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DISNEY SCORES AGAIN IN NEW COLOUR FEATURE
Rating: ★ ★ ★
"The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr. Tood" now at the King's, will detonate yet another todious oxplosion from the self-appointed guardians of English Literature, who believe that Walt Disney is continually vulgarising the classics. .People are odd. Nobody accused him of vulgarisa- -tion when he adapted the classic "Snow White" to a screen idiom which, though tech- nically improved, has remained basically un- changed since Mickey was black and white.
The Grimm Brothers' Snow White.. Washington Irving's co- centric schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, and Kenneth Grahame's Tond, Rat und Mole from "The Wind In The Willows" are all characters in equally unvulgar fairybooks, which Mr. Disney has chosen to illustrate.
Critics who liked Disney's Snow White have no more reasoli to dislike his Ichabod or his Mr. Toad than they have, say, to like Arthur Rackham's illustrations to Wagner's "Ring" and dislike thuse he did for Shakespeare's "A Mid-, summer Night's Dream."
In our opinion, "Tehabod And Me. Toad" (a double-story car- toon) is the best Disney picture since "Snow White", and boasts the most lovable set of chareters since Dumbo Arst lent us his
enormous cars.
Dear, bouncing, boisterous, reckless and susceptible Toad- how beautifully Disney has caught his insatiable passions!
-OWDF
MR. ICHABOD
Disney does it.
its craze for caravanning suc- ceeded by the mania for motoring story of Ichrbod, which shows us (at the sight of his first automo- Disney at his more strident bile. Toad's heart beats en six second-best—a Fecond-best. let
linders and his body shakes us emphasise, still good enough! like a chassis); his wanton sale to enchant you,
of Toad Hall to buy the car from children. arpack of criminal weasels, who
have stolen "it.
The latrous trial by judge "Moonrise"
and jury; the terrible spell in jail. and the final escape to a reformed way of te which begins inauspi- efourly with the purchase of an Edwardian biplane.
and the
RICHARD WIDMARK AND LINDA DARNELL
Dick and the Charmer.
Widmark fights the wind in new film
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Hollywood has left few subjects untouched in 'de- picting the American scene and now Twon- tieth Century-Fox has narrowed the field by using the exploits of the U.S. Navy's hurri- cano-hunting pilots as background for "Slat- tery's Hurricano,” the_naw adventure romance now at the Roxy and Broadway Theatres, with Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell and Veroni- ca Lake in starring roles!
next with the US Navy Director
at the Lee
Is
in close co-operation
Audire de Toth and Produceri William Perlberg have put on
the screen with great fidelity the
hazardous operations of the men who fly the Navy's four-engine Privateers into the teeth of 120- mile-an-hour tempests.
Coming to the Lee From these vicissitudes he is another of those unheralded constantly rescued by his three American pictures which have loyal henchmen, Badger, Rat and way of being better than many of Moic: a WI Bay of a Badger, a théir joudly proclaimed rivals.
Throughout its war-time scr-i Ralph Lynn of a Ret, and a Mole The theme is the haunting of a of such plump. Pickwickian, be- man from childhood by the know- vice, the reconnaissance squad- nevolent ineptitude that I solemn-ledge that his father was hanged rons kept automatic cameras in ly consider him to be Disney's for murder, and the effect on him operation to churt ilights into the storm centers ond De Toth masterpiece.
most exciting We could do with a little of suffers consequent persecution be selected the
small community. sequences from these top-secre Mole's snozy placidity in the He is made to feel an outcast. films to add to the production.
and the obsession of apartness grows until he is driven to com- mit murder himself.
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This valuable footage, never before shown except for Navy As a piece of dramatic movie training films. Includes vivld making
ing the Alm, made by Frank
sequences-- -showing-great-focks Borzage, could hardly be more of birds desperately trying to effective: We have seldom acenly out of a twister as well a contrasting moods of violence, and thrilling shots of the intrepid gentleness handled with
pilots winging into the very sensitivity.
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Containing many excellent documentary action shots of the fighting on Tarawa and Iwo Jima, the new Republic picture is regarded by many as the best film to have been produced-In Hollywood-about----- the war in the Pacific.
Others in the picture MTO John Agar, Adela Mara, For- rest Tucker and Julie Bishop.
Once In the "eye," an area of comparative calm, the pilots chart the speed and direction of the tossing women out of his path in le now emerges as a Casanova, hurricane thus enabling lund cavalier fashion and, in the pro-
stations to send out storm warn- ings.
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up his first celluloid kiss, with Miss Darnell amorous as the recipient of his advances,
Miss Darnell. # brunette- appreach was not appiled to the tressed charmer, plays the wife nctional framework which the of Widmark's best friend. John atory is sot. The formula is Russell, in this exhillrating screen basically an emotional triangle, play. She is captivated by him. with both Miss Dernell and Miss but inter gives him up so that he Lake vying for the affcctions of can return to his ever-faithful Widmark.
sweetheart, played with qulot charm by Miss Lake.
an
"Slattery's Hurricane" marka
abrupt change of thespic All of the exterior 'scenes for pace for the meteorle Widmark, the picture were filmed in Miami who launched his film career as at the Nuval Air Station and the venomous Tom Udo in Kiss 1,200 Navy bluejackets were used of, Death,"
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