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THE GUTS, THE GLORY, THE HEART AND HUMAN STORY OF THE MEN WHO WENT...

TO HELL

AND BACK

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TECHNICOLOR

AUDIE MURPHY BER'S HOST

THE EXCITING TRUE LIFE STORY OF

DECORATED HERO'

„MARSHALL THOMPSON - CHARLES DRAKE GREGG PALMER-JACK KELLY

A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL PICTURE

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THE FLAMING DESTRUCTION OF TROY FROM THE WOODEN HORSE!

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JAMES

THE CHINA" MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1956.

FILMS

Although a lot of publicity

was given to the "new" Doris Day who was going to shake us in "Love Me Or Leave Me", I did not find her so very different from the often sunny, some- times stormy Nice Ameri. can Girl of her previous movies.

True, the storms were more evident than the sunshine thin time, puk the temperature usually usociated with cach remained constant.

Her

Fangs are put over with her usual vervo and some justess a certain poignancy. But Miss Day's portrayal of a gir bound by the lies of gratitude and ambition to a man she outgrows in sensitivity and ability does bot

deep enough to bring the characker of Ruth Etting to lity.

19,

It is James Cagney who really steels the pleture. He is raw, elf-confident, aggressive and thoroughly <tallkable, Ho is, kowover, very attached to Doris Day, and although he shows it in a particularly belligerent way when he i with

нет, | nudlence is allowed to see his

off-stage feelings, ad It

WOTE. --feelings w deep as a rough diamond of his type can rise (or descend) to. This attachment is bis zuving grace,

Some Pleasant

Song Hits

the

In

business The familjar show story of the young singer in a third-role dance hall who climbs slowly to the top is made much more interesting by the Introduc tion of this odd personality inter

Is is talent, but hic is the brain that knows how exploit it. Not for nothing has

ho

avolded by the re- become spectable and courted

by other racketeers of Chicago. For this

is the tale of a star who waxed and waned in the rear-

Nineteen Ing

Twenties when owdylam, riotous entertainment and jittery exeltement took the place of mere enjoyment.

I can't believe

was

ho the

BY JANE ROBERTS

The New Films At A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LİBERTY: "Love Me Or Leave M6” A musical based on the life of a popular jazz singer of the Twenties - Ruth Efting. Doris Day, James Cagney and Cameron Mitchell.

KING'S and PRINCESS: "To Hell and Back”. Andle Murphy re-enzelo seme of his war-iimo explatta on the

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: “Not As A Stranger". A man's burning ambition to become a good doctor almost commumes his private life. Robert Mitchum, Olivia do Havilland. Frank Sinatra and Gloria Grahame. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Sincerely Youts", The pianist Liberace's introduction to the sareen as a star. With Dorothy Malone and Joanne Dra.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing". This is based on a notorious American scandal of the early 1900s. Juan Collins, Ray Milland und Farioy Granger.

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Scarlet Coat". Intrigue pivollur round the plan of General Benedict Arnold tọ deliver the Americas forces into the hands of the British during the American Revolution. Cornel Wide, Michael Wilding and George Bauders.

KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Facs That Launshed A Thousand Ships". The story of Helen of Tray is told to wedding parly." Hedy Lamarr, Robert Beatty and Cathy O'Donnell.

"To Catch A Thief". A light hearted crime story soi against the opulent background of the French Riviera. Grace Kelly and Cory Grant,

NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Top of the World". Well photographed film about a weather station in the Arelle, with plenty of footage showing aircraft in flight, Dals Robertson, Frank Lovejoy and Evelyn Keyes. ROXY and BROADWAY: "The View From Pompey's Head”. Romantic drama involving the colour prejudico still in oxistence in the Southern states of U.S.A. Richard Egan, Cameron Mitchell and Dana Wynter.

"Good Morning Miss Dove". A middle-aged school- mistress looks back over her mistakes and triumphs. Jennifer Jones and Robert Black.

Helen's abduction by Parts, ture in the bedroom can son of the King of Troy, made

offend no more than # the excuse for an allack

on

Troy by Greece she has there fore often been credited with boing a prime mover in a piece

of history in which she was that Ruth merely a pawn.

However, with Hedy Lamarr sweet

and

18 Helch and Robert Beat as

Etting ber. 1ad she been, the crudily Me

unspoiled as Doris Day makes MUAVs her lawful husband

unperturbed by her questionable behaviour, for not only did shq give permission for the film to bo Madensha was present throughout its making to supply advice on any points of dispute,

Chosen to play Evelyn was

British Joan Collins and while her voice la too high pitched for pleasant listening, her beauty 14 as apparent as was the originat Gibson Girl's. The part has been liberally whitewashed, but enough of the wiful wayward

of the carlier chores

chorus giri

ono

shines through admire Evelyn Nesbit Thaw for allowing so much of her privato life to be made publio.

A

4

She was a chorus girl when sho first met the

famous architect, Stanford White, and immediately fell under the spell of his suave, mature charm. Happily

but with married, roving eye, Ray Milland makes White Hart or philanderer against his will,

In a French Aim he would have been a senti- mental but practical roue, but as this 1. an American pietrue, he appears to be eternally strug-

with П

troublesome

Kling conscience

The port Evelyn, radiating innocence coupled wlih womanly gulle (almost made to measurd for Joan Collins, this)-is temp. tation with a capital~T"" to the worldly, socially prominent White, and soon a merry little white hot affaire staris between them

Spoiled Brat In The

Background

the

In the background spoiled brat played by Farley Granger, Moody, Impetuous,

and with far more money than ho knows how to Granger decides that

handle,

Evelyn will be his, in spite of her lack of interest in him.

To fan the flame there is aleg the personal enmity between

child's mischievous chanting younger and older man because of a naughty word.

us.

of the subtle difference in

What Emile Zola would have their social status. Granger thought of his Nana, as por- could be classed as nouveau trayed by this healthy, practical richo-the son of a millionaire young hayden is another matter, stee!

king-while Milland's and one that need not concern

antecedents have won him place in society that he could of her self appointed manager, for they, with Massimo Serato, forsakes his lifelong goal

next not be pitied, As the elderly courtier who hold even if he were much and Inter husband, would surely

of less wealthy than he is. for her sake, Charics The three central characters Boyer is excellent. He conveys having been established, the quietly und effectively

One of then the tragedy begins. Impression that he knows he is is to do, one is to end In an Infatuated by a worthless ad- fnseno asylum and one, thrown venturess,

but that

takes there is roughly out of "society"

In refuge in explotting the pub-

have sickened her long before ap Paris, годко D handgune trio honesty

it did. I would like to have of

attenfetting

whom

The

the

shid

13 in-

per- geniously introduced young

The

an era where it was unfashion- llcity the scandal has stirred up.

Grecks sexa Ruth Etting played as the Trojans might be proud. hard-headed,

string:-

ancient pulling,

man at a Roman wedding party sonality she undoubtedly must have been, rather than as the is to give a prize to the most nothing he can do about it. nice Httle 'sunderstood thing beautiful woman present, that Doris Day has shown us.

original Paris

having able not to have a mistress or a This picture has been She Anally leaves James Fiven the apple of discord to lover Venus,

who had promised him Cagney for a rather weak and watery pianist, played without Helen If he would select her in unsullied

and Minerva, enthusism by Cameron

preference to Mitchell,

Juno professor Temporarily this does nobody

good

Cagney

caution and tells the old story replacement and

awful warning. to us goca

Τα praise one woman another can Mitchell

hovers between

much

hi

gaol,

$Q

boring

shoots

an old

an

worried consequences!

sick about her boy friend, has

the jeers to endure

of Camey when she self-righteously goes to see him in prison.

All in all though, I enjoyed the human side of this musical, and the songs "I'll never stop loving you" and the title tune deservedly becoming

--re popular hits.

batsh Lantil Nana comes

and the unrest picture, his fall atmosphere of the

authentic though it may

he has managed to stay ring in rather

along. In the

Immediate

and complete.

setting,

be,

ង

The sub-titles

the

are inadequate has given it a fairy tale aure, for a

divorced from a proper understanding the asides and innuendous but quite sufficient for the

Comic Opera Ends ably this is as well, for overlong that it

In Tragedy

her

of everyday life.

of its ocensional

though, in

the attention

MAJESTIC

life and death, and Doris Day, bring about the most disastrous speaking picture-goer to under- stiltedness, it has the essence

Don-French penings in addition to

stand what is going on.

Prob of

entertainment

holde sub-titles, if you can speak no throughout. word of the players language, Walch, out for a sensitive are apt to distract.

from performance

Glenda 1 liked Nana's maid, played Farrell és

wiso Jon Collins' There's not a

Marguerite Plovry. by trace of sourceful as her mistress, with

As - and weary mother, vulgarity in "Nana". Mar- a face as ugly as a wizened tine Carole's dresses may apple, she excets her percentage leave you in breathless ad- until at lart, with no animosity miration of her power to on either side, she is able to set keep inside them, her lines up a "house" of her own, leav such as "If I became the Ing her inistress, as the thinks, mistress of every man who on the crest of the wave, "The face that launched naked me I would spend the ends paradoxically in tragedy This comic opera of a picture a thousand ships", as every rest of my life in bed" may It has effect of a death's schoolchild will tell you, leave you gasping, and her mask at a Mardi Gras. It made was Helen of Troy.

blatant greed for money me leave the cinema amphail- cally disinclined to discuss the Politics, In the days

make you unsympathetic picture with anybody unih the Trojan War were as complicat to her obvious charins; but deliciously startling impressiona ed then as they are now, and she is so open, unaffected, had worn off. women, although ill-informed as they are today that the constant references

as politically and brazenly calculating, Melodrama Based were still capable of putting a spanner in the works.

to the main piece of furni».

Hedy Lamarr Plays 'Helen'

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