1948-12-17 — Page 5

A MIRACLE

John Pryne And Maureen O'Hara make A pleasant couple in the light and airy phantasy particularly appro. priate at the present time. "Miracle on 34th Street."

Frolics In Phantasy

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1948.

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TODAY

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MICKEY ROONEY Love And Poison CHANGES SPOTS

To the Queen's this wook comes what the customary Hollywood blurb would call a "suspense-packed action-drama." This should be enough to send discriminating patrons screaming for the fresh outdoors, but don't be too hasty. The film is called "Killer McCoy" and is illuminated by the storry light of Mickey Rooney and Ann Blyth.

That is where the duection and If you are one of the many ↑ who feel a sudden attack of photography come in. Scenes of the the nausea coming on whenever phi, shown with all the reality

of a newsreel. the name "Andy Hardy" is

are interspersed mentioned, or if you feel thatth close-ups of sections of the several musicals in the last few tiener lustrating with brutal clarity the reason for the 4- years would have been pretty tendance and the emotion stirred As there is a certain surgood if it had not been for the by the spectacle before theen, prise element in "Miracle On

abbre- presence of a certain

'The anticlimax comes, of course, 34th Street" There is really viated clown with an infinite to provide a happy ending, hot It litle which should he said about 11 here. However, it

reasonable to offer this film like an over-sensitive fairly strong ereommendation chumais. And that will be t to go and pay yar dollop at great mistake the King's and spend a while in the restful atmosphere of a sort of fairylandi.

of

In Equal Doses

It is a little difficult to see slon not only makes him appear why "Temptatiun" (starting at grotesque but seems quite deep the King's today) should have enough to be a possible coneenl been given that title. Unless ink pince for the elusive Ramesea

the fifth. Males at least wii of course it is meant to deceive

agree with the Johnston Giner the public into believing thesetlet that there should not be are going to see the dance af

too much cleavage, the seven veils performed by

capacity for overacting. yous ruficiently well-contrived not will probably shy away from to be too disappointing.

Jaires Duni 05 Tommy's minently successful.

Merle Oberon. Any anticipa- Some fairly mkd-Victorian tion of this will lend to disap-billy-shallying goes on between pointment. Miss Oberon re the two love-birds, out one thing ndequately covered and another (chiefly Darouli's mains

a steady incarne with- throughout and does no dancing, need for

out benefit of labour) lends to as Noi

dlor she alink around merry little schome for placing tempting every mate In sight. the delving husband' in a posi- fler role fas Ruby) is that of a tlou where he may contact the enreer girl with lucrative mar- spirit of Rameses at Arst hönd. ringe

an her business. In this A "mysterious polsun," in pow- she Ix portrayed ** being der form, is the weapon and by Earch as one of those curious quirks of fother, deserves

nulls, but 150021

considerably ninre drama it is kept in what looks The mention,

hooks Nigel. Playing somewhat abspely, ste

nike a brass cigarette box. similor part to that 'which was his į prominent archaelogist (George | scheme could have been scarce- in "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn," | front) who takes her to Egyp! ly less subtle if they had parid he is a down-and-out vaudeville where he is engrossed in fossick-ed to throw the polson away and actor who has become a confirmed ing among the sands of the de- beat the poor man to death with

mante

11

Wastrel and "rumpat." He is an

TE

Ronney has either changed or has been changed from the coy to |the McCoy-the real McCoy. The Tint mestien

fairyinnet uitle of the film conveys about as 2.hotel

not be taken Sitemily much as would "Nameless Day" chale anathema to all and

The re "Miracle" is not on "Alce

fhave done for "Life With Father", including his son.

Jatkin between the two allow The or

Mate" Plumber's Wonderland" or anything like It. | OF

Ruoney to show more than in any *Cluny Brown". It is But It has the elements of

not a gongs-other part of the film that he en fairy

ter story though there are several act when necessary. story while retaining Л robust humanity which "ver« shudy choructers in it; it is not a

in ense unyone has been jel to tainly refreshing.

Western-hely a horre: Lelieve that this imbs without Idiome of the ring boxing not fault it seems fate to mention at

is

for

Not unlike "Body and Soul"

Some will think it rilly. Some (cireus). will find at leo eloying a sweet- meat for the sophistiented palate. But there must be many who have clung to enough of their hond, without

one scene which will almond1 certainly etiuse a dull ache in the treks of the choosy, In this stic

In many ways, "Kilter McCoying sequence Miss Blyth arrives child. Is far more believable. Whereas at "the champ's" traking

John Garfield atrode becoming down-

rightbende),_____to_enjoyi

thoroughly.

cast is 15, 015

through tablishment.

es-

__his___past_with____jaw_______out-thrust -Urannounced-the-prances-pri--

And

Butt alenched, Rooney inantages to look natural most of the time in spite of his failing of stalking into a room with his tect about a yard spart and his lege ramroddy.

Most important of the Edmund Gwenn atud he usual, very good indeed. He is fortunate in this case in having fairly responsive l mot ino hammy colleagues in John Payne Tommy McCoy is a rough young and Maureen O'Barn, Also pre- diamond from the New York sent in quite an important way slums who takes up boxing and is Natalie Wond who seems eventually becothés a champion. rather more pleasant and rather Midway through his career hie less friendishly ear than most of kills a man in the ring, thus carn- the little offywood children whe

ing the sobriquet "Killer," accost the pubtle eye from time to lay on the pathos a littin the de- time. (20th Century Fox)

ceased happens to be the

China War In Newsreel

"China's Darkent Hour" in the title given to the first part of 'an MGM newsrael showing currently at the Starting Queen's.

with few shots of Madame Ghlang the Marshall home in the U.8., It carries

to #how Nation. attut activity in Hsuoḥow shortly before the city fail to

dlu. the Communists. The play of tanks and gune, and tl. Red prisoners lined up in the street, s quite im- pressive but not nearly 20 much as the scenes in the latter part of the sequenas

Kai-shek arriving at

- which the swirling tide of refugees crowde the roads from the city.

The second item on the rael wili test the strongest stomach. With lots of en. thulastic blah on the part of the commentator, a Japan. **R

band (mostly children's mouth-organs) in Tokyo shown playing a spirited ver. alon

"Yankee

Doodle." The complete lack οι όχι pression on the childrán'a faces ls, that which only the. Japanese can aohlove.

of

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To

who taught young Tommy to flight in the Arst place, and who was his best friend. To the cynical this might seem to be poetic justice. but needless to say it is not played that way in the Alm.

The cliruaxis reached when Tommy is to fight for the cham- pionship of the world the "world" as usual being used as o loose translation of “United States Ot America.” At the criticni

a

moment Tommy's father (James Dunn), love's young dream (Ann Blyth, nice dreaming, too), and batch of assorted gamblers be come tangled up together with the juet result our Tommy has to "throw" the fight in the eighth round or resign himself to fading replacements for both father and girlfriend.

of

Thin final fight eceno fa a masterplace of direction and photography and is one of the greatest Indictmenta

pro: fessional boxing yet filmed. All the suspense in the world is created by Tommy's need to keep the fight going till the eighth round and his equal.com. pulsion to avoid taking any chances, or knocking his op ponent out before then. He is taking a sackful of punishment, being battered to a pulp, and the crowd is fairly slobbering with excitement.

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INACTION and

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EDGE DARKNESS

MOTER BROS!

Feel for the tomb of Rameses the the box. Afth

After a tima Ruby linds the going a bit slow in her palatial manulon in Cairo, what with

the chief diversion being din. ner parties at which the depths of Egyptology are plumbed re- gularly and monotonously, so she leaps at an opportunity to Indulge In → Itue extra. trollicking with 4 marital character called Baroudi,

ily into a

room where mar bera This is Charle Korvin, who pensive, at the piano, wears Is sitting,

an expression of ingrain- quietly

those ed strumming with

cynicism with considerably tinite-gnurled old stumps he calls more aplomb than he does a fez fingers. The piece this winsoree In the latter he looks slightly none ridiculous, an-impression which nose-pulpor is playing is other than "Liebestraume," the is enhanced by his mightily cleft obvious choice, one presumes, for chin. This canyon-like depres-

dummy with his background.

Slightly pulpy after a strenuous period of Mailing is tha ring, Mickey Rooney receives Utile commiseration from girlfriend Ann Blyth is "Killer McCoy,"

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ALSO CAVALCADE OF DANCE

However, the plot thickent and the story

drags in equal proportions. A fairly satisfac- with Is reached tory climax All the right people dying and living respectively.

The waxen but clamorous beauty of Merle Oberon does much to make "Temptation" A successful ВегеОр verslon of Robert Hichens' "Bella Donna."

novel

Handful Of Chills

is

If you care to let your ima. italion ride along on the crea of the chilly 'wave which "The Beast With Five Fingers" quite a solid wodge of enter tainment may be found at the Lee from today. "The Beast" sets out to call the nerve-end: to attention and succeeds ad- mirably more than once.

The

In a nutshell the story con. cerns the results of the denth o retired, semi-invalich concer" pianist who, in life, had on ode style of playing with his lef. hand, The hand by discovered For those who read books of

to have been cut from movies, corpse. well

go to ELS

the

whereupon fits of thr "Templation" is based on the

tinglles begin to come on thiel novel "Bella Donna" by Robert and fast. Hichens. It was mode into » plás...___too...___by_James_Bernard. Antron King is appealingh

terrified as the sweet hurse whi attended to the hand and it owner while they were stil at tached,

Fagan.

She

Miss Oberon is no ham. acts well and is as convincing in her part ng the author allows her to be. Her mask-like beauty and faultless diction do much for the flim,

Robert Alda, who played George Gershwin in "Rhapsody In Blue? Is once more cast a

composar, He has quite busy time as he has to clown a little and maka love to Misr King as well as compose.

George Brent is necessarily a fairly dull character. What be has to do he does, adequately. Similarly, Paul Lukas, who 19 present in much the capacity of likely to give the pudiente the 4 linesman of a football match | loud-pedal creeps is, of course i sumcient if not enthralling as Peter Lorre. Ils tussles with a

Popular vote for the star mos1

a medical friend of the family. disembodied, murderous han

are well up to standard. Any- way. his baby-face innocenc hos such a quality that with-

Irving Pichel's direction has obviously done much to keep the Aim out of the bog, without 'be- most onlookers the goose-pim- ing able to make it too tempting. (Universal).

ples start burgeoning as soon at he appears. (Warner).

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"Temptation!

A FINE MORTON PICTURE

THE

MEN

IN HER

LIFE...

·SOME

TIMES

ALIVED TO

REGRET

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what you

WELE.

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"You treat me

like dirt...

aybe that's

why I love

you so..."

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