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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1954.

FILMS-CURRENT AND

wide

There will be variety of films from which to choose during the week- end and next week. Most of these are not scheduled for very long runs which, with the party tempo quickening up. will mean that if

you have only one free night, you may miss the very one you want to see.

By JANE ROBERTS

Jonutied nerves, A further com- the good tooling pleation is

rice. Dana Andrews. This picture doem't go in for subtlety, but there's plenty

I hope we ste more of look at. Peter Finch,

dais Bloom

COMING

1

has actually committed a murder. His reputation Is spotless. He's a well known author, smooth and reasonable in spite of Barbara Carrying the comparison

Stanwyck's apparent delusions tile farther, however, It was Indented in "Executive Suite" and anonymous letters he starts that sorre of the protagonista to receive have been typed on

her rachino, For tu were completely unsultable

the position and when William

To cap it all, there's no body. Holden got the job in the

last His

reluctant suggestion that Aceno the argument for his selee she's a victim of hallucinations is

on had been fairly stated ani

but the accepted by everyone proved,

police lieutenant. Gary Merrill, love affair develops lu "A A mild

two nice between these

and her Is to convince him The only hope

that she's telling the truth.

The beginning of this film is excellently done.

sequence, be as an accomplished That This picture provokes

IN ONE PACKAGE "Innocents in Paris" is a series Here's the picture: Spec- of stories, the central character

The three contestants and tuele

drama

of each being a visitor to Paris. in "Elephant Walk" at the

The cant list reads well and Woman's World" are ali

are fellows, and I don't "think themselves the incidents EMPIRE, KING'S and

script writer makes out a good sumusing, touching and unexpect PRINCESS will give way to

es; one ly even family sugges enough ease for the finalist. la the more intimate setting live.

dition to the winner not being Tha the whole

as the personality he of "Innocents in Paris." quite hong together as a com- shown

be to justify George Sanders acts 134

I This will be showing at the plote tieture is unfortunate, but would need to Webb's does not destiny each individum Clifton

choice, the should imagine any killer would. Jaffer two cinemas only.

wives, in any event, were not the Being confronted with a situs- The LEE and GREAT

Claude decling, factor they were meant tion În which a person Jus

con do WORLD Lake

him harm, he kills that person "The In- Dauphin

xzed kફ one I be

without mach

much thought of the truder" and will follow it

charmer, she as a fresh unspoiled

An CONSCIŢUENCES.

Intelligent with a Chinese picture.

Kirl, This English

and the thought however, is in its favour

man, he nevertheless forgets a

t "A

World" Ronald Shiner episode are the and I would urge you Woman's

lot of important details ut the takes over the ROXY and best. In fact it might have been see it, whatever your

time of the kilting, calmness and entertaininen!.

calculation setting in afterwards. BROADWAY Theatres now better if the producer had con-

Webb's beautifully There's an

Interval after centrated on the two, rather that The Barefoot C'on- than overwhelmed us with six. modulated volçe speaks the pro- police have left, satisfied with his Lesen has left, while neross

logue, the camera following him expl

explanation that nothing hap HOOVER

along as he mures witht

pened In his apartment and the read at the

that that satisfaction

could

The woman who says she "The th

showing

eritatlag in a smaller man, on the whole thing dreamed it all. Hunter." After

the enormous empire that he's when he paces up and down in a thriller..

Jnherited from his father; on the uandary. Then, from indecision

It und Work Hawkins back doing way he's increased

on his mood changes to anger that the smoothness

which li The

and what he does best, that is, being the CAPITOL

one single woman witness should Some

spoken have got him into this defensive LIBERTY will be bringing anglerstanding leader, always runs.

and underplaying in thoughts coursing through his

position. back two renat quite new dent

tradional Brush hero

hend are very wilty. I especially films after "The Flame and al

liked his definition of the con- vertible car the company manu- fuctures.

Fortune

That we come a "Witness to Murder."

Pe

vers nice to see one's favourite British stars all to

In one jacknge, th

USED INTELLIGENTLY "The Intruder" is a tale welt tai, tati of interes; and pruna a

is

shaming

style.

融 even

i

the flesh.” Both star Air Corkney tough into playing the

Visitor, Ava Gardner, gu

The Mashbuck treatment in Clark Gable in

inteligently in "The In- with her. They are, respec- truder 'The Justilention for tively. "Mogambo" and using it is if it draws the viewer "Knights of the

Round back into the past at the correct Table." The Voice of Mario psychological moment 'ue him in have a better understanding of Banz call he heurd on the

what's going

on in the present. 23rd LEI

The

Student In The Intruder the flashbork Prince."

in perfectly

421

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Laichined Me win has the unke 心 During the war bei byen

is former culonel.

He escapes before

tras a chanc

not eve

Tławkins to queste m

Clifton

with

tom to

tuste kat

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"Our convertible", he drily comments, "is designed to con- vert your raplal into our divi- dend".

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Also:

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W

this fo

George Up

point Sanders shows that he really can act when called upon to do so It's a pity that an unreal fam- boynney is written into his part in the Alm, and his acting de- teriorates proportionately. The Barce wives have de- As a thriller though, it thrills

type-cast, but to in spite of ane Anitely been the

udvantage of the picture. aerplabl: situations. Lauren Bacali IS Fred Mac- Murray's wife: coul, poised, well- dressed and with a nice line in dignitted wisecracks,

For

two -

instance, although Barbarn Stanwyck had been exposed le the horror of two days in the chservation ward of a mental in- altution in the company of three neurofle wonnen, ghoulishly

contemplated would she have suicide, even though nobody be- lieved her story?

have And would the pollee YOUT

Von made such a cursory examina- tion of the apartment of some- ene accused of murder? raake amends by saying that it's

a very gripping picture.

June Allyson Is the pleasant little wife type; homely, shy and overawed by the Big City.

Tight dresses, slinky talk and no inhibitions are Arlene Dahl's stock in trade and they pearly succeed in gotläng Heffin the coveted job.

The

element ka suspense after overdung, I think, but a

Clifton Webb so obylously loves

1

to dominate the scene and does I so well, his long-windedness in making his Oral choler known can be forgiven.

As the three men under the

なぜ

"A Bullet is Waiting" at the QUEEN'S and AL-

a cherry, rehable soldier in Jack HAMBRA will be

Bu Hawkin's company, living for ceeded by

Italian the day and friendly with every- picture "Temptation"

As with AU mnny people, will and then

come "Don

Laitila more mur Juan," This is not a new

problem to cope with dann the picture, but a

good routine

of life very

in the Galler

him swashbuckler starring Errol Army Tragedy overtakes Flynn and Viveca Lindfors. on has first day home and it's this that turns him into the arme:t In "Elephant Walk" Elizabeth Taylor is nate sympathetic than thug who breaks into the hat of before, with a more fragile ap- peal thin she usually

prorets her In quite of

undoubetdiy M Tayol has als wins secined rather cold, even in her love scenes, Perhaps it's the influence of the wa

WARN

Clamute of Ceylon or possibly it's due to the challenge of taking over a role reluctantly relinquished by Peers and men of the tank re-

They both be Vivien Leigh.

the Kiment to which whulever etuse, Merel, à let more warmth longed.

"The Fortune Hunter" I a Freling

that he might have

Western starring John Derek. She's

taken more trouble 10 keep tr ordinary little Eng-

Cattle stampede, guns chatter in lish pir in the parture. who, touch with his men after giving

the streets and the

girls after her viage to a wealthy up his wartime command to be-

piled-up hats and too-length rome a stockbroker, young planter, whirled from

The dresses.

The name of the saloon her quiet existence as the lucal br's partly responsible for

Ginger Edwards,

(no Western ly complete without bookshop to an enormous palace changed of a house built by her husband's Hawkins sels out to find and is "The Banner" and al- It, I'm seen father

talk to the various men in the though I haven't

willing to bet that there'll be a holo

bar-nom cutie who'll be dressed in an off the shoulder top and

thon tesuni

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Perhaps I'm too fussy-let me

ONE OF HER BEST

If you haven't yet seen "The Flame and the Flesh" today is your last chance to do so; und

Fred MacMurray if you like Lana Turner this is

The'll not even realised whose microscope, Cornel Wilde, Van fat he was burgling) but, before Refin doing so, reveals that he's been In touch with one of the men in photograph in the Bat It's u group snap taken of some of the

and

the

Everything is larger than life size, including the Influence PROVOKES THOUGHT wielded by the dead father. Tu "A Woman's World" is

Suite" Buswor to "Excentive All ber arguments and queries the receives the same answer: but the treatment is different "The old master did I this way. enough to save it from becoming

n mere copy.

mon

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come

Suite" by

the Iden is the same.

could hardly have been bettered. I've put them in what I consider to be their orter of meril, bul all were praiseworthy,

undoubtedly one of her best.

in

It proves beyond doubt that.

spite of all the up and con-

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10 displace her from her own particular throng. She is still way

Jean Negulesen directed this in stars, nobody has been able

very worthwhile pleture

Inen tights.

GRIPPING

ta

at ahead in portraying earthy llure uncomplicated by scruples, and her role in "The Flame and the Flesh" is tailored to fit her like a glove.

Kum

A

Bear Colleano, for once not looking as though he's about to chew

and break into torhug routine any moment, is a nest sympathelle charneier. His engerness to please the stray enough girl he befriends has manliness in it to save

!! from becoming

sugary and Pler Angeli is pretty enough in an angular way to make her wide. eyed innocence appealing rather than Iliating.

r being the understand- Fron

Strange how a flap of thunder, a street at night, the wind whirl- ing, pleasant young

But it's Lana's picture and she had couried her in England, her A top executive in a large firm ing a piece of paper down that husband. Peter Finch, becomes has died and his place has be street, can create such an eerie compels attention all the way

In vacunt.

"Executivo atmosphere, an arrogant tyrant neglecting her

L's a recipe that's through. by day for his work [und

it was the

Carlos Thompson vole of the been used many times, but it

you either night for his hard-drinking major shareholders that was the still sends an anticipatory shiver like or you don't, friends who tum the house into deciding factor in choosing his of excitement down one's spine.

the curtain raiser a club.

successor, in "A Woman's World"

vixenish "Witness to Murder". Over all looms the menace of It Is the all-powerful, the

The shot is held for a minute elephants. In fils domineering head of the company--Clifton fashion, the old man had built Webb.

or so, the awning over the apart. the house in the direct path of

flaps de The lobbying and jockeying ment house entrance the elephant herds who had for position was done by the men solutely in the wind and slowly used it for centuries to get to in the carlier picture; in the new the camera moves up to a win- their water hole. Thir screams one, as the title suggests, It's the dow in one of the flats,

Barbara Stanwyck is Inside, 22 trumpelingy are like the women who are supposed to br

Rory Calhoun is his prisoner slow drip of water on the girl's the deelding feature,

usleep. The movement of her

and his crime is the alleged kill- window blind wakens her and

We sleepily she goes to the window ng of McNally's brother.

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