Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
1940.
ENTERTAINMENT SECTION
"We Are Not Alone
Stan
"We Are Not Alone."
Paul Muni, Flora Robson, Jane
Bryan.
Verdict: Redoubtable.
...Paul Muni, made his name playing simpla, ordinary people. He returns to this are not Alone."-Jano Bryan type of role in the tragic "We
as something who plays opposite him, ra- more than another scroon voats herself" actress." She turns in an oxquisite and moving per- formance.
IF only for its concentration on the minute tragedy of three people at a time when millions died far more spectacularly in the war to end wars, "We Are Not Alone" Flora Robson narrowly misses the highest honours.
There is not a great deal in the The flaw is deliberate, being
to work on, but by making the most implicit in the idea of the British young doctor's character for the actor country doctor and the young of every small Indication of indivi- Austrian governess who, in duality, and especially by his sen- 1914, wore tried, and convicted, sitive treatment of the doctor's rela- MacMurray is the legal husband. and hanged, for the murder of tion with his nervous little son, M. still undecided and the two men still Muni succeeds in making him thor- oughly alive. Raymond Severn, who wore takes the part of the little boy, is n the other milions who died in most sympathetic child actor. France. Hence the title, They were
the doctor's wife.
They were Innocent,
not alone.
So
This is an arresting and pro- Film: vocative idea, but it produces the Stars: disconcerting effect of looking st
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"Too Many Husbands."
Jean Arthur, Fred Muc- Murray, Melvyn Douglas.
the war down the wrong end of Verdict: telenoope
Almost too many.
-KingTM"
But the Alm ends with Miss Arthur scheming to get rid of each other.
-Queen's. Alhambra.
face is all right, except his ears are from the noose.
༄་།༈། །
the cathedral on a rope (Just like conversation somehow.
Then he appears. One side of his Fairbanks used to do) to snatch her Then he pours molien lead on the pointed. But on the right side we
and the And that his eye is just below his mob below. When the girl is rescued cheekbone and teeth go she off with
gargoyle and Film: "The Hunchback of Notre ways added to this he has a huge hunchback is left perched high on
ot a dainty the cathedral, hugging hump and he moves
wishing he, too, were made of stone. Dame." Stars: Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric shamble.
Outstanding in the film is Cedric Does that scare you? It should. Hardwicke, Maureen O'Hara.
But Mr. Laughton won't scare you. Hardwicke's evil prince. There is Verdict: Pleasantly horrible.
He'll remind you of an old teddy menace and pity both In his sad bear that has been pushed out of oyes. He suggests cruelty and futility
In one look. HARLES LAUGHTON gets a shape.
Maureen O'Hara, rapidly becoming The Hunchback" is a classic tale nice entrance. For the first
"Oh why did I ever come to Subject to this, perhaps, rather unmannerly criticism, "We Are Not THESE films about an overplus
of spouses are becoming a twenty minutes of the picture of pride and evil and desire in the the screen's No. 1 malden-in-distress, Alono" is a rare Alm, with foulless
Kives herself to the captain, he has tons have sold the same, but none acting, faultless production, and a little hackneyed. Maybe that everybody talks about him. A Parks of Louis XI. The prince says:
down from ruch reason. wards an unhappy ending which is 18 why "Too Many Husbands" girl screams because the hunch yearns for the gipsy girl. When she Paris?" Many girls in many situa does not seem as funny as the back's shadow crossed her path. her condemned to death as a witch, with such feeling. Or (I hope) with
Half Paris drags him into the The Hunchback swings beyond all praise.
Mr.
Paul
Muni, the doctor has flims that went before it.
MacMurray is the "drowned” hus- rever done anything aurer than this portrait of the simple, pipe-smoking, band who returns to find his wile] Absent-minded country Englishman, married to his partner and best who goes to his death an if he did friend. not quite understand
deliberate end measured advance to
what was
might have worked out
happening, and yet't understood so Thing Jean Arthur had not
much more than everybody else.
enjoyed the thrill of having two hun-
Inne Bryan, the American-Irish bands at the same time. She can not is very madchenly as the Aus- make up her mind and the crazy methods adopted by the two men all urlan Fraulein
Hirl
As for Miss Flora Robson, she is end in further complications includ- superb. She is restrained, detailed, ing police attention. and most eminently murderable,
This is a much better film thon walled themselves deeply-1
"The Good Earth."
The wards of the title come from
д
last
men, they go on a strictly
male tour of the night clubs.
Their petulant refusal to be placat
remark by the young doctor ed by Miss Arthur is one of the film's when he finds that he la unjustly brightest moments.
not
After the two men have leapt over
and been
CH
might
Hitler like to come
London
to
None the less, Messrs. Douglas
voice over the telephone, was 'Blast my sex!! given this answer.
that in she retorted. It is said spite of the rebut she actually got to the beaches on the other side of the Channel."
A grim but splendid Uttle yarn is; that of the man in HMS. Exeter, after action with the Graf Spee, who, with both legs shot off, snid on in- quiry that he was "not doing so badly under somewhat adverse elreum- stances." Lie died on shore,
Capt. Dorling has spent much time at sea since the outbreak of war, and
TERE is a slice of history grown and Christopher Serpell have his experience. has been varied, At after Italy's entry into the, wer he wone," he says to his equally inno- chairs to show their prowess, cheated and also, in a sense, unimagin- "Loss of Eden" (Faber and Faber, was on the bridge of a cruiser well Convicted of murder; "we are Cent accomplice, "In suffering tre in a draw from the hat
orrested, the law flanlly decides that able. rustico."
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ing." pleture a New Zsed to be furnished by
writer a year or no hence of the condition of London after a peace-by-negotiation with Hitler; such a picture will remain fletion and supposition until the end of all time.
Briefly, we are asked to imagine a Petain-ish (and non-Churchill) Dri- tish Government going through the motions of co-operation with the late enemy to build a happier Europe.
A forced friendship is the result, with Ribbentrop back in an England in which Nazi influence is uppermost, the monarchy abolished Mr. Chur- chill and his colleagues in a concen- tration camp at Godalming, the Press heavily censored, and Jews per- secuted. ་ ་
Hiller pays a visit there is no- thing of Mr. Peter Fleming's comic fantasy about this visit and during a sort of review at Lord's cricket ground the borrid little rat is wound- ed in the arm by a would-be assassin. Then the wave of sadistic Nazi pre- With starts in earnest, and all tence of Germany and England being partners in world-culturo is dropped
at once.
The Gestapo becomes omnipotent and omnipresent; the Swastika is everywhere, and so is the thud of the rubber truncheon,
on that It is a sickening yarn, and account alone may have its value- In justifying and confirming the re solution of the national effort. For it is dedicated to those who will not let this happen."
I
·WOULD advise anyone who may be depressed with the aforementioned imaginings promptly to take a large dose of "The Navy in Action," by "Taff- rail," (Hodder and Stoughton, ba.), it will have a most salutary- and refreshing effect.
For among those who will not let this happen" the Royal Navy are deed taking their gallant place.
The author-Capt. Taprell Dorling, DSC RN-is our crack naval historian, and here he lives up to his reputation, and pomibly goes one better.
His material is the effort of the Navy in the prosent war up to the Dunkirkan tenan evacuation at
The ground(or water) he covers includes the affairs of the Graf Spee and the Altmark, the battle of the flords the Navy's work in Holland (of which too little, perhaps, has hitherto been known), a Bou
and the fine job done by the destroyers logne.
There is no melodrama and there
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Come, come, Mr. Scrooge.. Is there no spark of sentiment la that finty old heart??! "Flinty old fiddlesticks. Look here, David, what is biting you today ? "
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