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A TOTACÍA PRODUCTION
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JEANNE
RUSSELL CRAI
GENTLEMEN
MARRY BRUNETTES
ALAN YOUNG-SCOTT BRADY-RUDY VALLEE
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The quotes msical demeno sieca
"The Gerel Canoma,"
INTERRUPTED MELODY
STARRING
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1955.
FILMS
"Gentlemen
Marry
Brunettes" features Jane Russell and Jeanne Crain.
It opens with n big but with Jone and sister Jeanne
Crain doing a "What'll I do?" number that lacks nothing in enthusiasm and originality, but
urt a little in the gentle
of pulling over a cong
are
sup
However, they posed to be the nieces of a very gay pair of sisters of the 1920: crap the build-up is per- hapo justified.
The flash-back to their rather naughty relations, (with Rudy Vallee as himself, to bridge the gap between the generations) is contrived, to say the least, and one feels that several amusing acts sandwiched into a glossy music-hall show have been ex- panded to make an overlong complete picture.
When Jano Russell and Jeanne Crain are clowning on stage, they are most entertalai- ing and good to look at info the bargala. On stage, when the director has mide their unfamilarly willi Paris excuse to take us on
yet an- other Cook's tour of all the much publicised landmarks, the pace drags.
Both girls have tremendous vitally and liveliness, and it's alee to see Scott Brady outside
western, but in spite of the popularity of the book, the story seems too Thin for the intents of the actors.
nn
as
I couldn't deciile whether Rudy Vallee was meant to be
eccentric such
he appeared. A the four prin- cipals tre made to be such ordinary people, his peculiarities
seemed out of focus.
If You Like Marilyn.
Your enjoyment of "The Seven Year Itch" depends on your appreciation of Marilyn Monroe. If she is all that you consider sweet, gracious and kind of woman- hood, then she will obvious-
Current & Coming
BY JANE ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
"The Far (lorizens", The cross-country expedition to find out what lay on the other side of the Rocky Mountains. Fred MacMurray. Charlton Heston and Donna Reed.
"Interrupted Melody”, Part of HOOVER. and LIBERTY:
the fife story of the world-famous Australian singer, Marjorie Lawrenec.. Eleanor Parker and Glenn Ford.
"Gentlemen Marry NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD:
Brunettes" Show business 1920 and 1955 style. Kursell and Jeanne Crain, with Scott Brady ant Donna Keed.
EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS:
Jane
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Tall Man Riding". A western concerned with the land-grabbing era of the old went. Randolph Scott and Mala Powers,
ROXY and BROADWAY: The Seven Year Itch". Tho moral of the tale is that it in foolish to go off alone on holiday leaving your husband to the mercy of the girl in the next apartment. Marilyn Monroe and Tom Ewell.
COMING
The
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Blackboard Jungle'',
most controversial im since "On the Waterfront gives a frightening picture of juvenile delinquency in Amert- can schools and of the semetimes inadequate mental ability of schoolmasters to deal with 1. Glenn Ford and Louls Callers.
碰
KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Shrike". The slow disintegra.
on of A man, mulicouselously brought about by possessive wite, June Allyson and Jose Ferrer. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Last Command". The settlers against the Mexicans down in the south- western part of North America and Jim Bowie's part in their struggle to maintain their rights and privileges. Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson and Anna Maria Alberghetti
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Notorious". Romantic melo- drama. Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant and Claude Rains. Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". fabulous story given a face-lift for present-day minds, wolf presented and, from the adventure point of view. gripping. James Masan, Kirk Douglas. Paul Lukas and Peter Lorre.
ROXY and BROADWAY: "How To Be Very, Very Popular".,
A college musical.
Betty Grable.
having as its purpose worthy motive, such ploration.
the
A
some
as ex-
a certain
study
is However. director
stock
flm of this type Interest- ing though it may be, and possessing. all that is required In the way of action, is apt to drag at times unless amount of chameter allowed to creep
producers and usually seem to think that types ar
are beiter und in the In case more finely-drawn charnelers detract from the action, and the tedium is almost inevitable. Another
of these feature
"eples" their length, and one frequently Icaves the cinema after a tussle with such a pleture, foeling that the first twenty minutes would have been quite enough.
principal roles,
Ja
For
Looking nt "The Horizono" with these genera- lisations in mind, some it and others are an improvement on the orthodox pattern.
n
I found it 100 long for start,
but on the other hand there seemed to have been a genuine attempt made to show
the amount of courage and delermina.ion needed to have pressed on with an expedition of discovery of this sort,
A Gloomy Young
Squaw
The alm is to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and investigate the possibilities of a route over the Rockles to the Pacine,
Pro sident Jefferson appoints Cap- tal Lewis to lend
The
expedi tion-this is Fred MacMurray.
in turn and he
asks for his friend Charlton Heston to be co-
men
through her act as though she's bring the rustle and chink of leader with him. Before they dcove there 15 an Awkward been word-perfect at this sort hard cash to the Box Ofice. of thing for a long time.
The transition from the gauche situation in which they discover farm girl to the palsed, assured that they are both in love with
but leers made me darling of the highbrow Tom Ewell's
this is set is the same girl, slightly sick-but perhaps it was most smoothly accomplished and amicably straightened out and their lack of subtlety and the the young boyden who gallops off they go. foolish figure he cut that spolled off from the Lawrence farm Unfortunately the two leading his competent performance for the errie dawn light to a sing-
than types are
rather MacMurray ing competition that sets her foot characters. on the ladder of success, is no bovine, brave one boringly up- less real because she is so soon right, while; Heston has the swallowed up by the successtul dashing, romantle role. Donna lady of the stage.
Reed, as the Red Indian girl
devotion whost
to Heston provokes trouble
between the two men is better, although her almost entirely unsmiling face is a bit depressing.
me.
Triumph And Tragedy
Somewhere inside all of us
ly re-charm you with her is a vague feeling of guilt womanly qualities.
connected with crying. Some her brash, of us force it to such a point If you consider shallow, immature mentally and that we would rather be over-ripe physically, then you thought downright hard than should avoid the picture, for it's the Monroe doctrine at its be seen shedding a most consistent.
Hor line in "The Serven Year [tch" is a supposedly bithe in- ability to realise her devastating effect on the opposite sex. This allows her to be as blatant about exhibiting her charzus us the tensor will allow, at the same time absolving her from any low motives.
It all happens during a heat wave in New York. Toma Ewell has waved goodbye to his family who are lucky enough to be going further up the coast for n holiday. He returns to his apartment, naturally sad to be without them for a while, for Mr Ewell, you must understand is a happily married man, with ΠΟ Little sccreta from his charming wife.
Others ashamed,
cry
and
left after
tear.
Some Wonderful
Singing Too
is
She is n captive of a hostile Before the polio attack brings Red Indian tribe, it's true, but the picture, there is some won overdone. on the more harrowing part of her round-the-clock gloom 13 A sensitive per- derfully full-bodied singing by formance comes from Barbara Elleen Farrell. And here one
Hale as the white girl both men must give full credit to Eleanor love.
the Parker for having studied The Indian attacks are up to look facial
contortions apparently standard and the Vista Vision habitual with most opera
process does full justice to the singers. The
that sounds When "Interrupted Melody" gulli hung bave been wrung, from behind
tung emerge from her throat seem to grandeur of the scenery. Perhaps the those agonised grimaces. Al- "The Shrike" heavily about me. foot that the preview was held though one
realises that it is on a very dismal, wet Monday Eileen Farrell's voice, it is only morning had something to do because of the knowledge that with it or perhaps the instine- Eleanor Parker would certainly tive defences one builds up not be on the screen 1 she coming during next week against the weakening effects of could really sing so movingly. and I would mark it down sympathy are powerless against
Musetta, as a "must". It would not young and spectacle of
suddenly struck Isolde, Delilah, Butterfly and be fair to treat it as shortly lovely girl down by polio just when success Carmen will be well known to as I would have to in this has become a habit.
most opera lovers, although week's column, so a full com- Eleanor Parker's slight frame
the
close they may be to reality in
Elleen Farrell's
"The Shrike" will
be
But although I hate to admit seems hardly capable of pro- ment will come next Satur-
often-used ducing such volume or stamina day.. being taken in by tear-jerking situations however as is needed by a Brunnhilde," the case of Marjorie Lawrence Eleanor Parker is not quite as -the truth is that the film is convincing as she might be as meant to make you weep and in Butterfly, but she is a splendid Carmen and the personification
Mixed with the sadness how ever, it's possible to detect all probability, it will, little relief that for a few weeks
he la completely free to eat or jorie Lawrence
Eleanor Parker makes Mar- of seductiveness as Delilah.
a very warm, There's no need to say much not, to read or loaf, to be tidy
impulsive, human, or slack.
MAJESTIC
spelled, about Glenn Ford. He supports OPENS TO-DAY
On to this prepared ground adulation-loving young woman; like a trouper and his sympathy falls Miss Monroe. She's dropped and in consequence her descent and understanding of his wife's her toemayton plant out of the from the heights of fame to the complicated personality aro con- window of the apartment above, depths of the degradation of vinchgly understated,
1
in which sife lives, and sho's
paralysis is all the more tragic much touchingly concerned
because the loss is that it dropped on
her greater than the average wo- might have
man's. neighbour's head. "Why, you might
have been klyplied" she It is entirely Eleanor Powell's pleture and possibly it may em- From there on. Mr Ewell barrass and even bore men hooked.
intones.
-
His curvaceous visitor Bittle, in spite of the scantines
In whenever the whim occurs
to her-haunto
his
But it is un-
Exploration At
A Snail's Pace
"The Far Horizons" is an
by now she's taken to dropping of some of her operatic ap outdoor picture filmed on because of her Dagrant what the producers and highly exhibitionism. coloured dreams and most of his doubledly the best picture she director must have hoped waking hours, and pretty soon has ever done and removes from would be epic lines. people are beginning to tall. her the ranks of the second- Let me hasten to add The dialogue is superficially raters who rely on a pretty pro- I'm using this word in wilty and Marilyn Monroe goes file and a set of mannerisms to cinema sense, where it's come
GLENN FORD ELEANOR PARKER Straight from Paris —
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·
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2nd CONTAGIOUS WEEK! Owing to length of picture pleaso note change of times: At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M. THOUSANDS OF HONGKONG-ITËS- ARE STILL ITCHING TO SEE AND LAUGH AT—
to the
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CHARLES K. FELDMAN
the seven year itch
MARILYN MONROE
TOM EWELL CINEMASCOPE
COLON NÝ UNGURE
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
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CARTOONS
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OF TECHNICOLOR
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