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Beautiful Nkonda Fleming, Columbia Pictured star, does full justice to the original Cleopatra in her role as that famous Egyptian Queen in the new film "Serpient of the Nile".

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By SUE DAWSON

When a new version of a: In the world of the ex-convict much-filmed classic is made, on whom people set the dogs and people are inclined to judge shopkeepers refuse to wait and it solely by comparison with who can find no place but the previous versions instead of highways lo sleep, so that the sizing up on its own merits, aspect of a convict remained as as an interpretation of the chain which had been around his Indelible as the brand: of the writer's masterpiece.

wrist, 淼 Bishop acted, by Edmund Gwenn-sets Valican on the road to a new life. The way Gwenn acts this part would be a lesson to any young screen aspirant, and a revelation to Churchmen, Gwenn is a Bishop in "Les Miserables".

On this basis, the latest ver- slon of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables", made by Twentieth Century Fox in Hollywood, would not compare at all well with the one made in the coun- try of the story, it is not French, It has no French stars and, al- most needless to say, It lacks thỏ atmosphere of 19th Century France-of France at any time,

But as an American ilm matie about historical France, it is on the whole a suitable vehicle to convey something. of the Im- Imortal classle to hundreds of thousands of people who, would otherwise know nothing of it'at all.

الأعلان :

Whereas the French im could never have more than the infrequent one-day showings that it has here, this now Miserables is likely to be quite popular and capture the local Imagination with its accent on

action.

The direction ty Lewis Milestone frequently lacks sub- Wety, and detall whore detail help. Somo of the would secres and dialoguo are melodramatic. sentimental and 'Hollywoody".

But Michael Rennie makes a magnificent Jean Valjean, the young man who is sentenced 10. ten years chained to an oar in the convict galley of merchantman and continimally under the whip of a guard-for

stealing a loaf of bread.

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Robert Newton-ig the moat splendid actor of the fun though. He is Javert, police ameer aboard the craft- u martinet whose conception of justice is the Letter of the Law-inflexible, A man hard and undeviating, whose father was a convict himself.

ftere are the-words of one convict oarsman to another: "Once in a while a dog la born into wolves, and the rest of the pack, seeing it, destroy the in- truder. But there are times when the dog survives, and then let all the wolves (beware." Such a man ja Javert.

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Sylvin Sydney's appearances are brief but powerful. What a mistake they made, though, in giving her Debra Page! for a daughter! Cosette of the great story is here a pert little slice of cheesecake; a trite, self-conscious American puss who speaks mouthfuls of platitudes and stock catch-phrases. Alas alack for such a blunder! Her meeting with Marius Cameron Mitchell-

but makes one squirm all over, then Mitchell is little better....

In this oddly assorted bunch of stars is one we see all too "Little John" in the Walt Disney seldom. He had a small part as story of Robin Hood", end here he plays with distinction Robert, Valjean's partner and good lend He is James Robertson Justice

Considered verdict: **LeB Miserables 1951" is worth see ing for what it is. That includes nothing French.

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