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By JANE ROBERTS

Lieutenant Ellen Wilkinson, an Army" purse" and the right hand woman of the doctor: Bent.

to patch up the Japanese Admiral.

for another week as it's that I haven't been able to any of this sort. It's simple-the's been such a success in spite of its age, Thoy come

The "creature" Is the living back to the present with a bang then,

of a fossiled hall showing us counterpart "Executive Sulte which, half fish, discovered in the

upper reaches 10f":

For The Buyer hus about us much in com- Amazon. It constantly horaris mon with the leisurely days the small scientific expedition (complete with girl, of course) of the old South as a jet insets out to find out all with a sailing ship.

about its nasty habits, *****

4

The former pletare is

of murders, double crosses and oszorted Natighusat "the atory is too involved to precis, but it's good entertainmmt, for the unsqueamish and worth repeat visit even if you saw 'It before.

NO PRETENCE

The light in the eye of O'Brien T quickly dimmed whith

"Gorilla At Large 'doesn't she tells him as soon as they meet "To all intents and pur- pretend to be anything it isn't. poses on this trip Tm & man-You've got the gist of the action

in the title. please treat me as one."

L

Many jungle pictures have The animat in question is shown the actors plodding featured artist In the Paradiso and through the steamy, heat, soak Artusement Park. Aptly hamea one of the rally oliath no's ed by torrenting in se links zuspects in a series of unders Josing them happened In

Venture" that upset the compúrative, calm but perhaps because I liked the cr the Park. nim I found them more realistic than usua).

At the HOOVER there'll Richard Carlson is the doctor be "The Sands Of Iwojima" (of Science, presumably) in for a week and the LEE charge of the expedition and-GREAT WORLD follow. Julia Adams is the girl.. "Creature From The Black The press books show several Lagoon" with a Japanesa, shots of aqua-lung excursions below the water, a point I men- picture, "Golden Demon.***

tion in case any of the Hong- "China Venture" has its kong devotees of this sport are last showings today at the interested, KING'S and PRINCESS and then the EMPIRE joins them with "Fighter Attack". Looking further into the future, "Secret Of The Incas" and the British ple túre, "Romeo And Juliet" will be next.

At the QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA, The Big Steep" will be followed by "Seven Deadly Siris.”

Last but not least of the first run theatres are the ROXY and BROADWAY with "Gorilla At Large." In complete contrast to this, there's a sensitive picture called "So Little Time" com- ing next and then the much publicised "The Egyptian."

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"The Sands Of Iwojlma" concerns the training under gone by a group of U.S. Marines in preparation for their assault, first Tarawa then Itself.

SORT OF APOLOGY

"China Venture" is a sort of "pology for the dropping of the

atom bomb.

In 1944 it is claimed that a official was high Japanese travelling North from Shanghai when his aircraft crashed in the mountains and he was held enptive in the plane by Chinuso bandits. These people knew they were on to a good thing and offered to turn him over to the targe sum of Allies for a money.

In the fact that he was known to be one of a small minority group in Japan who wanted the WHT ended. It was felt that he could give the answer to the question of what was the most effective way of ending the lighting with the least possible bloodshed.

His worth to us lay

la the fighting and opened negotiations for peace, would it be construca

If we called a halt

In

the best traditions. of mystery thrillers, almost every- The girl question was very une In the east colher under of-its well dealt with. There was ho nuzpleton In the costse wasted time on romance except running time. Lee J. Cobb is for a brief couple of minutes the defective with the job of Jocelyn Brando had with Edinding out whodunnit." mind O'Brien that could hardly be called a love scene.

in suspect His favourite Cameron Mitchell whose girl She fell asleep in the middle, friend has been pestered by the On the other for which I was glad, as he did murdered man.

Cyrus Miller, the male smelly, grubby hand, look awfully

has had money and very realistically a soldier. half of the husband and wife stolen from him by the dead A clinch then would have been trapeze net, a bit nauscating.

mart.

LIKEABLE FILM

"Fighter

Attack" is another likeable flim. This too is played against a last war background, is but insicad of China, Italy the 'locale.

J. Carrol Naish is the leader of a band of Italian guerlilas on whose problematical friendliness Sterling Haydeh has to depend

bale out when he's forced to during the last flight of his four asghter pilot.

Just to confuse the issue a H130

Gollath's trainer more, turns out to have been a former husband of Laverne Miller.

If you still don't feel you've had your money's worth, how about the fatal accident that some time before had carried third partner in the off the Miller act?

SUBTLY CONVEYED

"So Little Time": brings the Marius Goring back to Although this' actor Is Inclined

The war in Italy seemed,

fought exclusively by to everdramatise at times, he's as weakness and lose us the from this flim at least, to have screen; a welcome return, as advantages we already possessed; been on on Iwojima or would it be better to inunch Germans; the guerillas of the always interesting to watch."

an all out offensive to show that picture, though a tricky pro-

position as far as Sterling Hay- With him is the Continental our forces were superior?'

den

were actress Maria Schell. Not concerned, WOR

but with an air of Aghing for a free beauty, ostensibly

sensitive frailty about her, she is perfectly cast as Nicole, Birl with young Belgian passionate hatred of the invad

AB in "Take The High His advice was of the greatest Ground" there's a tough ber- importance and a small group gcont who knows all the was sent inland to try to bring answers and who intends that him out, or if that failed (hls the men he's 'instructing are back was broken and he might going to learn them too before not be able to survive the trip) to intertogate him on the spot. the course is over.

"China Venture" is based on or this incident which might

us appar might not be true, enty the US. Government will not confirm or deny its authen- ticity.

Naturally the poor fellow is misunderstood and is intensely They Ioathed by his squad. don't seem to be able to get it Into their heads that unless they hard the learn their lessons

to just way they're liable very short time when they really get into battle.

A

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Italy.

running Intelligently

EL

a

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German milltary When the she

governor of her town is billet- ted or her mother and herself in their beautiful ola Jiouse, It's as though the added In- dignity had been planned by ha unkind fate.

Jay Page, as an Italian girl, fighting with and keeping house for the guorillas, was a bellev- ing Germons,

personality. She wasn't able too glamorous for the job had to do, yet showed enough touches of feshininity to make her interesting. :-

There's rather a lovely sóng through the aim, it's used and doesn't

Little by little, however, his It makes a good story and a obscure the lalogue as is so suspense-laden film. so whether often the case with flm music.. love of music strikes a chord It's based on truth or Action is ina" is its title and it's sung in her. It's been prophesied that she has a brillant future DS except is played by immaterial The sergeant

added rather hauntingly to guitar ac- ahead as a planist and when John Wayne and the chief interest.

companiment as the guerillas e

the colonel playing in she hears thorn

In his side is private Edmund O'Brien is the rather sit up in the mountains planning his own rooms of the house she John Agar (once the husband of Shirley Temple). John Agare crude Army captain who's their next weapon-stealing (oray, realises that there is another side to the man. Although his a sixth sense about against the Germans. at Guadal- developed father was killed

such things as booby traps and ambushes during his long spell in the jungle.

canal and hadn't had much time for his non-war-minded S001,

John Wayne, however, has

served under the colonel

much very

admired

him.

In one or two cases I noticed country decrees that he must be a similarity between "Fighter a ruthless soldier, punishing by Attack" and Gary Cooper's death if necessary, his first love

is music, of some years back- He's justifiably annoyed when picture

will, "For Whom The Bell Tolls

Slowly, against her Possibly this makes him a little he receives orders to pick her Possibly it's something to do Nicole falls in love with him.

Naval Intelligence officer (higher harder than is necessary of

in rank than him, to make with the apparent grooming of To his credit he tries to crush John Agar, even causing him to

and some Sterling Hayden worse) obstruct Agar's marriage

to matters

medical personnel and guide Cooper type' roles. Adele Mora

through find protect them enemy country to the Japanese Admiral.

The film starts in the training Zealand and comp in Now moves to Tarawa and Iwojímá, with plenty of battle scenes Interspersed and everybody `for- giving everybody in the last reel

HALF MAN, HALF FISH

F

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for

Gary the feeling before she realises

what is happening to her, but their mutual love has now grown too strong.

He plays a man of about 45,

of The inevitable contempt

"The Bit Sleep" Im't new, she a girl in her teens; but the the fighting man for the desk- but It's very nice to see the emotion between them is so

is well put lovely tace and hear the fascina subtly conveyed that the situa bound brass hats over without being overplayed, ing voice of Lauren Bacall tion appears complatoly pinus Barry Sullivan turns said again, especially as she seems ible. There is a tragle ending, brase hat into quite a pleasant to have given up the screen for in a life dedicated to te jook after State, the colonel is allowed so permanently to human being though he didn't quite ring true as a top flight Humphrey Bogart.".

little time for love. Intelligence Officer,

It's unnecessary to say that I He, of course is always worth You'll be wondering how

performance in you've probably gathered that compare his Black Lagoon" except to admit Jocelyn Brando its into a tale and fell be interesting to thoroughly enjoyed this picture, "The Big Bleep with his Cap by now. It's unviolent in action tain Queeg in

Calne but with a threat of violence Maliny" which I hope we'll be lying all the time just below seeing soon.*

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