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FILMS

Heaven Knows, Mr Allison:

In spite of the fact that the title of this picture im- to pllos that it is meant represent the reply to an unanswerable question, it' is infer in fact supposed to exactly the opposite.

Deborah Kerr is n nun in "Heaven Knows, Mr Allison" and the words are her assertion of her positive bullet,

1's another of these Saind Versus Sinner situations 1JA which the Saint turns out to have human emotions and the Sinner's faults ure really no more than peccadiliveri, Euch had an effect on the other and the end is a surprise.

The war in the Pacific is the background, Deborah Kerr

B2

the

Sister Angela, is marooned on a 5/1/ Island some 300 miles from the Fiji Islands when who Rhonild be washed up on shore in a dinghy but Robert Mitchum. The gentleness of the with nun is in sharp contrast

Marine the roughness of the

To

Corporal, but they manufc

to terms and there's

atmosphere their relationship until the island attracts the attention

come

Blue

about

Lagoon"

of the Japane,

The

bombed, island is first then invaded and the two take refuge in a cave.

ob-

The deleury of the situation Is implied rather than stated up to this point and although the audience is always expect- lng Mitebun to make the vious move, unce it has been established that he is interested 111 Mins Kerr rather than a nun, director John Huston extracts the maximum before allowing anticipation Mitchum te make the expected

|

pass.

a woman

Only Woman

Woman

in

Being the only the island and apparently knowing the nature of men general and Marines in particular, Sister Angela should

whut bave known

to expect. However, she

In reacts

the and customary screen manner goes boliing like a rabbit into the night

the rest of the

It would be unfair to reveal action but it does allow Robert Mitchum to Indulge in the pleasures of being a hero.

New

Films

-At- A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Wings of Eagles": Director John' Ford and Actor John Wayne col- laborate to make the story of their aviator friend Commaniler Wead, KING'S

and PRINCESS: "The Brave One": A

mall boy

and his pet bull. Michel Kay, Rodolfo Hoyos.

BY JANE ROBERTS

picturegoers

remember) and Orson

薅

viously been made up to look, Like Rip Kirby and this is possibly good thing as the

which some older may

Welles,

in about however,

thick glosses help to hide his

rather expressionless blue eyes,

I can't see what 'all, tho fuse as the story

is a very simple one

to

the

about a

dow

The theme of this picture small boy who adopis and the publicity-will probably commend it to many fingers, baby bull, trains it and is upsos

point ad look for too much obstruction when at the but don't in the way of unexpected

priate ago the bull is taken situations or novel treatment.

hway to fulfil its function, i.e. to fight in the buliring.

Large And. Big

Glan!:

This has been aptly titled by its author Edna Ferber.

Everything in It is large, from the numbor oľ characters, through the amount of money they toss about, to the span of years the story encompasses.

METROPOLE and STAR: "A Kiss Before Dying": thriller. Robert

The picture is due to run for Wagner, Joanne Wood-

there is hardly two weeks and ward,

Hunter, ony doubt that it will-it only Virginia

ith

for the presence In it of the QUEEN'S and

much publicised deceased James ALHAM- "Olant": BRA:

Dean, Edna Ferber's best seller about the oli barons of Texas. James Dean, Rock Hud-

FOIL

Elizabeth Taylor,

Mercedes McCambridge. Roxy and BROADWAY:

Ileaven

Known, Mr Allison."

nun

Deborah Kerr

and Robert Mitchum the Marine. They are marooned to- gether on a desert island coveted by the Japanese during the war,

COMING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Opposite Sex": Für men about women, June

Allyson. Joan: Collins, Ann Miller. Ann

tion.

and

PRINCESS:

"Away All Boat": Ac- Mon. Jeft Chandler, George Nader. METROPOLE and STAR: "Behind the High Wath": Prison life and

what put, some of the inmates Tom there.

Tully,

Sylvia Sydney. QUEEN'S and

ALHAM- Guns of Fort BRA: "The Petticoat": A western. Audie Murphy.

ROXY

and BROADWAY: "The Night Dots Strange Things"; Comedy. Ingrid Bergman and Mol Ferrer.

Most picturegoers will want to see it, whatever I may say, so I will leave the review of it until next week's column,

Action

The Wings of Eagles":

As with "Glant", "Wings

The same sort of theme was used in "Crin Blanc except that the animal involved Was white stallion and I don't remember any outcry when

this picture received lls due

owards. What both pictures have in common la their imaginative photography,

"Crin though Blaue" is undoubtedly the belter picture.

The mellow coloura of the interior of a Mexican farmer's home glow kiko a painting, the not very pretty face of a Mexi- can girl has been photographed to look for more interesting thran that of beauties in more of tho more glossy films and although, the cameraman has enther over- done his use of cloud effects, for the most part they are breath- taking.

Mexican

film

The atmosphere of the seemed to me more stage Mexican than real, though not having visited Mexico I am willing to be corrected on this point, Too

tho

many people go around calling landowner who bullles wealthy

of Eagles" is scheduled for each other "Amigo" and

a long run and with John his tenants is A Conventional Wayne as the star and John stock character. Ford as the director seems equally sure of success.

It is a sort of American Bader story, with, as the hero, à triend of Ford's and Wayne's Cam- mander Frank (Spig) Wend.

A very famous American pilot and one of the team that cap tured the Schneider Trophy for the United States in 1923, Com- mander Wend was very badly Injured and told that he would never be able to dy again.

However, with the same re

fusal to

that admi! defeat characterised his counterpart, he fought all the obstacles In the path of recovery.

I shall have more to any about **Wings of Eagle," next fear week, but for those who that by going to see it they may be letting themselves in for en Joving. In "A Kiss Before hour and a half of mental Dying the victim is wealthy, agony, let me say that

the em- Most of the pieturo is taken educated and loving, but un- phasis is on action. up with the relationship between fortunately has a father who the man and the woman and would not approve of a son in the two have been well cast. law (and more important, would Deborah Kerr has been Identl wlihold any cash advances) if fled already with the role of a the marriage were the result of

in "Bla

"Black

Narcissus and recessity. the sleepy eyes

and

nun

rugged

build of Robert Mitchum have A lot more

Simple Story

The Brave One:

could have been

There has been a lot of always made him the obvious made of the weakness of Robert Lalk Rnd speculation in choice for he-man roles. No Wagner's chameter. time is wasted

which, Hollywood about the fact therefore in coupled with the desire to wondering if there is any deep liberate his

of her or fiction from Mor

certain significance in

the dialogue ariving to keep up appearances Robert Rich. It's just straightforward boy and

and put him through College, moots girl, girl

is afraid

of is the driving force that makes

boy, boy proves himself a man him into a killer. He is never

In order to win her.

Women will probably this picture. Males may sent Robert Mitchum.

Old Story

A Kiss Before Dying:

like

bullt many

in

EA

He has received an award as

The Brave One" a film on the writer of the screenplay

which nearly everyone la fr

籍 real person and up into

of the situations that re- which he steals poison from the agreement. The quarrel is not with the merit of the picture It- College Laboratory for instance self, but Robert Rich himself.

are contrived to

shock by methods

He cannob be found that

and the went out ten

theme of the story is claimed to years ago.

be the brain-child of several different people.

to

The music in places bullds up to 0 climax that the action never reaches and the colour is hard. I also found the images distorted at times.

Certain Charm

It must be difficult write a really original film story that keeps in line with the Censor's policy and it is possible to find shades of-an-earlier production in

The girl-Joanne Woodward, nearly every picture today. has a certain charm which is "A Kiss Before Dying" is appealing for the absence of the usual chocolate box pret- another of these examples. It le tinera associated with screen vaguely reminiscent of the heroines and Virginin Leith, Elizabeth Taylor-Farley Gran- who had her first important

Sun

ger picture "A Place In The role in the Ginger Rogers plc- fure "The Black Widow"" is superficially it shows adequate

who as the sister

Very

the temptation of an ambitious tracks down the murderer.

young man to kill the girl he has "got into trouble" in order that he can be free of the em barassment of supporting her. 0.5 a College professor car

In the former picture the girl

WIK

poor,

Of a fairly mediocre bunch Jeffrey Hunter comes off best

marked as the romantic foll for ill-educated and Virginia Leith. He bas

ob

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Some are claiming that tho

original idea came from the now deceased maker of documer- iaries, Robert Flaherty (he was the producer of "Man of Arran",

The most plausible actor

In

The Brave One" is the father

of the

boy, Rodollo Hoyos, though most of the praise has gone to the boy himself, Michei Ray. The youngster performs well for a ten-year-old, it's true, but the mark of the acting school is still there and the real depth of feeling for the bull did not come over.

ore

The bullring sequences enormously exciting and the authentic festa spirit la caught to the full.

To sum up, this film is pic- torially good, the simple story is appealingly told and although the acting la stereotyped it is good entertainment whole family.

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20th CENTURY FOX presents

Deborah KERR Robert MITCHUM

"Heaven Knows, Mr.Allison"

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