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FILM BRIEFS

on

the gene in The Inn of the Sixth Happincan, Ingild Berg» man was required to bolá a crying Chinese baby.

In the end, brief glimpses of half a dozen different babies were used for the spene, because director Mark Robson couldn't find one which would cry for long enough.

"Any way," he said, “It doesn't maiter. All Chinese babies took alike."

**Not to us," warned a Chloese extra darkly. “Mr Robson-thia film will be hig failure in China.”-

▶ECOGNITION -al Inst--for the horror in. In The Vikings.

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST M, 1958.

Roderick Mann

YVONNE DE CARLO

the

actress who used to complain that she never had to learn new dialogue; just a few new hip movements-sat on the settee of

Mr Kirk Douglas has his left eye torn out by a falcon, Mr her Claridge's suite and regarded Tony Curtis has his left hand chopped of; and Mt Ertest Borgnine,me without smoky eyes,

nat to be unidour, is thrown gifne into a pit of starving wolner,

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So what happens?

Sopa the director, Jack Cardig; "It really is a blood-bath." It gets an ordinary "A" certificate-and" Prince Philip has promised to attend the prenstere.

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ADDIE CONSTANTINE. American-born Idal of French teenagers,

D who is now making his first film in Bellain, admlto: "This is the first real acting part I've had in pictures. My French films work to a formula-alx dames, four (iglits, two chases, and'a bqdy,"

#la British filim, "Pansport io Shame,” han; 18 dames, six fights, four chases, two bodies.

MARLON

(ARLON BRANDO has got the biggest profit-sharing drat ever He wollt collest 100 per cent of the profits of the picture, which Paramount will fully finance in return for the acting rights.

Brand will also collect a £40,000 salary for starring in the film, which is being made by his sum compÏLLA.

FOLLYWOOD is remaking Kiss of Death the alm, you may

down the stalen.

I is itchard kicked an old lady

tame for present-day

This, however, is considered much too audiences.

In the new version Robert Evans shoots the old lady in the

back — with a bow and arrow.

"Unili recently," she said, "I was regarded

ds the perennial harem, beauty. The directors changed; the scripta varled—but I went on for ever. It became so bad that when I woke In the morning I'd instinctively rench for a new set of velis."

"1 remember." I sold, "You were for ever prancing about in the desert,"

"You remember right," she said, tossing her head as though afraid some particles of mond might still be lodged there.

"Then the intracle happened,

| Cecil B. DeMille saw an old filth Fund decided 1 was just perfect foi the will of Mores In The Ten Commandments. And everything changed."

Away with the veils

"You threw the veils away?" suid, "did," said Miss de Carlo, "Now I'm off to Rome to

talks to the Hollywood star once called "The Most Bosutiful Girl In the World "

AT LAST I'VE GOT OUT

OF THE HAREM, SAYS

MISS DE CARLO

SHOW BUSINESS

this was something to have to Wyler, live up to.

if the date is not underlined on a calendar hanging in his Tented eighteenth century, house In Cheyne-walk, Chelsco, assure you it is fixed firmly in his mind.

For this is the date when he becomes liable to pay British Income tax.

couldn't imagine in outside the Casbah. Ï pleaded For some yours, Miss de Carta with him to go and sce my per- proveeded to try to live up to it. formance in The Ten Command- Her name was seldom out ut ments, but he never did."

"You'll she chased 100

columns us

probably bump into about the

world on the one him when you get to Rome," highly paid, artist hand receiving bulls ears from I said. matador Mario Cabre, on the other sheep's eyes althful Aly Khan.

An

unforgettable date for a like Mr

Harrison.

uld. It is to see hin, as much

as the show, that the puble

flocks lo Drury Lane.

of rench Tina, on the other band, in right down to earth. You get the feeling that if you took her out she'd be quite happy with a beer and a kind- wich. It's ፡፡ Imporiont difference....”

Sinatra signs at last

I refuse to join in the howls of protest that go up over every Brillah artist who lives abroad and escapes our ruinous HAD begun to doubt whether taxation.

the much-discussed teaming · Thirty-three thousand pounds af Briglite Bardo and Frank is an awful lot of money to have Sinatra in Paris by Night would to hand over to the Com- ever come about. missioners of Inland Revenue, Mr Harrison deserves sym- pathy.

"1 know," said Miss de Curio. AS 3 non-resident here For ut first week in October from old "In fact I'm seriously thinking (Harrison me lived arall for is zeling very close.

of sneaking out at night and some years) he could, if he hus But on the film front all she subotaging the Ben fur sel. bls own

teach lot not to use exempt to do was look That'll ever had frightened while actors swashed me...." buckles around her.

company abroad, he from paying tax-bu only if he leaves Britain before October 4.

British This girl is

SOMETHING.

Then Harrison would have been in Britain jess than pix months.

But now I learn that producer Raoul Levy has finally got Sinatra's signature on the contract. And already he is heralding the

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to

Mary Magdalene In Alm called The Great Sinner. it's true that I do an Oriental- dance in, this film, too, but this time I don's mind, becouse 1

Producer Lavy is leaning over backwards an important sequence in the

keep Singira Alm; it's not jusí chucked in to "Once you've been dubbed Rex notes

happy. amuse the boys."

Queen of the Harem it's pretty the date

PULIP YORDAN the top Director Walter Wanger once difficult to convinen producers

Huilywood screen writer "I am chartering a special described Miss de Carlo as "the otherwko," she said. "I lost the

whenever girl in the chance of playing in Ben Hur THE Brat werk in October is beyond that by staying responsible for such flims as plane le have all his friends fly

Ana Lucasta, No Down Pay- out to the Jocalion a very importan: one Even allowing for in Rome because-like everyone

I have been working it out. stent, and The Brapados-talked he gets restless," he says, director, William Mr Rex Harrison. normal Hollywood exaggeration, else the

Assuming ml he is being to me in London the other day

(AYS the nfl-surd Errol Flynn, none bark in America:— of debt. Miss

The only person I owe money to is a French cab driver wheworld." couldn't change e 10,000-franc note,

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Now Mr. Kruger leads the German

invasion.

WH

(THIS TIME THEY'RE WELCOME!)

WHERE the Luftwaffe and the doodlebugs failed, Mr Hardy Kruger has succeeded: in conquering the in- domitable British. They did not fight on the beaches or in the streets or in the cinemas: they just surrendered to his Teutonic charm, beguiled by the unusual sight of a blond and blue-eyed film star who did not cry "Achtung Schweine- hund" every other second.

Mr Kruger with one fim, The One That Got Away, has put himself among the top stars of this country. In a recent popularity poll by a fan magazine, hej was voted number two to Dirk Bogarde, which Jack Hawkins, Richard Todd and Dur other

Nighters for

freedom might conceivably re- gare as treason

on the part of

their public.

LIMELIGHT by Thomas Wiseman

Having established u beach-guilt complex because of what head in our affections, others of his countrymen did while he his compatriots are on their way was a child.

to blz us with their pristine

Cun

Dat of the

After the

HARDY KRUGER

No signs of arrogance.

war, he became - a

for

"I do not know the answer,

popular German star. He made For the moment it must come 26 fine.

from people who live outskle "I have turned down

many Germany. It is not possible for ns offers to play German officers in us to look at this objectively." Latin war fllings," he salt. "I think

a house

These now Germanic heroes charm Britała presumably take It. Among those on the way may well inspire a phase is Herr O. W. Fisher a veteran popular

the era of the guttural war films are boring, and should Mr Kruger and his wife now storm-trooper of the sex-war, lover:

Anyone who has live in Switzerland in He will appear in The Lorelei wooer, Mr Curt Jurgens is ni- not be made,

rody established internationally, seen the war and knows what it on Lake Lugano, The 18-year- with Juliette Greco,

whole hosi means shalt not be so keen to old daughter is being given a and there may be a of new Conrad Veldts and Erich make war films. Mr Kruger la Just

"cosmopolitan", education. "We finishing

do not his second film for Lord Rank, von Savheims on the way.

want to bring her up with a narrow Germanie out- look. We try to teach her that she must love everyone--not "The only derson to make a

only Germans." film is to show how

The Freshman the sage of a German at Cambridge,

It is not surprising therefore

Kruger already thes Mr

hus

Too rice

In the last few years the been invited to return for his German market for finis has third Brilish Alm-S.O.8, Pacific, war

has an. anti-H-bomb terrible war la. Most of them become one of the most proat which

a “gentle do not do that; they just show

When Kruger came to Beginne cble in the world and such theme. He has also

marvellous and hernia to maka The One That Gol factors always inspire strong man's agreement" to make one how

for the Bank somebody or other was, and how Away-in which the hero was a bonds of friendship; the proft, Dim

he got la medals.

German officer who cscaped nwlive being

infallible Organisation. fith

from a British prisoner of war promoter of brutherly love.

camp to expected opposition

Mistaken

2 Укаг

I met Mr Kruger the other "I would not have played the day at his rented flat in Eaton Brando part of the German The Rank Organisation were Squaro where his neighbours officer la The Young Lions, extremely pessimistle about the. Includo rear-admirals and major. They made him too nice from aim's prospecta at the box-office: generals and members of the the beginning. Thecuto was no they thought

anli - German

Of the many fan letters Hardy age. We drank Getman beer point in filming a book like that feeling would keep people away, Kruger receiver daily from and am wurst sandwiches and unless you kept to the book.

whh

English girls, quite a few are too talked about himself

Prisoner

L

the effect that they had always commendable frankness. thought the Chermans beastly lot, but diving seen him in The One That Got Away they,now realise how mistaken they were and could they pleass have an autographed pleture of him with his shir off. Sex knows no put, aducated to believe in national boUNKİNTİES.

He was 11 when war broke

films, com-

Ing cas, if became one of their "In the book, he was a far most successful

mercially. les sympatholló man; it wasn't the perfect portrait of a Germán officer but it was as redlistic as he accounts for his, he smiled When I asked Mr Kruger how En American writer could make and said, "The English To 50

sporting."

Mr Kruger said he would bo

Mr Hitler om reudy and eager to do very glad to appear as a Nazi

EO. He was in the Hitler Youth, omoer in a film exposing Nazism; miserable

events.

*

худа Kruger

ruther about the Nino that

English Journalisis meet Curt

- 1

I should make it clear that Mr At 16 ho was in the army. At 10 but he felt that the Gerthans ur interview bad taken. "When pleasant, fellow, he was in an American prisoner could not make such a film. Jurgens," he said, "they do not Kruger is a chvilised, charraing and intelll. of wor camp,

They were still too close to the ask him questions about Hitler," gent; he doen not display any Jalgns of arroganes nor does ho "Until wao 18," he said. "I

Indulge in the popular German never me anyone who quons There is such a mass of consThat was, I explained, be.. [puslims of posing the buck in sloped that Hitler was right, 1 fumat feeling in Germany, about au My Juger •had been The matter of accepting respon best been eduested to believe in thee things that it is impossible is to Eva Bariok and everyone was always soj, ... “buny xibility

him. I know vothing else.,. Then, for a Germaji, writer to give a I met people who were agalpet zwolle trup and objective account in him about her that Hitler On the other hand he does not him and 1 busets to thinkt. for of how a people could como to fut wish to go through the with a rayonu

do want wo duermers did.

didn't get a look in.

*~(London : Kupress:Kervice),

How much tax will Harrison

date?

paid £1,200 a weck-which, about his latest picture: Diana gets

a word in

belleve, is near enough the film version of Erskine Cald- Agure that would give him an welts controversial best-seller, annual Income of £60,000 (tais- Gods Littin Acre. ing into account a Two-week

"It Is holiday).

à highy controversia] HAVE had a look at Diana filna," and Yoritan. "And it A third of

that he can should prove memorable for she is breaking in around the Dors's stage-show, which undoubtedly claim off for legi several reasons particularly the provinces before taking to Las timate expenses Reducing the film debut of Tina Louise. This

net Digure to 240,000.

giri is really something-st. Vegas in October, Alter allowances, income tax Tiin, fall, with red hair and a It is a bright, amusing hulf- and surtax on that sum amoud fabulous Agure. You've never hour. But I doubt if her ex- to £33,141-leaving Mr Harriseen anything like her."

Encouragement enough to seek the less vicious taxation of a foreign country.

employer Lord Rank would enjoy it.

son with £0,859 for his year's In what wi 1 asked, i kabours

Miss Louise differ from other Referring to him in her open- well-built lasses. Anita Ekberg, Rig song, she says: "He makes for instance.

his films the same way he makes Sald Yordan;, "Elberg it his four-with the corn in one Rex Harrison is worth every exolic. She looks like a caviar hand and the sack in the penny of the salary he is being and champagne girl. She's ou! other....*

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