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Attack:
men
A bitter, harsh film in which, between realistic battle scenes, junior officers bellow threats. at those senior to them; enlisted exchango backchat and with junior officers Robert Strauss the 'Ani- mal' of "Staing 17" ploda persistently away with the self-conscious wisecracks that have been written into his part.
Yet with all the melodrama and histrionies from the print- clpol actors, I liked this fim, 11 has a punch that
11
never Over-
entirely obscured by the simplified behaviour of the main charactors.
M
ut & Caning of
BY JANE ROBERTS
The stars of “Giant.”
hlan the most convincing In spite of its background of of character in the picture.
French political Intrigue it's a It concerns company
Eddio American troops during the
Albert tries hard to cheerful" piece of farce with too the Battle of the Bulge during the bring
wavering, weak- nobody Taking anything lost war in Europe,
willed Cuplala Cooney to life, seriously. but his routes twitching, sly The political enemies of the In charge
of the men is glances and trequent recourse Eddle Albert Captain who the botile are no substitute has distinguished himself in the for a real understanding of the past by a series of indecistons port he has to play.
Fis best and weaknesses that are rather scene is that in which loosely summed up na cowardles. told that the platoon sent out t
by him to occupy a position is Although it may seem to have being cut to pieces by German been a rush move to have pul inks and machine guns, such an unsullable man in the
job-a man whose reputation whos has preceded him and Tren mistrust him there to political reason behind it, The Colunch--forcefully
played by Lee Marvin--knowing that Al- bert's father is a judge 13 11 position to hand out favours and that the judge is a harsh man
who wants his 5011 to
win
he
Abandon Men
18
He had previously promised support, but when he realice the strength of the enemy, he prepares to abandon the men, They are under the command of a lieutenant who has sworn to cute back and kill him should
His indeciston
There's a light-heartedness in this picture that has a charm of its own but I fear it will win no new.. Oscare for Miss Bergman.
Unusual Beauty
The Power And The Prize;
The Power is Robert Tay- lor, presumably, and the Prize, Elizabeth Mueller, unless you want to read into the title a connection with big business, business ethics, honesty, the effect of love
a hard-headed businessman etc.
on
The former is what I imagine the director hoped he was selling the public, though the latter la what was in the more nearly scroonplay writer's mind.
Burl Ives is the familiar flm business executive-shrowd, manipulator of the affairs of State are straight from Gilbert others and above all a slave to
of the
of wealth, however li Bid Sullivan, fun is made
lllance between the pro- is o of the heads of two Rany
blk His leutnant is Robert Tay- industriesrubber and leather, lor, only too willing to be initiat- and even Ingrid Bergman is ed into the mysteries of hits maus- made to look a silly as the Polish princess who to the top by his astuteness
little prettily ter and already well on the way
believes it her mission in
attentions lite capturing the to inspire undecided males To society girl acceptable In the ambitious causes,
circles in which he wishes to move.
medals and acquire a toughness of which he is incapable, hopes he desert them as he has done interested in the fact that to gain favour with the father men in the past, by giving his son chance prove himself a hero, He prepared to cover up for him make a pretty picture for the judge although his own in stincts as a capable soldier often interfere.
Loo
A ruthless,
carver - tecking man is this Colonel, but Marvin has managed to make
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KING'
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Barry Nelson, David Brian and James Arness. METROPOLE and STAR: "Attack": War film In which the NCO's come off better than their off- cern, Jack Palanoe, Eddie Albert, Lice Marvin, Robert Strauss, Buddy Ebsen. QUEEN'S and ALHAM- ENA: "Glant": Edna Ferber's mammoth novel about the old barous of Texas and the cattic breeders who fought to them out, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Night Does Strange Things": A Gilbert and Ballivannish plot without music, involving a Polish princesa, several hand- some suitors. and many characters thrown in for comic relief. Ingrid Berg- man, Mel Ferrer, Jean Marais.
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KING's and PRINCESS: "The Search for Bridle Murphy": Under hypno- girl profesšču to reveal detalls of earlier re Teresa Wright, Louis Mayward, Nancy Gates.
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QUEEN'S and ALIAM- BRA: "Thə Gude of Fort Pettloost"; A... western, Audie Murphy, ROXÝ ̈¤nd BROADWAY:.
"Boy
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Shady Trip
in of n
Princess Elena is a bubbling. flirtatious girl in Paris, in Father vaguely defined perlod *.mewhere in the 1800s. Her
desperately tying
10 A business trip to Europe, IL marry her off to fame wealthy is hoped, will set the seal cu male young. old or middle
Taylor's fitness for an executive ara, provided he has money position and although
'he but the Princess is the more means to this and are somewhat shady, Rubert Taylor is very giving. an undiscovered. but little upset by this until he meets and jack of fendership at this picntially clever man a daisy Elizabeth Muelter. She is a re-
well put over and for and concentrating on his career, a short while it is possible to she can raise him to the heights go and manages to impress her ambitious admirer with her own forget
of his ambition. As soon dancing. singing,
integrity and to convince him clowning Eddie Albert who is has made him successful how that he is not nearly as lough so much more familiar to us
ever, she bids bim a gracious
as he think he is.
This of course than this miserable specimen. goodbye and looks round for
does not down well back home and big However, the stock poses take another male in distress.
before his over 76246172
guns are brought to bear on Taylor to
wheedle him back sense at the hunds of sote-
into line. Poor Elizabeth one from whom It is least to bo
of having Mueller, suspected expected and all one can do is
"past" is subjected to several award him inarks for a
10oxi
Indignities and the claws of try.
the socialite are sharpened for the fight.
The
s
fool
National Hero
size
The main part of the Alm taken up with her efforts on behalf of the national hero of
e
in
ed
A.
go
As might be imagined, Jack the day-General Rollan-play
with Gaille charm by Jean Painnce ploys the part of the
The end is easy to foresee, but Murats. All Paris has acelalm- there are many compensations lieutenant who has more common with his men than his him and a group of plotters for the triteness of some of the
00 about
to take advantage of dialogue and plot as a whole. with fellow officers
a bitter, his popularity with the masses There is the unusual beauty of wnsmiling intensity His black
by trying to influence him into Elizabeth Mueller for one, the eyes flash, he grits out
his taking over the
Government, still orders through tightened lips The General, being a
of still magnetic charm of Robert
elephantine will and his death is the gary mess strong principles, cannot make ness of Burl Ives. 1 feel
ke Taylor and the
the he seems to favour. His is e hls nind, until
ม
inlo the
mistake
the studio made a straight action role, relatively fray sails Elena. Perhaps
utle however; with "The Bold free from the seit conscious her beauty and not the daley
und the Brave", "The Pride and soul searching of most of the fallsman that sways him into
the Passion" and several other rest of the characters and its risking all, rather than lose her similar titles, I have been com-
jack of compileation is a reller interest,
from others,
the
Intricacies
man
BEM
Whatever I 1.
com-
.of the companied by the acid
of his mistress, he is ments
10- drawn into the political
The plot and handling of l remind me of "Gay Rosalinda”
There's a brief appearance by trigues. Puter Van Eyck, usually scen in Continental films and his suave cynicism was another welcome rellet from the rather boyish introspection of the Allled
solulers.
The skirmishing between the Americans and the Germans is the best part of the pleture, for although the arguments in the
original play, Fragile Fox, (the
in
pletely unable to remember the name of this one whenever it has been mentioned to me.
Dizzy Rogers
and "The Night Does Strange The First Travelling Sales- Things" possesses the some fault, ie, that of disjointedness. lady: Either it started out by being
This female is a rather in very long and has suffered the cutting process,
Ginger Rogers, Renoir, who
Jean dizzy wrote the story, charging through the West
directed
the screenplay
and
or
the result hoped to create his with her gawky helper, atmosphere by a series of im Carol Channing with a mis- call sign of the company) may pressions rather than by a slon in life to sell as many have been convincing, they harmonious lack conviction in the film.
A Farce
The Night Docs Strange Things:
This picture must have been designed as a come back for Ingrid Bergman, to show that she can still be the gay laughing girl of her "Saratoga Trunk" and "Casablanca" days,
progression from steel strutted corsets as she
situsijan to situation.”
can.
Mol Ferrer is the over. Although quite hard-headed
she smiling debonair dilletante who in the business world hovers in the background, always outmanacuvred into selling ready to pick up the crumbs of barbed wire, which as any good attenilen tossed him by the western fan knows
prinopda and anathema to
to the old cow hands supremely confident that he will
signature tuno fence me in." win in the end.
pre-occupied
Was
WEL
still
attractive, in spite
her
distance from carly
For some reason Marjano makes an appearance in the of picture as a street singer and youth, Miss Rogers manages to although her throaty votes le convince us that all the weapons to on aren't in the hands of the male pompe recorde, has place of the species and the pleture in the picture seemed super ends with the score on the sido of the first travelling saleslady.
fluous.
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