THE MEN WHO REALLY CAN HANDLE A WAR...
VERY man who has
E ever inken part in
ล
war, from a private down to a war correspondent, has always been confident that he could win it fuster and with fewer casualties than the general in command of the operation.
THE INITATION GENERAL, la the story of a rergennt who gets the chance of proving 1.
Glen Ford is touring the battle area with his caminand- Ing officer when Б German machine-gun bullet kills the general, Master-Sergeant Ford picks up the general's helmet and puts it on.
ן.
He is at once accepted, by soldiers and officers alike, na brass-hat and urged to take the it litary tuation in hand needs faking in hand.
INSPIRATION
The American troops are sur- 1ounded, worn out, undisciplined, and in general bod shape, but the sight of the general's star on Ford's helmet, plus the know- ledge that the man they think Is their commander-in-chief is -
them, among
sharing their trials, puts spine back into them.
It also persuades Ford to con- tinue the masquerade.
Naturelly-being-a-sergeant
and
everyone knows
that
Orgçants are really the men
THE CHINA MAIL; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1988,
THE CHINA MAIL FILM PAGE... By LEONARD MOSLEY
Why she scares Germany
THE TWO ROSEMARIES. ABOVE FILM STILL ÖF BIREN-SUITED NADJA TILLER, AND INSET ; THE ORIGINAL ...
Film releases unpalatable skeleton from
national cupboard-Adenauer seeks suppression
ipes in
the
The
vanished. heen emptied.
recorders.hat cameras had
Had Rosemarie Nitriblit been murdered because she had tried
ful friends?________
BRING you today auer is trying to persunde sexadul in German business and to blackmail one of her power-
(so far un- pellital ebeles. the Italians the first picture from
the Festival.
who run an army--ho proves the film which is the zuccessfully) to ban it from
himself a born battle com-
mander.
storm-centre and sensa- tion of the Venice Film
He not only routs the enemy. He makes a conquest of a pretty Festival. French girl (Taina Elg) he finds taking a bath in a farmhouse during the height of the baith:, "The Imitation General" is helther as funny n film comedy a might have been, nor
Ity name: THE GIRL ROSEMARIE.
1 Was mide in West
as ironie. But Ford's easy man- Germany in face of strenu
interpolations cus
opposition from the ner, plus some from Red Buttons as a sceptical Government of Dr Konrad corporal, make it easy to take. Ademuer, Now Dr Aden Especially by sergeants.
NOW that their baby son
is four months old, Marlon Brando's wife, actress Arina Kashfi, în going back to work, in spite of the dispute, "I-the-or-is-she- not-an-Oriental?" she will play an Indian girl in "Night of the Quarter Moon."
TOMATY
OMMY STEELE has turned down plans to stor him in "Berleus Charge," a film which would have marked his debut ar a dramaile actor.
He was in favour of making ! him without a song, and stil wants to do so, but he feared
an earlite to his playing corrupt youth trying to black- mall à vicar. His decision means. that he will not now make b Bim before the end of the year.
BRIGHTTE
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w
By
BARDOT D get thu same salary deal
Frank
Einstra for her co-
"Parls slurring stint in Night. She will pick up a pay cheque for 200,000 plus four per cent of the profits.
AFTER 30 years as a song and dance man, Fred Astaire will play his first straight dramatic role in "On The Beach," film ver vion of the Nevil Shute
True story
Rosemarie Nitribilt was highly paid prostitute who num brred among her friends and clients some of the richest and most powerful men in Germany. -She owned a fast sports car, She had a fortune in furs. She knew mony secrets.
No one knows, for the murder has still not been solved and does not look like being solved.
'False idea'
... ROSEMARIE NITRIBITT
Why does the West German;
"The Girl Rosemarie" tries to clear up some of the mystery ""The Girl Government want
When police broke into her behind the
and also murder Rosemarie" barred from The
fat last year they found her uses Its cameros to make n world's screens?
lying on her bed, strangled, swingeing indictment of loose Because it is based on the true They also found that the fat life among the rich business story Rosemarie Nitribilt, contained hidden microphones, men and politicians in Germany, ture that he has tried to ban 1. But the Vnice Film Festival whose marder in her flat in the tape recorders, and still, and It is because Dr Adenauer be- judges insisted that it will
Lagi year uncorked a moving film cameras. But the lieves the film gives a false pic- nevertheless bo shown. Ruhr
Roderick Mann
The Zsa Zsa legacy that Mr. Sanders treasures most...
be Kirk
THAT cynical old sage, Mr George Sanders, "Life would be so much more Dougins-whose proceeds from
has been talking to me about the art of being
a happy bachelor. Before I left him I warned him that, by printing his remarks, I was quite liable to get him run out of town by a posse of enraged Amazons.
But he said he was prepared
to take that chance.
next year.
But there
out would come the hemlock. How pleasant Lo worth while. You would live the film The Vikings will make every day, as though it were him a millionaire by the end af your last,"
another side "For people like us," I said, to the story.
might well be."
Half-way through the film- CAREER NOTE: Before we which
made ---parted I asked Mr Sanders Douglas's own gompany-ho had "So you and Albert will about his film career. "I have to find an additional millloo grow old happily together," also solved the accrct of dollars in order to frilah If,- I said.
longevity in show business," he To raise this he mortgaged "We shall," sold 51-year-old said. "It is to be consistently his services to United Artists for three pictures. He also threw
iny old droresses me,"
The whole thing is quite simple," sald Mr Sanders Sanders. "Though talk of grow- mediocre, like me, Tottering, a when we mel, "The secret of being a happy bachelor is to have a good butler. I have Albert,
"When Zsa Zsa Gabor and I
were divorced I got the custody best-seller. His co-stars of him. He is admirable, Ha will be Ava Gardner and arranges the flowers In my home, washes my car, puts Gregory Peck,
mothballs in my suits. In fact, he does everything.
CHESS
BY LEONARD BARDEN Andrew Thorans, ‘of Tiverton, has been one of the best, West of England players for many Yents. Here is one of his wins. brainst TO, Read. 1 PR PQ81 P-503, P-03;3 PQ0, PXP: 4 FXF, K!~KBS;
"In what way is he superior a wife? He does not argue with me, nor question what ime
I arrive home, nor ask me where
it were, from one louay film to
SHOW BUSINESS
"Why? I said. "Your father's another. That way, you see, you 50, and he's still alive,”
"I know," said Sanders, "Bul
I'm not at all sure it's a good thing. Do you know that certain part of Florida, ore peopled ul- /
can never get worse."
Too shocking!
WAY
فورا
Mir
in his house, his car, and almost everything he possessed.
So that it The Vikings had been a flop he would have been penniless. And he would have had to mako
three pictures for nothing. Sald Mr Douglas Inst week: "Milke Todd fold mc, "Take the gambie--and I took 11. Well, it hos pold off. They kon the film will make But had it
most exclusively by gangrenous In the Rank Organisation's 20,000,000 dollars. petogenarians playing shuffle now Alin The Passionate Sum- been
1 monumental flop I
Mr Douglas is a courageous
I am going. Wholly admirable. boards? Animated cädivers! mer Miss Virginia McKenna should have been anished."
"Perhaps one might find a "Teams of doctors are em- plays the part of an air hostess gambler. wife like. that sometlere," played for the sole purpose of of Pan American Airways,
It is all
koeping them alive,
And now, happily, a very rich
Missing out?
The
I suggested.
Pan American planes and Pan "Out of the question," said quile awful, in my opinion one American uniforms are featured one. Sanders severely.
The "You must should be given a cup of hem throughout the picture. realise that marriage is a most lock at an agreed age and say publicity value is incalculable. unnatural relationship, in Goodbye.
Now why should this bo? Why variably entered into for the He looked around the dining should an English. Dlm-which
of Marquis
Milford wrong reasons.
room at the Ritz with an x- will be shown throughout the
daya in most
five **Wizy do
girls get pression of extreme distaste, world-boost a foreign airline? Haven spent married? Either to get away When I followed his gaze I saw.
I will tell you.
Holland with his friend, Miss from their awful mothers or be the reason for it. The majority `
B.O.A.C. were approached Eva Bartok, when she was over cause their continued existence of our
were rat, and asked to give fellow-lunchers
Operation their, there filming as a spinster is
co-operation. an affront to undoubtedly celogenurians,
Amsterdami. their womanhood.
"First," they sold, "we must Now thut, the unit is back at read the script;"
Pinewood, he is still a constant The script which tells of the visitor. strike.
"So what do they do? They A licence?
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"In no time at all the once- The solution to it all," con- als hostess's Joye affotra in Last week, 1 om told, he was PXP: 19 KtXP. Resigna. The
content bachelor finds flowerd tinued Sanders suuvely, as Jamaica and Mexico-rocked down no fewer than four times. queen is last in a few mover.
around so "Ile has been Solution, No: 5475: 1 B-KRI in his flat and mothballs in his, though it were mejor issue 1.0.A.C. right burk on is
·often." which had to be seified before Billänulis. KEhrent Q-K8 ch. I-R2;3 sulle.
sald one of the unit; "He thinks it's marvellods; the coffee arrived, "would be to "Good hravebs they mal that I shall CUKRS), RXI, 31-05 (threat
be surprised if ho can't imagine how he ever have.a. liéence (p:livu, 2))
"We couldn't agree to that, there aren't some shels of him PETAK,ch, R=R2; 1managed to get by with- HEL watīte, way, for 4- One of our hostesses having in the picture," CORNER KRZ, ZQXP
You, ser," out her
Sandern period of five years. In order, love affairs?
Impossible" PRAEFAN QURD. Üçautiful hissed, "he doesn't know thont geometrid prechlak.
the existence of people ilke my Albert."
fù get it, refiewed. You would So the producer went to Pan have to 'peuve that you American. And got the fullest deserved it..., H, 'you didn't co-operationi
Well, there are, the marquis has been missing out. Aɛ an "extra" ho was entitled to
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