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KING'S PRINCESS
AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M. AT 2.30, 3.20, 7.30 & 9.40 F.M.
SHOWING TO-DAY
Engene O'Neill's Most Controversial Play
OUT OF THE HEART'S SECRET PLACES
COMES A SHOCKING DRAMA ABOUT.. INTIMATE FAMILY RELATIONSI
Pamount prebenta The DON HARTMAN
EUGENE OʻNEILL'S
DESIRE
UNDER THE ELMS
SOPHIA LOREN ANTHONY PERKINS BURL IVES
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KING'S
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FILMS Current and Coming
ESIRE
by Lucy Downing
"D'Elms" the King's and Princess this the farm to him.
Instantly Anna changes her
Under the sun and in splurge of self- showing at pity talks vaguely of leaving
weekend, is a very earthy production with lust for the land obsessing three of the central characters.
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hig
Fony
his
a
tactles. She lies about the boy's advances towards her until she recognises the cold murderous rage taking hold of her jealous
KÜZCS
anguishing escorts. Or will they?
their all.
When wailing death he slouches against a gravestone with relaxed charm and squints at the sun!
Patricia Owons, hampered by
The escorts will be equally fascinated by the delightful Christine revelling in her pro vocative role. Some will spare the unattractive clothing of the a glance for the more mature early West ere is not the plc- and poised charms of Joan Fou- lure of fresh loveliness which talne.
created such an impression in
fancee in “Sayonara”.“
Bonjour
A mount "The Law And
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Lee & Astor
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SHOWING_TO-DAY.
4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9:30 PM.
AEREO Balcar
dial M for Murder
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JOHN WILLIAMS BLOCK HOTY who the warracional Sango See ALFRED HITCHCOCK
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TOM & JERRY TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
ASTOR THEATRE
At 11.00 a.m
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At 12.30 p.m.
PANCHO VILLA RETURNS
husband. Then she exerts all IL deplets the possessive her power to calm him, in- This lovely British actress her part as Marlon Brando's passion of Ephraim Cobol an planting the idea of a son und gave such a sincere and sensl- tuted former who puts his land hele In the oki man's mind. He tive performance In
But she tags along manfully before anything cise in life is infinted with pride at the Tristesse" es the ill-fated god- over difficult terrain and brings except perhap pride in his own very ides, but Anna is planning mother. This time she is the realism to her difficult role. virility.
Coundlan that Eben shall be the father sympathetic but betrayed wife. This
actress All the leading cheretem are bucated in England. She was "Between Anna,
son shall inherit young and that her youngest the estate. Italian wife and his
very attractive people in this probably a trophy winner in Bon Eben, there is n raw rivalry
Anthony Perkins portrayalm and Bradford Diliman not her local Pony Club. over the inheritance of the rich of the bitter and brooding the least so. He is the young Robert Middleton an Orturo whom Christine hos is excellent. It seemed sim- New England form, until that Eben is a powerful one. He is man with bone of contention is replaced intense and drumatic, doing a love affair, not terribly m-
portant throughout the Indian by the desire which flourishes well
Experi- with 11 unrewarding portant to her, Taller
raid and afterwards that he rather frighteningly under the characterisation although per- mental or analytical really.
the side of the should bo on wenthur-beaten elms.
The scenes are colourful. In goeds". The rest of the "bade" haps a little out of depth in
De fact Cinemascope
LAIKS But Ives plays convincingly this hirid love sequences,
WCTO 50 very bad, they were the massive triarch, Three The fest affair in the Aim and beautifully shot on actual
past hoping for nnywhy. In Paris, Nice, the location 10-your- wiver and three
Lash embrolla him with a
Henty Especially
Silva Yonne Valley and the virtue,
French their
against his rock- old lives
woman of easy
rolo hown egolism. On lips played effectively by Greta Riviera. Production and direc- Rennie He had a much more
Bravadocs" quotations from Holy Scripture Granstedt. But it is with Anna tion by Henry Ephron and Jean Sympathetic
Incidentally there were some sound blasphemous because he that a dangerous idyll becomes Negulesco. believes in
resemblances between with himself
marked a real love affair. monumental faith.
This im was adapted from n
T the Hoover and Para- the latter flan and this. Both and Imagent "Anna who piny and its stage origin keeps
had a hero who was all mixed opened with. gnot breaks has known only poverty
and prept through. Even the hunger und apent her hard blossunta on the trees In spring Jake Wade" is playing to up and as much violence as the young life In the home and time looket artificial, benuti such good houses that it viewer car halen. At least service of others, arrives as the fully so, yet I'm sure they were has been retained for an viewer of my calibre. third with vi the Justy real. It is the theatrical effect
Then there were the shots of Ephraim. At first sight of the which remains so vividly in other week...
scenic grandeur. Even rich farmland she becomes a
The cast is a very strong one villain in this lin pays tribute mlad when so many Herce contender for the whole othur Alms are forgotten or in the new wide Western trend. to the scenery ikening it to domain,
Robert Taylor is grimly hart- the Swiss Alps, "Whero every mudged into each other. She is opposed by smarting And
which some as the reformes outlaw prospect pleases and only man the scene in Eben, son of the second wife. Ephraim wildly shows off his who has become a U.S. nur is vile or words to that effect, been_the_com- who owned most of the fann virility at the christening party shat and then goes out to help might have and exhorted her son to west is so typically something out his past sins catch up with him. mentary, the inheritance from her slaves of a musical comedy, bul Richard Widmark is the vwy But what would Westerns be
personification
ruthless without of driving spouse who had caused irresistibly entertaining.
killing her death. Eben hus already It is assumed that this direc- killer. He quels his unruly thundering hoofs and Indians
Tils wild half- for had decided that more na- gang,
The happy fights of
uf whooping around? brother's who were disgusted by tural and convincing cinema Comanches and keeps an eagle ending makes it all worthwhile 2.30-5,30-7.30 & 9.30 || 2:305.207.30 & 9.30 their father's greed and in- treatment would detract
eye on his captive Robert Tay and patrons from the Hoover
Paramount went
KWOY humanity. They go off to mako this version of Eugene O'Neill's lor with pretty hostage Patriclu and fortunes for themselves in the play scripted by Irwin Shaw, Owens all at once. No effort at happy. Californian goldfields,
la so obviously a play and a play in which the gripping power is the inevitability of the approaching climax, the feeling of inexorable doom.
bought uut
one's
from
Then Anna arrives as a new eballenge to Eben. And when I tell you that Annu is played by Sophia Loren, you will realise how formidable the challenge.
This shapely and actress knows how to carry THE Becond of Francoise
TH buckets of water without buck-1 Sugan's controversial
talented
ling at the knees. She rolls up
her sleeves and her skirts with novels brought to the screen Certain Smile," n the air of familiar practice as is “A
soon as she sees the interior of brilliant film showing at the the filthy ill-kempt farmhouse which she transforms
without
the touch of a fairy godmother's
work.
She knows too how to make n man conscious of her pre- sener and ovuzy movement. Al Arst Elben watches with sulky resentment, then with reluctant
more
Roxy and Broadway.
The stars include a newcomer to American alms, the girl with an indefinable something in her smile is played by the charming French actress, young Christine Curere.
Rossano Bruzzi, equally married man charming as the admiration.
desirable Anna flaunts Infatuated with the smile (not The
of the Mona Lisa serenity) and ffaux- her charme even rantly, before the impression is owner is so right in the part. able young man with tho in- The shouldering warmth of his terest of a cat for a mouer dark eyes and innate courtesy Ephraim unaccountably in his love affairs will surely towards his youngest make many young viewers cast
sollens
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HOOVER & PARAMOUNT": "The Law and Jake Wade.” Red Indians scalp-hunting, desperate mexi treasure hunting and lovely gui held captive. These Aro
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some of the exalting Ingredients of the film - siarring Robert Taylor. Richard Widmark and Patriola Owens
(of Sayonara) In Cinemascope and Stetrocolour.
Produced by William
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Albert, 11.
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