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FILMS
"Hilda Crane" would be described on the oviderice of her activities as, at best, a hussy, and at the worst a word 'it would be inadvisable to use.
Though coming from a "good" home she has little regard for the appetences that constitute the behaviour code of her mother's
polito little drclé. This code had as its bisis "Sin. if you must, but don't be found out" and the girl's revolt against this very common plece of hypocrisy s as misguided in Its hope of being understood as the code itself in anathema to honest thinilocunsa, There being very few of these, Hilda Crano in branded, by most people, because of two unsuccessful marriages, And
low A
In- termediate agaires, as a high- class tramp.
of
The film trics very hard to got остоян with conventional Hollywood symbols, the striving for expression and fulfitat intelligent reasonably neslescents whose academic education has been more inten- sive than their practical teniring for living.
But although there is an at- templed slab at those who have come to terms with society and Merilleed decency for decorum, the psychological part is all rather superficially handled. I has gone too boldly into the difficult mazes of conflicting motives and resolved Hilda Crane's troubles in too obvious a
manner.
Learned To Act
Within the limits of the story. most of the events in the picture are logical. Jean Simmons is Hilda girl who starts out with the dewy-eyed eager of most well educated, minded youngsters to meet the "right man", make happy and help him
Thorne for him
rear family of healthy, con- tented children.
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The first marriage doesn't work out this way. Nor does the second. Fearful of making third mistake she accepts the substitutes for marriage and has a gay time until the comments of her contemporaries bring her to a sharp halt.
BY JANE ROBERTS
This Week's Films
In Pictures
Rod Steiger in a characteristic pose from "The Harder They Fall".
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Alan Ladd, and when Ladd ja released, behind that deadpan face we understand, lurks the demon vengeance,
Ladd for didn't do it
While
not subscribing to the school of thought that likes its emotion Joud and obvious, I do wish that Alan Ladd would contribute
little
more to his rcles than words through the teeth, a nervous mille
alla and an almost immaculate holr-do after a vicious fist fight. As the hero, he just fails to convince. He'd be much more effective as a mean, shifty ittte fellow who prefers knite in the dark to an ou!
showdown. But Jan Sterling and Humphrey Mr Ladd is basically Burart in "The Harder They
open
the n pechaps too nice to take on roles of this kind
allowed us to believe that dur ing the time that her husband was still alive, she wAS kore than sind Henri while he was as yet a young and coltish prince.
It's all very nicely done, of Turner course, and lovely Lang
emerged from the fruity pages of history chaly sullied as her fans woul
un-
would wish.
that But the fact remains although Pedra Armendariz, as King Franel merely requires that she should touch his GOD enough of the graces for him
to pass muster 09. the bride- groom of Catherine de Mediel, her tessons include a little more than these.
Good Taste
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Whatever might be said about the story of "Dinne" treatment, nobody could quarrel with the beauty of the colouring. or the restrained good taste of the sets. Both Loña Tumer and Moälsa Pavab, eo completely different in
in their looks. and bearing, áre a joy to watch, and when they are before the camera, either singly or together,
the other figures on the screen seran unimportant.
When seeing the dbm it would be as well to forget the hip- torical period on which it la based, and treat it as a romance. Viewed in this light it is sis extremely enjoyable film.
nover, over-
It is difficult to believe that Marisa Pavon is only 22. As Catherine de Medici she has 競 maturity that is shadowed by the experience of Lana Turner. Let me hasten to add however, that this is not meant to be dertigatory' to' Lana Turner.
She is one of the loveliest women on the screen and even 1 never tire of looking at her. She is not a great actress, bat, she is, an efficient one and no fenugin- tion is needed to see how could charm any man away from his duty.
sho
The frequent encounters be Fail".
twoon Marisa Pavan anick Lana Turner are far more kriteresting However, tack "Darkest
up the
reputation of a simple then those in which men of the Alm have a part, Roger Moore Hour". Having sald that Alan boxer from South America who
become and Edward hus Ladd is the hero
the property of is stiff and more gauche than the In order to draw tha script calls for him to be, while G. Robinson the heel, all that's Steiger.
you that excellent actor, Pedro Armendariz is little more than v pasteboard king. In “Dione" the honours are definitely to the ladies.
be
left to mention is that Joanne crowds to his fights, this boxer Dru in the slightly tattered, must never lose and must though still pretty heroine, and mold to the public as a killer. that in spite of the inevitable the aispense is weli ending, sustained.
Spy Story
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Most of this picture deals with the machinations. of Steiger's mob as they bribe and bargain the way from the west chat const of U.S.A., pushing their meal ticket, the pear be wildered South American In front of them.
The vicious mother of the man who wants to be her third husband, the attentions of a charming French professor whose mind is far from ar- her own mother's riage, and lack of help all contribute to Hridi's confused state of mind, and Jean Simmons is good in
Sho
to look the part.
is lovely to at and has learned to act,
Guy Madison is a pleasant person as husband number the, but is far
insignifcarst a 1100 character to have contented the restless girl téve film would have
believe Hilda Crane to Much more likely to fit would Moore, who gained a lot of even the rudiments of boxing
its
be.
A serdy restaurant by the side of an American main road is the sceno of most of the action in "Sliack Out On
101".
There's obviously a deliberate play on words in the title, but in spite of the fact that Terry
of Kelly during her
have been Jean Pierre Aumont . He however is the cad, so course he has to lose,
visits
to
Sickening Scene
The most sickening were in this picture is the fight between the champion and the contender. in 30 fights or more the young South American hast not learned
is cast in the suggestive and the beating he takes at the
hands of the champion is grie role of a tempting waitress in some, brutal and reyoliing. the picture, in reality it's a
The respective mothers of straightforward story of attempt- Even a keen boxing tan
ed spying.
cannot fall, to be sickened by The cafe is close to an expeti- the close-ups of his battered mental station in California and face. I feel sure that any
Jean Simmons and Guy Madison well played by Judith Evelyn and Evelyn Varden.
are
Edward G Returns loved there. This mic is faleen stopped the fight.especialls a
is frequented by a scientist cm- referee in real life would have
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by Frank Lovejoy, but by far championship fight such as this, the most interesting character in long before one of the "Darkest Hour" was ori- the film, from both the acting testants had taken such punish- ginally titled "Hell On and plot point of view is Leo
unusual roles recently. Marvin, who has played several ment.
Bogart is rather disappointing.
Frisco Bay", which fixes its location, and establishes the I've found that the name of There's not much depth to his fact that it deals with vio- Lee Marvin in the cast list of a cynical Press Agent-with- lerico, The former name is picture is usually a guarantee a-heart-of-gold and some of
that it contains at least one piece his actions scem. to Lackc mear altogether better in fact, as of thoughtful acting..
This could be ing,
the
fault of the ***Darkest Hour” is the sort
Mark
Robson,
1
of title that could, and often Bigger They Are though is the products was also
as
does, get tied to some senti- montal sob story
- which the picture under review certainly is not.
It's the return of Edward we G. Robinso to the kind
and
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writer of the thould have been able to ex- As the end looms near in plain the motives that made his
characters act as they đỡ. The Harder. They Fall", Rod Stelzer, ́nd
usual, gives an see Humphrey Bogart interesting, if overdone per of typing the first few lines of frmance and the menace bês
bind his Tofta for which he fas been what is going to be di
superficial caricatured
Comics which
vever, after every power- scene in which he is the Whatever he says to me their hangers-on who profit stay performer, one feels that he always be a villain, and in comfort from the brutal stands back" and walls for 150 it's a particularly formidable beatings taken by the boxers is his due. The originator of applause that he docs not dooby one that he appears in "Darkest they manage,
Modesty does not become an Hot... A
nefor! at in the
must have been thinking. Ho has been mixed up in He knows all about it from of someone jompey to gaol of ex-policeman the inside because, although be when he made the remark.
Ike Rod Steiger
ho sizzling article, castigating. However, quite well, y
to have formed the
This
screen port the fight promoters and
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Thas midio quite a parade of cles- plsing those vity same grafters, hobis't hesitated to tako his own, share; to work in with
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A Romance
It was the line of cary monoy The books of reference that took him to them in the are rather decent about Arst played and it was with the Diene, de Poitiers, who object of getting... rich quickly married the Duc de Breze,
Fing out that, ho glayıklı
had been fint of sports According to them she did columnist to a newspaper, but not become the mistress of when newspaper closed down Henri II of France until
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of taking the kind of job he had affer the death of her, hus- grachumbar from years before, or bänd.....
beso unable to support hiraself
and he wife, Jen celing Hollywood,
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