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FILMS

If the reaction of a first night audience is any in- dication of the true value of a film, then of the two galà premieres held this week, "Designing Woman" is the more successfut, but for my money sorry, complimen- tary ticket "The Sea Wife" has for more to it.

PUBLIC PIGEON NO1Designing

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M.C-M Presents

Woman

Potentially there

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wealth of

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20th Century-Fox

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A 1957 Production by STANDARD FILMS of India Chitra- Daljit Chandrashekhar ----- Kamal & Wasti in

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Dance sequence by Surya Kumar G Babu Lall

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A personal drama of strong, long-

Lagi-A Big Story of Die Things 3:

Big Feelings!

ALAW CIZIONE, KOPITA

LADO-WEBB - KOHEN

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large American newspaper gets drunk of party, finds un at- tractive gift there who helps him write his copy and meet hit deadline with it, falls in love with her and marries her within the space of a few days, only to find that the clacks and sweater girl who fitled to well on a yacht in the Callfomla sunshine, on the air- craft to New York melamar- phoses into an elegant fashion designer.

furnish makes his bachelor

Bat like a hole in the wall.

that

ing type who ecuple their burning interest in sport

the

BY JANE ROBERTS

This Week's Films In Pictures

Cornell Borchers and Errol Flynn chat to Nat King Cole in a scene from "Istanbul" at the Metropole and Star cinemas.

usuai onc

It is

with her. Richard Burton, auto- matically accustomed to acclaim" must have winced when he saw himself. so out-acted by this hitherto pin-up girl.

re-

will

formulate some plan that sail them all to safety.

After much privation that un- fortunately is not convincing. enough, the boat is washed up on an island and the atmosphere Richard Burton re- changes.

acts to the courage, kentleness and serene besuty of Joan Col- ling and falls in love with her. For some reason she doesn't put him out of his misery by telling him of her vows — which makes for a delicate cituation, but on unreakrilc ono.

A rat is built on the island of the and eventually, some party I won't tell you which one-return to civilication.

A series of personal messages then begin to appear in the advertisements of London's Times newspaper, signed by the name "Biscuit" which was the pseudonym behind which the RAF officer bid during the association of the

four sur-

vivors. They were pleas for bla "Sen Wite" to emerge from her anonymity and see bim again.

It would be a shame to spoil the cuding by revealing the events that follow the advertise- menis, but I can tell you that they are unusual.

"The Sea Wife" moves slowly, but is never dull,

Public Pigeon

Number One

appear like a bean pole, a pity too that ho didn't ensure Nor is this all.. Her family that Gregory Peck made a more has a certain amount of cocint convincing sports reporter. prominence and a small legacy

There's come vertebrac- has enabled her to rent and shaking dancing from the well-

Not that he isn't adequate in upartment

Few slapstick comedians Jack Cole who his part, but the restraint look known dancer

isn't afraid to pokes fun at the quired by his role seems to be are able to produce different dedicated and slightly absurd so much less effective than that gags for every picture and Slapped OTE top of the "natural" style of dancing and of Joan Collins,

with most of them it's a gradually revented differences

good performance ire their friends. His are the from

A case of once you've seen one favourlie of my

The story is a simple one. easy-going, tielce, poker-play- character actors Edward Platt elly crammed with refugees you've seen all.

easy from Singapore during the 2nd His mature good looks, with

Martin and Lewis, Abbott a disilke of getting closer to it style in the many varied parts world war is torpedoed and in

enquing confusion the and Costello-even the redoubt- than the spectater stands. Hers he's taken and his pleasant the are full of smart, empty clothes voice should have earnet him coloured purser, a self centred able Bob Hope are all limited

the confining bands much larger roles then he seems businessman, an RAF officer and by --and stage talk.

and Red knockabout humour a parson in nun find themselves in 2 The one really amusing scene to gel he played

Skelton is just such onother. # Joint entertainment une of Glenn Ford's recent pie dinghy together,

a crooked fight

That absurd expression of evening when his friends are res, now he's

The nun does not reveal her promoter. trying to concentrate on poker

identity, the purser, is still faint- puzzlement when a serious sug- has misconstrued, the while hers ara vociferously

ly servite. the businessmen Kortion working out the details of

bullies and the other young man shrug, dimples and mute new show.

discont gathers his training like a cloak peal to the audience when his around him and attempts to efforts have brought

Alure

and on som

the carnest air with which he de- livers a fatuous ne are all part of his stock in trade d without them he would not be Red Skelton.

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Dolores Gray has a few in- congruously sincere lines to wards the end of the picture incongruous considering the man- Hunting nature

Part- of her ut

of all the characters in "Designing Woman" hers seemed his marriage is the basis of the to be the most true to life. newly-weds disagreements.

Popping in and out of the story is Dolores Gray is the voluptuous actress whose affaire with the sports writer prior to

Both Lauren Bacall

and

Gregory Pork are screen per Sea Wife

sonalities I would rather watch thon mosi but in "Designing Woman" neither have been very

Joan Collins has obviously treated. Kindly

The director seems to have had

been bitten by the bug of EIL pre- occupation with eyes and when- realism. ever a scene calls for more thun

surprise,

a

New Films -At- A Glance

SHOWING

HOOVER and LIBERTY: Designing Woman": Carser elri Laurea Bucoli marries newspaperman Gregory Teck and the Agbt is on. With Dolores Gray hi Sam Levene, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Publo Pigeon Number One" A Red Skellois comedy with Janet Blair and Vivian Blaine, METROPOLE ang STAR: "Istanbul: Diamond truggling and deillance In Turkey, Errol Flynn, Comel Borchert, Torfa

a routine expression of

In "The Wayward Bus" an he has made his two principai untidy hair style and blowsy characters open theire wide in appearance held no terror for an unattractive, theatrical stare, her and The Sea Wife" she Lauren Bacall's laughter is foc step further by wearing false, Gregory Peck rolls his straight dresses that completely head, on his shoulders in a poor conceal her figure, a chewed- reproduction of his "Roman string coiffure that's even woISŲ Holiday" and "Moby Dick" than that in Wayward Bus" mannerism and even dear old and to cap it all she is a nun, reliable Sam Levene's rantlug When Deborah Kerr played a nun in "Black Narcissus" and I find that I have been more again in "Heaven Knows, Mr rude this I meant to be about Allyson" there was always the this pleture, mainly,

I think, lurking

that if suggestion because I had been looking for sufllelently ward to it

tempted she might Bo much. The recounce her vows. Someliow director is the person at fault, Jean Collins manages to convey He has not made the most of n surety of purpose and a deep- the plot and although

Thatcher, theness of convletion that makes dresses are sumplutus, he has any suggestion of earthly love allowed poor Lauren Bacall to seem impure.

lacks convletion,

Mexim's

presenta

THE

HENDERSONS

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PERFORMANCE TO-NIGHT

DINNER DANCE.

From 196 to

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THE FRENCH CONDO

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There's an innocence and inck of evil and temptation in, her sleady took that makes the de- votion to her of the coloured purser a gentle and good thing instead of the palpitating nifrdr their youth and good might otherwise have suggested.

Jooks

As in "The Wayward Bus" it is once again Joan Collins' plc- ture and if she adds a few more pertõemandës of this sort to her list, Hollywooll's male actors 'WBI be afraid to appear in Alms

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SOPHIA LOREN VITTORIO DE SICA

TOO BAD. SHE'S BAD

An Italian Suplir. Production Dev "English Verion

ZÁME PARKT GIANGE -- "HE LAUGHED LAST!!

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Charles Lindbergh traces the carcer The flyer from five dollar air trips to tlio non-stop New York to Parts Tight of 1927. ROXY and BROADWAY: gea Wife": Three men a boat plus n tri to be the solo mir- vivors of a torpedded ship. Joan Collbus Ithird Burton, Bisli Sydney. Cr Grant,

En

BCC

COMING

HOOVER und "LIBERTY:," "Lizzie": Eleanor Parker is good, bad and Indif- ferent as she reveals the three sides kf her char- acter. With Pat Boone, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Jumplir Tack": A Mat- tin and Lowk cornedy, METROPOLE and STAR: "Wické A# "They\Conse": Arlene Dahi with a chip. on the shoulder for the -mals · „mptoles makes st jas, three of klacin pay For the bins of one. With Phill, Carey and Zerbert Marshall,

ALHAM- BRA: "Calypro Heal Wave": From the Maine stable as the "Rock" ad "Cha-Cha7bkokuroi. 13

QUEEN'S and

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of

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IV's been some time since we've seen him here, so perhaps the slightly. thin jokes "Public Pigeon Number One" will benent from the rest. Then of course he's been given the usual pretty girl to divert those who are dragged to the picture

devoted by

Skelton fans.

Vivian Blaine is the decoy dusk in this case, with Janet Blair as an additional attraction should you find the slightly raucous volee of Vivian Blaine, un irri- tation.

#Publie Piccon Number One" is the answer to that spare hour. and a half to be filled in before a dinner date.

Istanbul

Cornell

For some reason Borchers has been given the distinction of having "Miss" added to her name in the billing for "Istanbul" A friend to whom I expres8» ' ed surprise at this unusual distinction suggested that it might be to establish the fact that Miss Borchers is a woman, in spite of the equivocal Christian name. If that's the reason then why not "Mr" in front of such nazues as "Tab" (it might bo short for Tabitha, after all) and Yut?

Whatever the reason for Miss Porcher's Jadylike elevation there's no doubt but that Mr Flynn's balcony leaping days BIO OVET,

romantic

The gleaming smile once so obviously suro dɛ ila aim at the fluttering boarts of youthful Alm fans in more dient now and its OWNICT not nearly as confident of the accuracy of its hmm. It scams chame that the lovely Mias Borchers fai

1 little given someone near her own ogć na partner.

"Istanbul" tells the story of a tourist in the Turkish capital bracelet by tho who is given gallant Errol Flynn. Ha how- Yever, has bought it second hand a concurled in it are stolen diamonds. In the best tradition of detective stories, the real thieves penith his room, in timidato Cornel Borchers and Ace the lovers to separate for How to will be interested to know that Hinger Nat Kina Crão hás a part in the story and the who like the course of True love to run roughly will 'desivo sorse pleasure 'from Blas

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JAMES STEWART

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"THE SPIRIT OF ST.LOUIS

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