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SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1957.
FILMS
The Rainmaker:
Once again Katherine Hepburn has taken that un- sympathetic representative of the feminine species the spinster and mids of her, not an object of pity, scorn or dislike, but a WAIT human-being, sharp tongued only because misunderstood and difficult to get on with merely when treated as રા misfit.
It's alficult to assess this film from the point of view it was obviously meant to be taken by the originator 15 I number among my friends come charming and Intelligent une married women of all ages who would collapse into paroxysms of mirth if it were muggested. that their single stato bothers then, to the smallest degree. Katherine Hepburn, on the other hand, starts off
in the picture by being acutely con- scious of the opprobrium at- tached to tho stalo of being single and is only
too aware that the menfolk on the ranch--- her father and brother-ire trying desperately to get her off their hands, with no success.
Rainless
The farm is not a
very prosperous ond and the con- dllions in this dry part of the west are further aggravated by the lack of even a small shower of rain.
Lizzle Curry's life is as dry
མ་ as the weather and it looky.as though the vicious circle that started with her father telling her that che was plain, con- tinued as her neceptance of the
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BY JANE ROBERTS
This Week's Films-
In Pictures
Burt Lancaster explain's persuasively, Katherine Hep- burn fatens raph. A scene from "The Aginmaker", now at the King's and Princess.;
tors to put over in a characters the hubnour of fions in which most of. conveyed by a lift of the brow or a highly exis "Wow On further ren however, this dos hut to be the full zakoni, ed teen Chinese sutilences be ith laughter over the
of out of their own actors cl
dialogue practically nxistent and the actions enurely mimed in dumb
No prizes are offered explanation of the phentad but I would be most in
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get reader's views or Iand when The Boll Cadillac descends to run cinemas.
urge you not to miss t Holliday's nave quest
a one per cent shareholt company meeting being d enoothly through by Shop tors in order to concaele shady practices are a fan
innocenter" Cher against the shrewd 1lums of this's. "In thou′′ escites just the amounpity associated
afront clown
her
willy
Fred Clark, always al comedian, performs gil Paul Douglas aging, hilj dyspeptle hero is like ty bear.
No. Fanfa
Hot Summer Night
Without a great a "Hot Summer Nig descended on theo and Liberty theat in spite of the not known names of thi principals in the c very well made an tuining film,
verdhet made her dull towards any vaguely interested male, and completed itself as male interest his pert and flirtatious girl sicus Inle the imaginations of dick when Riven the cold friend is not at all to his father's dimwriters
with ដ nodding shoulder brought on by her own taste and there's a general air aqualotance with selentior facts The Arst time Leik belf doubt would accompany of frustrailon about the Curry and don't mind the familiar mix- made much of an her throughout her life.
The brother who helping manch when the travelling sales ture of pure-minded scientist, was as we hard boll
man arrives.
pretty assistant and self-seeking in "Ransom who co Burt Lancaster is no ordinary experimentalist then ronds reasonably and logica friend confidence man though and even is not a bad example of its kind. sympatico
harassed, father whang wary Currys are taken in Barbam Lawrence is the girl.
been kidnapped. N by him. His trick is an old
sensitivo and thoug one, Perceiving flat the most
formance and sho wanted commodity in the area
Young man. was nouit other of the mouths who make so mucinag the film business.
his father to marry her off has his own troubles however, as
New Films -At- A Glance
SROWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY:
"Ifot Sammer Night": In a quiet town in the Ozarks, newspaperman
a hot story tria
while
his new bride simmers. Nielson, Colleen
Ver. James Best
KING's and PRINCESS: "The Kalamaker": The spinster and the charla- together, to work create a mirable. Katherine Hepburn,
Bart casier. Wenderl
METROPOLE and STAR: "The Gold Rush': An early Charles Chaplin picture made in the days when he was known as "Charlie"
ANDAMA ALIKAMERA:
Jubric
yond Mombasa": adventure fa- volving a search for a nrahlum mine. Cornel Wilde, Donia Reed, Led Gean.
ROXY and BROADWAY:
"Kranba": The mytholo sical nither of Zeus breaks into the twentieth odalúry via science fic Hom Jeff Morrow, Barbara Lawrence, John Emery.
COMING HOOVER and LIBERTY:
"Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo": The bombing of Tokyo during the Second World War, Spencer Tracy. Robert Mitchum, Van Johnson, Phyllis Thaxtor, Roberi Walker. KING
and PRINCESS: “High Tide at,. Nganit, Bellich drama, jet du tho shores of Camaja. Botta St John, William Sylvester.
METROPOLE and STAR; "Mr Cory": Tony Curtis as gambler” Has his tinal rough time unti the last rétt „WREN 136 gola the
WHE Hauryn Martin Hyer Grant, Chirica, EIERTONE, ROKY and BROADWAY;
ning Englos": Aŭ Airborne In- fantry | divtsian's. peilen on D-Bw. Tom Tryou Αντ
Alport John Steinbeck's story
of
'abus journey, and the fil' uamorted 'BOSD „Wha positivică fim gaming eft. Rick: Jason, Dan Dolley,
CALENDA
the.
is rain, he promises to use his gifts to produce this
Lost!
much Beyond Mombasa:
wanted element. Before he can da ao, however, his tricks aro
Leo Genn is another Bri-
exposed and the fact that he is tish actor who ecoms to
Stewart
His second appear M7 nearly as convincinAl
the fashions to com space age has taken of the universe, he r "ef" équally silly giving
rocketed into the
a charlatan wanted for various have been lost to America. in one of the large petty crimes in other parts of Ife will presumably join costumes supposed the country made only too plain. James, Mason,
Lizzle, into whose eyes he has brought the first gicam of real Granger and the rest of our huppinces for many years is dịɛ- actors who find that al illusioned and the other who though they may be cast in have been caught-up by his in- fcétious gaiety cheated, pictures the plots of which Even the ebulllończ of the are drivel, the resulting happy-go-lucky fellow himself cash is not. evaporates as he shakes the dust of the town from his heels,
It's Obvious
feel
Donna Reed
is another of these safari girls who heles of into the jungle with no apparent mrans of support from her
The denouement is obvious, wardrobe, only to appear at any
meet Ann Francis
Pidgeon in "ForblaPh
This was a piece oldud, cartoon-strip north did nothing for him of
A Repor
He's back as a cin this time no new tack
but if you have not been able given moment-usually when in Hat Sumintr to see it coming I will save the the hero-who-is-masquerading sceret for you.
her
the
chat
In the desert of pictures we tent-In
is about to 28-a-heel
to enter her him up and 10 have been getting recuintly this
a glamorous get up. take on their hone on stands out like a landmark that would not look out of place No specini me due It is sensitive in places, earthy fix. Mayfair. Her appearance in Colleen Miller as i he and real in others and at times the picture is due to the affee has to walt arush uproariously funny.
tion the bears her uncle, Leo new husband fer Always an admirer of Kathe. Genn, whose smothness we im-
truth about
the begin to suspect.
the frightened. times when I have wished that Cornel she would not use so many of of all adventurers, has to make and David Fret
producing team her own tried and tested man us, and the heroine, thoroughly commendation for nerisms that, though graphically dislike him before it is revealed which they have t underlining the situation, have that he is not the heartless suspense to a cimhrees been used so often that they money grubber he gave the attention. have becomo almost irritating impression of being.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
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LAST, 3 SHOWS TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30 & 7.30 P.M.
20th CENTURY-FOX presents
KRONOS
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JEFF MORROW-BARBARA LAWRENCE - JOHN EMERY
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TOM TRYON
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ORIENTAL MAJESTIC
TO-DAY
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rine Hepburn, there have been mediately de, in the manner trying to
hide VISTA, MOTION PICTURE TO EX-
In The Rainmaker" she has discarded most of them and the
If you think you've seen it
resulting sincerity makes this before, let me sure you that
one of the best films she has made in the last few years,
"The Rainiuaker" ís very
good entertainment
A Greek Air?
's new.
Astonished!
The Solid Gold Cadillac:
I was astonished and not
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a little shocked to find that SHOWINGO AY
the
Kronos:
The title of this picture I had lost a friendly urgu- has a Greek air about it. ment held earlier this week! but apart from the fact with the Queen's Theatre's that scientist Jeff Morrow astute and jovial manager, dubs the weird monster Jimmy Wu. from outer space with the Let me faster to add that this name of one of the Titans was due not to the occeit of of mythology, father of inicing that I knew better than he what would suit Hongkong's Zeus, the connection is taste, but to a belief that merely one of nomencin intelligence of Hongtong's turo.
audiences is decidedly above The story of "Kronos" is pure to so thumb as to pass over the westerns and that they could not Hollywood Action, with worried, delightful comedy of Judy Holli- looking scientists. and their glamorous assistants in deadly Clark in The Sould Gold Cadil- day. Paul Douglas and Fred peril from "Things" that walk tad" in spite of its unwieldy ude and. Bet le robots, but are end, according to Jimmy, Jock activated by the most evil inten- of attraction of Miss Holiday. tions that the script writer enh think up.
My contention, was that of fe prorrow has apprect in enough audichers, to run coured "The Gedding's would bo many, science fiction picture over the weekend and with that it do dimbult to imagine et's face it, the rather dated him in and other róla. He oñéo
appeared as an Americare Rags of Charlie Chaplin con- volutionary during the war with tinuing to attract the Finleo, and was also the dospas sciatomers at the Metropols' abr the famée of the object of Tuty: 508, rita, Cading more Curtis affections · in fim of ophisticated humour seemed which I can't remember the bound to outstrip the re-issue. name, but apart from this: hus
stuck firmly to the Imaginative King Inability?
work beloved, ot, stripPjacar. toonists. It seems a pity,
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