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ACADEMY AWARD WINNER — 1955 "Photography wonderful. A 'must' for lover of Nature."

- Mr. B. Tohill, Aberdeen Trade School.

Walt Disney's

First FEATURE LENGTH

TRUE-LIFE ADVENTURE!

The

Living Desert

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FILMS Consorting

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cinoma entertainment available this week-end at the first run picture houses is wide.

Sca

are two prosent-day

films - "The "Soldier

There adventuro Chage"! and

feature-length docu- nt the King's, Princess Living

Bnd Empire -The Desert" and a western at the New York and Great World, Peter

being Ustinov's name

Intelligent with synonymous

evening acting an interesting

name

his

is guaranteed

by appearing in the cast list of "Beau Brummel" at tho Hoover and Liberty.

Life And Death

In The Desert

I am most surprised at the amount of attention and interest created by Walt Disney's first full-length feature documentary. The number of people preferring a serious film to a western for a comedy often appears to be so small here that I should have thought that the absence of a story and personalities would have decided many filmgoers against going to "The Living Desert."

see

This entirely animal world has an cerie quality at times that evokes a feeling of being

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BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

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EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS:

"The Living Desert". Walt Disney's dramátio portrayal of the grim struggle for existence in a desert wilderness, filmed in colour against beautiful geenery.

The rise and

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Beau Brummel”.

fall of the Prince of Wales' favourite, Stewart Granger, Peter Ustinov and Elizabeth Taylor. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Never Leave Me",

Chinese picture in Mandarin,

QUEEN'S

"Tho

A

Sea Cluse". Tho and ALHAMBRA: fabulous voyage of a German ahip on the run for 20,000 miles.

John Wayne, Lana Turner, Lyle Bettger and David Farrar, ROXY and BROADWAY: "Soldier of Fortune", The wife of a thrill-loving photographer comes to Hongkong to trace him and runs Into à present day soldier of fortune. Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michaci Rennie and Gene Barry.

COMING

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Destry". A western in which the hero tries to reform the worst town in the west without the help of a gun. Audie Murphy, Marl Blanchard and Thomas Mitchell. HOOVER and LIBERTY: “Jupiter's Darling". The emphasis is on spectacle, the director had his tongue in his check and there are pink elephants as well as Esther Williams and Howard Keel, NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Camels West”, A western. Rod Cameron, Joanne Dru and John Ireland. "Tonight's the Night". What happens to an Irish village when the now owner turns out to be a cad of an Englishman. David Niven. Yvonne de Curló and Barry Fitzgerald.

QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Marty". The story of two plain and ordinary people who fall in love. Ernest Borgnine in the best role of his career, with Betsy Blair. ROXY and BROADWAY: "Dark Avenger", Another name for the Black Prince. Errol Flynn and Joanne Bru.

actors,

oul..

turies and I am afraid has modo him a much softer, kinder- hearted fellow than the self- interested courtier could posr sibly have been, to have sur- vived In that

scheming, hirigue-ridden so

Mrs Harris

society. In her small part as

Fitzherbert, Rosemary

has done hiuch better. She bas manuged to suggest some of the qualities that would have kept the pleasure-loving prince con-

stant to one woman when his freedom of choice was unlimit- છે.

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Hongkong Is

The Real Star

-03

Hongkong is the real star of "Soldier of Fortune" and how photogenic and operative she is. I detected very little that was out of character or deliberately faked for dramatic effect in this adventure story.

This lovely island, Its roundings, It's people, both ashore und

afloat are such natural camera studies that very few synthetle touches must Kaye been necessary alter the location shots

had been taken back to Hollywood for editing.

sur-

The De Luxe colour repro= duces all the shades visible on a sunny day and it's only when It goes indoors that it lends 10 gild the lily.

Knowing that Susan Hayword never did get here for her part in the picture is a little disillusioning when you see her seems to be petering against Hongkong back- ground or pattering through the usual back-alleys of Macao, but per- very as it's expecting too much come to this dangerous colony on the outposts of elvilisation!

With the splendid job done the visual side, and the amount of work obylously spent on getting the local atmosphere and detalis right,

pity # that the story isn't more worthy of the treatment given

After three months of fruit-

As Presented at Royal Command Performance of pitia brutal in their but Wayne physically is the kindly treated by the Warmer that the whole cast should have

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STEWART

LOVER!

He kad att for To and an eye for boertiful women. Ta imageered through an implora porlek

at Meters, leaving a

maka of Broken hearto behind M

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This is

very

another planet. The stark Wayne and Lana Turner can promise magnificence of Death Valley is physically frightening the rocks do no wrong in my eyes. Lana Turner is her

Neither aro with their extreme age and their

what could be decorative self and is indifference to the comings and called great dramatic goings of

pitiless disdain.

tough roles he so often takes, The animals are the main in- and Lana Turner could quite pleasant entertainment.

get anything she 'Beau' Granger terest however, and with what obviously painstaking patience they have wanted from any but the most with unimpressionable male what

could anyone

Was Too Soft require from the hero and heroine of an adventure story?

jumping-off place for "The Sca Chase John Wayne is the captain of an old tramp steamer which docked there for feed and sup plies on the eve of the

outbreak of war in 1939. His sympathies

been photographed, what imagination,

and

more

Who would have thought that a pig-even a wild one could be a menace to the tiger family, Sydney is the end how strange to find a rattlesnake surely the mest deadly of things backing down to a farantula. And if you think that the animal kingdom can't be subtle you'll get a surprise

In

tortolste and scorpions,

Many liberties have been taken with history in the making of "Beau Brummel" so anyone who is a 'stickler for fact is forewarned.

from

on

'g

less long-distance enquiries as to

the whereabouts of her Susan photographer husband, itayward comes out from the United States to Hongkong-the fart place in which he has been

seen.

own nor

An American Consular officiat accompanies her from the boat to her room in the Peninsula Hotel and on the way explains that neither her

the British Government have been able to help much because her impulsive husband had crossed the border into China without the formality of that necessary thing-a via.

Achieving The

very

For the rest, its colour is, good the courtship shots of are anti-Nazl but rather than and easy on the eyes, there are

capable performances be interned or scuttle the ship Peter Ustinov and Robert Mor- and (which his pro-Nazi Arst mate The background music

ley is the Prince Regent and commentary is very well keyed suggests) he slips out of the King George III respectively, barely enough and the usual charmingly brash to the photography. The flurry harbour with

small him to a of bats they fly off has a fuel to take

and grandiloquent gestures with fitting buzzing of violin strings island in the South Seas.

which Stewart Granger punc- Lana Turner hus been spying tuates his lines, accompanying it and there's

the Germans and at the I was a little sorry for most amuslog "square dance" for

Consul-General, Elizabeth Taylor, She is as lovely treatment of the scorpions' court- orders of the ship.

John Wayne reluctantly takes as ever, but appeared to be excellent her along as a passenger, She wondering, from time to time. its com- comes aboard dripping with what she was doing in the and in- jewellery, dressed in a clinging picture at all.

dresy that leaves nothing to the

a mink. the Royal Hussars at the time imagination, trailing

She tells him that she's only the story opens and the Prince

In the same way that Brode- brought one suitcase with her, Regent is carrying out an in-

The fat prince is rick Crawford, in spite of op- but judging from the number of spection.

uncomfortable and position, and because of his changes she make during the decidedly

The fact that tireless

obtained have hud markedly bored.

persistence, he doesn't bother to hide his the release of his son, held by The poor girl doesn't enjoy lack of interest establishes his the Russians in "Night People", the first part of the trip very self-indulgent nature from the Susan yward gets in every- much, spending most of the outset and it is this facet of his body's hair and finally weed- upon which Beau les Clark Gable Into rescuina glass-smashing Brummel plays to hls OWD her husband for her. tordarbaking tantrum, inter- advantage.

This would be an film for schools, with bination of humour structiveness-a new painless education.

form of

Very Pleasant Entertainment

It must voyage expanding sides.

I liked "The Sen Chase" possibly because I had a soft spot for the book, and

.time probably because both John

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Beau Brummel is an officer in

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with bitter quarrels Deliberately courting famo That, however, is the only

bears to

she resemblance with the captain and evasive and notoriety with equal ardour, action against the octopus he feels certain that when his Broderick Crawford, He is an tactics of the first mate.

exploits come to the cars of the actor, she is a film star and although she looks very lovely Prince he will be called to although

They Hold Hands

Instead

on

one Way

account for them and from there on he puts his

faith in the off you can keep your eyes dark parting in the power of his personality.

auburn tresses) she unfortun

has only

of His scheme succeeds and he ately Things brighten up a bit, in is coon established as the firm playing

every cha

character she spite of the hot breath of the friend and favourite of the First attempts to portray.

Claric Royal Navy close

their Gentleman.

The case with which Between this and principale

Anal heels, after the wo

their

Gable Brum-

a Hongkong quarrel, when

kidnaps decide to hold hands instead

mel leaves

aves the Court to spend a policeman Michael Rennie Binging insulte at each other

poverty-stricken exile

in and with a crew of one Chinese and Lana's

Pearl River to changes France, there are ball scenes, in sails up the overnight from

ment nt brassy over which the Regency costumes Canton, with no argument helpful co are shown to advantage, one or all releaseg confidence

imprisoned operation

two pieces of really moving photographer and sails quietly

back to Hongkong, is laughable. acting from Peter Ustinov and Robert Morley and a great deal There are no repercussions, no of Stewart Granger.

Governmental enquiries, DO diplomatic notes, This is a most glaring fault and makes even whose › dare the SUAVE Clark Gable look

rather silly,

character

10

John Wayne is entirely con vincing as the captain of the Ergenstrasse, handling his far from-obedient crow with the of

He makes a very elegant and surtness of complete authority; dashing Brummel but hardly but Lyle Bottger is a very poor gives us a villain. He grimaces, rolls his

eyes and clenches his teeth like would have lived for two cen-

a stock character from a Vic-

crian melodrama, making it.

take him quite impossible to

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