military Academy seen through the eyes of an Irish emigrant. Tyrone Fywer and Maureen O'Hara.
BOXY and BROADWAY: "Forever Amber". The life and loves of a gay girl in the reign of Charles II. Landa Darnell, Cornell Wilde, George Banders and Richard Greene.
COMING
EMPIRE. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Rear Window". Alfred Hitchcock's theifler showing alt thai can be seen through an apartment window. James Stewart. Grace Kelly. Thelma Ritter and Wendell Corny,
LEE; "Ifell's Outpost". A fight for a fungsten mine. Rod
Cameron and Joan Leslie,
NEW
YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Stolen Face". Romantic drama. Paul Henreid and Lixabeth Scott. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "49th Man".
plot
emuggle the Atom-bomb into the U.S.A. under the cover of a milltary exerelse. John Ireland and Richard Denting. ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Street With No Name". The F.B.. against the mobster Richard Widmark and
Mark Stevens.
a
His escape is engineered by a Bghting Duteluna called "The Scarf, but our mispleion of the
Turner's dual role, in one gallant colonie) remalos.
which she's supposed to be Then take The Scarf" hit muste teacher They needn't He admite that patriotisan have worried--her sole disgutze is very far from his mind-that is a pair of glasses as far as a the appeal of guerilla warfare is
feciul chunge Is concerned, The Heerv gives him for do-
With Mr Factor's glamour still
ነ፡
il
gleaming through, to eschew fashionable wardrobe Wax
onnerrsmiry,
ing in wartime the things that in times of peace he'll be glued
attitudes Its cureless Shattered by the actions of his own people towards the muther J's almost pathologieally 421- tached to. So he too has a rea- is about o
CRIME QUARTET
*The Good Die Young"
quaries of unfa
son for changing his allegiance. tuate young inen who commit:
ET LA FEMME
we are
least
Laurenge
a
COMING
for
that help woman to keep her footing in a man's world with- out resorting to the direct approach.
despised
being
In "Forever Amber” revived at the Roxy and Brond- way this week, the schemer is Linda Darnell with, as some of Corneli the men in her life, Wildo, Richard Greene, George, Sanders, Qlenn Longan and Richard Haydn.
from
As you may remember
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QUEEN'S
TÓ-MORROW MORNING AT 11,30 A.M. Warner Bros. presents'GREGORY PECK in "CAPTAIN HORATIO HORNBLOWER”
Color by Technicolor
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the book, Amber successfully SPECIAL TIMES TO-DAY: 2.30, 5.00, 7.20 & 9.40 p.m.
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negotiates her way through plague, the great London life of 1000, Newkate Priore, the Cours of Charles II and many other natural hazards before inecting her desserts, and having to conder, like Scarlett O'Hara, what is to be done with the morrow..
ut
LIGHT-HEARTED "Cadet Roussello" is for fans of the French swashbuckler who don't mind seeing fun being poked at their
pet form omusement.
that the It is a pity
cadel himself is not more hand:ome Irresistible and his apparently charm as far as the ladies are concerned is somewhat dificult to swallow, especially when two of the ladies in question pro the desirable Madeleine Lebeau and Dany Robin. However, it's all light-hearted, and the English sub-tilics are suficihly clear for the aution 10' be followed without trouble.
A LOOK AT THE FUTURE
Soon to be seen here is "Itear Window." Alfred Hitchcocks unusual treatment of a murder story, starring Jumes Stewart, shall be telling you more about 16 next Saturday. It would gem that the sucette, de at any rate, word of meulh publicity of
RAY
Window in inspired Alfrest Hitchcock to direct James Stewart in yet thriller. Plans are well under way for him to do conething he has not attempted before lam hl litt carece: to remake one of his earlier films.
malice with which she invents Knew
11.
It
Tou
anct
another
of by her possessive mollier. This
13 u rather obvious part Freda Jackson to play, uul anyone who has seen her on the Stage will be able lu The picture to receiv© this untleipais Ahe glittering-eyed treatment is "The Man Whe
Much"
which It. Joan Collies is the gentle Huizhenca made in 1930 with little wifis sandwiched between Peter Lorre (in his first English
Brakini
role) Leslib these two bitter prople.
Banks CHEAP FLOOZY
Edna Best and Nova Pilbeam. Then there's John Ireland, was a meaty plot, the action altempted assas- sergeant in the US Air Force including an
sination of 赫 stationed in England, married te
diplomat by anerchists
thrown in for cheap Uttle floozy wn Time leading to
grandiiequently refers to herscit Good measure, a kidnappins. And thirdly let's take our Three of them drift inte
is to be as an actress. This fools nobody.
hoped that the necessity and
of petite femme tatale herself, teni
ons, the least of all her husband, but her
dipitypac
"Rear and privileged
Window" will be apparent In Before reporting for "Pernusstop most
sporadic bursts of simulated whatever Hitchcock decides to to become a spy, Sir" she's been pitiable, from hter vielou 224
affection keep him wriggling un cail and greed.
his new more than nodding rather
venture as the the hook while she ogles ner game script
be The four men are
writer har terms with a number of minent Germans. of beart is ostensibly due to her Bachaint and Jolin Ireland and This is a made to order role for famous "Four Feathers" will be
Her change Harvey. Stanley Baker, Richard way further into what she cou- eigned.
siders
to be
be a better position. And talking of remakes, the love for the husband whom they
Introduced to them as
Glori Grahame-she shot, but as Gable points out, they sat in a stolen car, going
could coming back with a 1955 sheen. Post obviously play it with her eyes You may details of the
reinember that the It's a feeling that seems to have over the become apparent only with his Office hold-up they are
are about closed-and John Ireland doesn't
carlier
plcture started Ralph delth
to carry out. I think it was excite much sympathy by being Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith. Ints Calbern's voice is heard mistake to allow the audience dumb enough to suffer it
John Clemicals and June Duprez. The fourth in the arrative thread linking the
knowledge that advance
member of the The new title will be "Dhuros The incidents in the story and they had fully agreed to com-
Is a broken-down boxer, bane
Along The Nile" and will co- the quality of
Unable through injuries to fight star two villain he's and the crime. The rest of the
VITY
different young played during his serven history picture is a series of Harhbacks any mor and ruined by bia British leading men-Anthony lends suspicion as much his way giving their reasons for com- wife's ne'er-do-well brother, his Steel and Lourence Harvey, as does the deveptive mitness ing Lo the decision, with
is perhaps the must SI Moritz was a reasonable of Wiitrid-Hyde-Whyte.
great deal of stress treang ddtory
pathetic Standry Bakter
us point for trouble in 1938, tuce of three of alw have
reluctance you
of on the ACTING
but it was always convincing, in front
felt that the pulse them and the cunning method the camera and his attractively these days humour, try this for size:
was nearer the GABLE:
chord on of persunston used by the fourth. ugly face interesting to which. Middle East, and Marrakesh ip (striking #1 the piano) What's this chord? Knowing that they will even- You
TURNER:
will find yourself willing to be substituled. (after casting her tually succumb to 4mpadan him to Turist the honeyea aves desperately to the ceiling) weakens
cynicism of Laurence Harvey preliminaries.
However up to a point, the even if the fate of the other two
remaking the old story of the characterisation is fairly sound. seems of small importance,
There's an independent com- aghting in South Africa {n Harvey, the son of well-to-do
should Robert Morley, is a beautifully ment at the end of the film to CinemaScope.
crime does not ensure plenty of spectacis. The TURNER (After chewing her mannered, expensively educated the effect that
would have been tant pay which
porvious 11ps)
You
but I do remember played with apparently
some frightening quisite restraint by Margaret fact that the picture demon-
charges by know musicl of the two Leighton Hers is by for the states, not the infallibility of Zulu warriors that I am sure
police, but
the inefficient will be
the challenge to guerilla raids however is less best plece of acting in the pic the
*** organization of a crime con- new production, laughable and quite frightening. ture.
mitted by amateurs! is credited with Balmain is
Baschart is a truculent young
Another peep into the future providing Lona
Turner's man,
remarkable for his Jack UNSCRUPULOUS WOMEN brings news of a film that can't wardrobe, but this distinguished of manners and commendable
"It takes a
a woman to under- help buf have an interest for fashion house
40 his wife. stand a woman" say the cynics, have for his devotion
this people
part of the been Intimidated by Miss She is completely. hag-ridden and if there's any truth in what world.
they say, the fact that Forever Following on the heels of Amber and- "Gone - With The Japanese film stars who visited Wind" were both written by the Colony last month, we hear women must have helped them that "Hiroshima" is to be re- come to this conclusion.
fensed in America next month. The heroines of both tales are Based, not on John Hersey's notable for their lack of scruples grim book, but on material when scheming for themselves compiled by a a Japanese pro- or their children, for their fessor, it is described as a neo- ability to switch their affections realistio dimma, seen through while remaining basically at the eyes of a Japanese family, tracted to one man and for of the events at Hiroshima various other feminine wiles (Confianed op page 18 col. )
mujor
GABLE:
TURNER:
写
And this?
(Another despair- ing glance aloft) O minor.
GABLE: What's this tune?
The Mill
GABLE:
The realism
scerns
to
the Interest in the
Sir
ZULU CHARGE
Alexander
Korda
which
wastrel married to an elegan better omitted, considering the in my mure is rather vogue ·
woman,
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