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ANITA EKBERG
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"SHIRIN FARHAD”
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› AMEETA,
Songs by TANVEER NAQVI Produced & Directed by ASPI IRANI
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VAN JOHNSON ANN BLYTH STEVE COCHRAN
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SLANDER
EXPOSING THE SCANDAL SHEETS
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PRIVATE SINS OF
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Co-Starting
MARJORIE RAMBEAU RICHARD EYER.
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1957.
FILMS
Boy On A Dolphin:
This is what is known in the cinema trade "vehicle" film.
EL
Its beginning could have .. "Once upon a tune started there were three prominent names In the film bwiness who were in need of a story. One was curvaceous and pretty, one had an established name ng rellablo male lend not too other was the young and
owned for his acid comments on anything and everything, plus an ability to be appearing to drop pearls of wit in an, une smiling, Oscar Wildelsh manner that couhl nevertheless be understood by the normal cinema-going publie."
The diffeally must have been to 1 in the wit, Fiery brunet- tes, cool blondes and ruthless redheads are nearly always as- sured of a matc audience as long as they haven't been ex- hibited too long and the sightly aging male, has even more of an appeal for the teenagers than for the more mature. But pointed remarks that although plulitucionnus, can slip beneath the skin, are not sure-fire' box office, even if they emerge from tho practised lips of Clifton Webb.
Decided Tribute
That he comes off best then
in "Boy On A Dolphin" against such formidable competition is a decided tribute to this-to me unprepossessing and egotist- cal fellow.
He is one
who thinks his the classics and
of those people knowledge of
of the where- abouts of some of the more valuable rolles lost beneath the Middle Eastern Seas has given them the right keep what they find. The script writer thinks otherwise,
BY JANE ROBERTS
-This Week's Films- In Pictures
Teenagers on the loose in "Rock Pretty Baby"
Anita Ekberg, Pat Crowley, the dog and friends in the Marlin and Lewis picture "Hollywood or Bust”,
COF
a mga
Introduced to the female is never 'made quite clear and in any" case, it the climatic meeting occurred too far from the end, the picture would fizzle to of standstill.
On the way to Hollywood they pick up an itinerant danger Pat Crowley and with Jerry's Great Dane as the fourth-pas- RENVECT the journey is fairly funny.
Most of the stock Martin and Lewis situations are used and if you find them amusing you'll laugh. If you don't there's al- ways the Great Dane.
Part-time Adults
حباب
Rock Pretty Baby:
As with the Martin and Lewis offering, *Rock Pretty Baby" is a question of taste,
It's aimed at those who either 1ke Rock 'n Roll or think it's fashionable to do so and. those self-conscious and 【 130 the words in their literal sense -youngsters who have been by fashion magazines, coaxed record companies and writers short of copT into becoming obscesca into thinking that their perfectly normal curiosity at turning trom a child Into n adult is of world-shattering, in- terest,
Here are picture:
samples from the
From the publicity agent,. "The whole wonderful story nf today's tempestuous teenagers."
From the dialogue Pa to Ma ...."We
forget they're only part-time adults. We expect them to act grown-up, but treat them like kids,"
"
plano;
house.
Vines
And from the glossary that gots with the pubiletty hero ard como extracts to show how far the English language has pro- grezzed;
Ball
wonderfati time. Alan Ladd; as a patre-minded
Bread
money, Ding-6- research worker is given a lot
ling of high-minded twaddle to read,
crazy about gin. Eighty-eight the gist of which is that any
of details
making a admire the new gloomy John-
anything very im thing from the
past found small
Gasser beneath the waves Of the precarious living by fishing for son.
pressiva. Pat I'm afraid the whole thing is
Threads clothes. Grecian Seus is of such cultural sponges and when by accident value to the fishermen of the she stumbles on the wreck of an too morbid and smukly crusad- ***** clothes. And so on. village nearest to which it was ancient boat bearing the figure ing for my taste. It's true that Sal Mineo is in the picture úlscovered that it should be head of a boy on a dolphin It is these magazines are a menace to and from looking as though ho turned over to them rather than or litle importance to her. the happiness of public figures
educated de to the wealthy,
who have something to hide and hold promise of being a com- An erudite, drunken
it's equally true that those who petent actor remember him with maire money from such publica- James Dean in "Rebel Without tena are not to be admired, but A Cause he appears to have what the the righteously indignant attitude deteriorated into adopted by the makers of this glossary calls a "Dream Boy". picture docs not givs it much Oh well, I suppose there's main
money in it. entertainment value.
world.
doctor faintly piratical character 50 becomes enthusiastic about her much more suited to exhibiting story, however, and the picture such a prices and to the wastes litle time in switching That's how the Idea for the the bewitching peasant to the sophistication of Athens in search story must have started.
The result isn't at all had, if of a sponsor for her treasure you leave out the harrowed feelings of the script writer.
Sophia Loren is a pouty, petulant giri capable of nothing more than an attention to the
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MATURE WILDING
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hunt.
Cupidity
Ae-
the
Without giving away story It's difficult to warn the soft-hearted that there in an incident in the aim that will probably cause them discomfort,
that
Somewhere along the way cupidity is outmatched by cuplu and Clifton Webb's material templations are swept overboard not a wild grab for their The by those of love aided a little neighbour's handkerchtet.
scene in question, however, is bit by force of circumstances.
an extent 1 liked the fact that Sophia telegraphed to such Lorth's practical approach to that it is dimcult to imagine her country's buried treasure any other way of dealing with was allowed more force than the the visual elbow-digging
has preceded it. slightly pumpous utterances of nrchacologist Alan Ladd and that Tries Hard even though the latter was de corded a few seconds' grovel
Having bocn, I hope, buff-
appottie among the fishing nets with the gently
whetting, Д luscious Lorm, Webb's mis- word about the east, demeanours were permitted to
tries Van Johnson, as usual,
luto very hard to put himself go unpunished.
The
is breathtaking the part he is playing, but like and ir
you ean forgive Alan Glen Ford he only succeeds in Ladda
tle puffiness around being the nico, home-loving or the face, and Webb attic dinary man who is passionately portentousness in his barbs of devoted to amateur theatricals. bitter humour, Sophia Loren næore than makes up for any other shortcomings.
somery
his Ann Blyth is adequate as we, but the galety and sparkle that is her stock In trade is bot necded in this picture and the
Gloomy Johnson substituted "dedicated" "air she
Slander:
Poor Van Johnson hardly ever seems to get the chance to display his boyish grin
To-morrow Morning Show At 11.00 am, "VALLEY OF THE KINGS"these days.
The King of Whiskies
BOY ON A DOLPHIN
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las adopted for her role is not her style. Put woman for man in my that words on Van John
and they son's performance do for Ann Blyth too.
Sleve Cochrån glories in his
nastiness, as she would expect and the little boy is like all
Their Last?
He moont his way through screen small boys. Paris with Ellenbeth Taylor, endured blindness in London with Vera Miles and now back In America he's being pursued by one of those so-called "truth" magazines that can make even a Sunday school plenic sound like a Bacchanalian debauch,
Hollywood Or Bustt
In spite of the repeated news about, the break up of In “Slander'"" he only becomes the money-spinning Martin a target for one of these ma- and Lewis act, wo still seem gazines after he has become to be seeing their pictures. famous on television as a puppet This one is the last they made manipulator, but there's enough together, however, and grines in his background even subsequent alms in which they before this to satisfy those who both appear will be either the result of a reconciliation or have been made some time ago.
FANS.
No. 1030
(MIDGET) PAN
It may have been botiga that in nearly all Martín and. Lewis comedies, the two actors are constantly
the hove. Their.... script willer, seemą to take a delight in shuffling his puppets on and off trains and kn and out of a cleverly varied art. of situations.
In this last picture of their the journey, an, you must have gathered, la townrde Hollywookt. The story, writer, spreading his materials liberally as possibia, starts it off in New York whore Martin and Lewis --- one by fair means and the other by foul why a car. Goggle-erod Lewis woes his luck as er incons to al tnih the end of which bey been draming for months,” His Mn-
New Films -At- A Glance
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HOOVER and LIBERTY; "Blander"; "A so-called expose of the expose magazines Van John son, Ann Blyth Blere Cochran,
KING'S and PRINCESS: "Hollywood Bust":
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The title refers to tho film colony and to Anita Ekberg, Tuo real star
are
Dean Marika
Jokty Lewis, assisted by
B a dog called Mr comb. METROPOLE and STAR; "Rock Pretty Baby": Bock 'n Roll plus puppy love, Sal Mineo, John Baxon, Luauis Potion. QUEEN'S EI ALHAM- BRA: who Wrong Man": Henry Fonda's
double commile a crime and Fonda almost has to Day. With Tera Miles and Alfred Hitchcock's direction
ROXY and BROADWAY;
"Bay On A Dolphin”,
shian, Ladą, and Sophia Loren wallow pithe water while Clifton WEDD 100ka ‘on,
COMING
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