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The
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Rose
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A fabulous voyage from English mediaeval castles, across desert wasteland to the legendary lands of the Far East is made by Tyrone Power and Jack Hawkins In "The Black Rose," the Technicolour film version of Thomas B. Costain's historical novel of the 13th Century now showing at the Roxy and Broadway Theatres.
Leonard Mosley Reports
On
A Big Drum
That
Orson Welles plays the flerce Mongol conquer- or, Bayan of the Hundred Eyes, and lovely 17- year-old French actress Cecile Aubry plays the Black Rose. This spectacular epic was filmed both in England and North Africa and took over three and a half years to complete.
For The
Perfect
Isn't
Rose
man with astig
Earnest schoolgirl
Every time Hollywood And when I pushed my way ghting and intriguing halfway big-business
of Cabinet across the world with the Mon- matism. announces that a £1,000,000 Between the heads
from Africa to film is about to be wheeled of the stars at the bang-up pre- China,
Ministers and the bare shoulders gol horties, up for our mutual enjoy mere I could feel excllement ment and stupefaction I am reacting on my pulse-beat, tempted to reach down for prepare my bazooka aml for a battle.
Big, blowsy.
I cild hardly wall for the rurtain to roll open. Two hours later I could hardly wait for it in close up again,
For with its
A
As for teeny Cecile Aubry,
whio girl
showed, In this
that "Manor,"
she can be ravishing imp-she still has op- £1,000,000, a real, but it is the appent of un getting her When a film has cost a
Well, consider the facts about Hollywood seems to have pro- earnest schoolgir! fortune, it is no longer a "The Black Rose," and judge dureed this time is a big, blowsy. fret big part in the end-of-term matter of choice. They in the gargantuan quality of this old bore of a fin. It has as play. sist that we go and see it, 93m. and will blast any hesitation our bends by every means they can think up.
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mich shape as a barrage bal- Joon, It is seldom exciting. IL
It cost 4000,000 dollars tre- is not even bad enough, as some spectacle in "The Black Rose" devaluation). It used 3,000 ortume flus can be, to be Arabs, 800 camels,
400 hor: C and miles as extras (more than
Inny.
I hasten to say that the
shot of Warwick often something to see. There are lovely Castle, of great carovans moving "The Black Rose" simply has across the desert towards snow- caped mountains, of wild races on horses and camels, But the dialogue 25 twentieth-century American, the cutting ragged.
lu the case of an epic it took Whgate and the Emperor o sueil, called "THE BLACK capture Abyssinia from the ROSE," a £1,000,000 fabu- Italians). losity about to be unveiled for you, they have though! up plenty.
drunilire campaign has been opened to prove that this is one of the greatest spectacles of all time.
The stars? That
dazzlingly
21:5
1039.
Lovely shots
Ninety minutes after
"The
handsome young. man, Tyrone Power; that sputtering, Juvenile
Tyrone Power looks gorgeous Black Rose" has been showing, cuius, Orson Welles, and that in his tighis, but when he had to Tyrone Power remarks: "Well. the Mongol gauntlet he that's the end of something or adorable French minx, that de-
of something.” hehtful midgetina, Cecile Aubry, seemed more like an All-Aineri the beginning 17 years old,
football player making a Unfortunately, it wasn't either. five feet in her can racks, and everything in pro-
And I would remind you Fertion. Now it would be untrue
Orson Welles is puffed out in that this Alm cost £1,000,- with armour and a funny hat, 000, It just shows you ray I dislike all this hoopdedoo.
isn't everything, muncy Alms, 1 love spectacle
I love The story? One of those dash and has his eyes made aquiling these days.
s'mulate the fuse and Bash and glamor ing, romantic costume fairs, to
Alerce Mongol ous hurly-burly which go with with an adventurous young man general, but looked more like a then,
WEEK-END
SCREEN
FARE
State Secret (LEE) stars Douglas
Fairbanks JI and Glynis Johns in n firm that manages to be both a genuine thriller and light entertainment at the same time, It is about an American doctor against whom all the terror of a Euro- for his Leon police state, out blood, is unleashed.
to
The Hasty Heart (QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA) is n triumph for Richard Todd, one of the latest Bellish contributions to Holly- wood, who puts in i wonderful portrayal of a Scots soldier in a Burma hospital who knows that: he is doomed to dle and has left a span of days to live. Ronald Reagan and Patricia Neal are in the cast,
The Black Rose (ROXY & BROADWAY) is about two young Saxons who fall out with their Norman conquerors and embark with
ono
of Kubla Khan's generals on a Journey from Antioch to China.
THE
MONGOLS
Mediaeval traveller Walter de Gurnie (Tyrone Power) prepares to go through a weird and barbaric Mongol torture in this scene from "The Black Rose." Stripped to the waist, he is made to walk along a
that even
(London Express Service.)
HAVE SOME FUN
long rope while being hit on both siden by two men with Inflated pig bladders. Mongol soldiers lined up 'on either side stand ready to spear him if his feet laave the rope.
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+
Walter Rina
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