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The Year's Tenderest Love Story Break Your Hoart Then Mend It Again An Ending You'll Never Forget!
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"BEST ACTRESS" AWARD (Vienna Film Festival)
IT TALKS STRAIGHT TALK AND FEELS REAL FEELINGS
... the groping
...the grasping
...the grip
of their longing!
SOPHIA LOREN, ANTHONY QUINN
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·THE · CHINA · MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY
FILMS
FOR the London premler
of Virgin Island (Roxy and Broadway) they paraded a huge ugly Victorian branUS bed through the streets. I wondered why until I saw the film for myself, and then the reason dawned upon me. This Victorian brass bed is the raison d'etre of the film.
The English love old things; old houses, old monuments, old customs, and old ale; but above n, old Jales. Äri the one about a honeymoon couple ellinbing into bed, and a bed spring go- ing "pong" delights them no
end.
Grandfather laughed at t while Granny protended not to notice; Father laughed at it, and now the present generation still Ands it funny.
The film was extraordinarily successful in England. In a way, I can understand that. It is naive to a point of ultra Bophistication, It rela away with murder because It is so nalve. It to a simple as Simon, and n colourful as a holidny nosteard, John Cassavetes falls In love with Virginia Maskell, the virgin on the Virgin Islands.
Virginia dives off a ship to encape a Virgin Island edition of a Hongkong mother, and bullies Commnfandomer Colin Gordon
.1959.
CURRENT & COMING by
ANTHO
ANTHONY FULLER
Virginia Maskolf and Sidney Poitier in a score from “Virgin Island“.
into conducting reveal beyond doubt that Quinn But if you enter marriage ceremony,
Sidney Poitier turns up and is very helpful, and this gay, daft escape story unwings it uncomplented plot
A kind of Robinson existence;
even n
angle
Crupoo
with Poitier playing a century Man Friday.
Crusoe Robinson
Sidney twentieth
..
this market,
is an extraordinary sensitive you have to know what you are performer, and I for one am about. waiting for the Alm that is going to put him right on top.
Well, all the complications I have mentioned build up until the situation
Then hopeless.
suddenly pomeone gets the bright idea. of EPIDE to church. And that settles it. Within 2 quarter of an hou.' of hearing Mass, they are killing downs to caling Extlio KRITERES wilkent a caro žu this world.
Pat Jackson directed the film, and I think that his excellent eye for the seascapes, and his sympathetic appreciation of the atmosphere of the West Indies, accounts for the film's extra- ordinary success in England, although a film review might including quite a tek raves from.s the crities.
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20th CENTURY-FOX presents
The big laugh stery
of a desert islami huncyada
Love end Laughter on a
VIRGIN
ISLAND
JOHN CASSAVETES
VIRGINIA MASKELL
SIDNEY POTTER in Eastman Colour
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Oriental splendour of Court Life in the: Ming: Dynasty first timo rovarled on the screen!!1
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On the other hand, you have to reckon on walking out of a down your 3s d. and diving right into the limpid blue waters Ground the Virgin Islands.
There it is then, as artless as Suzy Wong, or may be as artful. I can't make up my mind,
You could, if you liked, this Sentiment
I call
Week at the films, because The Black Orchid (King's and Princess) is another film which settles its problems in u sentimental rather than a factual manner.
Sophia Loren in a gangster's widow; and the opening shots show her as beautiful as ever, Lut as bitter as gall.
Anthony Quinn is a widower who le literally worshipped by bis grown up daughter who is Crepared to sacrifice her own. marriage on the altar of her affection for her father.
Sophia Loren has a young son at a sort of training farm, where it is hoped his potential mobster Instincts will be diverted into more social channels."
Now only the foot snys withinj his heart there is no God. And!
Television has provided quite low heady successes for our young men at home; but un- fortunately a TV producer is not a film producer by, a long chalk.
Further to that, the world is a larger place than the hori- zons provided by Shepherds Bush Studios and the lush bar at Pinewood. And the audi- ence is provided by people
the
quite different from
admiration' groups metual found in these places.
The story is all right; the cast are competent. But the mak- ing's all wrong; the matching up is dreadful at times.
Hongkong is now recognised os being the showplace for alms, iu every sense of the word, ani what gets by is just not good enough here, where the world's best are released often before their home markets see them!
FILM BRIEFS
a an unusual place to discuss! Du probierns, I must point out that the film introduces them. Petition from 500 girls; and father have, it must be ad- "Dear Mr Bogarde, Please come mitted, something to do with They made sure Hayley And if I am aware of any back to England and English this. thing, I have long been aware films after making the Franz did not hear or read too much that the whole world is crying Liszt Story in Hollywood." The of her success, out for something to belleve in. Even our youngsters are idolis petition is signed by the 500 and ing guitar swinging cranks bephotograph of Dirk Bogarde on is beautifully produced with a enise (and who knows better
the cover. than 17 youngsters must have heroes.
*The My point is this Black Orchia" gives the im- pression that life's probletni can be solved by going to church, and a He miracle is waiting around cortitt.
every
What prayer can really do is
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Outstanding Song of the Year: In The Ivor Novello Awards, presented recently was Peter Hart's "The Wind Cannot Read"
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Indian actor Sham Chowdhary must have the biggest feet in Indin. He plays
an Indian Boldier
NORTH WEST FRONTIER but no boots large enough can be found for him In either Delhi or Jaipur he takes size twelves,
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to give the wealding strength, After all the rave noilces that July is here, says Shelkli The coward, courage. The grace- | 12-year-old Hayley Mills was Adarlit,
who left his nadve
es grace. And if I can place given for her performance in India 20 years ago to become this in a movie column, not that | TIGER BAY. she might bo an actor in Britain, He well the bitter cup de taken from our || excused for having a head back to India recentipol lips, but that we have the several sizes too large for the on location at Jaipur in NORTII courage to sipil..
rest of her. But not a bit of WEST FRONTIER. But he . Hurley has taken the whole says: "1 don't po for this sensation of her being halled as indian tocather any more, Gluz a star in her stride. Her mother me the English climate,”
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DASSIONATE "PSUMMER" (Lee and
Astor) also takes us to the West Indies, in fact to a pro- Kressive school where stodgy Bill Travers is the centre of romantic interest, if a tri- angle has a centre, for there' is the headmaster's wife; the school's problem pupil; and a neurotic air-hostess..
Now all this is straightforward enough, providing you permit the licence we all, more or less, Erant to our modern Homers of
Taking the cast one by one, the Kingdom of Celluloid, But
the rolce are you have a pretty adequate lot, the difference Is,
for individually, they have a allocated on the understanding few film scalps under their
n section of that they represent the Italian community in New. belta. Virginia McKenna York. It follows then that all know from her films shown in and "Pasafonate Hongkong. that is done, is done under the Sumner nos her cast as an influence of the Catholle Church,
nir-hostess in love with Travers. In fact, the characters ate Alexander Knox we have seen right up against the fun- in some good films; and we are in some better. damentals of belief. For them to see him
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thero can be no rationalising Yvonne Mitchell can handle a of affairs. Na lepid soggle='' difficult 'role, but the truth is, scotice with faith; no ralion-... In this man they don't but away allsing with subjectivo mertim with st... or demerite A thing is not right or wrong: It is,a ques- tion of good or evil.
Now for goodness sako do not.. imagine that the dim is benvy. on that account the protitem is posed much beiter by Groham
settled much more satisectorily.
Michard Buty ・・ Wong) Mason wrote the tale, and as we know, he 'can
CONVEY povelike · Alannahkera
orbitte. Nor. nted, wo knobbish about It, for the popular novelotto has a plac ka tie cinema.
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What they have tried to do
My chief complaint in "The Black Orchid dodges the saun, here is to get over the popular and alides, round a la typical nim, the celluloid equivalent of Hollywood fashion
the paper, hackod"novel-vrilh ́a The scriptsumuually lurid cover, powerful, and provides some
That is quite all right so lung excellent opportunities for Miss Lorm and Anthony Quinn. de "you" know what you are Regarding Quinn; I have even dolg, but tripe must have the quite a lot of him lately, and xperia no less than enviar,: As matter of fact, the plot willtop What a fine you actor he is. Talut, particular loqually as good us "Ten and notice in the cena wamehe Bympathy a direct pinch from
Young Woodley," proposes to Mias Loren dating
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