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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1956.
FILMS
The Proud and Profane:
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The last time William Holden appeared "heavy" was in "Stalag 17”. He was a cyndical Pow out-
wardly unmoved by his sur- roundings, turning adversity to advantage by black market dealings among his fellow pri- I was his Anest pur- soters, formace and he has never bet- tered it.
Perhaps his employers thought that the long run of sympathetle rulon in willch he has aubse- quently appeared had dimmed the radiance of that earlier ple- ture and that another "heel" part might sei his feet back on the bright road that once mem- ed a certainty,
10
They hadn't the courage fet him go all the way however A popular star must never risk allenating his fans by boost ne- sociated with a blackguard, so in "The Proud and the Profano William Holden le allowed to be u handsome rouge (if black hair your laste) and moustache are
whose bark is worse than his bite
He is also a "gentleman' if Field rank in the Army is qualifying factor.
In the days when "Stalag 17" was made he wasn't an estub~ fished Mar and
therefore it
wasn't necessary to whitewash bin in the end. True he was Heared of the charge of spyłu. but he was allowed to ratlh bis cynical outlook to the finish,
with no sugestion of weakening penitence setting in later.
I proferred hin
N sika! smoking private with no illu- sions, scruples or pretensions
She Was Proud
The proud half of the com- bination is Deborah Kerr-an aloof Red Cross worker stationed in the Purifle during the 1939- 1945 War It is the old story. Holden, a hard, bad-tempered officer at least where s men concarried...sers in Miss Kerr's antipathy towards him a challenge to
his powers of attraction for the opposite sex.
me
and
He lays siege and in a shorter time than would seem consistent with the proud lady's attiturle, her surrender is complete, Filled with That Certain Glow drifting along on a cloud of sentimental
for feeling
the dastardly major, she is brought to an abrup halt by the dis- covery that her lover is married, Her horror at the thought of having been
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-This Week's Films-
In Pictures
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sin's "No" with
like a shall child deprived of an anticipated chocolate,
A scene from "Automn Leaves"
Encounter instead of The Love takes his Or His Life is straight from rational despair and behave Ruby M. Ayres or Ethel M, Dell d the ending is just about us real.
However, although the
novelellish, both De- nay be
borah Kerr and William Holden are now too seasoned to allow this pleture to be a flop. Al- Though the characterisations-- with the exception of the part Laken by
Theima Ritter-are superficial, one is still kept in- terested in the action and in
Kirk Douglas gives the Im- pression throughout the picture of trying very hard to prove that he is an actor. He seems to sense that the
he is at- character
to
to tempting bring possessed a tortured mind that was eternally trying to break through the barrier between
what he could feel and what he was able to express, but is himself hampered by the same
spite of acepalomally being impediment.
irritated by Deborah Kerr's nalvete, It is possible to enre when her feelings are hurt and to hope that someone will a consolation prize la place of her wounded
offer her fake the pride.
Tried Hard
Lust For Life:
If anyone ever lacked a Just for life it is Kirk Douglas's Vincent Van Gogh.
or
He is a whining, self-pitying churl who seems to think that the world not only owes him a living but a tranquility of mind that he is too weak-willed to strive for by himself.
Whether this is a merely the picture of the painter, director's and the actor's con- peption of him, I don't know. Neither do I know whether the film sticks to the spirit of the book from which it is taken, as I haven't read it. But taken as a film standing on its own merits, what emerges is that Van Gogh was a feverish painter, me
mentally unbalanced
and
pestilential nuksence to his family and any- one who tried to help him.
There is a hazy attempt made to place the blame for Van Gogh's introspection restless, morbid at the few of the self-autistica
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The utter hopelssness of the
watched exeatures, their miser-
able existence and the poverty that forced children of 10 and 11 to join their fathers under-
ground is well caught. In con- Kirk Douglas's
rest barrassing, overscting a
This is a passing phingo in the life of the painter, however, end adur joining, rather theatrical- ly, in their way of living, he la persuaded by his brother Theo to return' to civilisation and try to work out his probicina and frustrations in his own home. against a background of people and objects with which he Damilial
Thi Is almost succeraful until ký zooolveu a mothack. “He prom bdeas marriage to hds, widowed
is worth seeing for the photo- graphy and the paintings alone. As for Kirk Douglasbe hus Iried hard.
Spinster's Debut
Autumn Leaves:
Joan Crawford has openly In confessed to being 46. "Autumn Leaves" it is dif- cult to bellove it. Perhaps that is why she has not been afraid to be неет on the screen as a woman who has some time ago left behind the bloom of youth, falling passionately in love with a man at least 10 years her junior.
She is obviously very sure of her power to attract a presen- table male younger than her- self,
And to give her credit, sho makes it entirely plausible
In "Autumn Leaves".
The story itself cessful.
B
is less auc-
At the beginning of the pic- ture Joan Crawford is a lonely epinster, prickly with hibi- tions, whose only friend is tho ecomtrie old duck managing the quiet Cedar Court in which they both live,
In flashback we go the reason for Miss Crawford's lack of male company. Devotion to an Invalid father during her young and pretty years has resulted In her ineen losing patienco and leaving her. Release from her tle has come too Inte, for by this time she has bullt up such shell of outward com- posure and satisfaction withi her pattern of life that any kely sultors are frightened off. A chance frig
encounter with persistent ex-soldier young, results in a sudden collapse of the fences restraining her feel- lings and she allows herself tu be swept off her feet by what appears to be the genuine st- traction he feels for her,
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One or two little discrepan- cles in the glimpses he gives of his past life startle her, and she attempts end their asso- clation Following quickly their reconciliation comes mar. riage against the woman's bailer
Judgment. Subsequent events prove her misgivings to Anthony Quinn, on the other have been well founded and a hand, as Paul Gauguin, rather ugly story emerges of none of these difficulties with hist previous marriage and betrayal part. Quinn plays Gauguin with
of the wife by the boy's fatt
father, a smoulderinus,
brutal all of which have made him à honesty that without bluster, rather mixed-up young man. shows il man who is self- it is difficult to say what sufficient and contemplumes of Joan Crawford's attraction is, cant, self-pity and self-decep- She has never been pretty and tion.
in "Autumn leaves" she does not The best part of tasis picture even wear any of the last-word Is the reproduction of nearly a fashions for which she has be- hundred of Van Gogh's paintings come renowned. Perhaps it is and there is an impressive list of that she always plays parts that individuals and institutions who many women-even' the most have lont originals for the pur- intelligent would secretly like pose. Parts of the countryside to act out in real life, around Arles are breathlessly beautiful and "Lust
For Life
New Films
At A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY:
"Lust For Life": Drama- Used life of painter Van Gogh. Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn
KINO'S and PRINCESS: "The Proud and Pro- fand's Love and war m the Pacific, 1944. Wil-` Uam Holden, Deborah
Kerr.
QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "Autumn Leaves": Older woman loves younger
man-resul bonfire, Joan CrawfordE, Robertson, Vera
Mules. ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Last Wagon"; A western. Richard : Wid- mark, -Felbola Farr, Tommy Bettig.
COMING
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BOXE and BROADWA
Her appeal, unlike most is mainly Hollywood netresses, to women-i have canvassed the males of my acquaintance on this subject and found them unanimous on the point. As she is still good Box Office does this mean that chivalry is dead and that women are paying for; their
own scats?
that!
chivalry is being revived and men are allowing themselves to be dragged by their womentoik to himy they would rather not seei
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