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FILMS
"One Good Turn", Norman Wisdom's second pleture is a decided improvement on. his earlier Trouble in Store". After sitting through the latter without having been tempted to smile once, it disturbed me to think that England's new funny man, ranking with the fore- the most rib-ticklers in business (if public opinion sets the standard) couldn't raise even a giggle from one so willing to be amused.
I did more than giggle in "One Good Turn," there Gre several extremely fanny moment's in it and although the joke of making the little man get the better of the wealthy work Businessman is made to
angies
a little too hard, new have been thought up to give It now fe
Then
en too, the
been overdone, arrouble
In
pathos hasn't as it was in Store." Tric, there's a te song on the "smile and the world smiles with you" lines, but nothing as drarily whining ទេ "Don't laugh at me 'cos I'm a fool".
Norman
employed the
Eas orphanage odc job man at an that is under threat of being pulled down to make room for a fuelery. The children are to be separated from each other and put into individual homes.
One of the nicest things about this picture is the natural to Wisdom. affection
appears have for these children.
He joins in their games, tueks up, shepherds them on walks- negligent to on
keeping a the pedestrian zebra crossing
long after the last child is safe ly across for the sheer joy of holding up the motorists and organises the plan that finally enables the orphanage to with- sland the onslaught of the money-grabbing capitalists.
There is a little too much of
the underdog versus the middle
class money maker, as there was in the earlier picture, but apparently this Wisdom's
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particular appeal, and at least
there is no real cruelty behind IL
He is a long way from being one of my favourite enter tainers, but there can be dendal that he has personality and technique enough to keep him from fading into obscurity.
BY JANE ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
EMPINE, KING'S and PRINCESS; "Run For Cover", A sheriff with a past tries repeatedly and profitlessly lo reform a young wasirol. James Cagney, Viveca Lindfors And John Derek... HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Marie Antoinette": A re-issue with Norma Shearer, Robert Morley, and Tyrone Power that induces, nostalgia for the days when Shearer was Queen of the Bercen
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Shark River. A man- hunt through the Florida Everglades. Stevo Cochran, Carole Matthews and Warren Stevens.
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBIA: "Mr Roberts”. Life aboard a ship of the U.S. Navs is soured by the captain and sweetened by the first lieutenant. Henry Fonda, James Cagney, William Powell and Jack Lemmon.
ROXY and BROADWAY: "Green Magic”. A journey across South Amerlied from the Atlantic to the Pacific, taking in the Matto Grosso, the plains of Paraguay and the helehts of the Andes. Photographed in Ferraniacolour.
KING'S and PRINCESS:
Lex Barker.
COMING
"Yellow Mountain",
A western.
"The Colditz Story A PoW escape plan and the men who made it work. Erie Portman and John Mills, HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Many Rivers to Cross". A comedy western in which even the proud heroine is made to take a fall. Eleanor Parker and Robert Taylor, NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "One Good Tum”. Tho Wisdom way again but less raw and artificial than "Trouble in Stare". Norman Wisdom. Timberjack". The heads of
โพช rival timber com
panies fight for supremacy and the buxom charms of Vera Ralston. Sterling layden and David Brian. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Tall Man Riding. A western.
Randolph Scott.
ROXY and BROADWAY:
"Yolanda". A swashbuckler.
Mare Lawrence and May Briit,
"On the Riviera", A re-issue of a Danny Kaye film. One of his pre-"Knock on Wood" best,
Next time a studlo has a far fetched plot to try to make plausible they should think of this girl Matthews; her com- monsensical attitude, coupled with the right
amount of feminine allure might make it ú "sleeper".
A Ghost From
The Past
"Marie Antoinette” was made quite a few years ago as a glance at the cast list will show but in comparison with the expensively capari- soned costume pieces we've seen over the last couple of years it has earned its right to a place in screen history. Perhaps present day pictures have gained by their brevity in the older mammoth produc- is quite often a tions there mass of irrelevant detail, but in spite of the more mannered not- ing, the members of the cost usually seem to have been more aware of what they were doing to have taken their parts more seriously.
Where, among the sugar prin- ccres of today's silver screen,
you And would
a Marie Antoinette to rival Norma Shearer's?
Who, among the present day lovelles (for although some of the mere coperienced, actresses
be able to range the re-. red scale of emotions they could hardly be called beautiful) could convincingly be kittenish
hope.
when young, reclamedly inge
fut
when married,
4 when'
tina fcctedly husband when shown her?
the
a
dis--
different
to be purely nominal, hopeful again when a natural love was offered her and constant to her wns her duty
Norma Shearer so artfully pro from Jack Lemmon) concoct a
Joots all
these alates of mind and fearsome potion which they hope the changing mannerisms that to pass off as Red Label Scohol, automatically go with them that The Ingredients are raw
to be appears cola, lodine and hair tonle
This is person in each phase, cach one playing its important not Norm
Shearer Mario part in the realpe. The cola is Antoinette, but 1. complete im for colour, the fodiae for taste er
personation of the short-lived ("Scotch always reminds me of
quetn. by an actress who has Miserable Life Ondin says Fonda) and the focussed all her ability on bring-
hair toni for some reason, is ing the character to
to life. to indicate great age. This ts Perhaps,
If we had seen more one of the funniest scenes in of Norma Shearer In recent recent pictures and I laughed years and had come to be more myself
Powell and Fonda play it straight, while hiding her real personality would familiar with her style, the vell Lemmona spineless, though
have become
more thin kable youngster, reacts with Norma Shearer would have had more substance than Maric his characteristic enthusiasm.
Antoinette, I prefer to think that The Captain. Is had she carried on with her flim career she would have proved a A Surprise
friendly rival to Bette Davis,
The Ocean Wave
"Mr Roberts" is a picture that should not be missed on any account. The Bus
excellence of the tained four principal characters is superb.
A Romp Through fight against a whole ship, his
The Swamp
"Shark River", would appear to have been made by a company who had on hand some excellent jungle docu- mentary footage and no special place to put it.
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The result isn't nearly such a piecemeal concoction as perhaps I've made it sound.
It's the story of one man's
strength lying in his position as captain. Never was a man 30 universally and gleefully hated
ce by his ship's company. Glee-
that is,, by all
Mr except
full the cargo officer. He
is the particular butt of the captain because of the way in which he urges the rights and privileges of the crew.
been
hoarse,
He
A word about Jack Lemmon's playing of Ensign Pulver. is called upon to hate the cap- tain with as much fervour as
He is it.
arit
Where Tourists
Fear To Tread
the rest of the ship, to be always
I regret that I haven't thinking up new schemes for annoying him, but to be seized
able to see, "Green s been with
attack of moral at the thought of Magic" yet and therefore Their friendship and admira- cowardice
out. He is can only pass on second- tlon is sufficient reward for all carrying each one "Ah" said they, "the Ever-
the insults he recelyes in ex- weak, boyish and undependable hand information about the and he hero-worships Mr glades a swampy mystery land
change however, until the cap and
Roberts. Lemmon doesn't act ground it covers. However, tain manoeuvres him into the
Times' the nobody knows very much about,
the character.
New York to sc Jet's push Steve Cochran (re- position of being unable
And I have only praise too for critic, who, though fair, is formed) and
any of his previous methods of Willam Powell, treacherous ecc.
Quieter and never given to extravagant brother through it, toss in a
than the other two female
and trapper (blonde)
tricked into older
which her small son (a nice kid) and giving his word never to answer mature in his judgments and praise, has called it "beauti-
moderate in his views, Powell ful" and "thrilling", top it off with some Seminole back, however he is humiliated makes this kindly, though by no is a good enough recom- Indians (terrifying)." -
in front of the ship's company.
cease writing cleverly-worded means soft naval doctor really mendation for me.
While "The Living Desert" requests for a transfer
from live. the ship requests
that Naval
The captain himself I have devoted itself almost exclusive- must be passed
the least ly to the animal bodies scurry- left until last, for he law dictates
on For. 4 alart, the Jungle to higher authorities und into natural of the four principals. ing and bustling on the desert animals have been photograph-
which Mr. Roberts has been Surprisingly played by James floor, quite indifferent to ed extremely well and although supping misrule of the cap-
references to the Cagney, it is a part that has to grandeur of the peaks and dis- their orbit, tances Hitle
over-acted to the too much of
for the most then-are crocodile is enough
be on the answering reacllons Green Magic
part releases this mind from the for me, even when Steve Coch- meekly towards the captain at from the others.
required for shows how to beat it on the all times, Roberts" safety-valve is To his credit James Cagney Concentration nose with a log before prop- take
taken away, from him and he is brings exactly the right amount small things and allows it to
the vast,
Lonely ping its mouth open with same, quickly changed from a fun- of caricature to the role that it wander over allowing hils brother. *-
must have to give it sufficiens and uninhabited lands of the to over loving, albeit responsible officer
Brazilan Matto Grosso,
the operative for once,
power. He has quite obviously er a nerve-wracked nobody. power it-they give
most into a
cerie swamps of Paraguay and Fondo so thrown him Never has Henry
himself heart and soul
of Bolivia,
right realistic idea of the menace of
identified hunscit into playing the randing, ambi- the jungles
remjote moun- those
com part. The emotions that Haus,
bully through to the Uttlo unraonable There wastes.
an ccrleness too in the with a
him
tain tops of the Andes. made silent threat of the Seminoles he is experiencing at any given and though he has
vahifa size. It through the detested white man time are reflected so subtly in
expression that no words are er tilsh
a piece of acting. effective a The centiment cho body of the Aim is care and though the devoted
there is
fis the shadows with a tread as noiseless as the fish swimming in the depths of the creeks,
Ly no
the
This is a region new both as story background and as a sub- Jeet for documentaries and if with the camera work le literesting-
a story is the
to showing how one of corn showing angry
by presented; should draw even
those to whom
MAJESTIC
Cochean and his brother are man in authority, without the sailors gazing through telescopes main thing.
use of violence, can make at far-off nurses
a
quarters i on their way south after the Civil War, making for. Cuba. Junior's life a misery; but not dragged in again, it isn't allowed Cochran, for once is the good all the picture, by any means, to go on too long and is only
tourpo brother, but he seems to put his this grim undertone. There faintly in bad
This
but a very long more nalmation into his bad is one hilarious sceno in which roles. There's great dent of William Powell excellently every minute of it has ka splashing through the marshland playing an adult-minded doctor, terest and in spite of the whole before they come, upon a camp Henry Fonda and the young action taking place on one ship, Inhabited by three people a ensign (a ne plece of acting it never drags for an instant. girl, har son and
and her mother ini-mw.
The situation then becomes tricky. The girl has taken re- fuge in the swampe after the death of her husband. Sha is
an expert trapper and the
-
Jack & Daphne Barker
Seminoles have agreed to leave London's sophisticated charmers
hér along if she allows no whits men near the camp. Cochran's brother is wounded and al though she mistrusts, them both,
them
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