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KING'S PRINCESS

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KING'S 'S SHOWS TO-MORROW "CHECKPOINT"

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ANTHONY STEEL ODILE VERSOIS STANLEY BAKER

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CHECKPOINT

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FILMS

Car Racing

CHECKPOINT:

The cnst list of "Check- point" reads like a list of the top names in the British screen's repertory COTTL-

pany.

Anothony Steel is the lending player, with Stanley Baleor for the vialny, Michael Medwin for laughs, James Robertson Justieg to add dignity and Odilo Versols (who counts as a British ster now, in spite of her French rationally) as Anthony Steck's love interest.

The story is improbable but the colour and settings are love-

New Films -At-

A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Madame Curle"; Bared on the life of the famous woman scientist, A En Issue. Greer

Garson,

Walter Plugcon,

KING'S and PRINCESS: "Cheekpaint": Motor

racing

and

crime.

Anthony Steel, Stunity

Baker,

Valle Versolo.

James Robertson Justice.

METROPLE and STAR:

Timetable":

Crime

Mark Stevens, King

thriller,

Felicia Farr,

Calder.

QUEEN'S and ALRAM-

BRA: Sky":

"Satellite in tho Rockets, space ships and new-type tombs. Kleron Moore,

Lois Maxwell, Donali Wolft.

ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Fatt of Two Queens'; Romant18 contume plece. Hedv Lamart, Terence Mor- gon, Milly Vitale,

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Teahouse of the August Milarious high Moon':

Jinks among the Ameri- Okinawa. can forces in

Glenn Ford, Marlon Brando, Eildle

Albert, Machiko Kyo. "The Wilder Year A 20 with a past tries to cor- reet it 20 years later. James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck. KING'S

and PRINCESS: "The Vagabond King": A screen version of the oft-made musical. Oreste and Kathryn Grayson. METROPLE and STAR: "Othello"; Shakespeare's

dark

melodrama ro- made by Orson Welles. With Fay Compton, Suzanne Cloutter. Michael Maclismoire. QUEEN'S ALITAM-

BRA: The Animal World": Animated models of hearts tracing

development

the

the

animal life from one-celled type onwards. ROXY and BROADWAY: The Girl Can't Help It": Rock 'n' Roll with The ramedy added. Jayne Mansfeld, Tom Pwell and Edmond O'Brien.

Current to

BY JANE ROBERTS

This Week's Films

In Pictures

22

Anthony Steel in "Checkpoint”

Jy and some of the situations unexpected.

Mourice Denham, embittered racing driver

As

the

10 drive and

per-

range rockets and a fabulous underground satellite-launching city".

Let's hope the Martians aren't looldrut in on it.

Two

well-known names British show business have un- film. expected roles in this Donald Wolft, thought by many to be one of the best Shake- spearean actors of today, puts en a space helinet and is ob- viously taking a holiday from serious acting. Jirmy Hanicy too, although not in the same class as Wolft, has desorted his more thoughtful roles netlon part.

Flamboyant

for an

The Fate of Two Queens:

This is a story akin to that of the opera Il Pagliacci, except that the strolling players of this picture, in spite of moments of high tension occasioned by the leading lady's great beauty, find a happy ending to their story.

The leading Indy is Hedy Lamarr o whose personality, fame and taken the troupe de- penda for its success. The period is Italy uf the 1880s and the picture takes s name from the เy' high spots in the company's repertoire - a play, based on the love wary of the legendary Siegfried and his Queen Gone- vitve, and other concerning Napoleon and his Queen Jose- phine.

Unfortunately tho. stur Imown to have a lover who bas bren attending all her perfor

18 and the company **** mancES

deporate in case their mainstay deciden to run away with him. To complicate matters three young actors in the troupe pre also in love with her and as the caravan of the Romant Theatre rolls along the sunny roads of Tuscany all is gloom

It concerns a large motor com. longer allowed to Jiny owned

managed and consequently ruling the racing masterminded by James Robert team with a rod of iron gives

impeccable He is not a cam- his al pon Justice. plete trickster, but his business formance and makes one realise methods are to say the least, ut he is seen only too infre unethical.

quently, Remember him

The Purple Plain as the man whose nerve gave out?

When we meet him he is con- centrating ali his interest on winning a big car race in Italy and has picked one of his more unscrupulous drivers to get de talls of the design of his closest competitor. Stanley Balcor, wear ing a supercilioua smile most of the time and a nice line in inngerine shirts, bungles the Joh

and several Itailans and a fac- tory are no more.

10

This Mlm has obviously been made with an eye od markets cutside Britain, but tho phce should have been quicker and

lot of the detall deleted.

Crime Thriller

as the

company contemplates the break-up of its successful Association.

Bu adition to Hedy Lamatr there are two actors who wil be familiar to those who have been to see some of the other Italian and French pictures shown over the last year or so Milly Vitale and Gerard Oury. seems Mark Stevens

This picture is in the flam- threats and some sparring behave adopted the

crime boyant styl0

of most costume tween Anthony Steel and Odile thriller as his film vehicle dramas. Versols.

The plot then thickens, in- velving

attempted counter-

murder

blackmail,

and threats,

Timetable:

to

ever

1?1

almost completely these Steel has had a little car and

He is hardly alcohol

trouble recently, ac days, cording to newspaper reports, seen in anything else, but in "Checkpoint" he is the spite of his pleasant face. steady, upstanding, rellable chap that his studio has always al- lowed hiin to be on the screen A bit of a danger-lover perhaps, brut the one driver Jamer Robertson Justice picks to re- trieve the tricky situation into which Stanley Baker has got the firm.

Needs Training

scenes

In

Perhaps he finds this type) of picture easier to act when he is also producing and directing.

"Timetable" follows the usual which отпле of the pattern in

haracters starting out with the sympathy of the audience finally reveals himself to be heel.

It concerns a train robbery in which a "physician" holds up I enjoyed the actual racing the baggage train and makes particularly, but felt off $500,000 (American dollars,

The that much more could have naturally).

Insurance then marshals Med- Company been made of Michael win's gift for comexty. A forces and the puzzle is to find rather unsure young man

out who is the ostensibly James

Robertson Justice's respectable fellow who has to need worked out the complicated secretary. He nedans much moro training before timetable for the robbery, being allowed before ing Fellula Farr, unlike

Mark

cameras. The wardrobe of Stevens has deserted her

Odile Versols has been picked with taste and will be of in- terest to women filmgoers.

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