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"THE BEAST OF HOLLOW

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FILMS

It's Regiscope

The Beast Of

Mountain:

volcanic clevations form the ideal locale for the film. Go'and Bon . It's eary on the eye, and Hollow easy on the head also; the kids

will lap it up.

I think it was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who first in- flicted these

wha

A Satire

prehistoric Silk Stockings: monsters upon us. I recall, "Silk Stockings" the Cole ever so dimly, seeing a silent Porter musical hit, which version of his "The Lost ran on Broadway for two World" in which the screen years, begins a run at the

cluttered

with gover up

and Liberty Brontosauri, and other Theatres. Interest in this species of dinosaur. Then film is heightened by the the fertile imagination of fact that the star, Fred The late Edgar Wallace Astaire, is just finishing a introduced a different and sheft holiday spent in the legs scientific monster to Colony.

the screen when sound was Filmed in M-G-M's Cinemk- still a novelty and we spoke-Scope and [of talking pictures”,

This outsize gorgonzola night- more was talked King Kong, a am happy to say, that HI lingers in the all-in twrestling business.

nane,

These past twelve months have seen it Ame crop of

from beards

tumans, outer- and space,

near Stanley. You have 2 right then,

ask This question, "What has the Beast of the Hollow Bouzitain tot, that none of the other beasts had?" The answer is Regiscope. This fused term, formed from register and gog, is the trademark for the now alination-in-depth screen proets by which Inanimate ob- Jeets are made to move realis- heally and which the producer, Edward Nassour developed after eighteen years of experimenta-

tion.

Scenic Effects

"The Beast of the Hollow Mountain," showing at the Metropole and Star, is filmed in CinemaScope Colour De Luxe which

is fortunate because it bring out the the scenic effect. of 140 Mexican mountains, Starring along with the Beast al Patrieka Medina and Guy (Wild Bill Hickok) Madison.

The story has this antedelu ylan ouster

colour, the original play comes to us intact plus two ew Porter songs, and with eye- Anting production numbers starring Fred Astaire,

Cyd Clariase, Jan Paige, and Peter

Lorre.

An Arthur Freed production, budgeted as one of the studio's blagest musicals for 1957, the pleture teams Fred Astaire and Mix Charisse for the first me since their successful co-dancing appearance dt "The Band Wagon." Its lavish numbers call for two choreographers, with Hermes Pan the choreographer for all the Fred Astaire num- hers; and

ת

with the remaining dites staged by Eugene Loring.

"Blk Stockings" unfolds tongue-in-the-check satire of a forbidding Russian

girl, Ninotchka (Miss Chorisse) who arrives in Paris to persuade Russia's most famous composer lo return to his homeland from which he has strayed. It is an assignment on which three com- missars who have preceded her have fallen down. Ninotchka also fails, thanks to the irresis- tible charm of Fred Astaire, this time an American dlm producer. This is the cue for song number; "Failed to be Maled.”

Metamorphosis

I think you will enjoy the metamorphosis of Cyd Charisse. off the dull come out of His as she strips centuries-old hiding place and bureaueratle garts of an intense making 2 pretty substantial young Communist and emerges | breakfast of the local cattle, ribboned and silk stockinged. The cliizens repent this, but, of Another. show stopper is Fred course, suspect. rustling as being Astaire's "Ritz Roll'n Rock," in the cause; the idea of it being which he donets in top hat. a prehistoric beast doesn't euler white tie, and talls, their heads,

I considered the number However, to show he doesn't "Stereophonic Sound" one of play favourites, the beast eats the cleverest at the show,

one or two locals, and then especially the perfect timing of stampedes tr herd of cattle. the slammed grand plano ild However, someone tells Guy which certainly lesto the Madison about it, and as any resources of this ingenious ad- Stals TV Fan could tell you, difiun of einčima effect. from that moment the beast has had It,"

The makers of this fearsome fantasy are to be congratulated on their location, site. The area

What I should like to see is a performance of this ilm in Moscow. It really guys all those solemn bureaucrats who take their doctrine too seriously.

is rich in archaeological ruins, I don't want to spoil the Alm many of

them unexplored to for you but here is a typical this day, I think. The Jofty gag.

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three Commissar are a crack at its upstart rival, feeling rather gulity Indulging in television,

Twentieth the fleal pints of Paris, but

rolutely horrifled when told Century Fox collected the the Royal Suite has been Broadway hit, "Will Success engaged for them; however, Spoil Rock Hunter?", threw a happy compromise is found out everything but Jayne when, it is renamed the Wo Mansfield, threw kere Sultel

ducer Tashlin,

L's 'n lighthearted show, chock full of fun.. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Hilarious Film

Oh, For A Man!:

in Pro- some old Peter Lorre, normally usso- clated with sintaler creations, gage with new dressing, breakon out Into a completely and. the result is probably contrasting style. This time, the most hilarious film of instead of getting hisses, he gets

the year. cheers, Moreover, he breaks

I've wandered it Sometimes into song and dance with his big number, "Siberia," one of Americans swallow these seem- the comedy hits of the Cole Ingly gratuitous Hitle plugs like "The reason I smoke Elephant Porter score.

1s because Live cigarettes

extract all million toy Alters

Well, the harmful ate, etc." this picture proves they think about it much the same ng we do. The whole thing takes commercial television for a ride, and doesn't bother to bring it

The result is terrifle, back.

Tashlin, long recognised as one of Hollywood's top creators of comedy, and the acknow- ledged master of the comedy device known as the 'sight gag,' packed, "Oh, for a Man!" with such gags as n bly French poodle who changes his colour and wardrobe to At Miss Mans- field's changes;

series a

of cunedy TV commerciala in whleb, for instance, a door fails off a car under the caress of an enthusiastic car-salesman; and jup-corn popping

Tony Randall's pocket when he is em braced by Jayne Mansfield,

It is only to be expected that Hollywood should take

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Clever Touch

1 like all that kind of fun as well as the next, but the really clever touch is Tashin's evalua- tion of success, and the stuffy Hulle vanities that men reckon success. Here, if I may say so, philosophical raspberry for all those funny little men who in- Mict their -insufferable vanity upon the minor denizers of the business world,

Hunter is the In this film, living parody of all such, and his great moment is the privilego of using the executive's tollet, Quite honestly, I consider it stire of the highest order, be-] case it is introduced in such a robust everyday manner. The rest of the credit must go to the enst.

I think we might say that Jayne Mansfield's success is that ahe parodies her type. She is and gowned in the groomed manner of a Hollywood glamour queen who goes to New York and makes a deal with an ad- vertising copywriter ta endorse his pstick occuunt if he will make her Bollywood boy #riend Jealous. That is the rst step to fame for Tony Randall, the coypwriter,

Joan Blondell is also in this film along with Betsy Drake who returns to Hollywood after a five-year absence.

"Oh, for a Man Almed in. CinemaScop-{}? Luxe colour

is showing at the Roxy and the Broadway.

Manhunted

The Brothers Rico:

From the powerful pen of the international master of suspense, Georges Simenon. comes the exciting story of three manhunted brothers

their und

women, in Columbia Picture's absorb- ing crime-drama, "The Brothers Rico" which stars

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