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FILMS
Car Racing
CHECKPOINT:
The cnst list of "Check- point" reads like a list of the top names in the British screen's repertory COTTL-
pany.
Anothony Steel is the lending player, with Stanley Baleor for the vialny, Michael Medwin for laughs, James Robertson Justieg to add dignity and Odilo Versols (who counts as a British ster now, in spite of her French rationally) as Anthony Steck's love interest.
The story is improbable but the colour and settings are love-
New Films -At-
A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Madame Curle"; Bared on the life of the famous woman scientist, A En Issue. Greer
Garson,
Walter Plugcon,
KING'S and PRINCESS: "Cheekpaint": Motor
racing
and
crime.
Anthony Steel, Stunity
Baker,
Valle Versolo.
James Robertson Justice.
METROPLE and STAR:
Timetable":
Crime
Mark Stevens, King
thriller,
Felicia Farr,
Calder.
QUEEN'S and ALRAM-
BRA: Sky":
"Satellite in tho Rockets, space ships and new-type tombs. Kleron Moore,
Lois Maxwell, Donali Wolft.
ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Fatt of Two Queens'; Romant18 contume plece. Hedv Lamart, Terence Mor- gon, Milly Vitale,
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Teahouse of the August Milarious high Moon':
Jinks among the Ameri- Okinawa. can forces in
Glenn Ford, Marlon Brando, Eildle
Albert, Machiko Kyo. "The Wilder Year A 20 with a past tries to cor- reet it 20 years later. James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck. KING'S
and PRINCESS: "The Vagabond King": A screen version of the oft-made musical. Oreste and Kathryn Grayson. METROPLE and STAR: "Othello"; Shakespeare's
dark
melodrama ro- made by Orson Welles. With Fay Compton, Suzanne Cloutter. Michael Maclismoire. QUEEN'S ALITAM-
BRA: The Animal World": Animated models of hearts tracing
development
the
the
animal life from one-celled type onwards. ROXY and BROADWAY: The Girl Can't Help It": Rock 'n' Roll with The ramedy added. Jayne Mansfeld, Tom Pwell and Edmond O'Brien.
Current to
BY JANE ROBERTS
This Week's Films
In Pictures
22
Anthony Steel in "Checkpoint”
Jy and some of the situations unexpected.
Mourice Denham, embittered racing driver
As
the
10 drive and
per-
range rockets and a fabulous underground satellite-launching city".
Let's hope the Martians aren't looldrut in on it.
Two
well-known names British show business have un- film. expected roles in this Donald Wolft, thought by many to be one of the best Shake- spearean actors of today, puts en a space helinet and is ob- viously taking a holiday from serious acting. Jirmy Hanicy too, although not in the same class as Wolft, has desorted his more thoughtful roles netlon part.
Flamboyant
for an
The Fate of Two Queens:
This is a story akin to that of the opera Il Pagliacci, except that the strolling players of this picture, in spite of moments of high tension occasioned by the leading lady's great beauty, find a happy ending to their story.
The leading Indy is Hedy Lamarr o whose personality, fame and taken the troupe de- penda for its success. The period is Italy uf the 1880s and the picture takes s name from the เy' high spots in the company's repertoire - a play, based on the love wary of the legendary Siegfried and his Queen Gone- vitve, and other concerning Napoleon and his Queen Jose- phine.
Unfortunately tho. stur Imown to have a lover who bas bren attending all her perfor
18 and the company **** mancES
deporate in case their mainstay deciden to run away with him. To complicate matters three young actors in the troupe pre also in love with her and as the caravan of the Romant Theatre rolls along the sunny roads of Tuscany all is gloom
It concerns a large motor com. longer allowed to Jiny owned
managed and consequently ruling the racing masterminded by James Robert team with a rod of iron gives
impeccable He is not a cam- his al pon Justice. plete trickster, but his business formance and makes one realise methods are to say the least, ut he is seen only too infre unethical.
quently, Remember him
The Purple Plain as the man whose nerve gave out?
When we meet him he is con- centrating ali his interest on winning a big car race in Italy and has picked one of his more unscrupulous drivers to get de talls of the design of his closest competitor. Stanley Balcor, wear ing a supercilioua smile most of the time and a nice line in inngerine shirts, bungles the Joh
and several Itailans and a fac- tory are no more.
10
This Mlm has obviously been made with an eye od markets cutside Britain, but tho phce should have been quicker and
lot of the detall deleted.
Crime Thriller
as the
company contemplates the break-up of its successful Association.
Bu adition to Hedy Lamatr there are two actors who wil be familiar to those who have been to see some of the other Italian and French pictures shown over the last year or so Milly Vitale and Gerard Oury. seems Mark Stevens
This picture is in the flam- threats and some sparring behave adopted the
crime boyant styl0
of most costume tween Anthony Steel and Odile thriller as his film vehicle dramas. Versols.
The plot then thickens, in- velving
attempted counter-
murder
blackmail,
and threats,
Timetable:
to
ever
1?1
almost completely these Steel has had a little car and
He is hardly alcohol
trouble recently, ac days, cording to newspaper reports, seen in anything else, but in "Checkpoint" he is the spite of his pleasant face. steady, upstanding, rellable chap that his studio has always al- lowed hiin to be on the screen A bit of a danger-lover perhaps, brut the one driver Jamer Robertson Justice picks to re- trieve the tricky situation into which Stanley Baker has got the firm.
Needs Training
scenes
In
Perhaps he finds this type) of picture easier to act when he is also producing and directing.
"Timetable" follows the usual which отпле of the pattern in
haracters starting out with the sympathy of the audience finally reveals himself to be heel.
It concerns a train robbery in which a "physician" holds up I enjoyed the actual racing the baggage train and makes particularly, but felt off $500,000 (American dollars,
The that much more could have naturally).
Insurance then marshals Med- Company been made of Michael win's gift for comexty. A forces and the puzzle is to find rather unsure young man
out who is the ostensibly James
Robertson Justice's respectable fellow who has to need worked out the complicated secretary. He nedans much moro training before timetable for the robbery, being allowed before ing Fellula Farr, unlike
Mark
cameras. The wardrobe of Stevens has deserted her
Odile Versols has been picked with taste and will be of in- terest to women filmgoers.
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