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Seo James Stewart Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered by Beautiful Kim Novak

A yajy bowltching aomedy about a very enchanting

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JAMES STEWART

KIM NOVAK

BELL BOOK AND CANDLE JACK LERMON ERNIE KOVACS

HERMENE DINGOLDS ESA, TANCHESTER, MUANCE" RUS

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1959.

FILMS

NCE upon a time, there

ONCE

ho

beautiful young witch. She came from a long line of witches; her mother was a witch, and her mother be- fore her. She was the truo daughter of a witch. Her name is Kim Novak.

Her brother, Jack Lemmon, is

son of a witch also, because

if there is one thing he loves more than another, It is pulling street lampa by remote control, and turning all the frame lights on Broadway, green, when he drives his car.

As "Bell, Book, and Candle."- (King's and Princess) has it, James Stewart, the man upstairs gets entangled in all this witch- craft. Just because Kim Novak says to her cat (witches have to have a cat to do the dirty work: for them) "Pye" (she is being familiar with her familiar, for the caps martie Is Pyewacke:) "give me that man for Christ-

,"

Now this cat is a real cow, for he does just that.

It has become the habit fer the newsock to say that Kim Novak cannot act. Then if you en get to the top as quickly as she has without acting, show INC The

way, It does not matter. You will admit she is beautiful? That the enn pose? Well, there is a scene where she Is holding this evil cat, and the camera pans from the cat's face to hers. Nothing more beauti ful has been done.

Another secne has her aimed behind o #nuze net; another scene is where you look out on the world through a Siamese cat's eyes, and everything is that preety-blucy colour,

But the best scene of all

when a hal, caught in the breeze

of a snowy dawn, Boats ro słowy

| over the white rooftops of Man-

hatian.

The East gathered together

CURRENT & COMING by

ANTHONY FULLER

James Stewart, bothered, bewitched, and bewildered,

by beautiful witch Kim Novak, from "Bell, Book, and

Candle."

another

for this Blm is just perfect, way) is yel James Stewart hands out such a performance as he gave in his sequence in this smouldering carlier daya in Hollywood, A saga of decaying families. sort of good humoured, bc- wildered and whimsical role.

The whole film fizzes Exe

п

I think the film will best be remembered for its performance by Joanne Woodward. She has für outstripped that young com- pany of people 20th Century-Fox conxed a few years back.

of atitudes and all stages of bliss.

Well, J. Arthur tank have made a film of this, and I can let you into a secret. A most respectable passenger Bine 13 "not amused" and further- more, this particulae film will not be shown by, that company. So that's that?

Technically, what this Ain ally reveals la low rich th British studios are in support- ing actors. Every time a British film comes up that is good in any way, you generally remember it for its excellently played smaller parts,

You've met all the charecters

inince

In thin Alm somewhere between Singapore and Port Sold. The V.I.P. who is going to let the company know thing or two when he reaclics London; the unattached f mules; the various tigers' who around worried about the captain's dress suit; the bur-stewards on the "make".

Nor forgetting the swarms of children who piny Hickey" sround your deck chair after you have seiceted the choicest

shady nook on the ship.

Well, they are all, here, In a performance of unparalleled delight in The Captain's Table."

THE BIG COUNTRY", THE

Star and Metropole, is cer- takly big, Everything about the film is done in a larger than life style. The screen, the sound, the music, the length of the film, all testify to the aptness of the adjec tive, "big"

Tho Gim even rooches "bigness"

Conversely The Inevitable brawl for instance. Instead of photographing close- up and amplifying the jaw- breaking punches, it is aimed mainly from afar off with the grunts of Messrs Gregory Peck and Heston Charlton, somewhat muffled.

Emotion is treated in a big way by deliberately directing itsdif to perverso treatment. Gregory Peck will inflame the most anaemic member audience by his refusal to seek

of the

If there Is anyone more slow fuse, and one is always

While she is fortunate in her beautiful than Kim Novak, then expecting the explosion that will selection of films, there remains I need my glasses changed, either annihilate the family or no further doubt that she is an

ts former grandeur. Jack Lemmon brings u kind restore of pathetic role to his part. But the most that happens is actress, and a good one at that,

in her own right.

redress for the most cold blood- rayal of a warlock, which

is few bangs; an explosion, never.

Hairless Yul Brynner is such ed insults even offered upon the what they epli a mule witch. I The Alm opens with the character that to see him with OCT, was under the impression that a Compson family living in 115 hair is to see another person' By the time the flight does unlimited powers, neglected mansion in the town altogether. In "The Sound And take place, out-of-sight of any wilch had but this poor guy has to lap out of Jefferson, Mississippi.

The Fury" he smoulders all witnesses save the customers in a living with the drumsticks. The head the family Is

Ernie Kovaks enters the cast Jason Compson. (Yul Brynner) right, and on occasion leaps to the Cinema, every male is violence, bul in this colourful swinging punches left and right with a lovely performance as an who permits his hair to grow in Fall of the House of Usher" to avenge Mr Peck's humilia- outher interested in witchcraft; this film. He is not a blood re- atmosphere, he looks what he tion. and capping it all are Hermione fation to the rest of the Comp is, an interloper.

The film concerns itself with Gingold and Elsa Lanchester, QUIS,

John Beat produces Д Anc ກ feud between Burl Ives, apparently past masters of their

character study as an ineffectual, lending the Ifannassey's, and witcher lodge.

drunken example of Southern Charles Bickford avant-courier aristocracy, while Jack Warden of the Terrils, scores with a role that places him as a congenial idiot who needs constant supervision.

Summing up. I should at tempi to place the film among There is Margaret Leighton the 'classics, written around who is away from home at the subject that is becoming univer- timo the film opens, but who has fully acknowledged as belong left her illegitimate daughter ing to great llerature.

(Joanne Woodward) behind.

enjoyed every minute of this film. Those who know John Van Drution's play will rejoice to see that whimsy plot turned into such a lovely thing, All done by witchcraft, I

suppose.

THE

His mother-inarried a Comp son and Yul Brynner look the name to please his stepfather.

Jason's two stepbrothers, live in the mansion. A right good pair for an Edgar A. Poe study, one is mad, the other a chronle alcoholic.

Thỏ tangle is, Yul Brynner is

THE decadent South now

occupies a classic foot hold in the U.S. m world, trying to bring up Joanne and "The Sound And The Woodward properly, and help Fury", (Roxy and Broad her torget her sordid origin.

NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE

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HOOVER & GALA: "GILIZE The screen's super Musical," sot in Paris of the 1890s. Charming PRES colourful

limpses Maxim's the Ice Palace, and the Para Manceaux. Leslie Caron; Maurice Chevalier: and Louls Jourdan. Cinema- Scope and Bfetrocolor, ROXY & BROADWAY: "The

Sound and the Fury." Story of a decadent aristocratio family in the Soulier

· Staten, Yul Brynner; Joanne Woodward; Margaret Lægkion: CinemaScope and Colour by De Luxe. LEE

ASTOR: "The Captain's Table." Bida splitter British comedy with great supporting east.

Concerna # trip on passenger liner. One of the "Doctor

the House" tales. John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Donald Sinden,

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Nada Grove Big create and Eastman Colour,

STAR & METROPOLE: "T

cloas Western which

CONICETNIK

Eastern-dude Gregory Peck thaking xood in the West. Novel angle in that Gregory Prek tokes pacifistanzle. OnisianlingT performance by Burl Ives. Also Jean Simmons; Carole Balier, and Charlton Heston, Technicolor and Technt-

TIMA.

KING'S & PRINCESS: "Bell, Book, and Candle.” A very fine production concerning witchcraft in modern Man- hattan. Made from the whimsy angle, it is first entertainment, and

outstanding for Ils photo- graphy. Kim Novak; James Stewart: Jack Lemmon, and Erule Kovaks, Technicolor,

COMING

HOOVER & GALA: "Cat on Hot Tin Roof," Powerful film which poses homo- sexual problema.

By far Elizabeth Thylor's greatest performance. Long-sustalncă smouldering pequeness, with brutally frack dialogue by

· "Tennessee". Williams. Also Paul Newman and Buri Ives. Metrocolor. noxy A BROADWAY: "Blitzkrieg." World War II seen through German, eyes and matte, fargely with Ger- man majorial, Introduced by Lt General: Bir! Brian Horrocks, it rightly men Unen the points...which annoyed kim. The self-pity: the hardships: endured" ÞÝ the other side, and the fact thai | Miller started it all.

·LER & ASTOR: "The Naked mud the end.” Story, traku.

down the Fuchrer principle Assumed to lager in the Siples. Uses General Ray- mond-Massey as Intellectual fuchrer type, and Sergeant Aldo Ray sa 8.5. type. Violent and grim, but scarcely proves fis point,

STAR & METROPOLE: „The Dellani Open" Hollywood's atluck on racial war. Au outstanding Alm of anyone) merit with Tony Curtia us the white man, and Sidney Pailler pa the coloured man. KING'S & PRINCESS: · "The * Lask, Harrah” biore than a ellasper M.U.B. politics, and a significant pointer to lbs Irish Vale, Notabin for per- Emerñaños of Spenser (Trady na boy who knowk: ŠOVARY

slarring :-Jectroy Hünler,

2

To add fuel to the feud are Miss Simmons, school mistress, and Carole Baker, daughter of the house of Terrill.

I always exasperate such fair ladies who read this column by being unable to understand the romantic tangica which snore up these Westerns. But as 1 see it Easter-dude Gregory Peck

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lova with Miss kinds of things amuse

Simmons. me, but nothing amuses me. Well, as for as I can rec, 10 minutes. conversation would more than to see someone straighten it all out, but on the hit in the face with a assumption that the paying Leslie CARON —–—– Maurico CHEVALIER —— Louis JOURDAN creamy cake. I used to roar customers wouldn't get their with delight at such playful path of true love by no meani money's worth in that time, the practices when I regularly runs smooth. joined the "penny-rush" on There is no doubt whateve: Saturday afternoon, nu at the Angst Western laughed myself hoarse the Easily the best since "Shane," other day when I KILW {"simuar assaults performed by the Captain of a passen- ger liner upon the persons of as horrible collection of children I have seen as sembled for a film.

Captain's The film, is "The Table," showing at the Lee and Astor.

John Gregson is the skipper of this hot ship. Sineo Living in Hongkong, I bave got to know a few men who go down to the sea in chips, but when we sing, "For those in peril on the sea, I had assumed that we word referring to such care- Icasness as hitting submerged rocks, and odd icebergs which might wander into the Indian Ocean #5 WO make our way. hoine.

But no. This a revealing film is an expose of what hap- when the ship entera pens tropical waters.

of course, most of ur who live here know all about it The casual invitation to look at tho stars, the setting sun, or the rising moon. We have all had that embarrassing walk round the deck just for a broath of air, and come upon. fellow passengers' In all shorts

to come my way for years.

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