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KING'S PRINCESS

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BELINDA LEB

RONALD LEWIS

The

Secret Place

MICHAEL BROOKE

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FILMS

unci be

Current & Coming

BY JANE ROBERTS

documen

Really Good

The Secret Place:

ward and General Kirk Dougigs ariliteial Bower and about as the documentary film has been With a blaze of publicity. portant, and she wants a story

together. However he's In attractive.

made by ari ciient cameraman read, Love and Dreams" is and has the added interest of Belinda Loo said some time on him for Her magazine. 'really nothing more than nbelag completely authentic, ago that she was fed up

Hin agreement to visit her succcasion of oventa in a little Provided the dialogue is DOL with posing for cheese cake doesn't mean that he is pre- poor than most and in spite of would prefer many

a guest in her home village in Italy. It is no more prosy, pompous or patronising I photographs, that she was pared to give away all his the sumptuous

religious feasts Lartes to much going to allow her hair to xerets through und Mies Hay- and splendid appearance of the froth that pages for entertain- of the fatuous return from the startling ward has to use all her charro uniform of the head of the blonde colour she had been to get him to Incriminate him- police, no more, rich than any ment in the film busines

self, Naturally, by this time other. affecting to its natural the old eat und mouse game of

that most It has something tortoiseshell (whatever "I love you", "No you don't" villages in Italy lack however—

"Victory At Sta" Is colour that may be when "All right then, I don't" hou it has as its seller of firewood

these really good documentaries. applied to hair) and that over and in spite of the Gina Lollobrigids.

scriptwriter's determination to This is where you have to If it has a fault it is trut she was going to play no fry to prevent his characters as admit that the Italian "realist" Second World War has now been more questionable

achilt people young two

1 developes school had an advantago over over for more than ten

years into no more than the old, boy a tators in Aunerien, Indies.

Even and while it still took up mucli meets pirl, boy is outwitted by at "On The Waterfront" which of the impressionable period in girl, love conquers all, plot that is generally admitted to have the lives of the people who are la the basis of most movies,

been the nearest approach to now at the height of their Kirk Douglas, to do hf this type of acting, there was mental and physical Justice tric, very hard to inject still a feeling of watching a declivity, it can have only n plausibility into his role and al- play instead of participating in horioal significanes Though his dimple makes him what was going on.

for the look too often Üke an irrespou

younger generation.

To his younger generation sible schoolbay with a

though. I would uncaltalingly 100 ble for his brain, he is stil

In "The Secret Place" she is more or less covered ant her hair does not seem to be that brassy colour that makes al wonder what 011 earth the possessor looks like off rereen. But she is still a little suspect 3s far as morality is concerneti, Her boy friend is a not very clever young fellow whose felonious activities are not very well planned.

A finshy ne'er do well. he capitalizes on the craving for glamour of Belinda Lee which Irritates her into betraying the simple affection of a boy who sces in her the personligation of feminine allure,

It so happens that the boy's father a policeman and the uniform of this policeman is needed for the successful execu-

ritude

to

that the

serret

A Man

L

One of

the

DIO

it does not call for the easy, ut- demanding, half-attention TC-

films.

quired by many present day

the prospect of advancement Watch Danton

able to make the rateujeung In "Bread, Love and Dreams" recommend this piclare even it Stan Hayward look a bit of a there la none of this, The town fool from me to time.

Shr to be to marshal, played as only Vittorio dear, appears PODT obsessed by her own pulch- de Sica can, is very much a man. possibility of Posted to a little village where fallure to achieve her endte

make a monkey of the non-existent, he still preserves faliant general is inconceivable, his appearance but allows hits I wanted to shake her!

appreciative eye to wander in Outside The Law: the direction of the local mid- You may remember that wife, When his

garrulous "ker- vant describes her

Ray Danton hudi charms pl

an im- which she more, Intimate portant, if not prominent

has D knowledge thau he, his eyes part in Susan Hayward's glow. The Fervant adds that picture "I' Cry To- he attractive Indy has a habit morrow", as her first love. of going off to Rome once a He has also appeared in month, from where she returns

La Lollo!

tion of a jewel robbery. Belinda Brend, Love And Dreams: undertakes to get the clothes, the burglory takes place and the diamonds are hidden,

The Snag

It would seem that from here all is plain sailing. The pie sence of the small worshipper at the shrine of female attraction turns out to be the snag in an operation that, in spite of some faulty planning, might have suceroded, however, and ke any disillusioned devotee, young Michael Brooke turns on the ob- Ject of his affections.

In spite

the scoming familiarity of the plot, it is a elever and convincing patch- work quilt of thrills, cllimaxes and observations of low life in general. The East End of Lon- don, with its close proximity to wealth and easy living is t constant temptation to the quick witbed,

It is easy to sympathise with the girl whose He is bounded kiosk but who by a cigarette

feels that with better opportuni- tles she could have fitted just as grnedfully into the life of Juxury mere few miles from hor sortid home.

The silly vapid talk of the debutantes and the poseurs who hang around them, the affected ways of girls who have merely had nn advantage over the elgarette girl from the point of view of education-all are cons ributors to her world owes me a living outlook and I would never until now, have believed that Belinda Lee was capable of interpreting a role with: such understanding.

Watch out for Britain's David a conventional McCullum-Dot type but

with comparable America's Widmark and France's Jean-Claude Paseal in the male goodlooks fleld.

Nothing Secret

Their Secret Affair:

This picture started life in America as "Top Secret Affair', but although the grade of "Top Secret" was just LA intelligible to Englishmen as to Ameri- cans during the last war it has boon thought it to change the title now to "Their Secret Affair".

There's nothing terribly sceret about the subject_that brings columnist Susan Hay-

How much better an netress is Gina Lollo brigida when she is using her own tongue,

Bread, Love and....

As the title gamin of the series she is soft and womanly, ferce and defensive, sulky when hurt at about as predictable as the weather-in feel, thoroughly

feminine. When they dress her up as an opera singer or paste American accent over her hesitant English she is ke un

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HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Victory At Sea": A yo view of the activities of the Allies and their enemies In the cond World War, KING's and PRINCESS: "The Secret Place"; A sumali time crook, a cir! with the idea that moro money means more fun, and a heroine-worship- ping small boy, Ronald Lewis, Belinda

Lee,

Michael Brooke. METROPOLE and STAR; "Outside the Law"; An ex-convict sides with the law in order to ex- a ring of counter- felters, Hay Danton, Leigh Snowden,

Grant Williams.

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QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Their Secret Affair"; A carcer

Journalist plans unfavourablo article ut an American genera! but falls to føreren love intervening. Susan Hoy- ward, Kirk Douglas, Paul Doughna, ROXY and BROADWAY:

"Bread, Love and Dreams": Lollobrizida on a donkey and Do Blea the splendid Cara- biniere

the cause

villager to co

cossip and the more respectable girls to spit with envy malice.

radiant. The glow fedes from various other small pic- the eyes of de Slea and an ex- tires, many of them west- Pression of prudish distaste re- orns.

though a few minutes before he had slyly overshadowed by the big name places it-even

Howeyr: much he may be moved his chair In order to of the star or eclipsed by the see into the room of

the now banalily of the plot, Danton has condemned womant

while quality that will, it he per- Elves - severes, at him in ning for the type of parts for which the current pin-up boys who combine a talent for moting with their good looks will have grown too old in a year or 10.

Lollobrigida too, vociferously protesting that she is a "good" girl- point that must be fully belloved for the picture to have any mtaning is sill not averse to swinging her hips as she walks down the streel and in the Daner of most prolly young girls, flirting outricously while appearing to be completely oblivious of the stir they are causing.

The more mature charms of

the midwife

Familiar

Bis role in "Oniside the Law"

is the familiar one of the cx- convict who should never have gone to gaol in the first place are harder to being offered chance to clear describe,

himself by ingratialing himself She in obviously and un with the lawbreakers and in ashamedly in her thirties and spile of

# good deal of in- while her fece is warm and full timidation coming through with of humanity, it could not be the information icating to their called beautiful when compared eviction.

with that of Gina Lollobrigida, If I sounds like the type of

Yet although she has ttle flm you like to see, I would dialogue her expression and suggest an early visit. mannerisms denote a person of depth and understanding. There is one scene townrdg the be- ginning of the pleture when che firs: meets The new town marshot that Illustrates capacity for miming without speech that makes a cameo of her small role,

A film not to be missed.

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Victory A Sea:

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The former smacks of facts and igures with little enter- talhment value and the second

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