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THE CHINA-MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1848.

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ARE SCREEN STORIES WRITTEN OR ADAPTED?

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Do best-sellers make suitable "screen matorio!? Sometimes they do — but British film-makers seem to make make better films. from little-known books by obscura authors.

The question whether the ability for the, screen. cinema should rely on stories method now próvalla" in British written for the screen or as studios, Just as a composer may Iterature han frequently been be inspired to set a poem to discussed. There are points in music, so a work of literature favour of both the original and may have certain qualities that the adapted story, and each has inspire its transformation into played its part in contemporary cinema, flm making in Britain.

Two original screenplays of different type which have very become world successes are "The Seventh written by its pro- and his wife,

Bo, written by and "Hue T.E.B. Clarke for Ealing Studios. On the other hand, the use screen versions of literary works. whether plays or novels, is an old established tradition. Even film producers before 1914 combed the whole of literature, Including the Bible and Homer, for their two and three-reel flim dramas.

Today there are three ways of approaching this question.

An outstanding Instanes · ts "Brief Encounter," originally a short radio play by Noel Co- ward which, in its film ver. alon directed by David Lean, has become one of the classica of the screan. The same can be gald of "Odd Man Out"

Maugham “Quartol"

A novelist whose works have frequently proved excellent screen material is Somerset Maugham. At present no less than five of his stories are being nimed, though four of them form now | DOW

orm one film. This is "Gains."

in production at

"ASSIGNMENT IN BRITTANY": Jean Pierre Aumont stars in this drama of French mon who fought their war in Frances Underground spies for the 'Allies. Busan Peters plays the Breten girl who toves him--and rescues him, (Bhow- Ing soon at the Queen's: Para mount.)

The first and most obvious is borough Studios, London, under abroad provides a good deal of to acquire the screen rights of Sydney Bex; it

includes

"The interesting material for current either a bestselling novel or of

Colonel's Lady" The

Allen productions. Best known of these an outstanding stage success. The

Corn," "The Facts of Life," and younger authors is probably H.E. producer is less, concerned with

"The Kite." An interesting Bates, whose book "Fair Stoud its suitability for screening than feature of this film is that the The Wind for France," a story with exploiting its popularity. author is making a personal ap- of the war, will be made by

Immortals And Cinema |pearance in it. He will intro- David

Lean, while the Alm duce the film and read the nar- version of one of his latest books, The second type of screen ver-

"London Belongs to alon, an ambitious attempt to rative linking the four stories.

Me." adapt the immortal works of Modern English literature, by great poets and writers, is per-authors not as yet so well known haps the most important of all.

Here is the highest mission

of the cinema, to take to mil- Ilons

of cinemagoare of all

countries the finest treasures

is being made by Frank Launder and Sidney Gullat,

SHADOWS BEFORE

London Preview Of "Hamlet"

Even though space 14 so limited In Britain's four-page news- papers, preview notices of Lau- rence Olivier's presentation of "HAMLET" for Two Cities were given many columns of type in special features. The film was of world literature which most

"A NIGHT IN of them

would otherwjse have

CASABLAN- friend, Crowder, is murdered. shown at a World Premiero to CA" (Lee)

Crowder was working on an ex-the King and Queen at the never known.

Stars: The Marx Bros,

pose of the local Boss Greer, Odeon, Leicester Square, on May Two outstanding examples in

Story: Trying to dizentangle racketeer, and Mitchell sets off recent years have been the screen

yea the ztory

follow from the zynopziz to

up the story. Ils It was London's most glamor- of Shakespeare's play zendz adaptations of

опо zilghtly zany. The efforts lend him a job running cus premiere since the end of the "King Henry

and Charles Marx Bros. V."

are meant 10 be the "Bewildered Hearts" column, war. As well as the Royal Party Dickens' novel "Great Expecta-joyed, not unalysed. Honald replacing his girl-friend Laurie, which included Princess Маг- tions."

Their reception all over Kornblow (Groucho, the mus-Abbott (Brenda Marshall). All guret, there were at least six the world showed that there were tachloed one) takes fill-in fob ends happily, except for Boss members of the British Cabinet vast audiences in every continent as a hotel-manager, the fanner Greer. (Warners Bros.). eager to see an immortal English managers of the hotel having novel, or a Shakespeare play per-dees-appeared. Post-wor Cusa formed in the English way.

An alternative to this second type of screen adaptation is the selection of lesser known plays and novels. merely on their suit-

blanca contains Nazi sples try ing to get their looted treasure out of poor Groucho's hotel, a discredited French officer, Pierre (Charles Drake), lervely sirens, and a disbelieving (who blames them) governor and chief of, police. But it's a Marx Bros.

CINE MODDITS pleture. (United Artists).

"THE LADY FROM BHANG-

Rita Hayworth, Orson

In the audience. Also there wore diplomats representing virtually "THE GHOST & MRS. MUIR" every country in the world and Star: Gene Tleney, Rex Har-leading personalities from every rison. George Sanders.

phase of British life. Star guests, were Jean Siminona and Lau- rence Olivier's step-mother (Laurence Olivier Is atu touring Australia with his wife. Vivien Leigh and an Old Vic. Shakespearean Company.)

Reviews

The critics sald: "THE

Story: The Ghost part of the title is no wailing banshee scantily clad in a frayed sheet. He is a solid (?) salty sea cap- tain. Danlei Gregg, who haunts his beloved Gull Collage. dull Cottage is rented by an indepen- dent young widow, Mrs. Lucy Astor HOBART CAVANAUGH |

Muir, and who brings herself. has portrayed 43 henpecked char-HAI (King).

her young daughter and house- acters for motion pictures; his

Stars:

keeper to live there. She and latest being in United States Pic-Welles.

the ghost become friendly, and

TIMES": Hamlet tars' comedy-droma romance, Story: Elsa Bannister (Rita when she loses her fortune ahe proof that the greatest of "My Girl Tisa," soon to be re- Hayworth), beautiful wife of makes another by writing Cap Shakespeare's plays can be trans- leased by Warner Bros.

wealthy, crippled Arthur Bannis-tain Gregg's life story (with his lated to the screen without loss ter (Everett Sloane), falls in love ghost's full co-operation). Herof dignity to the author and to

with her the immense, enjoyment of a pub.... with adventurer Michael O'Hara l-fated love affair (Orson Welles).

publisher, Miles Fairley (George He ships her husband's yacht, and meets Sanders) sends the ghost away.

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le suspicious of his name, and he does not return until

"DAILY MAIL": I was more years afterwards. when Mrs. moved by Sir Laurence Olivier's Muir's daughter is about to be film of 'Hamlet' than by any married. (20th Century Fox) stage production of the play that

I can remember.

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"ADVENTURE IOLAND"

"DAILY TELEGRAPH" Sir Laurence Olivier's new £500,000 version of "HAMLET" will bo long remembered as one of the

"DAILY

ELEANOR PARKER soon to be seen as the star of Warner Bros. romantic comedy, "The Voice of

in the Temptation

form of the Turtle," spent the first two Grisby, Bannister's partner. years of her screen career work- Grisby proposes to "die", let ing with drama coaches and O'Hara

be accused of his mur posing for still.

der in order to get the insurance No body being found, O'Hara The original ambition of JOYCE | would go free. The scheme mis-

(Queen's), REYNOLDS lovely Warner Bros. fires, and O'Hara and Elsa ure

Stars: Rory Calhoun, Rhonda star, was to become famous as a tried for

-murder: O'Hara

Fleming. lady detectivel

escapes, discovers Elsa's double- Story: The story comes from cross, and leaves Elsa and Ar-Robert Louis Steventon's "Ebb two finest Shakespearean films thur Bannister fighting it out Tide", one of his South Sea tales. yet made.

"Adventure Island" concerns two in an amusement park. Tough beach rats, (Paul Kelly & John the perfect film comes to be business. (Columbia).

EXPRESS": When Abbott), who plan to steal a ship made, It will be like that last "YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FOR "Mr. Herrick'

Frid Carg

They team up with KING'6.--"Lady From Shang- EVER" (Lee).

(Rory Calhoun, almost too much to bear.

phase of Hamlet, and it will be hal": Murder and Melodrama,

This Star: George Brent, Brenda down-on-his-luck-er. Plans m's- with Rita Hayworth and Or-Marshall.

flm-production fire, however, when they are

of "Hamlet" is son Welles.

Story; This is a comedy caught on an-uumapped island, one man's conception, and it is QUEEN'8. — “Cass Timberlane":

madman, thriller that has lost a bit of its ruled by n Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner punch through lack of a war.

Napier). The rest 1s action. "DAILY MIRROR": The film and Zachary Scott in the since most of its plot concerns Roy Calhoun, "discovered" in is a British movie masterpiecé Almisation of Sinclair Lewis' the unmasking of a political boss

"The Red House, brings more artistically ahead of any

Con- nevel.

who specialises in illegal ship- than favour of Alan Ladd-and tinental or American production ALHAMBRA. "Cass Timber-iments of wartime scarce tires his own Latin good looks, to his I can recall.....This is

and sugar. The rest is slapstick, first big role. Rhonda Fleming cinema.....You will never for

great LEE "A Night in Casablanca" but funny for a' that. Steve is the ship-owner, Faith Wishart, get the pictorial magnilcence, The Marx Bios. make their Mitchell (George Brent) is a city and supplies the romantic inter- the vivid action, the music, the mark in post-war Casablanca. editor on a daily paper when a est adequately. (Paramount), costumes, the settings of the film.

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SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING

SATURDAY, 29TH MAY, 1948.

will be run at 2.00 p.m

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