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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1949.
SEAT IN THE STALLSK
It's a minor crime-
overdressed
T is no part of a critic's job to worry about money (not professionally, anyway), but I can't tear myself away from the fact that "LONDON BELONGS TO ME” cost more than 2300,000 to make. I wish that Frank Launder and Sidney Güillat, who spent it, had more to show me for it.
On the face of it, this is a big film. It rolls out at you from the screen with Big Den booming, tym phony
orchestras whooping up the chords, and a vibrant, shot-silk voice telling you that you are going to see something
from the dramatic
for heart of a great city.
But, for all theso preliminary trimmings, I still had the feeling 112
minubes Inter that I had seen nothing more than a tinny story about a minor crime.
I walked out into the damp of the West
End
with the deflated knowledge British money and British braina had laboured and brought forth. if not a mouse, then only a Shetland pony of a film
that D mountain of
"London Belongs to Me" wao a full book and a good book by Norman Collins - about family lite in a lower-middle-class street in South London. It #li pretends to be that on the screen
But what do we see? Merely Richard Attenborough being snubbed by the girl downstairs, Richard Attenborough stealing a car and killing a girl during a Joy-ride. Richard Altenborough being con- victed for murder.
minor
д
nra
It is true that number of contiguous
dramas introduced-Alastair Sim trying to make a living as a fake medium, Stephen Murray and Fay Compton facing the trials of married life on a pension but the kernel of the story is Attenborough's ride and its results,
It is a kernel too near the size of a pea in importance to deceivo
FILMS
by LEONARD MOSLEY
me into thinking I am seeing the palpitating story of a city, or even of a street.
It was all photographed on the spot, hus Boma exciting scenes amid the bomb-holes, the black market night clubs, and tho of tho Immaculate headquarters Occupation Authority-and I send you along to it with my blessings,
Moro Villainy
WILAT makes "KISS OF DEATH!"
3 film to remember is the remarkable performance-of a young man named Ichard Widmark. Mr Widmark la villain with falr hair, blue eyes, a furtive look, and a cretinous laugh.
Ic Bko strangling old ladies with telephone wire, visiting curious
Spols
that respectable bodles you and me wouldn't know shooting peoplo In the stomach, and twisting the arm of of grandeur.
his terrified girl friend. Sul, it is a film with amusing Ho spends most of the film trying moments, some fine character acting, to
to practise these little pleasures on and an impressive performance by Victor Mature, an cx-gnol-bird, Coleen Gmy, his wife, and two small children. Fortunately, just as his avid fingers are closing round them, police bullets hit him where it hurls most, and he ends up as: a heap on
the
pavement. He will undoubtedly turn up in | pienty
of films after this. Mean- while, he helps to make this a fascinating, if exhausting, film,
Dressed in a suit of its own site. I believe this would have been a
night faut, tense, effective alm. It is
liko by the immensity of its , thwarted by n.false air out,
pretty little Susan Shaw.
Villainy
"DERLIN
with
EXPRESS" is a film "B
pretensions, tbo, but somehow they don't seem 10 Irritating.
Its atm-according to another of these disembodied voices-is to drive home the necessity of Four- Power unity over our polley towards the Germans.
But what it quickly boils down to is melodrama set chlefly amid the ruins of bombed-out Frankfort. villains are a group
Germans trying
The
Treachery
IN "SILVER RIVER" Errol Flynn is វ gombler who sends out his partner to be murdered of by the Indi's (setting Missour), to after the Civil War). so that bo resuscitata the Nazi Party; tho can marry his parther's wife, Ann heroes (some of them unwilling) Sheridan.
a trio of American, British, and Flynn's fellow citizens are a trifle
Itessian
officers, o French, girl shocked by this piece of treachery, secretary, and a couple of "good", but he says he is sorry about it in Germans.
the end, and everyone promptly Merle Oberon' plays the part of forgives him-especially Miss Sheri- the heroine with a phoney recent dan. and her usual air of thinking about something else; Paut Lukas is a "good" German; and Robert Ryan, Robert Coote, and Roman Togórow are the three Allked officers who would like to be friends but don't know how,
̄ ̄ ̄ ̄RANDOLPH SCOTT÷{loft) and Forrest Tucker conta'to blows during "Coroner Creek," a Western showing at_the_King's next week. Based on a Saturday Evening Post novel, the film follows Scott's chase through old-time Arizona after a “bad- man" responsible for the death of his fianceo, Marguerite Chapman,
LOVE MAKES THE
FILMS GO ROUND
By Stephen Watts
themselves
Britain Cuts
The Colour THEY will be taking the colour out of British films this year. The order has already been given at ono studio.
Costa havo got to coma dawn still moro; so most new pictures being planned will be in black and whito. To make up for it: "Blue Lagoon" and "Christopher Columbus," two of the biggest colour subjects, are being pushed through for showing in the next fow months.
There will bo othor changes. Not every British film will get a West End send-off. "Mr Rank plans to show his Huggett family pictures at outer-West End --and-suburban cinemas.--And---
only a few of his West End pictures will get a premioro on the old glamour lines.
NO PAY FOR VALERIE
VALERIE HOBSON is one of the
V
best-pal British film stars. But she drew no payment at all for her latest picture, The Small Volce,
Her usual salary was debited to the cost of the production (which was well under £150,000). Every has been left untouched to
I penny
LI LI HWA SHIA HUI·
in
"MR. YIN SAYS NO
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occurred to me during "An ducers and authors set
girl relationship credible instead of March and Florence Eldridge just rubber-stamping it, we might were doing something remark at least avoki a good deal of ably rare on the screen.
stereotyped mediocrity.
that In
They were causing me to bellevo And films might begin to move completely that I was watching two put of that convention-bound world people
depleted intricate and in which is incessantly
Gibbs called "an hazardous state known as being in what Woolcolt love.
astounding parody
in of life. When you consider that 09 per which anything is possible, including Dent. of Alms turn on that sllustion, perfect happiness.'
It seems strange that the sense of
conviction should come as a surprise.
I lay little stress on the fact that
March and Miss Eldridge have in
fact been married to one another THE Marches, you see (to come for some 20 years. That woule bo
back to "An Act of. Murder"),
to belittle their professional ability. do not convey their mutual feelings which is great..
In fact, It is simply that players and in terms of rosy romance. script rarely combine to achieve their love is most affectingly realised this end. Most films demand mere the relationship be- ncceptance of tween man and women, and, fazily, we tend to accept,
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in Д aftuation of dire stress.¡
He knows she will die at any Ho time of an incurable disease. cannot bear to see her suffer, and help plans "metry killing" which will destroy himself, too: Ho fails, and BUT three other films I have seen being an upright, Judge, insists ho
Intely are really, an insult to is a murderer. our Intelligence. In The
Scoret
· VALERIE HOBSON
her
husband, Anthony Havelock-Allan, who produced.
He will not draw a production feo from the company making the flim
(a company that ho owns); The money will help to mako now ple
Berond the Door**· Joan Bennett, Tho ending is pusillanimous, be- tures: will make it unnecessary to engaged to one man, catches the cause the film resolutely sits on the wait for, profits from The Small eye of another (Michael tedgrave). fence about euthanasia. But the Voice to roll in across a carnival crowd in. Mexico, Marches are well worth watching
and from there on we are asked to and the story, grips most of the time. Does Miss Itobson- get compen- belleve in her passionate devolion,
sation for this wifely gesture? Yes even when he tries to murder her. - As for the others, "The Secret from Mr Bank's organisation-which
Deanna Durbin in “Up In Central Beyond the Door"
is a piece of her husband left as a protest against Park" catches the eye of Dick heavy-handed nonsenso about a high production costs. Haymes while promenading in the man who builds on to his house park; ho pleks her up, and their replicas of rooms in which murders Jublous fate is senied.
have been committed.
Iler own contract with them does
not expire until April, Is keeping her busy on
a new picturo.at present.
'
48 an
In "Larceny," a convincing tough baby, Shelley Winters, seems to Why does he do this? Because his have but one principle in life-that mother was nasty to him when he come what may she loves John was len. The things Freud has to Havelock-Allan's work Payne. Nobody says why,
Answer: forl
Independent is worth watching. Its Deanna Durbin ninga nicely
plans include a film2 of Heroes Don't enough In "Up in Central Park Care, an Arctic explorer satire AM_not_allempting to produce a but the old gulely and charm of which was a stage succoss 12 years panacea for what's wrong with her musicals is gone. And, how sha | ago—and a now"starring vehicle for the generality of films, but if pro- putting on weight.
his wife.
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