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DORIS DAY
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JACK
ERNIE
LEMMON * KOVACS
IT HAPPENED TO JANE
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"I showing at the King's nn d Princess. The Americans, na most other peoples, have a folklore, but being a much younger nation, their ogres do hot live in grim forbidding
Happened to Jane,"
stles they live, as does Ernie Kovacs, in a plush clty office furnished with illuminated graphs and charts.
Their falty princesses do not sleep in sugar castles, but as Doris Day, in sweet old world
New England villages.
Their Idle Jacks and Dick Whittingtons do not loaf around the village, they are small time lowmen, as Jack Lemmon.
But the vllagers are much the same, Arst swayed this way for fear of the ogre, and then that way when.Jack Lemmon to Giant Killer has been him off.
"It For, my dear readers, Happened to Jane" is nothing more than a falry story, 100 simple to interesi children, but brought down to the level of intelligence of the average adult.
You are asked to believe, (and) why not) that in the Maine ress was challenged and defeat ed by fairy princess Doris Dur
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And the moral of that, dear children, Is. If only you are honest; ir only You zre courageous: If only you stick to your guns; you will in the end triumph and all the bad egres will be killed off.
Well, when I was one-and- twenty, I used to believe in fairies of this kind, bul this wicked old world has laught me. quite painfully, that the wicked flourish ike the bay free, and the kind and honest folk go to the wall.
But don't let that stop you
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DORIS DAY in "THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH"
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Jane Powell • Howard Keeth, in 247. BRIDES FOR 7 BROTHERS!
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"LIANE JUNGLE GODDESS" A
smiling to think Diat Hollywood
delivered it. Hallywood the cruellest town on earth that has broken more hearts than we have egg tops.
CURRENT & COMING
By ANTHONY
FULLER
Doris Day and Jack Lemmon declare their engagement on the lobster train. Scene
yet sympathelle characterisation of Harry Morgon, Heming way's hero, does not come over, The active passionate life on the edge of the troples seems to Bim mater15), but me perfect one must have the sensitive intuition of Hemingway to get the Bn over,
Hemingway ነ። primitive: "The Gun Runners" Is barbaric.
from, "It Happened to Jane."
attack. And this makes you treacly in bace and confusing think that such an occasion from a Western fan's point of would be merely nature having view. a springclean.
Brian Keith, Beverly Qur- lard, and Dick Foran are ade- quate in this violent eple.
Delmer Davies gave us a
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Another sub-plot is the mis- understanding of the nature of Dr Gary Cooper by on assistant coerced into working for him; Ben Piazza.
Now I am not saying these emotional conflicts do not come out well; they do, very well indeed. But we slo noi associate them with a Western, and to be perfectly frank, a Western is not the best medium for get- ting them over,
perfectly
Western last year, a fim that what Depuis plain to mo
The treatment is laboured; the only question stacatto phrases of Heniny- maining in my mind, way. verbal
machine-gun after seeing "The Hanging bullets, explode in the film liko Tree," was who should hang a succession of alom bombs,
on it (Hoover and Gala). Audie Murphy, Sam Martin the in
that by puiting in bom (Hury Morgan at one feels that with a better did quite well. 3.10 to Yuma." He imagined understanding of the part and Somehow 1 have the impression these high fangled notions into he would that Mr Davies has overreached a Western, he would automa- alronger director,
the fically achieve a prestige ple- himself in striving for have müde good.
artistic supreme in a Western; to ture. Ho has tried too hard,
one in which the and it hasn't come off. The film follows the original produce Doris Day goes into the lobster by subduing all other characters elements of the content lift t
On the other hand, his business; the railway takes too to the leading role, but at no above the pistol play, the band- long to deliver same, and they time is one convinced that we
box blonde: the steamhammer hundling of the big scenes is nrrive
She are mighty. high and tues them and wins. This annoys real than a charade of Hem- Ingredients
watching anything more fist Aghts; in short all the crude superb. His huge panoramas, which are poured his handling of Technicolor la relation to his big scenes, is Rallway President Ogre Emle ingway characterst,
into almost every Western.
He has got the ingredients for craftsmanship at its best, On the freckle-nosed young Nevertheless, the Ahn has its a fine in here, but somehow He really captures, the atmos- widow, Doris.
moments; and if your mood is they don't mix.
phere of the mining camp; of But at her side atc Jack orie of violence, then "The For instance, he has Gary the gold-rush days; of the hell Lemmon, the Giant Killer, and Gun Runners" should afford Cooper, doctor
a
fighting and fury of get-rich-quick. Prince Charming Steve Forrest. you an entertaining evening. against prejudice; prejudice of Another off-beat introduction At first the Ogre gets it all his Also showing with the film is, an scientific healing; and also is that of a lustful idiot played own way. But ogres have hearls attractive short, "Profile of a against his toking as a patient, by Karl Maiden. hidden away in their security Miracle," with, a commentary pretty Marla Schell. boxes, and everyone lives hop- by Yul Brynner. pily ever afterwards
Kovnes, who really goes to town
Usually, in our fairy stories,
we have a fairy hand who
do
a lot of the
backroom
I'
There it is then; a new type This angle of a nim is com- of Western; an attempt to lift man enough; not stock; but the Western up to the 'superior' prejudice of some kind or other class.
la in almost every film. But I almost forgot to mention
In this film, this plot does not that tunelul melody, Tho
jobs. In this film. we have IF you read the odd bits wex with the authentic Western Hanging Tree, haunts the open- a Boy Scout troops and Jack publish now and again
Lemmon in shorts looked on
embarrassed as I fell, Cub- in this column, you probably Mistress Doris Day sings "De will have gathered that the Prepared" and as she is underworld in general, and dressed in mosi becoming shorts, I get the point of the of Chicago in particular, is becoming the vogue in film- land.
song.
Well, that's about all, except to say that the photography 19 something wonderful; that Ogre Ernie Kovaes never puts a foot in this whimsy. wrong, even Tact poor old Jook looked a bit Lemmon in shorts; and Steve Forrest as Prince Charm In the newsman was all thot
of n
blo newsman is, if there is
such a thing.
So ra to it and may "It Hap- pened to Jane soften your hard heart.
NCE more Ernest Hem- ingway explodes upon
ONC
I think "Chicago Confidential" (Star and Metropole) is cushing
this vague, and that it is scooping somewhat from the million-dollar publicity given to "Al Capone" a finely made film seting out the career of that
sub-liwrah, from choir bay to viče king ZINA LATGA
Chicago Confidential
about as confidential as n Breret
In at, a women's meeing. ihousand ways, it has ali borx fold before, but this film in a
of mil
that 馆 symposium
crooked, violent, and beastly.
In a way, it is a reporter's the screen, this time with case book, and of its kind, it is primitive violence in "The very good. Gun Runners," Roxy and Broadway.
He uses a sherman, but this
Quite frankly, I like films of the underworld. Somehow they enable me to preserve a balance
of my estimate of mankind.
is no quiet, "Old Man and the am by nature too optimistic.
Sea Rather is it the character
you meet in "To Have and
Have Not."
I am always of the opinion that mankind is worth worrying I often wonder where Hem- about; is worth struggling for Such Alms ingway obtained his obsession is worth helping.
for primitive violence, We get as "Chicago Underworld" offset
that opinion. it here in a version of the original story of his luckless it presumes to tell of the hero, Audie Murphy, as a poor "fixers," men who will undertake Asherman, who pugments his any awkward assignment for a meagre income by runaing arms for; here you see them with gune to the Cuban revolutionaries. looking after anyone who needs But don't such Except for For Whom the looking after.
men sometimes parado in neat Bell Tolls," I cannot think of sults and fountain pens, and are anyone who has got, Homing- way down in film. There exists Just as ruthless, If not as cruder
a certain element that opposon the Hemingway atmosphere,
Then the bribo collectors, and
zu reading him, one le able to the men who take care of you. associato kimself with the The trade unien delegates who characters; they are lifelike, and ballen en propaganda and sub- p maiter how violent and scriptions, Well, they are with crudely they behare, there leuy too. And real vice. Well sympathy of amoelskiem, if not that's in the flim, but it's every" an identifestion with the ethics where else, and manners of their permulta.
.
atmosphere.
It makes the film ing phases of the dim.
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KING'S & PRINCESS: **IL Уане." Happened Whimsy fantasy of the "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" tradition This time bir bustness, represented by Ernie Hovacs, fakes the kio. delivered by Doris
Deri Alded by Jack Lemmon.and..
Steve Forrest, Music, East- min Colour, and 'bir şersen. STAR
METROPOLE: "Chicago Confidentia?" This Sim pul you in the rachels good and plenty. Cladir lake the ild off Chicago Underworld, and gives you the confidential treatment, Brian Keith, Beverly Gar- land, and Dick Foran, assist in this piece of violence. HOOVER & GALA: "The Hanging Tree," Ab sita, gether new kind of Western resulting from Delver Davier's nitempt to create
* Western epic. Unusual Grant theme of Dr Cury stroggling agilist prejudice during the Gold rush. Ex- cellent
bik photography, ałow paced. Also Marin Bohell and Karl Malden: ROXY A BROADWAY: "The
„Gun......Runners. 2_Blory........._br__ Hemingway.. Violent and the expleslyn sketch of Cuban Gun Runners. Takes "To Have and Have Not," novel theme of the Inaw poverished flahermso who turns to illegal trafic, Loses the Hemingway touch en route. Audio Murphy Eddie Albert; and Patricia Aloshc. LEE & ABTOR: "Blo Bravo"
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ly original ellmax. Bichard Widmark and Lee J. Cobb, STAN
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2 Naked Maja.”: Flims, basod The Incidosis of history's moes komatalous pin - uk. Parveläisen the rakigur, that 159 Malu la
Apart from the reasons given, Honesty compoles, me: to say I do not know what useful pur- that in this. the thing version pose these fim serve, except | made for the screen of that we are worrying too much Hemingway's ́ "To “faye” and whether civilization | perishes | da Duchon of Alba. (Maža: Have Not," the stark primitive: froman"Bil-but stom. Demb
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