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is a most shocking film
By LEONARD MOSLEY
LONDON.
have known better, had directed it with a sense of antire."
HE most expensive film
that Hollywood
But, no. The gun-play, the love- has
play, the back-bedroom lusts, the mado since "Gone With abols of a lover stamping his boot the Wind" has hit-and the into his girl's face, the incredible word is carefully chosen-Lon- ending all these are taken deadly don in
really the form of a
seriously. The gala
producera seem to bellove they have rairacu- premiere at the Carlton Cinema, loualy gestated an epic. Haymarket.
"Duel In The Sun" hos Jennifer "Duel In the Sun" cost £1,000,- Jones, Gregory Peck and Josephi 000 to make. The producers spent Cotten ca Its stars. It's a story of £200,000 on the "extras" who old Texts, of two brothers from the swarm about every scene. And cow-country who hate each other they dispensed further £500,000 and night for the same giri-Pearl on publicity to persuade you to see Chavez, half-breed daughter of an 11. even roping in the pavement Indian woman' and а Louisiana artists of the Embankment.
Aristo.
I consider myself A reasonably bread-minded citizen, but this new und gargantuan-size Technicolour Alm shocks me.
There was no humour in it for occasional an It is two and a sheepish snigger. quarter hours of superb photo- graphy and monumental bad taste,
110,
Except
for
I wouldn't have minded so much I King Vidor, an artist who should
JENNIFER JONES One half of the Duel
Hongkong Film Family
of
She was hardly a Pearl without
shie a price-bui thrown before swine.
was certainly
Every time a respectable charac-. ter turned up to resetto her, he was shot in the stomach by Gregory Peck
Eventually Pearl got irritated by this, and she followed Gregory into canyon and shot him in the stomach, 100.
He shot her back, and thereafter they kept potting away, meanwhile crawling through the dust towards cach other until they were both n pretty sight In Technicolour, what, 、with the red all over their fronts.
The film concludes with Pearl, having reached the man she has loved and shot, kissing him to pas- slonately that he dick. She also dles herself. It was this particu- lar scene which got the film nlek- named “Lust in the Dust.”
Really, a most shocking film.
Cool Cutle
ARLENE DAHIL, Warner Bros starlet, keeps cool in This Kmart outfit on the beach when she finishes work in the studios. Arlene is one of в сгор of promising young actresses being groomed for bigger parts.
Karloff is an Injun
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BORIS
JAMES
MASON and
producer
KARLOFF, British-born Mayer Studio has advised her to taite actor whose screen portrayals six months' holiday. heretofore have emphasised the macabre or the grotesque, will play an American Indian in the pleture "Tap Roots." The film has its sot- ting in Mississippi
after the American Civil War. Susan Hayward and Van SYDNEY BOX have another po- Heflin
will be the stars, be Upturned Glass,"
Karloff
pular entertainment winner in "The enacted an American Indian once be-
The Ahn has a fore,
in Cecil B, de Mille's film "Un- number of similarities to another conquered," as yet unreleased. An- Dox-Mason hit, "The Seventh Vell." ather of his recent parts was that of In
the new
nim, Mason plays a
a renegade white man in the picture brain surgeon, who, out of revenge, "Canyon Passage," but usually he plans the perfect crime. His wife, portrays monsters.
Pamela Kellino, who was responsible for the script, plays the villainess. A high spot of the Alm is the fight scene between Mason and wife Pamelat when he tries to throw her
SONS, JUDY GARLAND has suffered a from the window.
the nervous collapse because of dis- agreements both with her husband and at the studio. Metro-Goldwyn-
The United Artists Corpora- tton's staff bulletin for June has this to say about one Hongkong's successful who is rising steadily to top in the film business:
"Henry Ronge, manager in Puerto Rico, has been promoted to the post of executive
assistant to Henry Weiner, general manager in Cuba, His successor in Puerto Rico is Jack H, Odell. Son of Harry O. Odell,
our prewar manager In Hongkong. Jack atarled in the alm business In China with RKO at the
tender age of 18. In 1939, when only 18, he became the youngest head of a foreign branch when Warner Bros. appointed him manager in Hong- kong, and two years later promoted him to supervision of the South- western China territory with head- quarters in Kunming.
"Joining the British Army In 1043, Odell rose to a captaincy and handled various film assignments in connection with tlie motion pic- ture entertainment of British troops in the whole Southeast Asia Com- mand until he was demobilised 1946."
In
Jack and his tather who is now in Hongkong managing Interna- tional Films, which releases selected British and American pictures-are not the only members of the family engaged
in the film business. Two other brothers, David and AL- bert, are also in the game. David
with the is connected
conne
Hongkong office of the Army Kinematograph Corporation, which looks after Alm entertainment for the troops in this gorelson area, while Albert has also been engaged in the distribution of motion pictures in Chungking and Chengtu.
were
All the three Odell boys brought up in Hongkong, and studied at the Central British School.
PICCADILLY· INCIDENT
"Plocadilly Incident," produced by Herbert Wilcox for Associated British Pictures and starring Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding. has won a coveted British film honour-- the Daily Mail Film Award for the outstanding. British pleture of the year.
So out of the ordinary are the qualities inherent in "Piccadilly In- cident" that the British Broadcost- ing Corporation adopted the course of. proviewing it on the air prior to It West End presentation. BBC accorded it a full hour's "live" broadcast
dcast of scenes acted by the
person,
The
"Piccadilly
Incident"
be is to screened locally at the King'a Theatre very shortly
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SHIRLEY TEMPLE, former child star, is expecting her first baby In' Janitary. Sho TVILK married la 1945. Currently at 'work.on comedy, Honey- .
sho is pictured here in an
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+ Ilne.. It pairs with black velvet,.
satly or crepe skirts,
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CHARLES BENNETT, British novelist who collaborated on the screenplay of Cecil B. De Mille's "Unconquered" Ilitchcock's British fim "The 30 Stops," had been assigned to write the scenario for the picture "Sign of the Ram," at Columbla Studio, The film will star Susan Peters, the little actress whose career was halted two years ago when she was crippled in a hunting accident. She will play her part from a wheel-chale.
MADELEINE CARROLL will re-
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husband Sterling Hayden returns to hla, studio from his four months' honeymoon with Betty de Noon.
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'SPOKESMAN for Walt Disney Productions sald that Walt is definitely going, nhead with "Allco In Wonderland," despite the news' that film version of the classic in to be made in Paris. Disney has owned the film rights for years, and the whole picture is already laid out. The only thing remaining to be decided is whether or not to use a live "Alice".
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