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ROBERT RYAN AMITA EKBERG
ROD STEIGER
BACK FROM ETERNITY
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THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES
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STAR: AF 12.30 p.m. In CinemaScope & Color "DADDY LONG LEGS” Starring Loelio Caron
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1957.
FILMS
Loser Takes All:
Comedy is an unusual medium for Graham Greene to choose and "Loser Takes All" could not be called a complete success. The cast list is satisfactorily star. studded but the story ін weak and the best parts are the love scones not great recommendation for a comedy.
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I have read somewhere that Rossano Bruzzi is in his Afties and Glynis Johns too has been the screen for some time, Both juve worn extremely well and could give points to many stors years younger. Their love scenes are tender and restrained and much more romantle than some of the passionate clinches that lake up so much screen time.
Most of the action takes pinco in the luxurious atmosphere of Monte Carlo. The story opens, however, in London where an Italian accountant in the vlers in a British firm is making plans to marry one of the company's employees.
Neither
Rossano Brazzi nor Glynis Johns are very wealthy, but they are very much in love and the marriage appears to have the right qualifications for suc-
C'est,
BY JANE ROBERTS
This Week's Films- In Pictures,
A scene from "Loser Takes All"
too deeply into building up n character.
In addition to the tenslori caused by conflicting person- nillies, there is the added dati- gr from the head hunting Jivaro Indians. Most of the cast
to manage
look sultably frightened, with the exception of Anlia Ekberg who appears to have nothing more on her mind than a misplaced make-up box.
Now Richard
Sir Laurence Olivier's film of "Richard III", which had its world premiere in London in the presence of the Queen and Prince Philip on December 13, is his third Shakespearean
for the screen.
production
"Honry V, made in colour under wartime conditions in the mid-forties, was a landmark in the history of fiming Shake- speare.
Not only was the poet's text respected, but the film was a true piece of cinema, visunily
with beautiful,
a magnificent climax in the Battle of Agin- court.
present one, dealing 8.8 it It is surprising therefore to
rocket aircraft see him docs with
in a picture like and journeys into space, "Back From Eternity". but presumably "Brink of
"Hamlet", in black and white, There is nothing wrong with Hell" was thought to pack the nim from the point of view followed in 1947; a more dificult more punch.
of entertainment-it docs not proposition involving cuts which
lovera Shakespeare set out to be a masterpiece of some screen drama, nor does it claim eented. Nevertheless it was true to have any deep psychological to the spirit of the original and significance.but it s hardly the film was a worldwide nuc- the type of film that one has cess, winning for its creators a
BASOciate with Rod number of awards. Stelger,
Now
They are given an unexpected Willino Holden, forsaking wedding present by one of the his more exacting roles takes part in this pleture. company's directors a honey- an action moun trip to Monte Carlo Instead He is one of the pilots working of their modestly planned stay
experimental rockel In Bournemouth,
station but is a special case In that he has had to overcome a get great deal of resistance to the job.
There I። OBC snag though, Robert Morley, the director, is on absent minded fellow and having despatched the couple to Monte Carlo with instructions to charge all expenses company, he forgets all about
them.
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Previously he had praved mentally unstable in a Korean
war camp and to the prisoner of
su viewed with suspicion by many of his superiors and fel- low workers.
Solvent Again
come to
With him are Anita Ekberg and Robert Ryan, neither of whom have shown much aspira tion in the acting field, though both have had success na movie personalities.
Te-
comes "Richard III" made by the same team, with Sir Laurence himself as pro- durer. direttor and principal actor, Anthony Bushell as asso- cinte director, Roger Furse as production and costume designer, Carmen Dillon as art director, and Sie Wiliam Walton as com-
poser of the musical score.
Profound Effect
The jungle country of South Amerien is the setting for "Back From Eternity". It deals inevitable girl friend with the reactions of a group ut The who stands around at
take people trapped there after their off and landing time is
aircraft has crash-landed. A With billa piling up all round in Leith--the girl with
favourite subject with script- voice--and deep throaty them the newly weds are con-
writers, it gives them officer with siderably embarrassed: Putting stock superior his mathematical mind to work, heart of gold beneath a gruff portunity to compare and cons Company in 1944, his interpreta-
<xterior is Lloyd Nolan.
however, Rossano Brazzi hits on
a system that takes the element
of chance from their gambling and they are once again solvent.
This is too simple a solution
A Western
for Graham Greene though and Pillars Of The Sky: before the happy ending the
him.
Vir- the
the
and
accountant is made to go through The pillars of the title a period of upphitness that are the mountains of Oregon makes both his wife and we, the that form the background audience, thoroughly dislike of this western starring Jeff Chandler, Dorothy This enables Glynis Johns to Malone. Ward Bond indulge in a Bito dalliance with Keith Andes. Tony Britton-quite obviously out for her money, but with The story is one that is be enough charm Dor it to be coming familiar to western.fans possible for this minor detail to these days, Instead of the white tho be overlooked.
men being massacred by cruel red men, a good case Felix Aylmer has a
small made for the Indians and it the part in the picture and steals anyone is to blame for every scene in which he partiel. Righting, without which no self- take to pates. He is known simply as respecting western can "The Other" and owns two per the screen, it is the exploiters cent of the company's stock. of the would-be peaceful natives, This is a very important two per cent, however, as the two other shareholders, owning 49 per cent (acle, are constantly quarrelling.
Dorothy Malone talees most of the picture to make up her mind whether she loves her husband or the tough talking sergeant and
when sho has, leaves one with the impres- don that it wouldn't take much
oven
This is a pleasant little fim but the story seems to be some- thing that Graham Greene for her to change it again. dashed off between some of his more thoughtful works,
Punchy Title
Brink Of Hell:
The original title for this picture was "Towards tho Unknown" and it was re- leased in England as such. It seems
As well as the stars thero' are two other familiar faces in the cast list-Charlie Chaplin's son Sydney, and Lee Marvin.
Why Steiger?
Back From Eternity:
Rod Steiger has steadily been making a name for himself as a movie actor of much more importance and has hitherto descriptive title than the chosen his roles carefully..
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HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Madame White Snake": A Japanese pleture - romanti。 melodrams. Shirley Yamaguchi, KING'S ana PRINCESS: "Back From Etérnity": Jungle adventure plas Anita Ekberg. With Robert Ryan and Rod
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When Sir Laurence played this most compelling of Shakespeare- an villains with the Old Vic
of tion was said to be the nest his generation. Vital, alive, humorous, ironic,
with
the hooked nose of the Plantagenete, and the warped nature of a cripple, he made a profound effect on theatre-goers in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, as well as in London.
One therefore looks forward to his film performance with the keenest interest.
It might have been, thought that this play, with its historica! parcanity and strong plot, would have been one of the easier Shakespearean dramas 10 adapt to the screen. This, how-
the view ever, is not
of Sir Laurence Olivier.
In a recent press Interveniw in London, he said it in involved and often obscure and that he has had to make more sim- pllications than were necessary in, his other Shakespeare films.
A Spectacle
With his usual thoroughness, Sir Laurence spent many months of study on the text of the play, working eventually on the film script with the co-operation of Alan Dent, drama critic and keen Shakespearean, who was also ecript editor for "Henry V and "Hamlet"”,
Again, the accent of the pro- duction is on Shakespeare's
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*Richard III", however,
also a a spectacle, and the poet himself would surely have been delighted with the effects made possible through the wide sweep of the VistaVision camera lona and the use of a new · lighting technique in Technicolour em- ployed by Otto Heller, the film's director of photography.
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