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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1960.

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"Thelma Jordon

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Directed by Robert Siodmak

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BOBBY DRISCOLL STARS IN THRILLING DRAMA

Rating:.

Originally intended to be a "B" Class picture, "The Window", coming to the King's Theatre, is a well-done melodrama possessing all the in- gredients of a top-budget production,

Starring Bobby Driscoll, who has impressed in several. Walt Disney Allms, "The Window" is full of suspense and drama and provides a climax that will have most movie-goers. biting their fingernails.

Young Bobby, incidentally, won an "Osacar" for the best. child acting performance for his part in The Window."

The picture is a modern ver- sion of Aesop's tale of the hoy who cried "wolt

This particular lid is given to extravagant fabrication, which worries his father and mother Arthur Kennedy and Barbara Hall so much that they plan to of 11 put him into the hands

sychoanalyst.

Before the little one has a chance to climb upon the dream monger's couch, however, he witnesses a real killing, but, of course, none of his family be- lleves him when he tells about murderers As soon as the Paul Stewart and Ruth Romon get wind of the fact that he is aware of their crime, they de-

cide that he would be better off deud.

The film thereupon resolves it- sell into n fine, old-fashione stalking bec, in which the boy is pursued relentlessly up down fire escapes,

roofs, and through a buliding so dilap- idated that it eventually collap- ses. In a shower of brick anci mortar.

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All told, "The Window" la cx- cellent lm fare-a tight drama packed with suspense that recommended especially for children.

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They didn't believe him

Spring fever--has Milland got it!

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Every spring in America, when the birds and bees

start watching the guys and gals, “mon seem to undergo a peculiar change....it's liko spring fover, but it lasts all summer.”

The siren call brings them to the baseball parks and the sand lots where the thud of a ball against a mitt, the sharp crack of horsehide meeting ash and the hoarse cries of the um- pire combine to make baseball America's favourite national pastime.

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BRITISH EMPIRE GAMES FILM, DUE

Capturing this on celluloid, Ba Twentieth Century-For hos come up with "It Happens Every Spring. Starring Itay Milland. Jean Peters and Paul Douglas. the film, which is now nt the Roxy and Broadway Theatres, tells

the story Li a collegu chemistry teacher who, through a strange chain of circumstances, John Wayne, Janet Leigh, the classroom

propelled unexpectedly from diamond to the Irene Dunne Fred MacMur-where he becomes baseball's most Pay. Maureen O'Hara, Cornel famous pitcher. Wilde, Dana Andrews, Joan Evans, Farley Granger, and Joanne Dru are some of the stars who are currently work ing before the cameras of RKO Radio and its associated pro- ducers.

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Cast in this key role is Milland., oided and abetted by Paul Douglas, that "Letter to Three Wives" man, who enacts wise- the role of the team's who scored so well in her screen cracking catcher. Jean Peters,

In addition, lined up for pre- "Captain from

-debut-opposite e-Power-in-

CiTyrone - F duction, in the near future are Milland's

provides Bette Davis, Cary

love interest in the Grant, Jone | *** Russell, Robert Young, Jane Greer of the film are Ed Begley, Ted film. Hending the featured cast and Adele Jergens with many de Corsia, Ray Collins, Jessic more to follow.

John Wayne and Janet Leigh Bill Murphy.

Royce Landis, Alan Hale, Jr., and are co-starred in "Jet Pilot," a Technicolor story about the supersonic planes which now hold the interest of science.

Dunne and Fred Mac-who Irenc Murray

are making "Come, Shate My Love," a romantic comedy. Chester Conklin, the funnyman of yore, returns to the screen In this picture as the caretaker of a ramshackle ranch in the West. This is his first straight dramatie role,

Maureen O'Hara and Cornel Wilde are making "Sons of the musketeers" in Technicolor. The picture has produced a father- and-son casting, with Alan Hale, Sr. taking the role of Porthos, and Alan Hale, Jr., portraying Portho's | son,

Dana Andrews, Joan Evans and Farley Granger are currently making "Edge Of Doom for Samuel Goldwyn, and Joanne Drd, with Bea Johnson and Harry Carey, Jr., are working in John Ford and Merlan C. Cooper's "Wagon Master.”

Production credits for "It Hap- Pens Every Spring" go to Willam Perlberg, producer of "Miracle on 34th Street," Lloyd Bacon, turned out "Mother Is a Freshman." directed.

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A film on the British Em. pire Games of 1960 will be screened at the Roxy Thea- tre next week

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Depicting all major events of the Now Zealand meeting, the film runs for 90 minutes and is an excellent show for all sporte fans.

All about murder

Rating:★

Miss Barbara Stanwyck, who upon a time did quite a good job as a comedienne, has, in the recent past, fancied herself more and mare a character actress. In "Thelma Jordon," starting today at the Lee, Miss Stanwyck again tries her hand. as at a "deep" part, and the result is quite gratifying.

This time she is a girl who pretends to be a high-toned type but is really a naughty retired gambling hall hostess and the playmate of a thug, Although Miss Stanwyck, as she conducts herself here, is transparently not up to any social standards more taxing than those of a cabaret girl she convinces a young dis- frlet attorney she happens upon that she is strictly from the "right side of the track" and presently he is making plans to abandon his wife and children and rush into the Bunset with her.

Before the lovers can take off, though, Miss Stanwyck is locked up on suspicion of murdering an old lady with whom she has been living.

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At this point, "Thelma Jordon“ plunges into all kinds of legal carryings on, with the

young district attorney, still drooling ever Miss Stanwyck, making hash of the state's case against her. This gets him nowhere professionally, and doesn't do Miss Stanwyck much good, elther.

And the ending, therefore, Is rather morbid,

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