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FILMS
Dib not see much con-
nection belween tho title, "For the First Time, (Hoover and Gnla) but I think the film will go big with Marlo Lanza's many
fans.
I am not one of them, but I must admit that I enjoyed this flm for its many excerpts from opera; when singing "pop" stuff, Mario is to me just another singer, but Lanza singing "Come Prima," and "On With The Motley," is a different cup of ten altogether.
The story is as sentimental ng o Christmas card, and I have no doubt Miss Von Koerian, as the giri who causes Lanza to sea the fight, will have many hard hearted Hongkong people ia
fcuro.
For in this film Lanza begins by being a very bad character, gven though he is supposed to be one of the world's greatest artists. Umally we expect great singers and artists to leave such crude liquor as Scotch and the vino alone, but Lanza lops It up a gratefully as a thirety poodle.
1901 Ch
CURRENT & COMING by ANTHONY FULLER
ANT
Mario Lonza in a scene from "For The First Time".
Now, this drinking la la- ellied to mako Jim overlook
Dght it we used to charac- that many
So you gel 117 It is absolute Summig up, it is a breezy and how
came ters are gathered in various
cast out until next Saturday with the crazy even the romance comedy, force, with all over the world to angle, haila
0 with Rhonda Fleming) enjoying themselves
round again to supply us with more material.
not fum
they are ir it is funny. very very funny. wap. ritable because they bave paki
Reata. money for their
stoh And, as s usta? Upon accasions, they want their money track,
hear him, and when he does dragged in for a tow gags. But good chunk of comedy. The
"tainly
with characterisations ring comedy, and a good time is had by both chat (apparently) and. nudience.
g100 Many Crooks" cer- pleased the American
who roviewers rated the film "very good."
Of course, "The Oregon Trail" is much more sophisticated, but I could not for some reason see why the business of the dispute between the States and GB Britain was dragged in
makes which make-weight about five Aims due for release Oregon IN point of fact, The which show how danger-less it
Trail* (Roxy is to twist the Lion's tall. the impeccably and Broadway) marks
Fred MacMurray gives the stage in the evolution of spectacular a touch of colour in groomed Terry Thomas as Fort of Saville Row Scrooge, the motion picture. It is the role of a newspaper man. who has made his money the the stuff of which the old Questioned as to why he is easy way, but makes it hard, to
flims were made but fifty "going west," he la 'asked: "Arc he you a fallure?" To which get for all comers.
years of rapid progress
Answer; "Guess I am, I'm Obviously, such a well filled dress it differently. First ill-sulted socialite would become of all there is CinemaScope, the target of gangland leader George Cote, who in turn thinks second there is sound, and
is colour, up a complex plan of coming third there between Terry Thomas and his this film by De Luxe. money.
Well, 'I do not know what happened if Miss would have You Roezian had not turned up, but what puzzled me was, as
This uninhibited down-to- Miss Koezlan is deaf, she could not fall in love with Mario's earth farce has valee; and even although Marlo has laid off the spaghetti tately, he still has enough waistline for two average chaps. Still, I don't profess to know much about what causes women to fall in love, and for all 1 know, Mizs Von Kocian Just Liked Mario's
face.
to
The Hollywood chair takes over in this film, and the Inevitable Ave Maria swings into the flim with a tresoly
This wo goes astray, because vax humans stop full out, and
Still, George Cole runs Into Terry then Mario takes over.
(Brenda De the fans love it, but somehow, Thomas's wite heaven
who is very cross escapes from such Bonzie) faces as Mario's ant my own, learn that Terry would gladly and come to that all faces have her kidnapped. designed upon generous pro- The film ends with real faree portions.
as the crooks try to escape with luard-earned ill-goiten So here is a Atm for Mario their
gains, and the wind playing Lonza fans, a hamting song
tour havoc with the notes. The spol- album, a lovely Cook's through the more wcturesque light in this film is played on quarters of the world's capitals, Terry Thomas, and he turns to and an enthralling techniroma- it like a sundower to the sun. technicolor romance with music. You lucky people!
REGARDING
Jesse James"
"Allas (King's Princess) this is simply Hope, mirth, and Bob hillarity. Usually,
and
Hope amuses me; this time he had me chuckling in a lonely large cinema on
#
And
hot humid morning. If you can get a laugh out of a film under those cir
reckon cumstances, I
it
rates high.
Bob
the world's is cast as worst insurance man, and he lives up to this title by selling a $100,000 life polley to about America's worst prospect, Jesse James (Wendell Corey).
The cracks fall thick and fast,
ROXY; At 12.00 Noon ¡¡BROADWAY: At 11,00 a.m.and the gags are so stupid. For
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"ANASTAS I A”
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Yul DRYNNER
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Morning Show Tomorrow 1239 Martine Carol in "LÜLA MONTES"
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instance, the maison Jesse is decorated with all types of re- and tastofully set out, rivalling any lower arrange menta. Aks "Bob, "Who are you expooting, Smith and Wesson?"
The serne when the boss In- finds out Bob Hope has
1:00 James is muted JessO
for words; I mean funny thai: it is almost all expres- boss sions except when the
Bob west to
Ed and orders recover the polloy,
Says Bob, "I am able to get
AT 3.59: 5.20. 7.36 & 9.30 PM. killed."
MOBSTER
Morning- Show" -To-morrow Bat BOONE in "BERNARDINE"
Says the boss Stop trying to cheer me up.".
Well, that gag comes out and is durled every so often, but so well done is it in this film that I laughed my head off,
Mary Young as Ma James is what every man expects, his mother w be, a' dear sweet old indy, and she frels terribly at the thought of young Jesse going out to a shooting without dest eating his breakfast;
дел
Dodelor all over the looking for gigs, the that amuses me is when Bob, having cleaned up the ing the grateful çilisens' wani · do. erect a platus tɔ him. Bob Bicikes a powo,' and 'a'' DÍKYOK adjunta lie bomb slabia, 19 ways to the pizoum, “Not JOI,”
in
But the stuff of which the wild frontier flims are made is still there. The Indians in their war paint; the incredible Jong distarice revolver shooting; the savage charge; the last stand of the pale faces; and the scene that used to set the Saturday afternoon children's matinee in an uproar, the last winning attack of the white men,
I
How we used to lap it up. dabs left unsucked; Sherbert gob-stoppers polsed in mid-air;
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
essa
SHOWING
KING'S & PRINCESS: "Altas Jesso James." Farce built around Bob Hope sa world's wors Insurance man, nell- James (Wendell jug Corey) + $100,000 Life insurance, and Bob being sent out west to retrieva same, Gags well-timed and hair-triggered, with Rhonda Fleming providiar the feminine angle of a hilarious plot. Big screen and Colour by De Luxe,
HOOVER & GALA: 'For the First Time." Bentimental whimsy. with BOTTLO fine singing by Marlo operatio
Lanza: also * sight-seeing tour de luxe. With Johanna and starring von Koczian, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Technirams and Technicolor.
ROXY & BROADWAY; "The Oregon Trail." CinemaScope, Colour by De Luxe. Stereo- phonic sound, Cowboys and Indians. Tremendous scenic
Many
effect with Indians doing their staff right gallantly, and 'getting their
feathers plucked as usual. Fred Mao- William Bishopt Murray; and Nina Shipman,
METROPOLE: **Too
Crooks." Craziest crook plat that ever tried to straighten out an audience. Empoocablo Terry Thomas crook whe has made money the hard way, is set about my George Cola who trick, hard to make easy money. Assisted by Brenda Do Banzle
Bernard Breaslaw,
of
and
་
LEE & ASTOR: "The Heart
• Man." Sentimental which comedy vandevillo
Britain's places
variety talent on show. Worked around a plot which has, a penniless KCOLOSSE un the Embankment. hit variety business. Frankie Vanghan; Anne Heywood; and Tony Britton.
COMING
KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Vita Vision, Buccaneer.” Technicalor, ve star, De Mille, Wilcoxon, - Anthony Quinn, version of the life of Jean Lalifto sometime pirate sometime American patrial Yal Brynner; Charles Hoyer: Charlton Hesion; Claire Bloom; and Inger SteveNS.
HOOVER & GALA: “North by Northwent.”* Hichopok
• him best in a fast moving thriller, which never tota up. [Flol, involves Ginty, Cooper In consaifonal killing, and pute. Nos, in a nightmare - world-of unreality. Exten!- tent. Big screen and colour.
ROXY BROADWAY:
2 "Carlton-BroWELS of tho FÓ” This time the Boulk. thumb their ing BrotherE noecs as tho,Foreign Ofos, which: la pour, foren, sa sit will admit. Tho' result is a hilarious escapade upon the 'bout 1inon wf those incorriei»
blo - bruthén, JL - "TDITS"
· Thomas Poter Boilers; and Tan, Dammen,
art-
METROPOLE & ASTON: "Tho
Cranes από Flying." The sensational Grand Prix film from Soviet Enasis, different In that it carries no realistic statement, but tells the war-time story of a Rus- sian couple, diyided by, war, Imaginative, and anthratio In that although the present regime, is not ertitelsed, the idon that the Blale can do: no wrong is exploded. A VERY GREAT FILM Tatiana Bamoliova, drevled by Mikhil Kalatorov. LEE & ARTOR: "Tier Bay,
Sharp and attractive prq- maxstudios, sensational-ngi". for the perfOETMUDO, of Hayley` niille, who becomes involved in a murder luunt Skuma. Alregion and "kach characterimation, selling tho film about the top of: “Sham - your Wes-Karthik ve filma, Fobus Ma! Horns Buckwols and Tronas Mitobel,
B
newspaper man." As a film, 31 is high, wide, and handsome, about the best of the crowd of big outdoor stuff to come, savo for "The Buccaneer."
The tremendous detall, eyon down to the first authentic Colt revolver, shows the trouble to which they go to bring you the cowboy and Indian stuff, these days.
Usually, I keep off production details, but in one or two places the matching is off, so obvious that I can't think how they thought they would get away with it. Pink sky on the set, bright blue off, you'd have bo colour bind to
miss it. There's action all the time, plenty of excitement, scalps galore, along the "The Oregon Trail
Salute To Courage
Lo
were
Beautiful Koy Kendall is dead. Requiescat in paco; She was ora pro nobis. but young, and in the ordinary run of offairs, hor greatest triumpha ahead, but she could look back also on some major achiavemonts. That is not to ba; it has been ordained otherwise; but wo shall remember her.
We recall the mad flourish in "Genevieve," and the more res cent "The Reluctant Debutante,” but what I shall remember, and doubtless millions more, is the manner in which she arranged the order of her going. She know she was very l, and Rex Harrison knew she would die, but they both face the busl- ness simply,
EMOTIONALISM
ап
There cild have been atinouncement; the publi; could have been played up in an orgy
Instead of emotionalism.
of which, Hex Harrison dropped out of "My Fair Lady," and in- cidentally received much criticism, and Kay carried on as long as she could.
They had a quiet rest to- gelker,
upoke and probably of mech things which poople anly faced by mich sử fero- vorable doclaion, could sponk of
.....
Kay Kendall was, of cour#G, and wood to such a softing, perhaps Death is not so grim a friend as we make out.
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June Allyson Petar Lawford in "LITTLE WOMEN"
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At any rate, he strodo`· bon kind, the wings. She quietly walted while he announced, Overture and beginners,” and at last came the kneek; "Your que "Misi Kendall" So she avi | 12.30 pml. up and wintʻosi
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