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THE 10 OF THE

BEST FILMS

YEAR

Selected By Jane Roberts

GARDING

AUDIE MURPHY

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To the year is always a NO pick the ten best films

risky business. The shrieks with of searn and derision which the critic's choice is gereived provoke

even the fmildest tempered into the rejoinder "Well, to me they are !"

Not being in the latter category, I am prepared to mis- do battle with any guided beings who do not agree with my selections-- the weapons, at this time of goodwill to bu not more lethal than sharp words.

WILE

AND HERE THEY ARE:-

A Star Is Born

East Of Eden

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers

Mr Roberts

Carmen Jones

Marty

The Country Girl

Bad Day At Black Rock

The Dam Busters

Gate Of Hell

For a start; "A Star Is Born." The remarkable performative of Judy Garland could not have been bettered by any other actress, It was nothing to do with the fact that this picture

the vellela concentrate on the business in chosen

Massey return to the hand. Raymond

too screen. Her acting was super contributed to my enjoyment of latively good and stood on its the pleture and Jo Van Fleet's merita alone. James Mason's performance as the complex supporting role was one of his mother of the boy ja one of my

memories of the year. best over, and the picture was well directed and edite

for her

As the second: "East of Edth." I consider that

In third place; "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers." The best musical In spite of his youthful Garbo terrific pace.

of the year ripped along at n had an unusual tricks, James Dean was a great story. and brought 1055

13 to

has surten. He

dancing personality to the fore already proved that he wus D

In Ruos Tamblyn.” Actor-with more CX- perience he would probably have become a great one. His death

a mwnths ago deprived both The theatre and the cinema of dynamic yet thoughtful per- sonality and whatever he did in his

private life was entirely his business with no bearing awn

professional On

his

carcer. However. "East of Eden" is not only to be commended for the presence in it of Jumes Deon. Julle Harris showed that a plain face is often more of an asuet in the acting Held than is n Unconcerned with pretty one. which prolie must be kept to the camera,

the former

that

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Its photography alone, but also because of the delicacy of its stry. Nothing So for 109 eclipsed "Rashomon" (I um talking of oriental and con- tinental ilms alone, excluding British and American for the moment) but "Gate of Hell" postssed many of the fine qualities of the cariler picture.

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In the margin of the list of 20 from which I picked the winners, my rough notes include a tribule to Paul Scofield for

That Lady,

a pat on the back for "Hit the Deck"

as being nearly as punchy a musical as "Seven Brides" and some king thoughts about the makers 0! Under the 20,000 Leagues "Sea" for having resisted the temptation to make the Jules Verne clasele too flamboyant, treating the schoolboyish tale with sensitive imagination.

found

"Rear Window" nearly made the top ten, but my notes to For fifth place: "Carmen Jones." Again, a slight myself tell me I found it too fault I found with the picture cramped, while The Constant was that it went on too long. Husband, though excellent in 14 way, had Hmited appeal. For the rest though, it was a

The Living

Descr dering experiment crowned with almost undivided place for breathtaking scenery SUCCESK Lena Homa has been and a loving observance of the "The Black acclaimed as a beauty, in spite ways of animals,

Widow" for its glossiness and of her colour, and Eartha Kitt Wid

and I also secret, is malding her mark, but they well kept

Both

mentat marks to are excepilons.

British awarded

"The "Track of the Cat" and American

Alm companies

For Joe" because of Cauty Woman are chary of backing the seauty their unusual stories. ur talent of a coloured girl on the screen. That Dorothy 1965 Dandridge 14 the sensuous

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und

Carmen

a success is was fitting reward for the gamble the film company took on her, Harry Belafonte too sang and acted as well as any establish ed non-coloured actor, and the modern treatment of the theme stripped it of the in a whole melodrama of most plots taken

has not been a very exciting year for pictures, there usual run of i have "been the

starlets and now mele aturs who went off like rockets in January, only to fizzle long before the afth of November and a spatter- ing of steady workers whose ability appeared to increase. can think of nobody who towers above all others as the screen personality of the year, howov. and look forward to 1850 to im prove this state of affairs.

As fourth: "Mr Roberts.” This would have ploeda higher had it not depended to such a great extent on Henry Fonda.

The supporting actors were all complished and at the time of its release w39 wildly marked down for let place in

enthusiustle, having "Ten Best" review. this

How- ever, in spite of excellent Sup from opera. port from William Powell, Jack Lammon and James Cagney

Of the others in the first there was a slight sense of

tep, I liked "Marty" for telescoping about it: a series of its condour and the high Roberts of the title appearing events revolving around the Mr standard of acting of the entire

cast.

Other critics have placed to have been stretched a little it higher than sixth on the basis can too far.

of Ernest Borgnine's per- formance alone.

However, I found it top sordid and not exelting

to hough

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"The Country Girl" was undoubtedly well mado and all three principals-Grace Kelly, Bing Crosby and Willam Holden-put up a good show. It's in seventh position because happy-go-lucky Bing war suill flectingly visiblo behind the drunken, self-pitying fellow he was supposed to be, and Miss Kelly has to be very very good inded to overcame the chilliness that seems to envelops her like a fog.

"Bad Day # Binck Rock"

was remarkable for the performance of Sperteer Tracy. With an absence of histrionics he dealt quiefly but commandingly with a bunch of rowdies all the more dangerous because their mistrust of him was based on fear and their Inferior Intelligence

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I have included "The Dam Kuster,” becquiao it. was an episode that occurred during the war, presented with- out mock heroics' but without thes -under-statement that in British pleture is becoming a Title dated-AMG OF

The superb comfor Kichnol

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The picturo above shows: Judy Garland, as a rising, star, succeeding for a while in diverting her despondent husband from the realisation that he is down and rapidly going out in the public's esteem. A scene from "A Star Is Born,"

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