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FILMS

THE re-lasue

of

"The described as "Alfred Hitch-

CURRENT & COMING by

ANTHONY FULLER

get back

"Vertigo" the neighbours think.

but black sheep of Ealing Common.

Thier of Engdad," at cock's masterpiece. I must could be calmed to be a sins all know what happen. And we the Lee and Astor the other say quite honestly, that I t on that account,

itchcock has trodden untried week set many people ask don't know whether it is or ground for him with these in ing what had become of not. Babu, the original elephant boy.

novations.

A tow films, and he will I have seen everything that master this technique sa readily Hitchcock has made since the as he has all others, but I feel After making enquiries, I find original The Man Who Know his very experimental technique which took the robs this film of his abounding he is still in Hollywood, and Too Much, is maiting a film that will be esteemed Alfred away from Bri- certainty. released through Allied Artists, lain, and established hims

sus In the fim, Sabu plays one of Hollywood's number one the Chilph's elephant boys who Pense master.

that leads Ands a magic ring

in to Incredible adventures.

that

of

No film has shaken me so match as that twenty-year-old black and white thriller, because every trick was new.

The real-life facts are Sab started Hfe as an elephant boy, working in the stables

Мугого 1 the Maharajah of

WDS all you His fother India.

Now, in a way I know what is euning, and that is the last thing expect, just as you could Edgar Wallace's elephant iralner in the royal break the inte

east the boy's earliest cypher by selecting flables, and the ambition was lo follow in his likely person. father's footsteps.

I

WBg

into

In other words, Hitchcock is hot so sure of himself as in his previous films.

On the other hand, Hitchcock is always Hitchcock, never los ing that cockney touch.

ja

He says of the Alm, "The focale of one of our scenen one of our better graveyards. As a matter of fact its antiquity and rare beauty are such that it won hands down over a number of others vying, In true Holly wood fashion for a small, but important part in "Vertigo". He Well, Alfred bad me by the finishes by hoping that theatre patrons have "a shuddering good Scotch and soda this time.

false time." lulled security, 1 had the solution, only

Well, I can assure you you will Robert for Alfred to say " imnew you

Πανε

you that. After

have old fans would think that way.

broken your finger nails hanging I made it this way."

on to broken rutices; have gotte Altchock plays fair with his dizzy looking down from great fans, but this time be has no heights; have descended dream- altogether different twist, and wise into the grave: have seen unless someone publlabem the it all exposed as a trick, only plot, I bet no one guessen it on to find that the Just sixty

lawn.

seconds of hair-raising incident duplicate the opening, you will shudder, and then some.

This time, mogle of a different his like, enter kind was to wielded no: by a genie but by a famous film maker, Flaherty, of the classic "Mun of Artan" fame.

Flaherty, while working for Alexander Kord, the late Sir

Alm the now visited India to famous, Elephant Boy."

Sabu working with He Bow

was impressed the elephants. with the child's obvious intel- ligence, and signed him sup the spot.

From then on, Sabu's career moved fast; he

Thief

of

The first sixty seconds of this

most hair. film are easily the screen raising in the era of wide sercen became and colour. I had better inter- In polate a warning here, if the n top star and has appeared several major films, including wife isn't ready, go without her the already mentioned "The because it you miss the opening, mine the laying of the "Jungle you Bagdad,"

foundation stone of the whole Book," and "The Drum.“

fantastic construction, He latest Alm, "Sabu and the

"Vertigo" will also become Magic Ring." is another Arabian Nights adventure, and the pos- notable in that it in another re- Fantastle mogle turn to true cinema. sibilities of Sabu with

seven-foot and bewildering visual patterns ring which puts a

to create the sensa genic under his control enn be are used

tions of nightmare and dizziness. imagined.

Note for instance the gargan The film will go the rounds in

tuan eye which fills the screen Britain

this

and reflects the suppressed fear

over

chap

Taking the actors one by one. James Stewart comes right back with a rare study of a whose nerve is broken, but re- fuses to permit his subconscious fears have their own way. which, as any disciple of Freud would tell you, is just playing into their hands.

[ iked him in this, and thought his performances Intel- ligent, well studied, and sin- cerely performed.

Kim Novak comes along fine in this because she is in com-

petition only with herself. Christmas.

It is made in colour, and should We be huge attraction. Pity could not have had it to have given the youngsters a touch of pantomime during the hollday.

+

of Jumes Stewart

Or Lake the nightmare

during which

the sequence former incidents of Stewart's career regurgitate in patterns 03 fantastic us a madman's dream.

This is true cinema, a recap-

tured technique, which is bring ing this form of entertainment 667ERTIGO," this week's back to where it was, improved selection for the by the technical advances made during the doldrum years of film and Princess, is production.

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* PARAMOUNT: Tunnet of Love." Richard and Dorla Day Widmark leading great funniest film of the year. Glg Young PLAYS for and obtains more than his phare of laughs, tilm verslan of the Broad- Flot is suburban way

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dialogue, timing. Recy bli rinque

homely In 4 Bendo. Film alls near the wind, but never relles upon vulgarity for its wil Could easily be called, "A Tunnet Gia Also of LAUGEL Beaia and Elisabeth Fraser. PRINCESS: KING'S க

"Vertigo," In this film, old bringa a master Hitchcock

his nightmare fantasy to tense direction, Falling from great heights vin Vista Viston and Technicolor is not re- commended for the nervous. (131- Tremendous susponse; carmy theme; unusual plot: new virgal technique make this a worthy addition to the Ilitchcock gallery of thrilla. performance Good

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LEE

La

ASTOR; Parisienne. Brigitte Bardot, Charles Boyer, and

Henri

Somewhere there lurles in un all a rascally little imp which sticks ità tongue out from behind our respectable lace curtains at our respectable neighbours. Well then, this picture is it.

The script is not cut near the knuckle, it is the knuckle. Bleque it là, bai nerer obscbne. The homely comments on that interesting condition known as are a little breath-taking at Arst, but in Rense, I repeat, does the film depend on vulgarity for its humour.

Says Elizabeth Fraser to Gig Yang, commenting on the un- happy childless couple next door. "And you've only got to look at me, and I'm aft to the races."

The couple next door deter

they mined that the only way can get off to the races is through: And this the adoption society. race almoat breaks Richard Wid- mark's neck.

The trouble arists Out of your taking advice painst better judgment. Richard Wid- mark plays Fausi to Glg Young's Mephistopheles. It always goes wrong, such this occasion is exception.

H

To retain the drama metaphor Gla Scala is the Margaret of this version of the near damnation of Richord

her Widmark, but lock of gulle is not due to in- nocence, but rather a temporary pecuniary embarrassment,

I think, for those who like a tovely rating, that in spite of

from Doris Day performances and Richard Widnark, and Gla Scala and Elizabeth Frases, that

best performance from Gig Young.

the

comes

Д

Ile has the part for laughs, a lovely role, but he makes every- thing of it. He squeezes the last drop

from of humou humorous role, as eagerly as a one hand, and coy on the other, kid sucks an orange, she adequately plays a dual

A difculf role, dramatle

on

The scenes aro too many ta role as demanded by the script. select for laughter. Some of it Midge la played by Barbara is so natural, so like those Bel Geddes. It is a good part,

and well

the

taras

played, of the kind eldents which always happen. day when you put on Four of gitt all the fellows like, but you know what I mean; nover enough to marry. She sloppy dressing gown and för- is the pensible tolerant type, and bliss Geddes carried it off. et about shaving is the day the

Tom Helmere takes over the ene visitor that matters picaresque role of Gavini Elster. villany, It is a nice study in and I admit I fell for it.

The film which is 0 adaptation of the "D'Entre Les Morts"

I presume, dead)

up.

Or if you are enjoying for the Arst time in your fe a real free private binge, the inspector or novel whoever it is, turns op. (meaning,

from among

is not really as it sounds. Uncanny,

Laugh, 1 laughed until I cried. the And so will you unless you are so morbid one of those determined people who find nothing funny beyond the pages of Punch.

по

brut yes,

by means depressing. The film, by beginning and ending with fall, is better titled "Vertigo."

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TF there is one thing I like

more than another, it

Hongkong ride, at the Hoover, Kowloon side, at the temporary home ot MCM Alms, tie Faremount. The Paramount is on the opposite side of Nathan Read from the Broadway, a few side streets ferrgwards,

THE THE

French are per. associated manently

is a good laugh. Not one of your polite chuckles, but a long uninhibited laugh that starts somewhere at the with that kind of farce which we call skating on "La Parisienne"

Vidal, in a spicy tale which soles of your feet.

It

has Bardot straggling to maintain her reputation as the baddest girl alive, Col- ourful, amusing,

Boxy, and cynical, the blurb has Bar- doi as the chier French ex- port: Admitting there is 5 large market for BB locks like getting swamped. B.B. fans will like it, but this Princess of Sex wil have to get some new ideas, If she has any ideas UDON the subject. ROXY & BROADWAY:

"Mart Gras** peg Into second weekend. Colourful, light, some new songs. Ob- viously, designed to permit For Star Pat Boone air his zad

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Good serace with support of the Virginian adiitary Institute, Pai Boone: Ohritino Carete; Tommy Bands, Sheree North; Gary Oroly, and Fred Clark,

Stanwyck and Sterling

·Hayden, In a story of orime of passion and smoulder- Ing fury. Film ne Stan- role, but wyck in ruthless Ask question, flow many wives are one step

SWAY from similar move. Extra- ordinarily airong; good: film- Ing; dramatio cilmax. LEE & ABTOR: "Rebel Wlib- oul A Cause." A return of the sensational James Deat Aim this one, along with Natalie Wood, has Dean in # drama of youthful violence. Blade in Olnema« Bloope and Warner Colour. BOKY BROADWAY "The African Idon," WE Boy's on the spot advod=

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Kature's th domain, mákos – very bright and interesting film. As wolf- as the lot, there are multitudes of bonata which Dlay out the Jungle law of the survival of the Bitest,

ture

as well a kind of ev. erlatenos InitDENCY. cvin.. Made in colour. An- ather Dimer istumph.

You rarely You get a Someone's

get it nowadays, thin ice.

at attempts to skate on warm neor, generally expense, but you water, but whether it suc- never bear those long loud roars ceeds or not is a matter of

of laughter that used to bring

the plaster down from the opinion. ceilings of the older cinemas.

This is a spicy, little Trench So, I give full marks to The Tunnel of Love. It had comedy, sensational only in that it carries sensation's second mo roaring. It is as funny as anything I have seen It farthe name, Brigitte Bardot. This was Charles Her co-stars aro twentieth century Comedy of her first role as a comedienne. Errots.

Boyer, in the part of a stave Tammy as the whole thing, 1 sophisticated prince, and Henri the parts which got me going Vidal, tall handsome man who were those when Gif Young plays the role of Brigitte's admitted suburban rike, com-

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Charles Boyer, the Sira When I say comment, I mean largely devoted to Miles Bardot's fabially comment. Gly Young box of tricks, which, I am told, baa all the confidence of the ban bring any mah, to his knees, wide boy; the bounce of a spiy; or sa the film has it, to B.Bs the debonaire of Don Juan, Bat boudoir. anh thu ha many linh là the

Maybe.

Perhaps

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arti cause of his respectable neigh- jaded, but this sx-kitten kas bour, Richard Widmark.

newed too long and too often,

ony kitten becomes nuisance doing that.

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