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FILMS
FANNY (Lee & Prin-
cess) This is Marcel Pagnol's Marius-Fanny- Cesar famous trio about the Marseilles water- front, which has ar- rived in Hongkong via the French books, the famous French films, and a Broadway musi- cal which has dropped its songs
on the way,
but has acquired 1 Technicolor gloss by way of compensation.
New I happened to be in Europe
this Alm WON premiered, so you might be in- terested to hear what some of with it the people connected had to say.
Joshua Logan, the Texan way nade it rates it as a much bet tur film thar. his "South Pacific" He said so, and he said
that the colour in "South Pacific" was all wrong
At the same thine, wrong or not, and I thought it was, it has been at the Dominion at Totten- bam Court Road over four years and paid for the total cost of the film there alone. "Fanny" be reckons is great. Leslie Caron is spoken, and I give her point because it is absolutely honest. She said she was scared to play in "Fanny" because "Fanny" was so personal to Marseilles.
Its wil.
more out-
very
its humour, its situation is su local that she feared that in presenting it as a universal attraction. it would fall ftat I recall her words.
"Mr Logan is Texan, and he thinks in a gigantic Texan way. But "Fanny" is small waterfront story, so French. so local in humour." In fact, I can tell you this, they had a job to get Leslie Caron to
play the pari.
Maurice Chevaller had no such reservations, he was, he is, and he always will be the
inimitable Maurice.
CURRENT & COMING
by
ANTHONY FULLER
"I'll go with you . . matelot." Leslie Coron and Horst Buchholz in a scene from "Fanny" Joshua Logon's production for Warner Bros. (Lee & Princess).
Jack Cardiff, the British proceeded along logical lines, block of tenements, for instance, cameraman handles the photo and that the behaviour of the or a second-hand bookshop. or graphy which is simply superh. actors is, unless
otherwise in the settings of upper-crust Written from a woman's stated, the behaviour of normal life in England, it is all a bit angle, the plotire has great people.
too artificial, or too determined- feminine appeal, and simply But
Chis Alın, Gury by contrived, Cooper suddenly is in funds, and when Deborah Kerr wants to know where the money comes from, he says, "I made a killing."
picture
must not be missed. Yet all the time this was being screened, my mind kept returning to the old black and white productions, with crochets old French actor Raimu, stealing the film.
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the
slock exchange, but she re- calls a slight case of murder in Gary's office, so she is little suspicious.
sus-
But I must congratulate director Michael Anderson on one excellent sequence. De- borah Kerr, driven near crazy with suspicion, visits the tene- ments in search of the truth. Coming out, she gets lost (one tenement looks 90 Bike other) and keeps running into washing hanging on the line. Keally superb cinema! Gera
the business Gary Cooper as executive
the role plays
with
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"LAST TRAIN FROM GUN MEL
FROM Then, she is more than (Roxy &picious, and it wemed to me was а trifle too determined to send is another her
husband to college, so competence and his usual charm. Gala of those prison camp stories naturally. I began to ask myself One could have wished for
relate which
the adven- questions.
better
before he took his Would, for instance, any wife Anal curtain call. tures, factual and fictional,
be as
Deborah Kerr handles an em- as suspicious as Deborah? Or of women who were held
come to that, would any husband barrassing character of suspicion This then is the situation as behind barbed wire.
put up with
role with her customary 19- I see it. Assuming this is the
Quite a number of films on Then my mind took a slant to ciency, and puts up a smoke Arst time you run TID against this subject have been made "Midnight Lace" and I remem- screen of suspicion against which Pagnol's trio, Fanny, Cesar, and from the
Allies side,
and the bered that Rex Harrison had some capabic actors as Eric Marcel, you will enjoy 11 im Japanese have retaliated 切 very nasty designs on his wife Portman, Diane Cilento, Her-Gala mensely. If, on the other hand, making one of their own. who happened to be Miss Doris lone
Gingold, and Peter you are familiar with the Naturally the film is made Day on that occasion.
Cushing, lurk. original, it won't come to life in from
the angle of the side
Now Jo Stefano wrote this Of course you must drop in this film.
and be also making the picture, the enemy
wrote to see the film, but I'll take a Script To particularise, if you are getting the worst of 1, there
"Psycho." But without Uncle small bet you'll wish Alf Hitch-
Only recent to England,
he Alf Hitchcock on the job, this cock had directed it. is the fore the Japanese flm showed same as turning the incredible that some of their camp com-
can handle the ingredients TV success "Coronation Street," mandants were at least human.
so mundane a surrounding as a such films. which is as Lancashire as black
"7 Women from Hell" moves pudding, into a film of interna-
somewhat to the middle of the tional flavour,
road, and tells of how an inter- national group of women were herded into
prison camp in New Guinea.
Follows the recipe as before.
it
As the story has it, Cesar runs a little bistro in Marseilles, helped by his son Marius; there t Panisse. 201 elderly sull-
into a
rape, escape, and finally love.
maker, and Fanny, who helps Harbarity, heart ache, cruelly, her mother run a fish-stall.
Fanny and Marius are in love. but Marius is
is also in love with the
sea. So he realises his more easily accessible desire before realising his ambition to go to sea. Consequently, Fanny is left alone and pregnant.
Patricia Owens the Canadian star plays the role of an American member of an Aus- tralian scientifle team overtaken by the Japanese invasion, while French- Denise Darcel is the wornan caught up in war. Cesar Romero returns to the screen as a Dutch-German planter
who plays the good samaritan.
Piling on the horror, the flim works up towards a good However, this sentimental tale climax as the girls escape to- runs its way through smiles and wards the Allied advance tears, and its local appeal will,
For fear of disgrace, she marries 'the sail-maker who is pleased to add “& Son" to his trade sign, although the child, belongs to Marius.
think, be very strong
TT is a warm hearted film, with
mixture of
a
love and
fantasy, thus its original wide appeal, and one asks, at least I
THE NAKED EDGE
King's & Broadway).
do, if it has gained by its lush On the way out from seeing treatment.
this film, a voice from the It has, I suppose, that in
darkened that its original form, it was
screen implored masterpiece of French me not to give the plot cinema, now it can be enjoyed away, all over the world,
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must be unselfish.
one In my case, it was evangelis- ing the inevitable, for so confus- Leslie Coron is a delightful Ing was the issue, and so heavy waterfront walf; her perform handed was the determination face will bring her many to be mysterious, that I spent
admirers.
the rest of the day trying to Horst Buchholz is convincing sort ik out.
Marius, but it is left to the two
grand old men of French films, (and Hollywood of course) to steal the film, Maurice Chevaller and Charles Boyer.
11 hia role as the rebellious The Naked Edge is definitely an attempt to be Hitchcock, even down to the publicity which puts a veto on late arrivals, but as the veto is operative only in the last minutes of the film, We are spared the risk of being thrown
s. happened
I say old, for they don't mind playing "old man" parts, and into the street by the manager they are only old in the sense for turning up late, as,
"Psycho"
piece of terrifying insanity
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"The Naked Edge"~~Gary Cooper and Deborah Kerr star with Eric Portman, Diane Cilento; Hermione Gin- gold, Poter Cushing and Michael Wilding in this George Glass-Walter Seltzer thriller. (Kings & Broadway).
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of silly people who think age dow among to LEE & PRINCESS: "Fanny.”
bas something to do with years.
class mystery The lively scenes between writers; there is an unwritten these two are grand, and Chew law that you play fair with the valler as the all-maker is a de- public. So that no matter how light, while Boyer, as the bistro surprising the conclusion, you owner, the excitable Cesar, is remember a clue that should excellent,
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Hemingway home- town premiere
The President and Board of Trustees" of the Village of Oak Park, Mufflzóta, have passed a resolution, proposing thể world premiere of the Jerry Wald's 2016" Destiny-Fox, pRO- duction, Hemingway'■ “Young Man,” be held in that olly. Hoonuke: "Erases: Hemingway was born in Oak Park, attendest Telementary and high school there, ODO MODALOM, Tre in
CANTILE Brown, Village President, stated that ever
Individual and organisation in the community expressed tRINGE desire to my fifinar tribute to the late nie Hemingway, their former friend and follow villven.
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