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KING'S » PRINCESS

TO-DAY

JOHN GREGSON BELINDA LEE

CYRIL CUSACK

Miracle in Joho

Written and prnduced by

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EMERIC PRESSBUNGER JULIAN AMYES

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FILMS

Miracle In Soho: "Miracle in Soho" the J. Arthur Rank dlm now showing at the King'e and Princess is one of Pine- wood's prestige pictures. Rank's tell me the film is 8,852 feet in length, and I tell them thero is disap- pointment in every inch of it. Perhaps I expected too much, but then I feel I had every right so to do,

Look at the title. Miracle! And what do I find? A second- hand shot from Hollywood which originated in "The Bells of St Mary's,"

Soho There's magle in the word for one who really knowa Soho. Chorus girls and War

Cry sellers; poets and pimps; ballet-shoes and coshes; letnon- ude and reefers; elicesecakes and dupe; a place A8 солно- universe; and politan as the unless you know it, as dull as ditch water.

Magnificent?

wrote the Mr Pressburger script and produced the picture. The only comment I will per- mit myself on that is, the title is magnifcent; promises everything.

it

CURRENT & COMING by

ANTHONY FULLER

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and speaks his llaes in just the Hongkong 1953. She has A same manner as he did when amali part in this film as he stopped Pygmalion with his air hostess. powerful interpretation of Doo- inte, the amoral dustiran.

The second scene I with

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Dual Purpose

mention is the invocation of St Anthony. The shot is again A Face In The Crowd:

Hollywood, "A Face in the Crowd" also stolen right from lines of candles so well, plus

presents me with dif the lips moving silently th

ficulties. I do not wish to prayer.

point out what is obvious, at the same time I cannot allow the importance of such a picture to pass without comment.

Now naturally, I wish I

of every British could say picture that it is great, superb, exquisite, in other words - haust all my superlativer. I cannot of this.

Hongkong?

Permit me to point out that many works of art berve a dual purpose. A book, for instance, can both tell a good story and at the same time make a signi- ficant social comment.

Now "A Fron in the Crowd"

I

chr

Flight To Hongkong: How much of this Hong-

kong you recognise de comes from the pen of that ex- pends entirely upon the tmely clever American writer,

Budd Schulberg, artd kind of life you lead, I think of nothing that Schulberg suppose. "Flight to Hong- has written that has not een-

of aspect

the kong" now showing at ured

some the Star and

American way of life. I had Metropole

better add that while America is a vicious bit of violence is his locale, his application la featuring Hongkong as universal for he deals

with

one of the sin-capitals of human nature. the world. What that What he is getting at here is adds up to I don't know, the mob hysteria which over- night makes or breaks a man. The medium in this case is television. Schulberg is saying, "You, the people, with stupid idolling of your stars Who

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You can't criticise a Alm this type simply because 1 doesn't call for any analysis of the qualities that make a work of art. For instance, it The second thing is,

it pulp magazine typo of story produced

colour, Why you don't crittelse it, you Just Scho, in spite of its name

Immediately soy "pulp" and no tun-drenched Latin quarter. people know what you mean, Eut for those who really know unfortunately. We have no it, it has more romance than a dozen places with equally ex

nomes,

riting

1

What's it all about? A e Italian girl falls in love with road-difit wielding Casanova. She prays St Anthony to work

word in the fim vocabulary to connote such qualities, I gather ther that you either ke от dislike this kind of film.

Rory Calhoun is a member of in Intertilonal diamond Smuggling syndicate, and he is

your

shoot through the sky for a brief moment, are fools,"

Now none knows more about screeching hysterial fans than docs Budd Schulberg, for hla childhood was spent in the Kingdom of Ballyhoo, Holly- wood. None knows better than he the value of good publicity which passes these days for genius.

Documentary

a miracle to send him back, based on Hongkong. That In the hands of Elia Kazan, St Anthony obliges by bursting gives you lount interest. You'll this story becomes a dramatic

Queen's

a water in, this necessita- see the Jockey Club, you will story or a social documentary. ting the road-mander's alter-

Skl on that hairpin bend

"A Face in the Crowd In tion.

just below May Road, You now showing at the Only the superb neling uf can have a look at the Ferry, and Alhambra, Andy Grimh John Gregson as the heart and

and one or two other chols. plays a tramp who is dls- asphalt breaker saves this trite For residents, the over covered for TV by Pat Neal. stuft from deteriorating into an Orientalisation of the scenes Only once in my life have I hour and a half of tedium. I will call for considerable seen a flm star bayed into 18 so out of character, Gregson criticism. I pointed It out keep by a pack of fans, and to would collect more thick curs myself but was informed that this day I cannot understand thon hearts in Soho with hls this is necessary for universal what uncanny power possesses great lover Inc.

distribution. otherwise those such people 10 send them who know not Hongkong refuas to accept the Orlent as a city well built and as well run as u Western city.

Performance

Another great performance is that of Cyril Cusack, a noscy. old poetman by profession, and a Salvation Army soul-winner conviction, What Press-

by

Synonym

clawing and clutching at u person who up to that moment has existed merely as a cellu- jold ghost.

This aim brings out, such scenes with terrifying reality,

But best of all, it evaluates the properes of such

when

they

If I were a city father, I ephemeral glory. How hard burger is getting at here I don'

should certainly ask the next they fail know. Nothing of artistic

or film company that arrives here toppling down. dramatic merit is achieved by to make a film without dope It only remains this

bit of casting except or smuggling for a theme. Cusack could play a dent and dumb man, and still make the part cloquent.

Lawson. He plays his part

A third mention is

Wilfrid

como

to be

Baid that Kazan's casting gives this can assure you that Hongkong film a realism. I don't pretend 13 becoming 顺 synonym for that it is everyone's

Alm, but these two things.

those who concern themselves with social problems will and it en important picture.

You remember Mias Judy Dan, no doubt, She was Miss

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