1954-08-21 — Page 2

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"Money From Home"

is the current show running at three cinemas

By JANE ROBERTS

the King's, Princess and Em-

the Arst pire and

two if a second print arrives will be following it with in time for the scheduled another outer space tale oponing, both theatres will "Invadera From

Mars", follow with "Rose Marie"".

The Empire will por- sibly play a French ple ture as the mid-week feu. ture.

September launches itself

with us on

"Beat The Devil". At the Lee and Greal World. the grout outdoors provides the back. ground for "Tumbleweed" and "The Seckers".

The Roxy and Broadway have on today "The Sabre And The Arrow".

the

If you like boxing, Hoover is showing "The Joe Louis Story" for another day, changing tomorrow to "War Paint".

A French picture-"Public Enemy Number One" will succeed "Destination Tokyo" at the Queen's und Alham- bra, then will come "Rebels Of Lomonach" and "Saracen Blade".

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Faced with the prospect of being lynched for having sup- posedly deserted a wagon train ambushed by redsking. Audie Murphy's only friend as he shuffles off into Apache country “MONEY FROM HOME" is this home Tumbleweed, features that crazy couple,

More Red Indians, more Martin' and Lewla, in a Damon

Inflexiblo Runyon story about hores, scalping knives, crooked racing and people with sherriff, etc, odd naines.

In addition to Audie Murphy Martin answers to the name and the horse, there are Lort of "Honey Talk" Nelson while Nelson and Chill Wills,

partner 18 "Virgil" Yokum.

13 saddled with

MAORI LEGEND

Having got himself into the

"THE SEEKERS" opens with clutches of some crooked book- makers by a serica of unlucky one of the most tranquil and bets, Honey Talk's only way of beautiful pieces of photography paying them back is by getting I've seen. a ruce "Axed" for them.

New The country shown is drawn Zealand and while the camera Naturally Virgil

vlt and just roams across mountains, valleys, Into the

natures streams

and great caverns, a ioovitably their botter prevail.

volee off screen tells the Maori The two girls in the picture legend of the creation of man,

Marjie Millar and are

Pat it's a wonderful curtain raiser, ("FOREVER Crowley

**RED

The ensuing violence as Marjie wins Doan action swings to 1820 and the when Jack Rury almost Maori's sympathise with Pat Crowley Hawkins and Noel Purcell (two Ume-she gets Jerry of the crew of a sailing ship) this

unwillingly violate their burial 10:4 Arresting Marthat has a chance-several ground is irs fact--10 air that very plon- contrast, sunt singing voice of his, though CADDY" nearly unlike "THE all the songs are old favourites.

FEMALE" FE CARTER). Martin

Lewis.

und

and

can

<fforts

the

Their last stand fa in a dopert ed little Spanish mission.

THE JOE LOUIS STORY" inishes today and I fully Intend scoing it before It closes, whint- ever cise I miss.

Heving been a boxing fan for interested to see how closely a number of years, I shall be Coley Walinga's Bahling technid= que resembles that of the Brown Bomber, The comparison should be fairly easy to make, as many film recurds of Joe Louis' Aghts are inserted into the picture.

tho

It is claimed that Alan is an

of blography authentic champion, starting at the begin ning of his career in 1932 and following it through to his de- feat at the hands of Rocky Marciano in 1951.

The term "fabulous" to en easy one to apply to Joe Louis, both for his long stay in tho Championship ists and for the quality of his fighting while at this the top; anyone coming Into category is always tair gume for the gossips, and if the makers of this picture have Luthfully they'l sifted fact and fletion have done a lot for the reputa tion of this coloured sportsman.

NO LONGER MUTE

getting so used to US. Cuvairy-lato 10th Cen- of fury vintage--that I'm sure

cordel

inspection exactly where may - thing was wrong with uniform or equipment.

Robert

the

1

The subsequent these two to colonise and build costl

theme of the picture, It seems that "MONEY FROM home in New Zealand is the and top

HOME is the tenth picture this

rather together to Cynis Jotus have marie

tian a

Stack is our lates as Hawkins' date, which

point to goody-goody role sems to

cominander to lead his The success of the partnership. wile which she manages to make armiy

Unnigh treacherous red - agrecable enough, but I'm afraid men he's not a bu happy in their skins to his objective. love scenes, The poor man always locks so emburrussed, as that camera Iceja frun though he

be recording such shoudidn't details.

ON NODDING TERMS

wack's Visitors space are from the planet that I almost feri on nodding terins with, since it's sent so many of

down Its ambassadors

should it be up) to 115. It's thrilling enough and the Maori

Mars

COUTEO.

F'king

about

(ur However, the action shots are

daceng a farrome thing Lo watch. Though I couldn't giggle when STY repress a I wonder why Itul often- neighbour whispered "Shades nive, most natural colour, green, of Twickenhamni

almost should have brep

one universally chosen

nost

for Bil Melunce.

as the

nst flung

fiction

monsters. Colour

aggerates the

Thing

this

which is

Two Americas Lake ปาก parts of the natives in picture- practice beeting more and more pr*. feature vate as the Indianis more prominently as charactors Ten years ago all do inwerterns.

o redskin was required to was fall down wifen the pro- ducer signalled that he'd been stot.

Now that it's become the fashion to attribute FOJTES Fort

of

hatred

use

The most pertinent

of motive to their cmb think of to say about the the white man, speaking parts ex- part German, part French, part have been allotted them, mok-

Df Javanesa danger Laya Raki is ing it almost essential to horror angle

ber but I that

dance makes Jone trained actors instead of extras. these features, I admit.

in THE FRENCH should have thought red would Russell's have been a much more effective LINE" kook like something de- choice.

signed for a children's party.

An infra-red ray gun is the Weapon by which the Murtions the attempt to subdue their prey in "INVADERS FROM MARS".

Is

The traditional professor part is taken by Arthur Franz, and his partner in anti-space crime Helena Carter who usually manages to produce in edmost English accent la her Aims by talking with her mouth nearly closed.

HORSE THE HERO

the

In spite of being the wife of Maari chieftain who be

Hawkins, she's more friendis

white than ready to lure the man from the side of his wife.

Keith Larsen and Joan Taylor are the brother and sister who harry the Cavalry in "WAR being PAINT"-Miss Taylor's the only feminine role in the picture.

SEAS BETWEEN

Her apparent enthusiasm for this is one of the most natural- I dealt with "DESTINATION seeming

Jast pieces of acting I've TOKYO"

week the seg for some time. Parting QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA'S that's why Jack Hawkins was picture at the moment.

Some- able to register embarrassment thing quite different is next on

their so convincingly!

programme;

erest French comedian Fernandel The colouring (Eastman) is appears in "PUBLIC ENEMY superb and my only regret on NUMBER ONE",

that

the mechanical side Wus that

It's got unlike Norman Wis- A horse

hero

become + of (having

complete dom's TROUBLE IN STORE" convert Not a racer "TUMBLEWEED".

to CinemaScope for in that the comedians in both or oven a well-fed pony, but a outdoor flm) "THE SEEKERS"

are employed CBSC

in very been filmed in looking sway-backed hadn't

this humble mangy

positions in à large animal that looks as though it process,

multiple store.

It's hardly couldn't cross the road without

necessary for me to add the buckling at the knees,

rider that there's a very, very large stretch of water between the artists though.

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NO WEAKNESS

With a lift of the eyebrow, a There's no weakness in this barely perceptible gesture or a week's Broderick Crawford, brief movement of the shoulder, Compared with the drink sodden Fernandel can indicato a moun- fellow he played in "THE LAST tain of fooling. Wisdom's comedy POSSE", his sergeant in "THE is of the far broader kind, re- SABRE AND THE ARROW" l» quiring a series of somersaults a toughie indeed.

and an elaborate comedy ward- robe (too tight suit, cloth cap, Incidentally he must feel that broken down shoes) as DTOPS. Just stands are lucky for him...... the title of "THE SABRE AND Continuing the comparison of THE ARROW" when I was "PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER made was "THE LAST OF THE ONE" and TROUBLE IN COMANCHES", Don't ask me STORE"," Fernandel also gets in- why they ohanged it-possibly volved with crooks, but although fike Istanbul, people just liked he leads them to justice in the it better that way.

ind, unlike Wisdom he gots him- self branded as one of them first, On the face of it, "THE Hence the title. SABRE AND THE AHÁOW” is yet another of those last ditch On hond

supply the stands against the redskins. If glamour that Lana Morris was I started to make a list of all called upon to dispense in the the Alma I've seen with varia- English picture is the famous lang on this well worn thems for should it be notorious) Zsa

probably take up the whole Kea Gabor.

today's China Stall. How- ever, (dare I mention that name William Heldon gave again? the old routine a new twist in

to

ALL IN ONE PIECE

"ESCAPE FROM FORT

"QUO VADIS" je being shown BRAVO" 30 why shouldn't all in one piece at normal prices. Broderick Crawford do it in this ploture?

It really doce murit many of the superlativer Tavished upon He's a tough U.B. Cavalry it, not only for its spectacular sergant (they only make two quilling but for some of the

india-the pugh and the tear- noting too.

fu)) who's shown at the begin- ning of the alm leading the rem Peter Udinov's Nero is a nants of his troop' and a few grotesque place of characteriza- other survivors' of an Indian tion that makes the vacillating the desert to- madman appear so much more wands safety, in the form of sintatue bocation, so much more the shelter of Fort Macki Ampradictable thats history paints

Barbara Hebe is discovered in its

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A stagecoach on the way therm Patronitas, the worldly sethple -though why the Forts com- played by Leo Gern, is another trender allows his sister to go good pieco of whyk, as is Finlay gallivanting about the country Currie's Polse. Deborah Kerr

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