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FILMS

I found occasion to pour Brando.

publle show,

CURRENT & COMING by ANTHONY FULLER

moment they meet.

moments, it is a great fim.

THE the popcorn they sell in the

I Firesa?

This

TF, during the past week I Wm, you will have to have the fact that she is in love with Made by the Rank Organisallos casting opposite. Windom, but you know it the in onc D their Inspired praise upon some picture or

The points with "The Young other, there is a reason. It's Lions" are now stated for you?

Michael Hordern as the arro- not that I am making every beneft; It's an intelligent sim. hit manager of a rubber culate are a light us is the antithesis of "Windom's goose a swan, but that the your brains

gag around "The Way." I admired his portrayal cinema people have at last rance, it is not your Alm, it's of the type, possibly because I

Fuzzy Pink Night- awakened to the fact that if well produced and excellently know the type so well. The gown," now showing at the they wanted the industry to directed: Some people Imagine kind who is always calling to: Star and Metropole is as old

or violence as long as he is not survive, they would have to that the theme is new.

course it is no... It is an old ne physically Involved, and in- na the Roaring Twenties, do something about it.

who fawne questing humanity.

*"Snatching" Why do the cidentally,

and The geg.... in At first they wanted to biome paths of certain persona cross croons if he ever gets caught, which was good Broadway television, What nonsense! Ai nt such a given moment? The 'I know him so well, and so If a screen a few inches square author, Irwin Shaw works out does Michael Hordern presume for kidnapping. In fact, this can compère with the size, the that theme. It is fatalistic in a ably.

profession became so popu techuical zuperiorly of the way, because I seeks to polut to However, all this does not ar at one time, especially elnema, and the atmosphere of * eircumstance that no make the picture, so what are when the practitioners asked

what path a man many the points Now, having mailer faced the facts a year ago, we choose, it leads to the anni political-cum-adventure adapta- for half of Manhattan for ransom, that the au- Hongkong are beginning to cul-de-sac of pre-determined on of James Ramsey Ullman's a reap the benefits of the decision exilnction.

best seller scores in the follow- thorities scht dhe or two of the industry made-which was

1 could go

on with what is ing points of appeal.

them to sit in Mr Edison's Eimply to make fewer and bet. pccepted as the critle's blurb The story is toplea), 13 ter Bints.

these days, such as I liked Hope taking place right now under rocking chalr.

However, this match mention- They thought the big screen, Lake's performance, or 1 your nose, In putting over the the Improved lenses, the deeper ought Miss Rush was good in iden, you have an impeccably cd in the film. is a sort of re- colour, would

from Peter Finch. lectant kidnapping carried out Such is neither criticism performance permit them to this.

Wynn and Ihlph alow

ony old junky story. certainly not Alm critickm. nn Dr Windom, and he is sup- by Keenant People got tired of seeing great The point with this film is it ported by outstanding per- Mecker. herds of cattle, sweeping renches for the slats, it ques- fcrmances from the other lead- panoramas, and all of the big tions, it strives after the answers ing players. Bereen stuff, and stayed away even if it does not find them.

Now we have people like

The

kredi then belongs to Jerry Wild and Mark Hobson Dmytryk who directed it. It working overtime on great ims, so Im where the director had There are two films to praise to identify, and intelligently ng this week, and not a dud any preciate the Alm's business. In he hands of a man of less intel- gence, it would have been n parody of an eple, n burlesque in Twentieth Century costuine of "War and Peace.

where.

The first of the outslanding Aims is "The Young Lions," showing at the Roxy and the Broadway, I know star stuff counts for

far more than should in Hongkong, and many people will jook no further then cast to go running to see the film,

The only connection between the litle and the aim is that The production in polished, Jane Russell wears a night gown quite na polished as "The Bridge which is all part of the saucy on the River Kwai." There is sexy get-up of the film,

Adolphe Menjou creeps into faultless direction which creates

a living suspenseful atmosphere the im as the head of studio which literally hurts the film whose lending startet has been

kidnapped. along to its climax.

con-

rich Then 10 this is nddeil

Crazy, sexy, and Jane Russell detall, smooth dialogue, in a blonde wig and little elso rolled crowd scenes, and all the besides, you have the set up for ugly violence against the lush this probably Improbable Take no notice of the pre- lurid vegetation of the Jungle. picture. pared blurb which the local people use in their advertise- ments; it is used by them be cause it is prepared to sell the In this case, they are quite nim fo the many-headed. The correct. While I never fallow im doesn't need it, "The Young a slur around myself, relying Lions" is great in its own right. for more on the producer and Its theme is great, la produc- director. It just happens that I don is great. It is as great as have ster. every m Brando humanity, and 113 poverly stricken. Cruel, remorseless, has mode.

In "The Young Lions," we get part God, part devil, but always another wonderful performance bewildered, it shows man at hils proving that Brondo is a weakest and his rare best. supreme artiste who has carried into the film world all the his trionic values that his art con-

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leploys the part of a German I to the polite fiction main-

saidler as he wanted it played

Some cynicol critics said this tained by both trade and about "Windom's was because he had his eye on critics

the German box office. That is Way," now at the Lee and of course not only rubbishy criticism, but a complete mis- Astor. Before commenting conception of an artist, such us on the Alm, you are asked Erando is.

to subscribe to a gram- matical fiction that although you can see Malayan huts, Malayan people, and Chinese territorist hands, you have no idea where the film is taken, or what it represents.

It is obvious from the way in which Brando handles his part that he perceived it to be the perfect medium for the portrayal of that character which modern klom dismisses so lightly

alzed up."

Such is not quite true, but as

Brando sees the part, i la the situation most men would have

mort

Assuming I am writing for grown-up people, you will now

to face in similar circumstances, Instantly that you are seelag a Is the soldier to be the fighting

Dm on a highly controverfal automaton orders and regula- tions determine he must be? Or subject, with Windom's way of is there room to cultivate on the doing things suggested as being better than the old official way. battle Neld they humanitarian qualliles we It is a beautiful film made in cultivate in more, harmonious Eastman Colour, and it catches surroundifigs?

the atmosphere of the Eas; as Of course, the part is wrii; no former film has done, Where } ten-and more important, as. it the film is mature

and in played by Brando-we have Intelligent, It does not ram la

of the theme ideas every nuance

nor Ideals down your heightened in order to extract thrunt. You, sitting in the Its maximum content. In the audience, have got to make

crds ho takes it along to that your own mind. world weariness that follows humanitarian the foo-precise idealist, and one correct approach? wonders if the end is pente at lust. A really great performance

MARIO LANZA Brando.

Seven Hills of Rome

Peter

Is Windom's approach the

Finch takes over the role of Windom admirably, in fact, he becomes. Dr Windom. Regarding Montgomery Clift Here you got no smiling patient and Dean Martin. They live idealist, but a man driven to his good performances, very fine task by the convletion that he indeed, but it is becoming in- is right and bureaucracy creasingly obvious to any who stupid, a point well made which RENATO RASCEL have followed Brando ove received a handelay from me. MARISA ALLASIO

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