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SHADOWS BEFORE --
"A DOUBLE LIFE" (King's). the higher culture, cannot resat n
STARS: Ronald Colman, Bigne story concerning a very rich man who gets fed up with having so This is nightcurve--magnificent, much money and does something fathomless nightmare from which about it. Let any ergemus leap aut you emerge relleved at its being at his pinstripe and lato a pair Hollywood i Bnished yet immensely glad that of overalls and
there in flash. the experience has been yours.
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11 is, of course, Ronald Col- insleally, that is the situation nightmare. Playing the which brought about "That Way it part of a great urter, Tony John, With Women". Needless to say
man who has who actually becomes the char-is not the rich neter which he happens to bethat way". He is just a great big with geniality portraying at the time, Colman balloon inflated
has the part of his life. The and exuding the placid "warmth
to which usually
Academy Award presented
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It is
"PIRATES OF MONTEREY"
Marguerita (Marla Montoz) dailles swhile with square- Jawed gun.runner Phillip Kent (Rod Cameron) white duenna the goings Filomena (Tamara Bhayne) keeps wary eye on
him for this picture as the best king-stie bank
to see Sydney minle star perfcripange of 1947 uite change
in Greenstreet thia
of role. typo was obviously deserved.
old sinner he ex- light-hearted From the bris,
bloated beginning, in which Tony Johncelled, yet as a happy
man Is playing For "A Gentleman's he seems equally at horas. Gentleman." Colman gradunily
Dane Clark is the "that way" develops an ever darkening mood man, He
He is competent actor and of depression which culminates in pleasant to look at without being the blackest depression of all-overpoweringly beautiful. In the Auicide.
ignorant of his partner's Sit he, He offered
of ** part
though swollen credit
a little Othello. Knowing himself armed at his swollen girth, goes
any In the grip of powerless
business into the garage
withi characterisation, he is wary of Greenstreet. They prosper and but cannot resist the opportunity. ure harried by a bunch of thugs Ils ex-wife, Urito (Signe Hasso), are
most important In off whom the Follows him into the motass his "Othello" inceds, playing op- the story is a smooth character
ved by Craig Stevens. played by posite him as Desdemona,
Object of "that
from Way With the aid of photography and directing that must be terin-both Clark and Stevens is Martha | Marguerits she provides
of the heavy Vickers, daughter Colman builds up Inspired.
bankroll. Though she may not the suspense renady, relentless- ly. The
personality of Othello contribute a great deal with her that of Tony acting it seems unlikely that any completely usi Jolm. He fignis against it but is one could objeri to her refresh
presence, drownel in it. Eventually the ingly beautiful
For the most part this show is Jealousy which cases Othello to Bilt Desdemon with a suffocal-uure romeds, and proud of it. It
bit gory
at the end ing kiss manifest itself in Tony does get a John's life over the relations be-when Messrs. Clark and Stevens Aistically, and Bill stile their differences tween
his ex-wife
but it still remains their Friend (Edmvmd Brien),
enjoyrbic. press agent.
on.
£1
"Hamlet" Makes
Many
Laurence
New Stars
dienne and
won the stage
Olivier'a illm Elleen Herlie has only made- presentation of Shakespeare's one brief screen appearance be
fora playing the role of tho "HAMLET" is perhaps the Queen in "HAMLET." But'on biggest star-making picture the London stage she is, re- ever produced in Britain.cognised as our leading trigo- The cast includes several car" for her performance in players who have never be "The Eagle Has Two Heads," fore appeared on the screen. The role of Queen Gertrude is
most complex char Credit for the discovery and acter studies which any actress: the use of these new stars can be called upon to play, full rests primarily with Laurence of contradictions, yet having the Olivier, who has directed them possibility of winning great sym- in the complex and difficult pathy and understanding for the roles in which they appear in right actress "HAMLET".
Amongst the leading player are Eileen Herlle as the Queen, Basil Sydney as the King, Jenn Simmons as Ophelin, and Felix Aylmer as Polonius. Newcomers to British Alms are Norman Woo- lant as Horaite, Terence, More. gan as Laerics, Anthony Quayle ns Marcellus and Peter Custing
Esmond Knight Varic, Bernardo, Stanley Holloway, the First Gravedigger and Harcourt Williams is First Flayer.
h
one of
Miss Herlio has unquestionably made of it ano- of the great successes of "HAM- LET."
Connoisseurs of Shakes.
Fearean ■cting will And the performance hy Duell Bydnay ·
King Claudius very much to their taste. Himasif a fam- our Hamlet, and later one of the
finest portrayers of the King on the London”stage, Mr. Sydney's acting must rank among Shakespearean
per. formances to remember.
Two young actors whose ros putations should be made by Norman Woo-
****, *g the seat “HAMLET" nre always right: They like animals, land and Terence Morgan. Both particularly dogs.
are making their screen debut, and although quite different in un to Rodney, BA Which brings Doberinan Pinscher, who gets most style, appearance and physique, of the limelight in "It Shouldn't each can be considered as poten- Happen To A Dog". It is reason til star material. able
late to pose that the Carole Landis and her co-star. Allyn Joslyn thought
It
that
Repertory Player
rose-California the Technicolor people should happen to a dog and that during the war years as a B.B.C..
"IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A DOG" (Lee) STARS: Carole Landli, Joslyn,
Allyn
the dog should be Rodney.
For
Norman Wooland was famour
announcer und in the theatre The story, such as it is, con-
world he is known for his fine cerns the tracking down of a girl work in repertory, particularly named Olive Stone (Margo at the Festival Thenire, Strat- Woode) by Henry Barton (Allyn ford-on-Avon. Joslyn) who is a newspaperman
Laertes, of that unique type seen only in Olivier
selected Terence Mor- Landis' portrays Alma, MinS
gno.
slim, dark, handsome policewoman, probably equally atake actor who had monde a big unique,
success with Vivien Leigh in What is more important is that Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of the policewamun has a dog named our Teeth." Olivier, who pro Rodney, While the rest of the duced the play, thought highly of
bejewelled, genuine behlid-the-eared senorlin named have been able to produce some u wel very Ane scenic photography come relaxation from the rolling which adds much to what is real- thunder of the rest of the story. ty a more active than veteri Alm.
The main gentlemen who dash (Universal) about crossing sabres at the drop and generally being of n hat
whole about the pretty violent thing are a gun-running Ameri- can named Philip Kent (Rod Cameron), his aide Plo (Mikhail Rasummy) and a rebel Major De Itoja (Gilbert Roland).
They are all concerned one way mother a royalist altempt wrest California" from the newborn Mexican Republic. The period is about 1840. This gives Montez, whom 9TARS:
them all plenty of opportunity to than Cameron.
indulge in the activities previous When the director, on the var -
ly mentioned (IR well as to drive In laus sets his undoing.
of this Hm, shouted wagons through flames in a con- "Lighis—ermern—ACTION," (Do yon and drive themselves into the the post-murder
of they really say that?)
given he met Bomes of Marguerita's amour. Othello" the aclar realises that with a fine spirit of co-operation. As quite a large part of the their scenes from, under their spout s are the rest of
It forces him in his temporary mantness 10
attractive. "PU ATES scatterbruned wattress, Pat Kro (Kings (Shelley Winters). with
he has forme
11
friendly attachment.
This proves his
more
a truly thunderot climax
A
scene
set in
thom
131"
more
+
OF
MONTEREY"
Marla
Rod
to
with a
is crine has been discovered-
ed-One is tempted to quote from the aim has been shot on location in realises for the first time com- publicity pusters and say that it pletely that he has actually com-
1 is "Dashing adventure, with the crime. Following lame and fury of fighting mitted Othello's life pattern to the end, matching sebres for a beauty's he stabs hims it un stage. versal?.
+
men
(Uni-lips".
There is a good deal said in the posters about the publicity
"THAT WAY WITH WOMEN" tips of Marta Montez, and, from a masculine point view it must (Lee)
Clark,
that Martha' be admitted STARS: Dane
it is not all nonsense. Nor would it be any- Vickers, Bydney Greenstreet.
Hollywood, like the slick-paper thing but madness to think that magazines and other sources of they are her sole attraction. As
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the role of
who in
Industrious
actor's enst perform their duties fairly the young
talent, and Imaginative cameraman they are
engaged him as the successfully, and produce a ren- originally considerably | sonable amount of merriment, it acting under-study for
Hamlet. appear
than the brighter intellectually
is obyjus that they are there Eut in common with a number only humans with whom they perfcim, ont
background 10 the of other young actors, he was
tested for Tine, of cer
the part of cot b
Lacrtes, due, not endcar |netivities of Rodney. aws-legged actors There is no doubt that the dog and his test was so good that he them to the and actresses. They feel that they is clever. But probably his chief won the role.
Peter Cushing, an actor have enough to put up with in asset as an actor is that he can
several appearances not talk, and therefore cannot be nade the pursuance of their art with-
to Hollywood productions, plays the threadbare dialogue out having some hairy beast steal
the role of the Court dandy, Orle, his first part in a British film. Hoses. Nevertheless, the public is players. (20th Century)
Another young actor with a fine appearance who is making his debut in an important. film is Anthony Quayle, well-known as an Old Vic player, and niso as producer. He has the part of Marcellus, and although it is not a major part, Anthony Quayle makes a distinct impression.
Shakespeare roles cannot be measured in terms of size-sore of the smallest contain the most "meat."
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"HAMLET" is a land mark in the history of British Alm pro- duction and proves conclusively that Britain still has the best ac- tors in the work, especially when they have the advantage of speaking the finest dialogue ever written.
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