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IT WAS A MONSTER-YET IT WAS A MANI

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THE CHINA MAIL,

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1957.

FILMS

credit of first recording the

CURRENT & COMING by

ANTHONY FULLER

Another thing Nevil Shute and as I have "Fald, an engine adventures of the Cyclops, makes plain in his blography catches fire. The rest of tho

and that was three thousand is the rough time he had financim deals with Jack in the

before

ing the oulihi he helped form, cockpit of the plane, the control yeurs

Hollywood Well, this story is about such tower, and the pndous twic opened up.

out, and Jock Hawkins in the who han joined the Crowd

below.

line. I

guard at a major Hollywood to sum it up in one studo. Confidentially, Mr should say It is a drama about

The Cyclops in the picture is test pilot. no le than Mr Dean Parkin, 1 muppose, if you asked me The plane scenes are terri- fyingly | reallalle. MGM's T- presentative tells me that Jack Hawkins underwent a course of technical instruction before taking over the part of test pilot,

izt

Parkin Is not 25 feet tall, but a man who struggles with twin is made to appear so by that old affections. Ono for his home black magic, the camera, Now and family. He knows he's not this monster to be taken doing right by them in nccept Hierally as the shape of things ing the second affection of the to come, and the reason for its precariousty financed Arm ginnt growth and terrifying, op- Ales for. pearance is as follows.

Common Touch

Elizabeth Sellars, as Jack's he wite is awfully good. She introduces one or two light moments this tenso drama.

Notice that so familiar scéne as she reprimrids her two sons who are unnoying their father, Notice also the seeda when she accuses her husband of de- liberately risking his life for bis firm.

I am sure you will enjoy it

Tammy And The Bachelor:

Tummy and the Bache lor" is as fresh as an April morning. If it has a weak- ness, should you call it a weakness, it is that it is too unsophisticated. I am sure that the ultra-sophisticated will call it "whimsy" and a "tear squeezer", and on Ebnt account I recommend it.

Tammy and the Bachelor" Universal-International Techni- colour CinemaScope production now showing at the Metropole RKO's. science Action horror and Star tells story of the has a normal man horribly die- type that has been typically figured when his plane crashes America's since the Civil War, in the Mexlean jungles. The 11 is in succession of such hidden valley containa mynleri- if you are one of the people who stories 09 "Little Women", ous uranjuth deposits which can live out here and still keep "Daddy Long Legs and the cause all the Inhabitants to the common touch,

You'll "Girl of the Limberlost," The grow to an enormous size.

see all the domestic plot is as old ng Cinderella; poor

home. The house, well, a пісен girl meets the

for blossomя a moment as a

a better neighbourhood desirable, the lady. She is slighted, returns

The car, old An Affair to Remember: to her poverty, only to find that formed beyond all recognition and crotchety; you'll never get "An Affair to Remember" Prince Charming pursues her.

is the basis of the story which other while you stick with 20th Century-Fox Produc- Koes

Do you see what I can recommend the Alm for

on to describe how he that old arm.

I mean?

showing at the wreak Lerrible

I think it is a thing tion, following points, It la proceeds to the

icw women can understand, Roxy and Broadway, comes played with

The vengeance. restraint.

You can't erllicise a flm of That a man's job is often much to us with all the glamour scenes are never maudin, and Debble's

bigger to him than the salary of CinemaScope and innocence in

it follows never

type because the set formula of all such tales, he pulls. I'm not telling you There is the minimum of prob- about the Alm. Jack's chance Luxe Colour. ablity in that beget malformation,

the ponsibility,

in- second #redient of sucerentul science fiction. Give a new stant, and you have the story editors uf S.F. ure crying out for.

Neither can you criticise the acting. The camera holds no long sequence. If the film is

Prince Charming,

exasperating. And the way her honesty breaks down the pose of her more urbane hosts when she moves into their house, ia charming.

With Restraint

I recommend the pleture bes cause it has moments of real beauty. Reflections are used in two scenes of exquisite beauty. One when Debble sings a song 10 herself (although she i overheard) and she is reflected

is

Vengeance

How he, in turn, becomes de-

this

7

radiation can

struggles that loom so large at I Disagree

ono

is

comics.

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De

The firm is to test a The critics both in America There is freighter. Jack takes it on test and England have given the

alm

terrife hiding. have not read a criticism that has varied much from the lead given by Time.""

a success, then the credit must to to the director, writer, and producer. And all three are in. the person of Bert I. Gordon. b the window pane against A new switch is having Lon the night. The second is during Chaney Jr. a victim of the her visit to town when she

monster instead of being shocked to see a dummy In

monster. Gloria Talbott is the window rather roughly handed. girl who starto the Um off by I recommend the film be- organising a search party to fly cause. It has charm. This is into a forbidden area of Mexico scene when

the great house in search

of her farze, who celobrates Pilgrimage Week,

disappeared there three years Debbio dresses up and

ago. She is alded by James rives a delightful study of an Craig the star of the alm. ancestor of the house.

and

I

Brennan,

recommend it for sume Walter Ano acting. who never misses, as the grand- father is quite prepared to see the legislators of Washing- go to that certain place. Fay Wray, and I haven't seen her in years, as the snobbish

A good average flm for the shiver and shudder department.

A Biography

The Man in the Sky:

"The Man in the Sky"

ambitious mother, Mildred now showing at the Hoover Natwick, the cat loving aunt, and Liberty, is the first film who has sense enough to prefer to appear following the new arrangement whereby MGM Michael will release the Balcon-Ealing Films,

Debbiea charth money.

to

a rival's

In fact, it is a good chow all round.

A Big Fib

Jack Hawkins, No. 1 Box- Office star, plays in the title role of this dramatic thriller which is filmed in Metrasenpe and features Perspecta Stereo-

Bute of Nevil

The story. reminds

me

Shute's blogra- phy. That is, all but the tense Uhrilling sequence wher, we see Juck Hawkins trying to land

The Cyclops:

"The Cyclops" now on phonic Sound. show at the King's and Princess, has little in com mon with classical tradition. In fact I am surprised lo find that Hollywood claims his plane which has the port

engine on fire. to have invented thut When I

"reтnfnds," I monster, which is nothing mean how men can come to more than a great big fib. love the job, they do, and have Mr Homer should have the a real affection for the air-

planes they play with.

Cathay

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picture was award-

ett Prize for Musi cal Film al the Eighth Inter- national Film Fes- tival held at Karlovy

Vary in 1957.

Director:

Say

HEW YEAR SACRIFICE

SANG HU Screen Play by LU SHAN

New Films

-At- A Glance

SHOWING

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QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA:

The Prince And -Showgirl"; ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄KuritaniaTM OCTILES to London Town for ibe Coronation. Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, and Marilyn Monroe.

STAR

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& "Tyrothy

And The Bachelor": A Mississippi riverboat lade and a Bophisticated bachelor. Debbie Reynolds, Leslie Nielsen, and Walter

Brennan

KING'S

PRINCESS: *The Cyclops": Yet an- other monster, Starring James Craig, HOOVER

& LIGERTY: "The Man In The Sky":" A drama filmed at Wol- verhampton Autodrome, Jack Hawkins and Elizabell Sellars. BOXY &

BROADWAY: "An Affair To Remem- ber": A sentimental stry

of two sophisti- cates who met and feil In love. Deborah Kerr

and Cary Grant,

COMING

QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "Attila": "The Scourge of God." A technicolour production starring Sophia Loren and An- thony Quinn, STAR 邈 METROPOLÉ: "Gun for a Coward": Another Western. Fred Mao Murtsy, Jeffrey Hanter, and Janfoë Rule. KING'S & PRINCESS: "Fear. Birikes Out": A true

mory of A twisted, trapped kid who won out when one girE understood. Tony Perkins and Karl Malden. HOOVER

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The Story

Now what have the critics 'gone for? The story.

Most of them remind you that Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr are caught up in a re- make of the Charles Boyer and

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Irene Dunnie Alm Just before THEY LOVED EVERYWHERE WITH A LOVE GLORIOUS-

the War, wasn't It?

Two

This Is the story. elegant sophisticates who gaze on the world through cynical eyes, meet and fall in love, and love charges their hearts, What's wrong with that? It is fashionable at the moment to try to be clevor by sneering at something that happens every day, but if you've got eyes to see, it's happening all around you, The gawky lnd starts to comb his hair; the colt-legged lass borrows her elder sister's cosmetics.

No critle has dared to nul Lault with Miss Kerr's per- formance, nor have they much Fault to find with Cary Grant. Well let me jump in with both feet. I say that Kerr and Graat form the romantic team the cinema has been waiting for. I will go further and say that Director McCarey has flimed the romantic aim of the year,

Sensitive

Deborah Kerr's performance Is superb,

and

intelligent.

sensitive

Cary Grant is an idolent but charming playboy who le planning to wed

mulli- milionairess, then along comes love.

Now after saying that, I will mavé along to the complaint department,

The fault lies not in our Cary or Deborah, but with Mr McCarey, the director. Holly- wond is lush with everything. Often they should realise that the

subile underplayed stroke is more masterful than The heavily applied brush,

In "An Affair to Remember"

a bid is made for sentiment via o nauseating group of children who bellow tunes off both beat. and tune. Such scenes ere unworthy of this fine, film, but by no means spoil it. 1 there- före take leave to disagree with so exalted critto as the scribe of "Time", and h10 hundreds of imitators, Affair to Hemember" 13 an excellent Alm, and I guarantee you will wring out your hanky many times before the film is over.

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