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"AS LONG AS YOU'RE NEAR ME*
Attila:
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1957.
FILMS
CURRENT & COMING by ANTHONY FULLER
broken knuckles, I'm sorry play which is confined to the children. In either ease, it The trouble with a film like fellow Western fatis if I've stage, the camera takes us into generally means misery for the
tnken the thrill out of the the Foreign Office. Really children,- "Attila" now showing at
Aghis, bul that bare-fist David Niveň, as sluffy a type as the Queen's and Alham, slugging is impossible,
ever walked under a bowler bra, la that it cuts you off
hal, furled an umbrella, and a chunk of history, and
took out Л
BISON ticket, is you don't quite
sorting out all the seating errors of the last Coronation. Tho where it fits in
La
know
This column is not the place to give a history lesson, neither this parifeler period of history well documented. How ever, In case you'd like to know, here goes,
The film opens at that stage In history when the Roman Empire w considerably ad- vanced in decay. At the tuna England was being overrun by the Germanie tribes, Weiler Europe was receiving lively at tention from the Goths, Vandals, and Huns.
"Gun for Coward" bus all these cliches, Likewise the cattle stampede, Likewise tho maiden all forlom.
The picture is a Universal International nimed in Cinama Scope, and is playing at the Star and Metropole.
Jeffrey Hunter plays a part that was intended for the late James Dean, and he is the coward of the title. Fred Mac- Murray is the tough, long auf fering
elder brother, the misunderstood character of this kind of film.
whole thing is so solenn, such wicked carlenture of all the rubber stamp breed, that I al- most died of laughing.
Utterly Utter
Paramount's VistVision draing deals with such a case. It tells How Karl Makien, the father,
drove his son Anthony Perkins well nigh insane, because the father was determined the a011 should be a star baseball player. This is the second pleture. I have seen this week dealing with the murky recesses of the mind, and it would seem that Americans are much less reticent about publishing their case his- Stewart Granger is so utterly forfes than other people. This utter that he is completely story is held to be quite true, myopic when it comes to his and is based upon a book of the It is sub-tilied. friend Niven who openly firts same title, in an outrageous fashion with "The Jin Plersall Story” and Anthony Perkins plays the Ava Gardner, Granger's wife.
Piersail role, Jonico Rule provider that The only way a playwright exasperating feminine interest, could bring this into the open but have already devoted is to put them into an Eden That they were savage, as the many lines in former columns where they take the snake-in- picture points out can be on her Find of part,
with the-grass Niven slang gathered from the fact that
So there they are, and them.
Perkins lives up to the re "Hun and Vandal" have become
their truc qualities are revealed, putation he earned in "Friendly Persuasion" and CITges a Synonyms for terror and des- truction in warfare.
Granger proves to be a re- pretty good actor, for he ranges gular Admirable Crichton. between scenes which call for Suave Niven, a proper all-wit the sensitivo boy to the young whose only lagenuity is dis- man who cracks up under the played in an attempt to outwit strain. his friend and take over his wife.
Now where the picture that it in linked succeeds la with us in that the characters are given lines of sure socio- lion with events of our days.
Paraphrasing
Attila is warned of offending the Pope. le pays something like this. "What army can this Pope put in the field?" Now the late Stalin is reputed to have said that.
Attila's specch of SOTION when he murdered his brother is a paraphrase of the Brutus meech from Julius Caesar.
I will leave it as I announced
Yot il a week ago.
another Western.
Naughty
}!
Pretty Good
Kari Malden does well in his portrayal of the father who uses his son's esteem to further the father's ambition through the son.
“ATTILA”
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The mightiest spectacle yet seen on the screen
"ATTILA
SOPHIA LOREN
Car TECHNICOLOR
ANTHONY QUINN
Little Hut: How much mughter you
It is imqult to think of any got out of the "Little
two aclots who would have Hut" depends entirely made a better job of these roles upon your own Aunse of than Granger and Niven,
The pleture brings new tlues not need me to say that humour. For instance, can
comer in Norma Moure, as the the delectable Ava is just cut you get a laugh out of out for the part,
girl who brings Perkins through his awful mood and sets him that exaggeration of
The "Little Hut" to mix a right wth the world. If your don't of pro- British sense
the part priety? Say, for instance, metaphor, salls very near to the understand bnschall, you wil!
wind, yet is never vulgar. For probably appreciate two ragged types living some really fine acting, you when Perkins la taken to n in a straw hut who insist have to see the bit where Niven mental hospital where for days his preposterous
no one. Adam sur le recognises upon dressing for dinner? makes
estion that he share Ava with Willams plays the wise and Or of the What I'm getting at is, it
same two her husband, Stewart Granger, understandinus psychiatrist, and QUEEN'S: TO-MORROW AT 12.00 NOON standing solemnly at the The impatient, frustrated lover there is a good seene when the
"INVITATION” MATINEE CONCERT makes a good seript, and for
is doctor tums away the father once I left a spectacular histori- saluto as the Union Juck who les himself in knots ral Alm without ferllag
is lowered at sundown posed against the undemonstra- and refuses to permit him seeing- the nauseated by
ridiculous
Live Granger who is anxious to his son. upon thoir ramshackle anachronisms we have inflicted
do the decent thing at all times. island domain. upon us.
I ought to menton Walter when the father, having sneaked Strangely
castaways Chlart, the Ilian idol of stage in to his son, finds young romantic episode of the alm is determined to be decent (well and screen who makes a aust Perkins turn on him and
this nounce him, Honoria, the
entry grand- almost) in that heavy-handed unexpected daughter of the Emperor of the way that the French in parti- island paradiso, Another clever Eastom Empire did send her cular And so excruciatingly bit of playing if there ever was Ming Mtilä She had be funny in the British. having an affair with a court chamberlain, was placed under restraint, so appealed to All to deliver her. Whether this Influenced Attila, I don't know, but he certainly used her plen as an exCUSO for subsequent at the
true.
aggressions.
enough, the most
Very Moving
A very moving scene is that where Pope Loo I is seen medis ing Atulla as the latter is ravig ing Northern Italy. A voice interrupts the scene to tell us we do not know what the Pope Bald to cause Alun to turn back. We don't, Gibbon tells us he minde peace at the entreaty of the Pope.
Now all this makes a wonder. ful spectacle, but it leaves you wondering how men can be so savage. That is until you recall the Attila's of our age.
No account is taken of a squeamish audience; blood flows bright and scarlet, The la gusting table habits of Attila are on show as when he thrusts a lustful kiss upon Sophia Loren while he chews and slob.
bers a mouthful of meat over her lips.
The photography is excellent. The tented camp of Attila, the palace of Ravenna, are splendid shots.
So I recommend this for its Intelligent reconstruction of a rather obscure perlod of Europe's destiny.
Sophia Loren does little to enhance her reputation as an rovals actress, although she she has considerable physical attraction.
1 will add that I do not con- side Anthony Quinn got the feel of the part, He is savage enough, brutal beyond descrip- tion, but he seems to wonder. what it is all about.
The Pacifist
Gun For A Coward: Quite honestly, I don't know how to describe this Western except to repeat myself. It is the stock plot with the newest twist. The pacifist cow- boy..
Now when that angle was introduced with "Share") (you remember he declared a rolde- Lance for violence), หลง developed in "Friendly Persia- sion," and hackneyed in "Tha Lonely Man," and done to death in "Gun Glory," I. said it wun a good twist, Now I'm a bit aick of it.
Also there smashing bare-fist battles.. I've tolerated them and in a way. enjoyed then. knowing all the time that no man yet lived who could strike i blow, amplißed I admit by the
In
short,
LIVO
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cnc.
Into
That's all there In to this
The film comes in colour, and
Rom MGM release now showing at was filmed in London,
Jamaica. The quicker the Hoover and Liberty,
But I started to laugh right you are on the uptake, the bet
ter you will enjoy this. beginning. Unlike the
New Films
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A
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "Atta": Sophia Loren and Anthony Quhut. coloured spectacular alm the Huna Western
showing devastating
Europe.
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "The Little Hat"': Ava Gardner, Stewart Gran- ger. and David Niven akipwrecked island.
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KING'S & PRINCESS: "Fear Sirikes Cat': An- thony Perkins and Kari Malden in a drama of a boy who has to realise his father's simbitions, STAR &
METROPOLE:
"Gun For A Coward": Fred MacMurray, Jeff- rey Hunter, Janice Rule, Call Wills, and pean Blockwell A western, filmed in colunt, with the angle of the pacifist
cowboy.
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Kek in nudd chulberg's beat melior, HOOVER
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METROPOLE: BTAR &
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For Parents
Fear Strikes Out: "Fear Strikes Out," now showing at the King's and Princess, is a film I advisa every should parent to see. My reason for saying so is, parents are well-meaning, but in the main, a stupid class of people:
by
GEOFFREY TANKARD
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This picture when you feel in a more ocrious mood and prepared to do a bit of serious thinking.
Box Office
An Affair To Remember:
"An Affair to Remember" is being held over at the Roxy and the Broadway for another week. You will recall that I sold the box-office is the only true critic of public taste, and so it has proved to be. I feel there is little to add to what I have already said.
If I have any second thoughts at all, it is to emphasise the fact that the director almost spolls They try to do one of two the pleture by so long
with their things
children. sequence of use children's antics Either they are determined to during the song episode. Apart sue that their children avoid the. from that, the picture is a love- mistakes they themselves have ly and a sincere thing. Better, made: or they try to reailse perhaps, at the beginning dis thetr ambitions through their the love affair is built up.
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