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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1957.
FILMS
Baby Doll
MENNESSÉE Williams is
TENN
BII
author
of the Macabre. Ho did it with “A
Desire".. Streetcar Named
He seems to have "done it" too with "Baby Doll." But "done what?"
Well, whatever he has done, The chances are that whether they like it or not, and whether they are glad they went to sc the film or not by the time they come out of the theatre, most
Боста
Hong- In
regular film kong, as verywhere elsc, (nud quite a number of people who
are not regular film goers) are bikely ta
10 and themselves queueing at the booking offle for a ticket for the doll.
How he "does {" is not so casy to work out.
The
ЗиссеБУ of "Streetenr" may have been duc to Mis Vivien Leigh
who acted the part of Blanche neurotic
nymphomaniae who drags her
way through the play and ends
a mental home at up Its a
the of it. As end
(1 plny, Atmosphere of The thing was powerful enough to send Miss
Leigh off for a similar kind of
test,
Dismal, Decay
But what was the play? At almost any modern mental home In England patients create as powerful
ulmosphere ผล
In "psychodramas" which they put on two or three times a month. Boiled down - "Streelcar" was the study of a deranged girl sup- ported by the squalidi conditions that helped to push her off the ralis.
Baby Doll is pretty much the here's the story:
same.
And
Current & Coming
BY JANE ROBERTS
This Week's Films
In Pictures
And this is the Baby Doll
As I have not yet seen it I cannot say how much Holly- wood sugar has been added to the original recipe by Rudolf Bestcr.
Uku Streetcur,' the scene is again the dismal decaying South, her husband's alibi, and she final- Archic Lee Meigham (Karl Aulden) flabby and forty, lives agrees to sign a paper which with his wife Baby Doll (Carroll Vacarro prepares.
On his reum Archle cannot Baker) and old Aust Rose on
but sense that something new fallen-apart plantation mansion
has been added to his troubles, But I can say that this film that belongs to another age.
and he quickly smells out what is one I do intend to see, and, Archie Lee is the owner of a His. Instead of doing anything from all accounts, expect to decrepit cotton gin — a mill in about it, he takes first to drink
enjoy. which cotton is cleared of seeds, the coward's strengthener-
then
out berserk, goes
But his machine has been jou maddened with raw spirit and
for more than a year.
un
FISH-EYE VIEW
Baby Doll is abous to turn 20 jealousy to find Vacorro, Unable The Silent World yeur's uld... a birthday
to do so, he fires instead at which she has agreed to become anything that moves until taken the true wife of Archle Lev, info custody by the town mar- The ill-matched pair spend their shall.
diving.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau's hobby or perhaps it would Ilves quarrolling over two Baker atives one of the
alm's favour-Carroll be nearer the truth to say In the big problems
mos main interest is deep sea money, and love. Archie is in a state of perpetual gripping test performances on
it.
Time turmell over his unconsummated record.
Against
Combining work and pleasure "Possibly the dir- marriage, and over the competi- Magazine.
test American-made moon he has produced a pleture that tion offered try the newer and
pleture that more efficicat cotton gia run by ferally exhibited."
has ever been although possibly appealing to
Imited audience has in I Silva Vacurru.
But perhaps that comment is enough imagination and feeling to recommend really against the film. for the subject Tennessee Williams
meant it it to anyone who has over felt to be that way.
the urge to throw caution to the winds and risk his future on something he likes rather than on
on business
that he feels will bring in a great deal of money or power.
hinat
Archie fals behind ch furniture payinents and one day arrives home to and that the furniture company has
removed verything except an old crib---- the one which was enlarged to cover a 15,000 square foot sign thisplayed on the Sherman Hotel to Chicago. It covered a third of un acre and was said to be the largest advertisement ever positi!.
New Trouble
The producers proudly clator that the advertisement was as Large as the Statue of Liberty.
THREE STARS
The Barretts
The colour is good and the commentary sufficiently Gallic
the
To recuperate from the to take the picture out of the Doll at the Queen's and run of ordinary documentaries. have "The The eericness of underwater Alhambra, we
is captured well and Barretts of Wimpole Street" swimmi
Jacques-Yves at the Hoover and Liberty. Cousteau's boat, is obviously
John Gielgud brings his Cas- his most prized possession, sius to put gall into America's
What it lacks in story is com
for favourite villain the tyran-
the interest pensated
by
the last few
To add to his troubles, Archie ale: father who keeps his aroused inds the local cafe amply a daughter from the man she wanders into his rival's place, loves.
during years In this form of sport Anyone borty! by his present Jones brings employment and who feels ho celebrations with brass bands back her many splendoured love has an inclination to go below und
speeches, just as a fire
to work on that handsome giant- the surface would be well ad- breaks out which destroys the sized he-min Bill Travers, vlect to see this picture.
whose best remembered role
whore everyone has gathered fur Aut Jennifer
gin.
Archie makes a deal with his was in Bhowani Junction, and GARBO FLASHBACK rival after the disaster, and who now plays Robert Brown- things should have been looking ing.
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However, he has to leave the plantation to buy a bearing for his old machine.
Vacarro, sure that Archio was responsible for the arson, makes use of the absence to make love to Baby Doll. He hopes to break
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Camille
For picturegoers who have never seen "Camille"
ROXY & BROADWAY
SHOWING TO-DAY
Owing to length of picture please note change of times:
AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA
In
"THE MOST
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN
IN THE WORLD"
COLON by DE LUXE
with
VITTORIO GASSMAN
A 20th Century-Fox Ralasse
5 SHOWS TO-MORROW, Extra Performance of "THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN IN THE WORLD”. ROXY: At 12.00 Noon, BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m.
BROADWAY: Tomorrow Special Morning Show At 11,00 a.m. M,G.M, TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
At Reduced Prican, woman,
let me say that it is an ex- perience not to be lightly dismissed.
Whatever may be your feel- ings about the elusive Garbo and the legend she, or her friends have built up about her talent, it la true that when sho made this picture she was A very beautiful woman and after all, isn't that what most people go to the cinema to soot
The story of the picture is frankly sentimental. It's the sort of
thing that makes on excellent operatio Ubretto, Gir! moets boy, both are attracted to each other, father is not sympatheile, considering the girl to bo of a lower social status then
son; father pleads, girl capitulates and is discovered to be dying of con- cumption.
What makes this picture so different is the cluzive appeal Harlow and of Garbo. Jean James Dean have became names with which to conjure because of their early deaths. Garbo la still slive, has made few pic- tures, yet has managed to re- main in the minds of
people who have probably only her in this ane picture.
It's worth a visit to conjec- ture whether she will be membered ten years from to day.
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New Films -At- A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY:
"Camille"; A revival of the Greta Garbo classic. KING'S End PRINCESS: "War and Peace": Tol- stoy's immense work ent down to three hours of MOZDON time. Andrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, Henry Fonds, Herbert Lom, Oscar ‘Homolka, METROPOLE
and STAB: Unguarded
Mo- -teen-ager (maio)
tos cher (fernalo) and a series of surgeative incidents.
A A
A
Bus
QUEEN'S and ALHAM-
BRA:
"Baby Doll":
of combination Stop" and "A Streetcar Named Desire", Carrol Baker.
ROXY and BROADWAY:
"The
Mort Beautiful Woman In The World": Operatio arias and Gina
Vit- Lollobrigida. With torio Gassman,
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Barroits of With- pole Street": Elizabeth Taylor. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Back From Eternity" Adventure in the Janglo of Bouth America, Anita Ekberg, Robert Ryan, Hoa Bleiger. METROPOLE and STAR:
"Bandido": QUEEN'S and ALHAM-
BRA: **The Bilept World": Underwater fishing, produced by Juoques-Yves Cousitau, ROXY and BROADWAY! "Oh Men! Oh Women!": Farco.
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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS'
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James Cagay
Henry Fonda
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Phil CARRY
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In Technicolor
AIR - CONDITIONED
STAR · METROPOLE
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GEORGE NADER
ESTHER WILLIAMS
UNGUARDED MOMENT
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