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FILMS
The misunderstandings
that arise in "Tokyo
BY JANE ROBERTS
Interlude" all occur because The New Films At A Glance
of the hero's * moral cowardice.
Ho her
matters και
onlove hamn't
He has become a Buddhist monk when he meets a pretty girl They are muly bt- tracted and the friendship" thx- pands into
And here of hand the courage to tell that he can never marry her and she is left wondering at his strange behaviour,
Tiio mothers of the young people also take a hand,
two
in the lovingly mexidling way that parents have, and go ahead with marriage plans.
The year is, 1907 and politics, religion
and
jealousy i conspire to The ing, as no often happens
part the lovers. ·
stories, is end. The lovely Chinese Alm star Li Li-hwn is the girl and Huang Ho the Buddhint poet who falls in love with her.
Blackmail And Murder
Hugo Hans is well-known for making films on a shoe- string. His pictures nearly always have violence as their mainspring and they usually pack a mental punch in addition to their actioh.
He writes, directs, produces arkt stars in his pictures--and albo finds the money to finance them.
Too Independent and umor-
thodox to be classed with
who has
Played Well
"Footsteps in the Fog" is
a murky melodrama with murder as its theme.
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HOOVER and LIBERTY: The Philadelphia Story". Fun and games in Philadelphia's social net, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn and James Stewart. NEW YORK and GREAT, WORLD: "Rage at Dawn"! A western. Randolph Scott, Forrest Tucker and Mala Powers. QUEEN'S and ALHAMIDEA! “Footsteps in the For". A Victorian melodrams. Jean Simmons and Stewart
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ROXY and BROADWAY: “İƊkyo Intertide". An unhappy
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COMING
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Interrupted Melody". Part of this ille story of the world-famous Australlan singer, Marjorie Lawrence.
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A
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marose,
It
love of
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A Good Comedy
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It's not fashiotiable at the bment. to praise the fo- lasues at the expense of the present-day pictures, so I'm asking for trouble when I say that The Philadephia Story" is one of the wittiest comedies I have seen for some time.
It pokes fun at convention without ridiculing.
natural dignity, it lambaste, Big Business for its tricksters but doesn't deny wentth and position to those whose methods have been cair, arid Ebove bli it malces allowances for human frailty.
Katharine Hepburn' plays the leading lady.
Born into a home where, the cut of oria's clothes matters more than the kindness of one's views ch less superior telrigs, the is a snob of the first water.
Her remarks are culting, and calculated to show everyone that she knows what she wants and is beautiful trough and of a get powerful enough family to
it with the faint wave of an
elegant hand.
The plot of course centres on her graceful toppling from her perch Into the
arms of a man
she had once spurned as not living up to her standarts.
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She is about to marry John other movie moguls, his films
Howard (considered unsuitable aro never dull, and although
In spite of her cunning one has been planned with a mix by everyone but herself) when I haven't been able to see his
hcr former husband, Cary latest at the Roxy and Broad is forced to feel sorry for her. fure of animal cunning and in-
the scene. Frank Reno Grant, arrives ch way The Other Woman" In her tle mind, she is being telligence by
Much to her disgust, he is rea its there of blackmail and diabolically clever, but it is played by Forrest Tucker,
she is no
misfires, quite obvious that
and the subsequent eclved with open arms by her murder sounds meaty enough
match for the suave killer. conference back at the hide-out Uncle Willie played with his to please all thriller fans.
Her
by puzzled insouciance The "other woman"
love for him is very lablishes the characters of the usual of the real. and title is Cleo Moore,
even when
brothers,
Roland Young and her young. shs
They are a varied 1pt, Frank sister. (I wonder if you'll re been in five previous pictures realises that he has Idlied
himself second time, mistakenly think him
almost member Virginia Wielder?) made by the Czechoslovakian.
ing that It was she ho y was petbologically jealous of their
Lovely
sister ayho keeps house Enter A Reporter, Complicated Part Cubbing to him the fog.
lies to save him
them. J. Carrol Noish likes Jean Simmons is, so delicate to drink, but faced with a
James Stewart and Helpless in spite of hot lynching shows his machinations that one is living with much too much
With the gay abandon of t reminded more of a butterfly frankness for the liking of his
man who knows that whatever impaled alive on a pin. rather more stoical brothers.
Brother Clint, like sister social sins he commits will be Mala Poweri,
the either is against
forgiven or forgotton, lawless life the others lead, but Cary Grant introduces into the has too much family feeling to wedding-bound Stewart--and SUNDAY MORNING MATINEE : REDUCED ADMISSION
household The sombre colouring reflects
give them away,
reporter James the mood; and the players, with
There's an unusual slant on his the exception of Belinda
photographer, tho, hatred between North, and James Stewart accomplishes (who is being built up in Eng-
what South that
to almost was supposed
disinterestedly Jard as a star and who only possesses the required looks
exist long after the Civil War husband, Cary had falled to do before he breaks down. Hep- without the talent) are unlver-
in The warmth This picture is set in the burn's reserve. sally competent.
surface in Jean Simmons' ability
period just after the war, get a her comes to the Passing lightly over the prised me.
American North Her performances
detective time to stop her committing before have been limited in absurdity of the title (a agency has complete faith in second mistake.
On the face of it it's not an and she has often ap favourite grouse of mine, as an ickiowledged Southem spy
inspired story, but there's 50 peared to be not much more you may recall) "Rage At and sends him off to capture
observation, character
spirited and manipulated by the direc-
ing western.
capture
lato it that it's a pic- In "Footsteps in
again the Fog" In fact the movie-thakers Edgard Buchanan's
remember
moro again
the however, she has a complicated have gone as far as to my that rasps
after recently-acquired part to play and does it well. this is not a western at all but villainy and I thought he had serious ones have faded,
The household in which she en "bullaw" tato.
threo more charm than the rather
principals have is a hard-worked little maid
looks The distinction is too subtle patched-up
shown more case in seldom of hero has an air of gloom that con- for debate,
their
and but perhaps
parts
it almost in- Randopla Scott, trasts well with her cockney dicates that, the term "western"
merits the "masterpiece adjcc- chockiness.
be gathering a little moss may
tive used by Metro-Goldwyn- around it.
Mayer in advertising it.
range.
Tec An Entertaining
far
sur-
Western
was over.
*
Ruth Hussey.
than a walking doll, wound up Dawn" is quite an entertain- blance to use any methods of punchy dialogue and
tho' Reno gang, with carte much
tor.
whose tale The outlaws told
ho thinks dt.
voice
fun
and
The
Sea Adventure
Is
In The '40's
Her handsome master is "re- covering from the tragic death of his wife- woman older than himself and wealthy.
Jenn Simmons he thinks world and she rises to the post, the Cisco Kid. tion of housekeeper.
| in "Rage At Dawn" are the Reno Brothers who were the sly hints to forerunners of Hollywood's fore- knows more than most money-spinriems, the Dal-
chi
him that s her a lift in the tons, the James Brothers and
Wild
Made some years ago when Susan Hayward was just..n Her attitude is a mixture of the latter having been told from Wind" is a sea adventure
The deeds and misdeeds of starlet, "Reap the self-satisfect crilical passion for her master, are probably
every possible angle, the teno's story on a grand scale. and moments of self doubt,
coming in for
It deals with the days of the more detailed attention and all
composure, un-
She knows that her former western, Lang would be advised 1840's in America..., when the mistress has been cleverly
to get in on the ground floor sea lanes of the Florida coust poisoned, she hes revealed to
of the latest set of 19th Wen michaced by plates Stewart
Granger that stte
John Wayne plays the role of wild west juvenilia de ship's captain with all the knows his secret and ship leis
him such an ‚ establishiga
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treats her properly, Le makes gang us they ride. cautiously
her his mistress, she will never into a new town... Their object box office favourite over go to the poller about him, is the Bank, and the operation years.
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In contrast, Ray Milland L smooth, and apparently a fop- pish member of the Charles- ton aristocracy until his trues
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