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John Ford and Cooper JOHN WAYNE JOANNE DRU JOHN AGAR DEN JOHNSON HARRY CAREY, JR.

"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon"

VECTOR IMÉABLENE PROUDIED ALUMICE BIORRI GʻUKIN-AVENUE ARTETOJ

Directed by JOHN FORD Licorok, et TECHNICalde

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

VOSNIAN AND

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SAY AMBASSADORS EACH CLAIN

By JACK DAVIES

S

of

NEAK - PREVIEW

"Ebirce Story," 53 film which feature-length tells the life story of a British film studio, was given at a London suburban cinema the other night.

No one was more relieved to see it finally on the screen than its director, producer.

Scots und script-writer --- born Gilbert Gunn, -

His has been`a` painstak- ing task. More than 300 films have been made at the Elstree studios of A.B.P.C. since their opening in 1927.

While Gun didn't have to s through them all, he did have to see more than half, some of them two or three times.

WHITTLING DOWN

He spent three months in a projection room, a secretary be- skle him, watching good, bad and indifferent dromas and

with comedies,

without anci sound, and deciding which ex- terpis he would include in the 5.udio's biography. Finally, ho whited the 1,500,000 feet of Alin to the required length of 5.000 feet.

Some of the extracts included in the flim ure not without In- 4 rest. For instance, in an old Debe Daniels-Clifford Mollison tio of 1933 a few extras are walking down the gang-

of an occan liner,

Tho sharp-eyed will recognise Stewart Granger among them. Then there is Charles Laughten playing his first film role-of two minutes' duration-in the silent

im "Piccadilly."

way

Other actors on view include Ralph Richardson (as "Bulldog Drummond" with Aun. Todd), Laurenco Olivier (in "NO Funny Business," made in 1932) and John Mills (playing a "Those Were the rehnalboy in

Days").

Vedle of the preview aud!- ner, mostly composed of bobby- soxers: "Weren't the old stars food?"

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THE OTHER STOLE SECRETS

DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES IN UPROAR AS TROOPS MARCH TO BORDERS An emergency meeting of the Se Council was called today as the entire world viewed with alari varent developments caused t

ucatimis.

MANDRAKE, HAVE YOU SEEN THE PAPERS? I [HOPE IT DOESN'T

MEAN WAR BETWEEN THOSE TWO LITTLE COUNTRIES---

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IVE JUST READ THE STORY. I'VE SEEN SOMETHING IN IT THAT INTERESTS ME VERY MUCH.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN]}

1951.

By Leo Falk and Phil Davis

DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF

THE STORY. I'VE MARKED IT WITH A PENCIL

hgosnian Ambassador Bat

Borgonian agent had large Fars that protruded liken lavi up Meanwhile Borgonia Ambassador he also

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Does Danny Kaye's Mimicry

Monocled Danny Kaye, playing an impersonation

of himself, is Corinne Calvert's dancing partner in

"On the Riviera."

Spell Mirth?

By ADC

han

"On the Riviera" is an play his uncanny mimicry. It is hear his swift excuse for Dammy Kaye to a delight to

changes of, accent, from the mnke another screen ap drawling American to the chic pearance, but many who French, but while all that is a have followed his exploits feast of genius it is not a feas.

wit. of in the past and found them rollicking fun will regard this new vehicle with some disappointment.

We expect Comedy, and

not amused. encounter Cleverness, and are

Even the situations are not 100 funny. They have been beaten to

death by generations ...... A dancer meets someone who looks exnet- ly like him. Faced with the danger of losing his job, he de- cides 10 do a and lands in

bit of imitation, trouble.

· Nothing striking about this, nothing really absurd, nothing in the grand manner of Chaplin who leaves a moral in

mirth. The story is set in the Riviera, playground of millionaires, but we see little of this lush spot in the Mediterranean. Most of the developments occur indoors, In over-decorated rooms smacking of the stuffiness of the Victorian

the

It lacka punch, contains of comedians not enough laughs, and is only amusing in parts, not as a whole. Mr Kaye does his best to lift the film from the realm of the mediocre, but it remains bogged down in strange territory for him the land of boredom. His supporting stars, Corinne Calvert and Gene Tierney, are not suitable for comedy and make little im- pression in the midst of the fun he is trying to evoke. Tierney, especially, looks very much like an air ing breakfast-in-bed; see it, and stewardness on land -com- you begin to suspect why society pletely at sen.

matrons retain their figures.

Dancing singing and colour do their bit in desperato at- fort to put the picture across You marvel at the striking rainbow patterns of the decors, but the songs leave you un- moved. You like Mr Kaye's facial distortions, his energy, his singing stylë, but as a dancer you think he is top- heavy. -

Miss

The story provides Mr Kaye with ample opportunity to dis-

HAROLD CONWAY'S Show Talk

Film Censor

King David's Love Story

London. Hollywood's frankest-ever sex drama arrives in the West End next month. I have just seen an advance copy; and, if cinema-goers' reaction is what I expect, this should provide the film controversy of the year.

In

tising David and Bathsheba this country alone as is normally making a full-length spent on British picture.

Look out for the actor who plays King Soul in a brief flash

is Francis X. back scene. He

silent Bushman, veteran

of dramas back in the Ben Hur days before the first world war.

After years of reilrement, ho returned especially to play the part-they couldn't find anyone else impressive enough.

the

Passes

classic scene of exagge- ration pictures Miss Tierney tak-

And you conclude by asking

whether the field of comedy is wall; the Americans had staked limited, whether (unlike the their claim even before Strat-drama) the demand is greater ford, after secing him in than the supply, since laughter Gielgud's production of The is always loga abundant than Lady's Not For Burning.

1

REDGRAVE KEFT BUSY

No

Stratford

rest elthor for

svason

Icars.

a

Danny Kaye's name conjures up a world of madness, won- mad- Michael derful, happy, carefree Redgrave. Five days after the ness, but "On the Riviera" only

for on provides closes

display of -October-27-with-a-record-box- mimicry, and mimicry does not office gross of £130,000 he spell mirth. begins filming with Edith Evans Importance of Being in The Earnest.

Who will succeed Redgrave as the Avon-side stor for 10527 No decision has yet been. made; but

guess would my

Alec be Guinness, if his film

commit- ments allow.

Mr Guinness, I think, would like

Shakespearean come- back after that Hamlet storm- and Stratford is the obvious place to stage it.

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(World Copyright Reserved-London

Express Service)

It's Jam On The Breadbasket

"The Flying

Missile"

Modern Verse Comes To

The Screen

No more unusual film is likely to be seen this year. than T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral."

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Filmed in a disused St. John's Wood church, hardly more. than from cricket ball's throw Lord's, with a clergyman, Father John Grosser. Rural Dean of Stepney,

Thomas playing Becket, it will certainly be one of ile most inexpensive flims of 1051.

Sex topics are, of course, the mainstay of Americen pictures, The difference in this case is that Darryl Zanuck, Hollywood's

HOLLYWOOD GESTURE top producer, has gone to the and Biblical

story of David

Which new film will the King Bathsheba for his inspiration.

and Queen see at this year's Royal show on November 57 I PECH AS DAVID

doesn't seem

as though committee will have Mr Zanuck is not one of your selection

content much choice, Griffiths or De Milles,

For the Americans are just million-pound with

making pageants of the Old Testament, not trying-even though a Com- mand premiere would mean He is a man of intelligence, who likes to make audiences think £100,000 worth of free advertis

But what makes it of excep- ing to

to them. and talk.

would have been splendid as tional interest is that it is one of After the hullabaloo about the documentary. As a film, the few attempts to adapt a Well, he has intide me gasp. Gregory Peck was hurried home last Royal performance-when

modern verse play to the screen. from making the swashbuckling Irene Dunne's Victoria im. The however, it flops.

Says author Ellat: "The ques Captain Hornblower in England Mudlark, was chosen in Britain's

Treacly romantic situation of the sullability of poetry for the most astonishing cast year it was decided to throw

the cinema is one I leave the occasion

unnecessary as David. Susan ing of

open to world com- tions,

love- the year

others

to answer. My interest, and absurd waving curiosity extended Hayward, most modern-styled potition in 1051

primarily among Hollywood's

But Hollywood is now saying of the flag, destroy the main the question of the suitability leading

Festival year; let the actresses,

was chosen to be "It's

British have all the honour this iden of the story-which is of the cinema for poetry." Bathsheba.

Contrary to his apprehensions, The result has brought one of time" There will be some token to introduce a new weapon. he is pleased with the result. the Br

British censor's new "A" American

The missile is America's ver- He thinks

words gain, certificates: "Passed as more be big films and none of them 1sion of the V-2, a rocket launch-Frather than lose, on film; hopes sultable for exhibition to adult is to be pushed behind the scenes, ed from a ship or submarine that the picture will attract The £3,000,000 Quo Vadis Is which is radar-directed to its pople to the possibilities of the I seriously question whether this picture would have not even being submitted; nor target. In the

Rather, is Vivien Leigh's the

chain the words of one of him, and persuade film directors "It has to turn their aftantion to the got past the censor intact but for I

Streetcar flm-despite her prize in its power to change the whole possibilities of poetry. its Biblical source.

course of civilisation." David's affair with Bathsheba at the Venice festival. has been re-told without dislor That seems to leave the field

Too true,

but it did not have tion, without any suggestion of clear for Carol Reed's new pro-in its power to change the PETER LAWFORD, a pleasant, likeable young Englishman. sacrilege. It has also been told duction, Outcast of the Island, course of Hollywood, which pro- who has made good in Holly- with an outspokenness unique in starring Sir Ralph Richardson, ceeds to prate ounces

ces of screen history.

Trevor Howard and that exotic the breadbasket. Jam of wood, faced the ladies

gentlemen of the Press with

audiences."

be used.

but they won't

French discovery, Kerima.

in

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OWN to

and

It would be a popular choice: allowed to launch the rocket

Glenn Ford, instead of being calm. HAYWARD IMPRESSES

It seemed that one of those but I am sorry there will not be

in

embarrassing Judgment of the production at any for the honour. the matter-of-fact style of a prosent had an

the London

documentary is compelled first itself must await

question to ask Mr Lawford. to fall in love with Viveca "Is it "about Sharman Doug- premiere. For my part, I found STRATFORD TO BROADWAY of all

Lindfors, then to get his feat laz?" said the actor helpfully most of it--and all of Miss Hay-

Broadway never misses a trick crushed, then to recover in x- ward's performance-Impressive.

"No," said the questioner. Then, the tak

his courage in both hands, But I also found myself wons where British stage talent is trabrdinary fashion to

to claim the Scriptures Richard Burton

mantle concerned. Only 24 hours after here's whether

asked: "What-le your ideal wo- The faishes his provide to

star of the plece, the mis- man? I mean you seem to pre- всовод

alle itself, is

and is only seen in flight, ter girls who have education they Stratford ecaron-the producera with a licence

· · would not be allowed in any which has made him our most zooms into space and fades background. What kind of ghi

love-story. modern

www about its construction, it d New York

air Lawford heilated, pubile may wonder

There he will play the load in sicuctiveness, la history. It ins not quite sure what you mean,"

“tle means” said a lady four- **Mr Zamuck isn't doing any Anoth's Tanjary Pomt: of picture had been called "The wondering, he knows he in on to Departure the solo astelt tore Flying Dutchman the missile nallat, évidenity new to the pro- depuis dou prefer 49. a good thing Hosponding by Dirk Bogarde, West End would probably have been las rekrion,

BA WRITY"AT" nearly as much money on wygry

The

argue-next month cortala Bar-to-be--he salla, for away. No opo ill any the wiser) do you want to marry!"

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