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Santa Fe Passage

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JOHN PAYNE - FAITH DOMERGUE - ROD CAMERON

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1955.

FILMS

John Payne is the sturdy

follow who anves everyone

Current & Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

and gets the girl in "Santa The New Films At A Glance

Fe Passage", but he doesn't get the cream all the way.

His introduction to the audience as the guard, of a pioneer wagon train hardly

He and his recommendation. friend imagine that they are the equal in guile of the Indians, only to find that while they are bargaining and carousing with small party, the main party

would-be buty massacring settlers they were supposed to

have been protecting.

And here I would like to re-. gister a protest against the in- clusion of a shot of three mauled vletims of the massiere,

11's

his

of jigar harrowing enough to the brutal torturing of men. women and children practised by the Indianst's cheap SenSA- tlenatism to show

soal! wounded boy and reproduce

on the

sound- agonised sobbing on track. I like to enjoy my westerns-give me fights galore but among fully grown adults, please keep out direct references to the ill-treatment of children.

But back to the Passage. That much-publicised beauty Howard 3 fortunt in Hughes spent grooming, lisps her way Payne's heart as they ride Iwards Santa Fe and although a very routine role, Faith It's Domergue provides very decora- five romantle interest for him. Perhaps the colour could have been sharper but the story has

certain originality and Faith. Domergue a directness of op- proach not often found in horse opera heroines."

a

Doesn't Like

Redskins

into

Alter his supposed defection to the Indians John Payne finds Iris stock us a scout is extremely low and it's not until the leader ci

Mexican

train wagon decides to believe his story that bad luck rather than treachery caused the previous disaster, that he ands work.

her

Rod Cameron, though the leader of the entourage, is part- nered In a somewhat suspect gun-running project, by Falth original Domergue. After intagonism against Payne has abated,

she explains that the guns are not for the Indians, but to help in the Mexican war-- which apparently makes it all. - right.

What she neglects to tell him is that she is partly, Indian hot- self and Payne has already made it quite clear to Misy Domergue and

the

audience alike that he hates all Indians and especially holl breeds.

more

Το make matters evero, Mr compileated for our

Cameron shows his teeth over the meaning glances beginning to become obvious between his prospective wife and the brawny

coul

However, if you're templed to shout "Look behind you mister", hok it, because as you've prob ably guessed, it all comes out all right in the end.

Beauty In A Space Suit

SHOWING

EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Hell's Island", Crooks, kļilers and a dangerous women search for a stolen ruby on a Caribbean island. John Payne, Slary Murphy and Francis L. Sullivan.

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Prodigal". The story of Micali, son of Ell Lans Turnes, Edmund Purdom and Louis Calhern.

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Santa Fe Famare". A

western, John Payne and Faith Domergue. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: “Vera Cruz”. Two soldiers of fortuno use the Mexican uprising against Maximillan for their own purposes, Burt Lancaster, Gary Cooper. Cesar Romero and Denise Direct.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "Ulysses", "The Odyssey" adapted for the screen. Kirk Douglas and Silvana Mangano with Anthony Quinn and Rossana Podesta.

+

COMING

EMPIRE: "Reap the Wid Wind”. Adventure. Ray Milland, John Wayne. Pauletto Goddard, Susan. Hayward and Robert Preston,

KING'S and PRINCESS: "This Island - Earth". Rockets, spaco ships and a green ray. Jeff Morrow and Faith Domergue...

HOOVER and LIBERTY; “10t the Deck”. A peppy musical with a talented cast. Jane Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Tony Martin, Vle Damone, Ann Miller and Russ Tumblyn. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD; "The Night My Number Came Up". An aircraft crash is foretold in a dream. Michael Redgrave, Alexander Kuox, Denholm Elliott and Sheila Sim,

QUEEN'S and ALHAMDRA: "Tall Man Riding", A western. Randolph Scott, Dorothy Malone and Peggie Castle. ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Seven Year Itch", The moral is not to go on holiday leaving your husband to the mercy of the girl next door. Marilyn Monroe.

Edmund Purdom and Lana Turner in "The Prodigal”.

co-worker, Rex feline with all the jungle in

stincts developed to a dangerous degree.

It appears that John Payne had known her before the start of the job that senda him to but had found

playing the role of temptress, and the central male character of both is a well meaning fellow who wander for and wide,

is tempted and falls, and is Anally led back to the path of virtue In un- by a virtuous woman.

plent

or modern history that's the basis of most of flimdom's plots.

It

was merely a matter of time before the Alm script writers got around to realising that Homer's "The Odyssey

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could be pruned, sensationalised TO-MORROW MORNING SHOWS' ★

Box and streamlined into a Office draw, the surprise is that the seven of them it took to produce "Ulysses" were over able to agree on what to put in and what to leave out.

The production is Italian, as the cast, are the majority of with the exception of Ulysses himself, played by Kirk Douglas.

The film unfolds in a series of flashbacks, beginning by showing Silvera Mangano a3 Penelope, repelling the advances of the various suitors who are

it

trying to persuade her that with her husband Ulysses dead, Is imperative for her 19 choose one of them to be his uccessor and become King of Ithaca,

Beanfeast For Script Writers

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Before the picture traces the full circle and shows Ulysses returning to claim his faithfu! wife and defeat their joint enemies at the court, we company him on his adventures, Blown off course while return- ing from the Trojan War, he is forced to spend several years in parts of the world unknown to the Greeks of that period and the it was only natural that people of his kingdom should think him dead,

Neturally, the seven writers for the screenplay responsible have

оп concentrated

bis dalliance with such Jures 09 Nausican and Circe, but they have whitewashed him to A cortain. extent by letting Silvana Mangano play the part of both his wife. Penelope and the siren Circe.

the

Although she plays both with unsmiling air of doom that is characteristic of most of her screen performances, she is so lovely and her eyes so expres sive it does not become irritat- as it 'would with many her actresses less poised and

aloof.

I could have picked many more likely candidates for the

than part of Ulysses

Kirk Douglas, but although he plays his part with the gusto of a delivers his rango rider and more cmational lines with the concentration of a schoolboy at a prize-giving,, there is some feeling for the wonderful story, behind all the swashbuckling treatment..

It starts off slowly, and not until Anthony Quinn-the only other Americon in the cast- atrides on to the set does there to be any life in the appear to picture. The whole court of Pinelope moves with an air of unreality, In fact,

the whole picture, in spite of the very dialogue has the quality of fairy story, especially in the Cyclops sequenco.

1

and

However, the audience seemed

to like very much. The ooh's and anh's, and hisses of intaken breath were from an unmis- takably impressed gathering- must be something to do with one woman's ham being many people's caviare.

Bed-time For

We seem to be seeing a with her lot of Faith Domergue re- Reason.

and cently, but space suits

Jeff Morrow is the visitor western outfits can hardly be from space

who descends on what Howard Hughes had in these two great brains and mind for her when he listed carries them away to help in "Hall's Island," her as the third of his great his experiments. Nobody profile her brace of allure too power- discoveries (the other two much from these excursions ful for comfort. To console being Jean Harlow and Jane round the universe, as far as herself she has acquired a hus-

I can see, but it this Russell).

Is your band, but soon makes it clear you'll be able to that one, whistle from Payme There is nothing ethereal In This Island Earth" she is meat, then a nuclear flafon expert whisked take your All at the King's and will dispose of him as easily as about off to an interstellar planet Princess next week.. known as "Mataluna" together

MAJESTIC

he was acquired,

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At The Empire

The Novice?

"The Prodigal". The

fantasy faintly glimpsed behind "Ulysses" is not even allowed By profession he is a private to creep into the rites of the detcellve

and this particular worshippers of the heather case for the duration of the goddess Astarte. picture is to trace a stolen ruby? Lana Turner plays the High All sorts of sinister gentlemen Priestess of the goddess wil The Empire will

healthy directness of a not be turn up to hinder his attempts, the showing anything new a including

Jur

portly Francis Brooklyn babe walking down a fortnight, when they will be Sullivan resting his balle in a New York street in search of a joining the King's and Princcas

As for Edmund Purdom, his At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 0.30 p.m.with the star-studded "Reap the week chair and assorted Latin new mink

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HEX flashing teeth--Seczy etveral Framunt pictures you may hayo missed. those two weeks, it would bo well to watch their ad- vertising.

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