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FILMS
THIS
HIS week's big
that the Alec comedy,
"Tho Mouth" is selected film for the Royal mand Performance.
1959.
CURRENT & COMING by
'ANTHONY FULLER
GLOB
news is visual presentation of the story. Well, I don't know, the fihi la that hể ls 'a master' of disguise. Guinness My contention is, if you have the funny sure enough, it la good, This particular fim shows him Horse's camera in the middle of the set but a trailer like that can milta onlajnjve tralian diplomat; ep a
all the time, you get a fat plo- fire.
sucker when lo dimified ivine grower, anKÇİ AS A as the ture, and the audience tiros of the laughter department. There Farisión playboy. The role bu
Com- it. [-
is nothing I enjoy more, but it Arena Tapin is taken by the Mr Dmytryck also went for tho le not as funny as all that distingishad French relor, "Rally Round, tha:Fing-Boys” Robert, Lamoureux with montage shot, and ruled is out. Now look at it this way, Tao J до American domestic solette Pulver as the Baroniye cinema screen is an additional comedy, and has Joanne Wood- Mina Von Kraft, ani we oye, that is all. Instead of ward and Papl Newman as two asked to believe that this lover reading, words and thentally residents of a suburban com- ly creature who almost outwits transforming them into a visuel munity who are doing all right Lupin, Is head of the Kaiser Wi- hom I' private intelligence image, the cinema does it for until the Army makes a coll. you. That is why the avid
service. render is nino 4imes out of ten disappointed with the film of a novel he has enjoyed, In other words, the producer has
not made the film as he, the novel reader, sees it. We do not all see the world alike. A drunken man sees it as a spinning wheel; a fearful person aces it as a jungle; sometimes we see around cornerz; sometimes out of the comer of our eyes.
It will be shown at the Empire, Leicester Square on February 2. The Royal Com- mand performance will, how- ever,.meroly set the seal on What the film has already achieved, I have seen rave notices before, but never have 1 found them so unanimous. In front of me at the moment Bre 10 notices from the different American
1 quote papers. Bosity Crowther of the New York Times;
The Horse's Mouth......" o triumph.
A truly incredible cast of well-nigh flawless British players assiet Mr Culness in giving form to one of the most incisive pictures of an artist ever made, Guinness transmits a character as roguish and raie as any he has ever performed.
EGARDING
the
The tun is heightened by the fact that the small town takes on the dramatío role of oppodiny the unwanted invasion. It is big me heroles in a small town setting: the words Spanish Civil War are dined at Captain Jack Carson: shall not páss.".
Extremely well acted, pro- duced with taste, with' first člans performances from Lamoureux as Arsene Lupin, and M. Hesse of the as Le Kaiser, alded and abetted Pulver ps the try. Linoletto They Baroness. Go to the Hoover and Paramount it out for fun this
There are some good done weekend.
Woodward tic asides; Joanne reminds husband Paul Newman that he has been recalled to the
colour)eir two children H comes to the King's colours. (If you can't lick 'em, 66ITOT SPELL" which
couldn't care less.
"Rally Round the Flag" Is and Princess today is a
rib-tickling
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It is a character that hauntingly montage shot, Jerry best-seller made lato a flim by powerful drama which deals | TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS!. "GULLIVER'S TRAVELS"
emerges out comical Atmn."
and very effectively too. scope, and marks the first pi can family in a small Loui- Leo McCarey. It is in Cineman with a middle class Ameri-
for Joanne siana town.... One of the greatest of these tempt at comedy
of a disarmingly
Wald has brought it back, That is nicely put: when the American critles hit, they hit hard; on the other hand, when they praise, they don't stint.
I
t
HAVE long wanted to meet
I remember is from a Woodward, Paul Newman," and gangster film; I forget the Joan Collins, name of it.
Two mobsters were sitting in
door
The interest is heightened by the fact that the situation we see, is one that could happen,
Edwarda hairdresser's smaiding big fat THE gentleman crook and does happen everywhere.
THE Suddenly the
bas always found a * Anthony · Quinn as the hus- Dmytryck, and this week I clears, had the opportunity
opened, and a violent character large following among the band and father of the family of shot them dead. 'The comera speaking to him in his room penned up the smoke, held a
has reached the age when the members of the just alcker of youth is prepared romantic at the Peninsula Hotel. cloud of grey smoke which turn- public who feel that if they to settle for one last fling.
He was here to meet the Hong-ed white, panned down again, have to be burgled, they Press during a stop. and this time it finished up in would sooner it was done by
bathroom he " In Hongkong, as nakes for Nepal, the location chief
kong
over
mobster
where
Was
the
is known
of his next film. Han Suyin's,, inging In
giving The Mountain is Young."
Knowing that occasions
I also asked Mr Dmytryck his entching
Such a distinguished producer and director are rare, views on horror alms and the of Hollywood. He put this question to Mr ethics Dmytryck: - "What do you answered as I thought a produ- think of present-day
ilm cer of his standing would, but I will not break confidence and He came right back, and quote. the point he arrived at with a
So having told you that, I now certain amount circum invite you to churchyards and distinguished.
of locution was, that many of the rares; blood and vampires; present-day critics are discuss horror and the undead. In short, a opine-freezing weekend. For ing something they know little, at the 100 and Aator the undead
critics?"
about.
Truc
I rate this performance
by
Anthony Quinn as the best he
has
ever given. His coarac Joyfully a gentleman. his tonth after In England, such 口 society approach, heightened by a schso the order for the two swindler
no A. J. of guilt is excellently portray- of hoodlums to be thol.
Raffles; France, Arsene Lupin. ed. His choice of a cheap littie
"The Adventures of Arpone madam Valerie Allen as Lupin", is a lush film, very well partner through the bedrooms made, which deals with the more of cheap hotels; the cheap booze,
obvious satisfaction of: colourful moments of this suave her sendiel, who is, nevertheless having a "friend" with money. that put over with sharp, well so charmingly disarming, me would be quite flattered to defined, characterisation. be robbed by an adventurer so
Technicolor, Made in
which peep of the old world died with the First World War, a very well produced. The ex-
The Alm is powerfully pro- travagant party. the exotic dused and the susting well
como... I recommend it as a malire Arsene Lupin has and gone... and so have some film for manire people. An valuable art treasures.
unusually good film with 4 this incredible rogue will recall how cloyingingly pathetic.
Readers of the adventures of tremendous climax. Yet some
Tie from their tombs to stac
the
The plot is the incidents as- socialed with such an unhappy the elmax 13 background; tragic,
enough, but I did not the living in, "THE HORROR guests, the extinguished lights, above average. agree with an opinion he ex-F DRACULA" This terrifying pressed, and found support for, farrage of gloomy castles, blood among a few of those presunt.
He took the point made by undead domi-phantoms is about sucking vampires, and grisly Time's critic and others as the the best horror film ever made. film as an art form. It the I have got to look at it cinema is not an art form, objectively, therefore I state that| don't know what is. It may be never has such an awful subject good, it may be bad, but surely been produced with such ex- Its function is to present a story cellence. It set out to frighton; in visual and oral form. The enleriake, and at times amuse! It point of disagreement was the succeeds in every department. The picture is polished, a stylish spine-creeper, based on Bram Stoker's time honoured creepla.
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TIMERGING from the drenā world of twilight macabre, dressed in Techniccior, it con
determined cerns itself with a aristocrat vampire, and equally determined doctor who knows all the vampire lore, to the detriment of the ghoul:
an
A lonely forbidding castle is the pivot of the story, but appropriate domestic asides, and mordant humour artfully relieve the tension without taking the brator out
terrifying.
Skilfully acted, directed with gruesome imagination, produced against vivid backgrounds which dissolve into weird graveyards of of despalt., "The Herror Drkeula, fastens you into your seat with cobwebs of terror, and lights your way through the film with corpse candles.
Infinitely more polished then any horror füm yet to appear, Christopher Loe steps sight from the pages of this Victorian horrific. He La ancanny, positively frightening, a night- mare which refuses to vanish with the awakening scream.
On the side of good s Petor Cushing as the level- handod Dr Van Helsing, who goes down for a few Counts ip the opening rounds, but de- vers the knockout in the anal.
Melissa Stribling and Carol Marsh register in contrast as the intimidated Mina and Tatey, while Valerio Gaunt cuts quite dash as Dracula's girl friend. With a typical bit of British inacabre tasting, Miles Malleson furnishes a welcome piece of Bght relief as a Dickensian good. humoured undertaker. The do- mestic asides are very good, and neatly
cerlo punctuate the scenes when Dracula is aftar their binod:~ and the driving of saken stakes into the hearts of Dracula's minions by Von Hels- ing to Uberato their förlared soulst
The cornering of Dracula in his catombs and his diintegration las ray or pup-| light is as dramatie a curtain
MOST of you who fre
Ausnt the Broadway dekassanndanna. - and Roxy Cinemne will have
ssert the taller which in troduces "Bally Bound the
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
SHOWING
KING'S & PRINCESS: *Hot Spell." Small town drezza which see out to portray the effect upon s family when father wants his last Aling before weitling down with middle se." Bulter, nor did
apá sinbarranging. Powerful performance from Anthony Quion
his founazo children discover головной with cheap little madam, Valerie Allen. Shirley Booth particularly good as Quinn's wife who tries to hold roaming hus- band
All the shiny little episodes acted with bril- Hande. A really good Bign. Also Shirley MadLaino: Kari Hillman Elleen Hockari; and Clint Kim- brough.
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HOOVER PARAMOUNT: “The Adventures of Arvene Lubin." Lush Technicolor French flm Homantle ad- vemiures of a sociedy rotuo who is master of disguises. Well
with Robert Lamottspus în_convinctua role sa laptn. Haase brings former War Lord EsiADE WIum II to life: with Lisolate Pulver as the in credible Barones Lush settings: briskt situationis, audacious episodes, make „for ́ons of "the" "brizklent
films for-a-long-time.
LEE & ASTOR: "The Horror of Dracula," Technicolor creepic, based on Bram Stoker's timp honoured #pine-chilier of doctor's doel with bins blooded vampire, Scripę workmanike, acting compotcnt, direction ro sourceful, finale, salutary and upetacular. Photo- graphy Hest class Local Censorship should forbid this to children. BOXY
BROADWAY; Rally Round the Mar Boy." Hilariops farrago which shows aguile between residents of small town, and the 0.8, Army, Absolute faron, with "dauntless eples" against homoly background, Chivily
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and seductive Joan Collins STAR & METROPOLE: "Around .... Slan World is 20 Days" Michael Todd's show- piece still packing them in, Lavich, ́lavarlons, lush, and tyriosi, a lighthearted romp around the world of the steamer and balloon+ASE. All star cast: story M piatur a star: umtalog and adventurous, and at King beautiful, Compelling unter- tažnimest. Davis Miopn; Candidas: Babet Newton aud Ahirier Maokaino,
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