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THE TRAIL

FRED

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SYLVIA

SIDNEY

HENRY

FONDA

THE LONESOME PINE

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"MONEY FROM HOME"

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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1956.

FILMS

of

Even if you are bored with the succession many-titled heads of movie- tell- making organisations ing you of the wonders of this and that new process, designed to revolutionise the screening of films, you have only to see Trail of the

Lonesome Pine", made over 16 years ago to realise that claims are many of their

justified.

It was a ple western of its day, and to be fair, the colour by Technicolour la Ww gle53tp5 many presses sli[] used. But there's a mek of depth to the pictures that, seen through aur pampered serves of today tells 11's clearly that 142 143

erely make believe,

One of the interesting things bout Trail of the Lonesome

is to compare the Frex MacMunny Qui the Henry Fondu, sull at the top in 1850. with the aspiring young! bearing die same name of pre- War yes

men

I wonder why Sylvia Sidney has worn less well.

In spite of the embarrassingly faked fights, the three malit stairs stand up well under the mucroscope of Time,

Wagner's Music

I has not been possible to see "Magic Fire" before its release at the New York and Great World this week. end, but whatever may have been done with the actund details of Wagner's life, glance at the list of excerpts from his works must engage the attention of any music lover.

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"Gal-

The Munich Soloists, Orche- stra and Choir from the Bavi rian State Opera ure playing musle from "Siegfried". terdammerung", "Die Walkur

Rienzi", "The Flying

Dulch- Tristan Tannhauser

ཅ་ ་ Meisteren Reingold" and Parsiful ns Bon of Mozart's and Meyerter's nasie. What more could one ark?

well

The

"Lohengrin",

Isolde"

The thure principal loves

Wagner amorous

הנוכני

of

are

Yvonne de Carlo, Valenin

Gam. while Cortese and Kita Carlos Thompson grows fully old as Liszt. Wagner him- ne is Alan Bardel.

grace.

It Was Boring

GRAND OPENING TO-DAY of people when

AT 2.30, 5.30. 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

NO WOMAN WILL

EVER FORGET THIS MAN...

whose strange genius fed on love....

starting

Magic Fire

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À WILLIAM DIETERLE PRODUCTION

· YVONNE DE CARLO CARLOS THOMPSON KITA GAM VALENTINA CORTESE

Boradtplay by DENTTÍA MÁLDING,

ALAN BADEL Richard Wagner, DAY

Based on the Move by SENTITA JARING • Brignat Meva në Lignano milanka

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BY JANE ROBERTS

-This Week's Films-

In Pictures

John Broacia and Cyd Charisse in the "Frankie and Johnnie",

number from "Meet Me in Las Vegas",

EDDY DUCHIN

James Whitmare, Kim Novak and Tyrone Power in a scene from "The Eddy Duchin Story".

drawn

buring and

out. stickily sentimental.

Perhaps is from #surfeit of "stories" that my appetite is suffering or possibly from never having

for nequired a laste weeples.

Whatever the reason, the life and death of the famous piano player of the 30s wid not for me

His light style of playing is

In small agrosable to listen to doses--il is comparable enough to Carmen Cavallaro's for that I shall disagree with a lot

pianist to have dubbed In the 1 say that plano part successfully t

of

'Tyrone eyes Story" the brown The Eddy Duchin

almost seem

be didn't move me in the least Power

with

this us to take pleading and that I found it long. short-lived Fortune's darling impersonating to our The merest modicum

it of restraint might have gol

Into the barrier and past the "great love story" class.

Unfortunately there were no sentimental stops left unpulled and what must have been very moving love story in real another life, has become just sob story on the screen,

New Films

-At- A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Meet Me In Las Vegas": Good musical, Cyd Charlest, Dan Dailey,

Paul Henreid.

KING'S and

"Trail of

PRINCESS:

the LontsOMILO

of

Pine": A FC-issu

the western, Fred Mac- Murray, Henry

Sylvia Sydney.

Fonds.

NEW

YORK and GREAT Fire": WORLD: "Marlo Incidents in the life of Wagner Yvonne do Carlo, Carlos Thompson. QUEEN' and ALILAM- BRA: The Eddy Duchin Story: Incidents in the life of the jazz pianist, Tyrone Power, Kizu NOVAR

ROXY and BROADWAY:

*13 Phots to street: A blind molvem Johnamin,

2

erinto. Vera

Baker man Vin Miles,

Cecil Parker,

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Wizard of Oz": For children of all ages. Judy

Garland, Prank Morgan.

KING

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to

No More, Please!

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It

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manage

bor

certain

a Inject amount of his own brand of humour Into this part,

The principal female in the

She is case is Vera Miles.

сте

of these worthy girls who can't take "no" for an Dawwer and feels that although her one-time flancee how sala that courtinge is not now for him, it is self- Dlly talking Somer or later he

find that she WEM pensable and she means

India-

to be

there before anyone else can Lake advantage of the break-

down.

A little red of the molly.

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Yao getting coddling be

out for a drink Johnson slip

in a nearby pub. Through frosted glass, we the audience see the silhouettes and the blind author, hears the voices of two people discussing a crime about to be committed. By the time he has all the detalls they grasped have swept from outside inside of the pub and back rut

again.

The Main Fault

to

The only clues which he can Lake to the Police are the re collection of a vague perfume, a droppo glove, and straps of interrupted conversa. tion.

BONIC

{ There is a certain amoun justified scepticism on the part of the

Police and London Maurice Denham Once again shows what a master" he is in the field of character acting. A typical Metropolitan Police Inspector

Most of the other small parts are taken by competent people and the suspense, on the whole, is well pustained.

The main mult I have to And with this well made mystery thriller is that i docsn't have

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more happy hero. The elraightforward *whodunnit?" part of the picture would have boen so much more interestituc if it hadn't been complicated by the neurosis of Van Johnson. His plecing together of the pro- Jeeled crime takes on more in- terest in view of his blindness and the

In which he AT 2.30, 5.30. 7.30 & 9.20 P.M.Z danger stands becomes more menacing See the outstanding talents

cluses Is the killer

him of our in on

time in music. arti of his handicap, but

and dance!

ORIENTAL Majestic

"Finished with because

his Jess

also because of it, the picture is disturbing because it is pity. rather than admiration that me feels for what should be the strong man of the plot.

Civil War Film

"In spite of his starting jews, he is a good influence on

students Itis follow

and "escapade hag nothing than world peace as ite aim

There are

two good studies young English boys from Jeremy Spenser and Andrew Ray, both of whom have now

"5 Guns West", showing had plenty

bc- of experience fure the cameras and Alistair mid-week at the New York Great World after Si nuskesk

t often and kindly,

(a reminder "Magic Fire" examerated, headmaster.

The best characterisations that if you want to see the naturally come from the adults

latter you'd better not picture and John Mills,

In leave it too long) is a The

believer passionate pacifiam, who is ready at the western set in the Civil War drop of a hat to take off

ern of the United States. a lukewarm cout and pummel

The South is forced to en- associate, gives as good a

per- play

Home bed characters to one has formance as

come to do some of its work for it and expect of him.

ruid bad characters cording their suvert natures. ›

Hero and heroine respective- ly are John Lund and Dorothy Malone.

the

hia

Friendly, Appealing

to

leave

Film News

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His wife is played by Yvonne Mitchell who make the most of her best scene in which she tells her complacently un- believing husband that she is going

him. John American artiste, Barbara Mills behave like a smug male Bales, whom the Rank Organi- Duchin's small boy, left by and gives only limited attention mation signed recently and who him, very sensibly to my mlad.

until he has completed her role in Pine- near hysterla realines that the pile of woes wood's CHECKPOINT, has now with his affectionate, wealthy

Alma in the same and cultured relations, is shown she is reciting, though to him made three

studio as triviat, are to her a mountain, who finds

Marilyn Monroe. 05 A youngster difficult to acclimatise himself

Marilyn Monroe la just start- Marie Lohr, firmly refusing to at once to a father he has not discard her theatrical style in ing work at Pinewood with Sir

spite

the ICA exacting Laurenes Olivier. Sho and ten for many years. Why this should

Into throw

were both in "All everyone

demands of the cinema mekes a dignified dramatic vapourings

understanding About Eve" and "Let's Make It Imagine. For too much is made mother--a state of mind that Legal". of this normal result of a long doesn't preclude her from having #bance.

every sympathy with her long suffering daughter-m-law.

Lastly

Colin Gordon, who starts off as a cynical, Gilbert Harding type of reporter and ends as an understanding ally of

cannot

This situation is solved, very sensibly, by friend, played by the new "find" whose dialogue has given her plenty of insight into the mind of a small boy. Unfortunately Miss Shaw is not yet in a position to take advantage of her lines.

The anticipated happy ending just doesn't materialise how

as, having killed uchin's Arst

wife, Immediately nitor the birth

to

of the boy, Death once more fakes a hand,

move throughout

The cist mov

automatons and the story never really comes to life.

Let's hope Ilollywood takes a lesson from "The Eddy Duchin Story" and calls a half to these

so-called blographice.

of

everyone.

and

Barbara

At Pinewood, TIGER IN THE SMOKE is now cxpected to be Alining until early in Septem- ber.

THE SECRET PLAÇE is keep.

IL'S that kind of picture, ing recently-signed Ronald

Friendly, appealing, a little sen- good per- timenini, but with formances from everyone-

Lewis busy all around the clock. He is rehearsing by day with his reto 'leading "tody, "Elizabeth Sellars, who is replacing Vivien Blind Man's Buff Leigh in the stage comedy "South Sea Bubble" and then going on It would be nice to see a night location in London for THE SECRET Pinewood's happy go lucky Van John- PLACE.

And PRINCESS Boyish Escapade 13

"Escapade":

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Bon again. singing and THE SECRET PLACE is on dancing without that care location in East London. Lewis worn look ho wears so fré- starts filming at 10.30 p.m. and quently in the films he's rder through till dawn.

The Norman Wisdom film, UP been malding lately.

In "23 Prot To Baker 8'roov N THE WORLD has finished location shooting at. Woburn the mantle of morbidity even more firmly Abbey and in the coming week and Aiming on the lot at Pino- bind playwright wood Icarus is a boy who at the about himself by taking the will alternate between Denham nge of 16 his solved most one moreover not happily en- Maureen Swanson is due to of the world's problems... grossed in his work having

Hois NOVET Bech.. forgesten his infinity, but a start filming at the studio nost "Escapade", but his actions, man bitter and hurt that his week in her role opposite Nor govern those of most of the sight should have been taken man Wisdott edits are all the other younge Umitations with which it from him and oversensitive of sors in the film.

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