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FILM_PREVIEW edited by THOMAS WISEMAN
Princess Dawn is caught in the horror machine
a converted country house in Bray, in the otherwise salubrious neighbourhood of Maidenhead, ghastly things are always going on. For this is where the horror-mongers of Hammer Films make their grisly melodramas this is where blood flows like water and heads roll like marbles.
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But perhaps the ghastliest thing to happen at Bray is what is currently being done there to Robert Louis Steven- son's classic tale, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
This is now being given the full Hammer . treatment. And whalever effect it has
on the
cinema public I can guarantee it will send shudders up and down the spine of any Robert
Louls Stevenson devotee.
and adds sex
in the mud, to a classic chiller
In
wisdom,
Hammer have decided that
what both Dr Jekyll and Me
\Dawn Addams and Paul Massio give that something extra" to an orthodox clin ch in The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll.
Air Grant's next film-to be made in England-will be The
Grass is Greener, with Ingrid Bergman,
LIONEL JEFFRIES plays a crooked detective in the
Hyde grievously lacked was turning in his grave. Hammer "The greatest actress in our film jazzboat. He decided would certainly Avant to film business Is Ingrid Bergman. to do a little research into
sex-appent. They have put this right.
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The original inle had an all- mate cast; but discoveting couple of lines in the story Dlluding to Mr Hyde's "vy!]C Hfe" and "strange associates, the Hammer boys felt the unmistakable surge of Inspira- tion. Sex-not Mr Hyde-would rear its ugly head,
A
STRUGGLE
As a result, when alming began on The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll, the cameras turned on Princess Dawn Addams in bexi struggling with Paul Massie.
The Princess explained how she came to be in this situation. *1 om Mrs Jekyll," she in- formed me, "and my husband discovers I have a paramour. I rejec iny husband's advances. So be turns Into Mr Hyde and rapes me. He also forces me to go on a tour of the brothels to humiliate me."
that.
SLIM NERO HOLLYWOOD has
always
a strong partiality for Nero-perhaps because he is our of history's earliest known who worked on the showmen eple scale, They are to make yet another film about him.
King Vidor, who recently completed the screen fe of Solomon and Sheba, is expected to direct. The part of Nero has not yet been cast; but it will not provide more work for Peter Ustinov un this occasion. Hollywood has decideri that Nero was really
quite a slim figure.
They have, however, begun negotiations for Gina
Lollo brigids and Brigitte Bardot to play two of his wives and for Joan Crawford to appear as his
mother.
Hollywood producer Joo The producer, Michael Pastornak: "When TV is Carieras, hastily explained: bad I hate it. When it's "All these places are being reproduced accurately from old good I dislike it." print. We shall put in dwarts and hideous old hags with low- cut dresses, It will be very authentic.
THE GREATEST.
Hollywood stars.
She doesn' wear make-up and she wouldn't know
the the part and asked Scotland difterence between a mass- produced dress and a Dior Yard to help. creation."
they will appear na un amateur song
"They told. mo didn't have any crooked do- tectives," said Mr Joffries, "They got bit narkod about it ar
of П matter
fact."
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NEW TEAM BENNY BILL will be teaming up with Tommy Strele für } Sim called Touch it Light. They
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and dance team fighting their way to the top. They will be doing, in fact, the sort of thing that Benny Hill so frequently satirises.
and the Richard
AFTER The Long Short and the Tall, Todd plays a
dedicated artist who makes a Gauguin- like Night to a remote Island to paint in peace. When he gets - there he finds the island is threatened by a volcanic erup-
tion,
---(London Express Service).
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HEADIN' FOR THE LAST ROUND-UP?
MORE than 14,500,000 people watch Wagon Train in Britain on Mon- days.
-that old-fashioned
crittur, the Western book
by RICHARD FINDLÁTER
KODULI
THE
GAMBLER
A TV spokesman claims that 98 per cent of British viewera go West every week with one or more of the dozen horse-operas on the last round-up. is that old Clarence E. Mulford, creator of view.
fashioned crittur, the Western Hopalong Cassidy—were no more Cary Grant cave me his views
book. on the younger generation of
at home on the range than Mr In our elnemas, 100, the
have counted About 50 Borg-Bexar cliches of the titles of hard-cover Westerns on English authors, indeed, are Want to act Saddle-sore
Westem are riding high, Big British publishers' lista this steadily invading the Western ger screens and bigger stars season, Clearly, there's life in market. Some, at present, arc ensure that the old formula is the old horse yet. But in the still anxiously shrouded by their still box-offCD,
last three years book-sales have publishers in transatlantic dis- The cowboy needs a Scott or, plummeted.
are scoring sue- at least, a Simeon to rescue him guise. Others
Westem cesses with
docu- from the sundown now facing in mentaries-like John Prebble him in the book trade.
[London Express Service), (The Buffalo Soldiers) and Paul Watkins (Traitor at Fort Bent).
And
The hotted-up version of Jekyll and Hyde will feature a night-club called The Phoenix "The men ali complete with resident snake- slobbering parts,
then dancer and snake. There will people say, “Look! He's ruffled be oplum den, a gambing his hair. Give him
an Oscar. hell--and brothels galore.
*The girls another them- These establishments will bo selves with make-up, and load staffed by a dozen assorted themselves down" with Jewei- lery. They just don't want to I hesitate to say that Robert face the truth All they are do- Louis Slevenson Is probably ing is concealing themselves.
British starlets.
The cowboys and Indians have never had it so good. But in one quarter of the Wild West report that the end of the trail is in sight. Heading for
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Here Action is based on fact. And here is one notable trend in the post-war appetite for West- Crna---which have developed In the cinema-a rudimentary social conscience (don't let's be beastly to the Redskins) and a nagging sense ot historical
Why? One main reason is the decay of the offi Cranmercial tending library. The survivors ind that the pre-TV demand for accuracy. light fiction has slumped, And
Westerns suffer severely trom NOT DOOMED
the cut.
Faced with this decline, which
Hard-cover horse-operas have follows a trend, already notice- tailed to keep up with this able in the USA, come Arms change in taste, sunk deep into are cutting down their cowboys- their pulp-fiction rut. But many in-print to a tukin pusse. Some of the best Westerns today go are liquidating the lot.
straight into paper-backs. Others
revising their "What I look for, above all, is chowagonship
Michinel and
claims. supplies. authenticity Herbert Jenkins, for instance, is Legat, of Corgi Books. "We've (successfully using film-sülis as
been trying to raise the quality of the Western over here."
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Mekhar has hatistha Cliar The
cover-photographs, to provide a coating of reailam for its ranch
tales
And this firm has no hesita |tion in publishing the work of "Piccadilly cowboys"-na purista in the trade contemptuously call
His efforts, it seems, have been rewarded--by increase in quan- tity. Up to two millon Corgi Westerns are sold in a year. One title alone, Shane (originally published in hard covers), has sold over 250,000 copies.
Authentic? Perhaps. But - more significantly cinematic. About 85 per cent of the sales come after the book was filmed. Not all Westerns, then, are doomed. Beyond the reach of the hard-cover book is a vast audience, stimulated by TV and the cinema, which is ready axid sager to buy books-at poper- back' prices.
They don't want old, old recipes or hokum-on- to buy the horseback, which films and TV
can BETVÒ UN BO much palatally in pictures
more.
Yet some old tumes still keep their magic. One famous brand,
six
the merely - English authors of I hear, is kept in print by an Westerns.
undercover syndicate of
wellers. And nothing, it woning,
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The latest of these home can kill the loyal demand for made sples-out recently--are Zane Grey, Sk {by Jack Borg and Phil-- Bexar, That romantic, guoliac
Both Mr Borg and Mr. Bexar dentist died, 20 years ago. But are, inpelveta life, #`singin- | since his death, over 'a' pobre of mindes, retired local govern- new books have appeared ment officer, who currently vast a plai kodustry, answers the call of the wild by salon me now note the 39 mulla serving as vice president of the lion marki Yel" (Zane / Grey's Ludlow Kennel (Association.
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