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SATURDAY,
SEPTEMBER 15, 1956.
FILMS
Reach For The Sky:
It is a delicate enough task to review an important film when the star of that film in in the Colony, it is formidable to even moru
have to talk about a biogra- phical picture when the biographed person is here, not on a self-selling personal appearance, but for an ex- tremely worthy cause.
I'm speaking of course, about Group Captain Bader whose wur-
have been
caught and fixed on the renown In the picture chosen to com- memorate the anniversary of the Battle of Britalo.
when the Puul
Fortit, Brickhill look was first crudder- ed for the serven, it might have been thought that Jack Hawkins was the
calving an for the main part
physical like-
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*
to have
to Group Cap'nin Bader Mens ly be as close us Kenneth More's, and his many servic axles would appear
vơm him a good grounding. KON
However, perhaps it was this ink
Helioral with
sirvice characters 104 ceride the makers again him, In my vho then was a wound decision, for in spite of the forcefulness of the Hawkins personality, he seems to lack the Puckich twinkle that evickers! In oven 1 few minutes
eversation with Groga Captain Bader,
One. Up
Mortys tuas this twinkle and in additiva an indefinable sme». thing that averia morbid nym- uny predicament he *** to have one sleeve, putting him
thy. In always
card up his
is by allion then his would be shpathiser. I 14 summed up by the one much indased word "personality" undİ for this rousin i consider he was Finally chosen
portray Douglas Bader.
Now for the Atm.
of
Everything possible has been dono lu draw attention uway from the speciñe disability the pilot,
while retaining the picture of a humillating Soy werkness that has been brittkely fought
and
DIVEPRIMTAS.
and
in treatment this is an action
4
picture, There are, thank good nes, no suggestions that dreadful accident of this kind
rosy-futurad Kay.
young man could bring on the psycho- somatle symptoms so dear to the hearts of present day inovle
to n
New Films
-At- A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Bhowani Junotion": Politics and romance in what is now Pakistan. Ava
Gardner, Stewart
Granger, Bill Travers, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Tha Leather Salht": Father John Derek uses
fist for the good of the Church, With Paul Douglas, Cerar Romero. Jody LawruNICO. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Reach For the Sky": About the wartime air act, Douglas Kenneth Bader,
Muriel Paviow. QUEEN'S and
More,
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Currena OKLA
BY JANE ROBERTS
This Week's Films-
In Pictures
A teene from Bhowant Junction starring Ava Gardner, Stewart
makers
Granger and Bill Travers,
Nobody ander- the intense mental
must have struggle be
gunt through to avoid self pily, but nobody attempts to analyse his reactions or probe his thoughts, and his private reelings remain irviointe
Explosive and high spirited from his early days, WE Ат Bret introduced to Bader as he to Crunwell as an RAF reports offeer endet. He is distinguish- bowler able from the other
hatted young gentlemen by his bashed-in headgear-caused by a difference opinion between himself and his motor inks on The way there.
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Elis exchange of words with the NC.O
the subject, though perhaps not very original a fortaste of many brushes with authority, culminating in a short sharp interview with the A.O.C.
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The Accident
in spite of Bader's excellent flying progress, his amusing foud local policeman and with the sundry other peocadilloes have not increased his stock with the authorities and he and his three peners in crime are give solemn warning,
most
Savage, a Gurkha officer, is ex- ploning the situation and the complicated politics of the coun- try to a newly arrived officer are made almost unintelligible by the crown neer end exubera
participation of the extras,
1 hast been possible to isolate the veiers of the central characters and tore the crowd noises down to a dull roar, in- wentiet 1253 born eligibility planne
very Htle coil in
realism. realisti.
#t
As the whole film takes place gainst a background of plots, botage, burning, pillaging and the whining, raliing and shriek- on the Delhi- ing of the
trans Deccan Railway, one is forced to come to terms with the din after lime however, and becomes almost mesmerised by it.
sell with either her English colonel or dier Sikh admirer, or cben with the bewildered Anglo Indlan Taylor, whom it Wins always underfood she was to marry
This is a sometimes confur- ing hotch patch of "sights. Hounds and feelings that is el one of the best time Dort for some time.
have
The Rev. Boxer
The Leather Saint;
This film is an attempt on the part of Paramount to muke a boxing picture with-
customary out the
lough background,
They havo in fact gone so far in the opposite direction us to nake a priest the central character. And of all people the priest is John Derek.
Ho trenta his new role with caution, rather
though *
were
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a vase of gelignite that might explode In his hando it treated too roughly. He la no excitable hut gospeller, but kindly, reservexi young It with
respect for lil superiors and with a religious feeling that
felt rather than peen Ha off duly hours with the gloves then are
starlig contrast to his oscelic vulling. yet the connection is there. The pollo hospital in his community is badly in medi of extru equipment and the young priest possesses the wordly assol of being an almost unbesiable boxer. His
ubility the answer to the hospital's good his week-end fights bring in the mony in treat children whose fives might otherwise be lost.
The plot of the Bim hinggos On the scrocy which must surround the fighter's identity-
knows of only sens
ne Pog sjocultur etul role wil with a gooling unywhere the truth.
Naive
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The lead intere,fed is Father Ritchie-his superior. Hegular- ly every Sunday John Derek bunds him A cheque for the hospital from friend in the leather business” and as long as The cheque is paid over, Father Ritchie naively accepter it and 11. expishation with a prayer of that young lives are thanks benefiting.
Nol so Derek's manager. Paul big time promoter, Douglas a
Homero. Cesar
and
hip
wigging blonde who has taken a fancy to the young man.
Needless to say, all turns out well and if everyone doesn't live happily ever after, they are This is a genuine attempt made by u Alm company to whom certainly given every facility to
do so as the Gnal reel arrives, glamour and glass are usually
This is a
naive Alm, with the first considerations, to cap
Fome contrived situations, but ture the complex fealings of 4 collection of parties all pulling is retrieved by the sincerity the central player, John Derck
ut this
in ddferent ways at a time when each knows that is vital to
btain the ascendancy one very crucial moment.
The moment is 1047, when a series of bloody riots, after toned down by preachers of the passive resistance method and Inflamed by Communist agitator the British were leaving India,
The Struggle
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Shortly after this, the accident occurs that PORTLA in the ampulution of both legs and the waves of despair and fortitude
The Anglo Indians were sorry that accompany his recovery are to see them go, for the British
moving
for ult their
er had protected them and given rat. Nobody however need them jobs. There would be no fear that they will be unduly
for them EACHING DOG's harrowed by this part of the film railways their acknowledged -the delicato balance between micho under
the native rule, might have the awho reality of the disable Their golug was speaded by enough by their misfortunes to have been able to indulge in ment and the courage and near almost everyone else though some sentimental tears at their angor with which it is overcome for a variety of reasons. has been cleverly
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KENNETH MORE
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REACH FOR THE SKY
Based on the Book by Paul Brickbati
The Story of DOUGLAS BADER
Are Starring MURIEL PAVLOW
LYNDON BROOK LEE PATTERSON · ALEXANDER KNOX
Bern, Mer by LËMË GABENT
Produse vs BEHEL I. AVEC, Mein De LEWIS BILDEWE
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SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M. during
NEW YORK: Walt Disney Technicolor Cartoons on the cinematographically speaking, I GREAT WORLD: Marilyn Monroe in "River of No Return”.
The
t
week, poox
been harrowed
the
As, however, in Hongkong. we tend to get a work at pot- For boilers followed by a week of
top tenneTS,
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hopeful ALHAM-
BRA: "The Searchers":
A western. John Waynıt,
Band, Ward
Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood,
Feople,
a
того
Congress Party wanted Indian expense. After the triumph of having rate for the Indians in
on sincere belief that they would learned to walk, stickless, artincial legs
and the assurance make a butter job of 1. that his personal attraction has sive resistance was their weapon
was due way been dimmed, and respect
THE BOYS & GIRLS' CLUBS to these Searchers", having come during not in any
their dark period when,
however misguided
ASSOCIATION there is a
period of slightly in spite of his unimpaired flying policy may have been consider thought-provoking plutunts, has vites your support in helping to
Behind these men luriced failed to gain as much of my ability, the RAF. cannot piace c
in а flying job. Health Al, the Commimists, over ready to performance A.1., but "corry, throw bricks, commit murdery attention as it might,
end generally to create as much
I apologist, and commend is to old boy, we've never had a case chaos as possible to discounton-y The Sixth of
western addict as a well like yours before and Lhere's
unct everyone, At least, this is presented product of its land. nothing,
In the regulations
the simplifted version of the strugate
howard Junction,
cunerges
Juno": A war Hme love
ROXY and BROADWAY:
"D-Day
story.
Dana Wynter, Richard Todd, Edmond O'Brien.
Just Robert Taylor,
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Tribute To a Bad
Man": A western. James Carney, Irene Pappas "The
WIN A Golden Arm": A drug addict's light Yor To demption, Jack Blastra, Novák, Elanor, Parker. KING'S and PRINCESS:
"Never : 6$y Goodbye": A love story, shout a mother, with 'a' past, and
Mock Hadar Muture, Borders/Cornell NEW YORK and GŘKAT Súarolino WORKLIN „Gloria!:"A reling of the
to cover
Como the in
war and a change
that
from
the situation. Here once Colonel Savage has his Eng again was Bader's chance and
ha bulldozing tactics dug him liste roots buried deep in the soll
a place in the flying world once of India and (oving the country,
be strictly impartial, more, fadas
ho never look Patrick Taylor, very
tries
well
ed back until his capture by played indved by Bill Travors, the Germans von 28 a
'n POW
is an Anglo Indian, attempling be was a headache to the authen be more British than tho riller and his doggod spirit must
Britis
but betraying by his excitable temperament, his
many
bracer his
have been my lack of ainbility, his insistenca
This picture
chiedy triumph for Kenneth More, SN,
To 丸
to the
fox whom captivity was on his rights and his contempt almost unbearable.
of the native Indians tid ay, underlying hd performance herself med out above the other played with grace and ooo I did though ko e tend
trace of Hollywood manneginne quietly spoken, Lyndon Broon- by Ava Gardner, shares
cxtent,
Jones, an Anglo Indian, and only a
a son of Calve Brookhe San- charnoteristics. But while Tay- derson Bader's friend. He lor is too insecure to am mode the perfect foll
amento
wobbly perch, she hún chơugh character to try to find a place
End Of The Raj for her type of person that
The
ton wit
bwes nothing to anybody.
If anybody as lovely an Ava Grandman could bo salt fo blunder along, fadliner trench) Apat Into every pitfall open to
her
Position=13
Que blunders. Yet at the Pam Emd
thero" is nonettiiniävery, moving
CSLODIA OKEY way out med identity,
train the Hongkong
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