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JEFF CHANDLER GEORGE NADER JULIE ADAMS LEX BARKER KEITH ANDES RICHARD BOONE JOCK MAHONEY WILLIAM REYNOLDS-CHARLES McGRAW JOHN MINTIRE FRANK FAYLEN
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Four Girls in Town
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GEORGE NADER JULJE ADAMS · MARIANNE COOK ELSA MARTINELLI ́BIA SCALA - SYDNEY CHAPLIN - GRANT WILLIAMS - JOHN GAVIN
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"3 COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN"
Starring: Jean Peters
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RKO-DISNEY'S CARTOON
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1957.
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Giant:
In spite of the accusa- tions that this picture is too long and that the first- half is exciting, while the second is tedious, it con- tinues to bring in audiences to the Queen's and Alham- bra.
Contrary to my expectations, it is not by any means James Dean who posthumously steals
Janfels the
from the other male actors,
Rock Hudson, for one, gives would a performaner that I never have expected from him. He is the wealthy In what might be called a country squire fashion elalte hand OWBCT of an engrunus cattle ranch in Texas. He is called upon to be race proud, egvilstical and fond of pretty women in the best tradisons of judy novelists' Ideas of the southern states of America.
This he carries out very well and it is easy to see why pretty girl like Elizabeth Taylor hoult full for his whirlwind courtship when be gora north to buy ho., and why should recurn south with both hoped wife,
Elizabeth Taylor is spirited as the horse, however, and it brings ու է all his Jovenble desire to dominate. Il was here that Hudson surprised m. He's always been the Inzy. easy going, almost inckey-İsla lover, and his salky, churlish,, yet still charming handling. his role came as a change.
refreshing
He aged too with convletion- which I regret to shy Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean
Fallea
the
his
to do--and as his three children grew up and he become
lightly
pompous father, mannerisms underwent sufficient change to indicate the passage Into middle age of a man of limited intelligence but basic
commonsense.
Poor Copy
or the performance of Elizabeth Taylor there is little to say except that she looks altractive, has a winning smile and has opylously tried to model herself on Vivien Leigh in "Gone With The Wind". It's lovely 4, poor copy, however Elizabeth Taylor may look, and ail she suectods In doing most of the time is being condes-
with the cending
Mexican pensants for whom she posed to be genuinely happy with the husband who requires her understanding more
New Films -At- A Glance
SHOWING
BY JANE ROBERTS
whose goal is a Hollywood is particularly well done. Il
doesn't set out to be
an Cocar career.
winner for the stars, director or It would probably have been writer of the screenplay (which dimcult for the director to have incidentally was adopted from a mndo four girls of the same beit atler by a Kenneth M. hiffonality show such markedly Dudson) but it is a sount, fe- differch! chartctcaistics hs do ftable plehre about an Ameri-
these girls, so the studio pro- can attack transport ship, the ducing the pleturs must have men who sailed in her, and the looked down their lists
uction ahe and they went three of their foreign con-
through. tract artists.
Π
for
Amusing
This picture was due to have preceded "The Wings of Eagles" at the Hoover and Liberty cinemas, but as so often happens, due to no fault of the management or distributors, the two were transposed.
Elsa Marlincil from Italy HOOVER and LIBERTY:
wag naturally the first choice, "The Opposite Sex": For men about women, June
due to her success with Kirk Douglas In "The Indian Allyson,
Collins, Joan
Fighter". She hadn't Ann Sheridan,
great Atin Miller, Dolores Gray,
denl to do in that picture ex- The Opposite Sex? KING'S and PRINCESS:
„scht float down the river with "Away
An Boats him at the end of It looking as Action
La the
amount wrough the South
she was Paciflo during World
wearing would get her a potent War 11. Jeft Chandler,
dose of Hongkong influenza George Nader, Lex But it was provoking enough Barker, Julle Adams,
to have made a name for her. METROPOLE and STAR:
"Four Girls in Town"; Four girin trying out their talents in Holly- wood. George Nader, Julie Adams, Elsa Mar- 1pc, Sidney Chaplin. QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "Giant" Edna Fer- ber'μ mammoth
Story about the ol barons of Texan and the catile ranchers who строве them,
Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Rock Hud-
ан
son.
ROXY and BROADWAY:
"Heaven
Allison":
Knows,
A w Kod
Marine marooned on
desert Island find
Mir
The American girl was the strutio's own Julle Adams, who's to be seen on the screen niso this week-end in "Awny All Boots".
The third contender for the Hollywood role--one of these that are publicised as being the result of a "World Wide Search
For The Right Girl" is French
newcomer to
A view of "The Opposlio Sex” has odteady appeared in this coltirun but for those who missed it, here, briefly is what happens.
Nice Lills Wife, June Allyson,
having been happily married to
Gia Scula. This the screcu
has a peri, pretty her husbandt for a number of face and in the pleture is team- years, gleefully informed by ext with Sidney Chaplin.
A Friend that said husband 18 his with one of carrying on
Martanne Cook from Germany showghts the is in the happy is the fourth menber of the position uf Hang of young hopefuls and George Nader is the talented, but is a Broadway producer), Thank
undiscovered young director who is given the job of training them
they have something in common. Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum.
COMING
KING'S and PRINCESS: "The First Travelling Saleslady": Ginger Rogers and Carol Chan- nine
mix laughs with sales talk as they wander through the West selling corsets and barbed wire. With Barry Nelson and Davia Brian METROPOLE and STAR: "Attack": Rough, brutal, but a war story with a difference. Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Leé Mar- vin, Robert Strauss. Buddy Ebsen. QUEEN'S and
BRA: "Guna or Petticoat":
ALHAM-
Fort
A western. Audie Murphy. ROXY and BROADWAY: "She Devil": Melodrama: Mari Blanchard, Albert Dekker, Jack Kelly.
for the screen.
having showgirls with which to carry on as be Not stopping to think that possibly the might be a little to blame for having taken the vichy thai
the
19 over The vuceney has occurred be- after
wedding cause of the temperamental exit husbands and wives live happily of the star of a picture and ever after without the necessity either boost from there are some interesting, and for a little If they were metal that way.
partner once in a whiq Nice cleverly satirical sidelights on
Ind decides Andly Little Wite the machinations employed set parts in films.
to sentimentally that a divorce is the only way out and off sho goes to Reno,
The ding is unexpected, but
needless to say, all ends happily for the four little maids not from acting school.
Taskmaster
Complications arise when the other woman is shown in her true colours, by which time it Is a Bitte late for the still sweet June Allyson to back out of Reno
If
you saw "The Women" come years ago, the aiding will be Mmbiar. If not, then treat thla us the new film it 11
In the earlier ple.
Away All Boats:
We're getting somewhat doubtedly lo. familiar with the ship's capture there were no men shown tain who in a stickler for the wireernets were thicker and discipline, spares nobody, is faster and the plot less claying, disliked by all yet respected but the new one still has some for the fact that he is his amusing situations to
mend it and Joan Collins, Ann own hardest tuskmaster.
Sheridan, Ann Miller and Dolores Gray lift it out of the
recuro-
stickiness with which June Ally.
plot of land he works solidly to Jeff Chandler is the latest make it pay and there is all matthet in unis held and World sorry, the time a driving ambition in War II, the Pacific, is the region son usually manages to invest a
him very different from the
than her advice and rude to
to other two young men he play in which his ship operates.
many people the dialogue seemed to indicate should have
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The third ator, James Dean would have been worthy of the
pretation of the ambitious hired
highest praise had his inter
ed.
There are the usual collection merchant is not possible to forecast of stock characters; a where James Dean might have marine captain with years more ended had he lived, Probably experience with Chandler's par- he would have
or lictilar type of ship than he outgrown. the style he had begun to affect, by George Nader - a been persuaded into dropping, himself has this part is taken in which rase he might have Reservist who has been taken hand not been a copy of the re become the accomplished actor from his comfortable desk job bellious young inen he played
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Navni
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fe-Lex Barker has this role... and assorted lieutenants, ensigns td seamen who provide comic
relief.
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-- even tils stumbling, excited surge into the oil as his first well begins to gush-we've met them all before,
of Jett
Had sho character Rink in "Glam" been the un- certain, misunderstood boy of the two earlier pletures, the same treatmen! might have been Justifled.
Jett Rink is no juvenile mis- fit, however,
except that
he works as hired man on Rock Hudson's ranch when he is re- Gentful of the other
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tertaining picture, does go on too long and comes tedious in places, would Julle Adams is the woman hardly have been a milestone in in the cast in the rather thank- the career of James Dean had less role of the wife of George he Evod to improve on his per- Nader. Hot main task seems to formance In It.
be to wave him goodbye welcome him home,
Happy Picture
and
เ
Having said my piece about the prevalence of this type of Him and the conventional na juure of the story, let me make
Four Girls In Town:
This is a happy, cheerful amends by saying that of all action plcture--westerns, gangs- picture about four girls of tar films, thrillers, etc., this is money. When he is left a small varying 'temperaments the type I prefer, and this one
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