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FILMS, Curent & C
Do you remember a song that used to go "I think I shall have seen everything when i see an elephant fly". The man who wrote it must have been one of the original sceptics.
I saw this week a film that not only had men, weaving about the upper atmospher like fish in a tank, but showe!! them building a space ship from a wheel suspended thousands of miles above the earth, flying that space ship to Mars, land- ing it there and then taking off every sign of being able
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to guide it back to earth, walk of and buy themselves a ham sandwich in the Earth-Mars canteen.
Now don't think there's any special significance in my choice of the ham sandwich allegory- far from being derisive about this picture I'm now almost a convert to the Aying saucer school.
Perhaps it was the choice of such normal looking players as the crew of the space ship and the absence of all the confusing double-talk that nearly always accompanies pielures of this kind that gave "Conquest of Space" its air of reality....or perhaps it's just that a female is never consistent.
Television Show
From Earth
It starts off by establishing the military relationship of the men of the expedition, The colonel in charge is a martinet insisting on rigid discipline Kom everyone-up to and in- cluding his
whom addresses as "captain" and who in turn, standing to attention, prefaces his replies with "colonel" or "sir".
Son
he
The illusion that one is actual.
ly suspended in space is obtain- ed by showing no scenes an the earth at all. The nearest ap- proach to it is via a giant
Screen set up in the mess hall of the crew on which is projected
clevision show with Rosemary Clooney as the star. Even this is against an exaggeratedly artificial background which helps further to cut the lies binding the mind to reality.
Although it is the ecdicated colonel who has pioneered and built the space ship, the whole project is centrallel by a tedy known 15 the International Space
Authority" and
The ab- sence of racial, national. and? ligious controversy, because of the International nature of the experiment is refreshing when compared with the veiled allu- sions to secret-stealing foreign DONACTS that are usually feature of science-Betion pic- tures.
How Pressmen Live and Work
3
In "Front Page Story" Jack Hawkins commands
the newspaper of which he
By Jane
Coming
Roberts
The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
EMPIRE. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Conquest of Spacë”.
Science-fiction lakes à trip to Mars. Walter Brooke, Erich- Fleming and Phil Faster..
HOOVER and LIBERTY:
*Athena".
A back-to-nature family whose children are named after Greek goddesses try to convert a crooner and a young businessman to their moon-struck ways. Edmund Pardom, Jane Powell. Vic Damone and Debbie Reynolds,
LEE: "Front Page Siory". A day in the life of a British Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Allan and Eva newspaper.
Bartok.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "To Paris With Love”. Father and son attempt to educate each other in the rentle art of philandering. with uncalculated results. Alec Guinness, Odile Versois and Vernon Gray: QUEEN'S. and ALHAMBRA: "Creature With the Atom accent on horror. Science-fletion with the Brain". Richard Denaine and Augela Stevens, ROXY and BROADWAY: "Daddy Long Legs". A re-make of the old Janet Gaynor picture with Leslie Caron taking her role and Fred Astaire that of Warner Baxter.
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY:"Battle Circus". The American Medical Corps in action during the Korean "war. Hum- phrey Bogart. June Allyson and Keenan Wynn. KING'S and PRINCESS: The Sleeping Tiger". A psycho- logical romantic drama showing the reactions of a neurotic doctor's wife when he brings home a handsome hoodlum as research material. Dirk Bogarde and Alexis Smith.
A
"Revenge of the Creature". The gill-man from the Black Lagoon is lured into the net by a girl. John Agar, Lari Nelson and John Bromfield.
"Six Bridges to Cross". A good-looking youngster's progress from juvenile delinquency to big-scale crime. Tony Curtis, George Nader and Julie Adams. LEE: The Black Dakota
battle the Sioux, John Bromfield.
Merrill. Wands Hendrix and A western in which the settlers'
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Ten Wanted Men". A west- ern in which a one-time gun fighter turned peaceful rancher facts the opponents of law and order single- handed. Randolph Scott and Jocelyn Brando. ROXY and BROADWAY: "Escape to Erma". Adventure in the Jungle with Stanwyck back in riding breeches. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and David FarraLT,
A Scene From "Athena"
floating mid air, with the reply "Maria" spoken by an Equally ethereal top hat. Au- dierre reaction to this should be most interesting.
A picture of this kind should have sparkle, but although some of the situations have humour, the hard work that Alet, Guin- ness puts in to make the funny robs them of spontaneity.
big
More Fiction Than Fact
As
believe that I science-fiction films have as a following as do westerns, there will prob ably be no lack of an audience for "Creature Brain". With the Atom
In spite of the assurance going with this picture that it is "based on scientifs facts" I And Hhard to credit any scientist with the power of returning dead men to life by planting atom brains in their heads, but if believing it will heighten your enjoyment of this scientiae the where's gangster
story, harm?
Richard Denning and Angila Stevens take part.
In the Footsteps "Of Freud
"The
Sleeping Tiger" shows us a much more at- tractive Alexis Smith than the rather harassed and dowdy
behind the Eternal
scenes
Sea".
one
"The in
cold, con Outwardly, the scientious wife of a doctor who
is crusading through the rebel- Hous mind of young criminal, inside she is far more of laboratory case than he is.
The story traces the events resulant upon the doctor's-in- troduction into his well-run home of a young man who has attempted to hold him up in the ' street.
In
Alexander Knox plays the. doctora little unctususiy-and Dirk Bogarde the truculent case whose misdemeanours are trace. able to a father, complex. the process of rehabilitating him (without much help from his subject) Alexander Knox dis
Laws in .his plays many research work and appears rather at sen among the mumbo- jumbo.. ct psycho-analytical jargon.
However, there are interest-. ing undercurrents in this Alm and the faults I find with it are that it doesn't make enough of plot
ness has suddently died and camera to behave naturally and the relatives are trying to prove consequently the action is in- that she killed him. There is clined to creak at times.
this twist an unusual
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Even Odile Versois, so simple the opportunities the stquence that manages to save
2nd sincere in The Young affords it and that it lapses intɔ. it from melodrama,
Lovers seems to suffer from melodrama at the end. Another
at concerns Itle the rain of appearing gay
the same time as naive. It's the eldest cockney giri, brood of brothers and sisters she
of a
as
though she had put her French For Good Measure nationality,
behind her and is the news editor in very alternately cuffs and coaxes into much the same way we a sorỪ
were trying to behave as an of obedience. Their
English girl thinks her French have seen him run the suc- mother is in hospital, dying as
eculin would act. the result of an accident, and cession of service units
for a day, while the paper gels scattered throughout his
a story on them, they create acting career.
havoc in the office. The pathos
is again overplayed, although
Vernon Gray will be bettor when he less his immaturity,
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The story is based on a mis- mended on its policy of producing something un- He is devoted to his job to the fact that human suffering is understanding. Alec Guinness, the inevitable neglect of his good news value comes over as a slightly eng father, is usual from time to time. wife, he is absent-mindedly with cynical force.
taking his sin (Verson Gray) to Paris in the hope that it will his employees and kind to rather suit with his equals; he There has of course, to be a complete his education and is intolerant of fools
broken-down reporter chasing make him are adult. Why the but fair to admit minded enough
any the story of his life and trying Parisian air should supply the influence that mistake he feels he has com- manfully to ignore the temple maturing mitted.
He is the symbol, in fens glimpsed through the open Londen can't, remains obscure fact, of a newspaper editor of doors of the pubs he passes-
to father Gray is allowing his
There will be two shows on fiction, as he has been in the and just as inevitably, On the other hand, Vernon
think that his is the guiding Sunday morning and If you hand, so that he can organise a
(whose name I can't introduce All these incidents are strung little French diversion for his haven't yet heard the drummer
tco serious father,
into this sentence without His romantic scenes are cut together more or less logically, to the barest minimum, which and has a whole the ple- Needless to say, Guinness be punning) then a look in will be over the well worth while, if you like hot was a sensible precaution, after ture is good entertainment in comes moonstruck.
music. the discomfort he showed as a spite of the fact that the setors charms of Odile Versals, while behave theatrically marry the falls teinporarily under in "The Seekers". screen lover in
1. of a most attractive. be and as his wife, Elizabeth Allar places.
"older appears to have cause to plain of his indifference. She consoles herself temporarily with his unpleasant assistant
past an embodiment of the man face of everyone's scepticism, in the street's idea of a service He makes the grade, commander.
a flaccid fellow who is quite prepared to let her down when faced with a show-down with her husband,
Against
Guinness Goes
To Paris
The maze me fper extré winetastable to see buitiess
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Adventure
In Burma
"Escape to Burma" is an
titaled 100 falleregly by the animals,
an
in the throes of middle-éget calf love looks quite often as anough he feel the same way
Alec Guinness has made about it, while Odie Verrols, not adventure story full of wild
eastern
the background of many better pictures than rather harsh colustig, indicates potentate living in the style the disturbed relationship be "To Paris With Love curente youth by swinging her tween the editor and his wife though he is such a clever atrical baldo in sau Covious to which Hollywood thinks He is accustomed, Barbara the life of the newspaper goes actor that even his fallures semizlerie,
Stanwyck striding through have a better appearance compared with the wide-eyed There is a trial to be covered than many other people e innocence of the four principais, the jungle in- Jodhpurs, A young wife, movingly played successes ficandag by Eva Bartok, is facing, a charge of murder. The husband Now that To Faris With to whom she was apparently: Love" is by any means a failure devoted that on the waste fue that IT the layer mursing through an incurable stem to be los zware of the
there's nightclub ct, which is Robert Ryan, fleeing from quite indeeribable. The dialogue justice, and an eagle-eyed consists of John baken in British agent tracking down varying tones from a blacked-out
his prey with -- misleading are end from a diséembodied feather bos suavity.
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