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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1961.

FILMS

WO WOMEN (La Cio- caria) (Hoover &

Gala). Here with the dis- tinguished Italian actor Vittorio de Sica directing a film, we get another much needed breath of fresh air blowing through the

cinema.

For Vittorio de Sica remern- bers an axiom of cinerna that many new directors are apt to forget; that the film is prin- tripally a visual art, and that sound is a mere auxiliary which arrived thirty years after the it became an entertainment.

Thus it is

that the greatest muments of this film are visual. The greatest moment of all, de Sica's comment on war, ja lesson in cinema art for which many new producers and direc- tors should be grateful.

A

are

The film desis with Italy during wartime. and Sophia Loren and her daughter escaping

from the panicky Nazis. The camera shows a long while road stretching through à deserted landscape.

A

empty

A cyclist overtakes the mother and child. Suddenly a plane swoops from nowhere, and for the mere hell of starts to machinegun The road. The cyclist drops

dead. Three people and an landscape, yet the horror im- pact of war is more eloquent than anything have seen where a cast of thousands storms A beach while a hundred thousand worth of fireworks are ex- ploded.

dollar's-

Then there is the new Loren. Gone 15 la belle Loren, the glamour-puss. She

this is, in

film a peasant, but one up en her kind, for she has lived Rome

She is hard, cynical, for wat has made her so. She traffics

her body in order that her 15-year cid daughter might

intain her virginity

In the

loses end, she

the game, for in a shocking (I we the word with its correct con- notation) scene there is a rape,

right before the altar of a ruin- ed church. Is it so bad? "For," says Loren, allies."

CURRENT & COMING

by ANTHON ANTHONY FULLER

Sophia Loren and Eleanora Brown in a scene from "Two Women.”Hoover & Golɑ (MGM).

LUSTY

ROME:

NIGHT IN (Astor) A

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Queen's

Then there is, of necessity 1 admit, the last gun-fight of all, But and very well done it is. the ultimate scene is superb in its defiance of Western cliches, and proves Mr Brando is an artist, to boot,

We

The title "One-Eyed Jacks" is splendidly explained. On the playing cards,

see these knaves showing only one side of their faces, but, asks Mr Brando, what is the other side like?

There you have it.

I will go all the way with this Alm, faulting it on pace alone. I do not know how much credit Brando takes for the pho- tography, for here we have Charles Lang in charge.

All I can say is that it is pre-eminent in quality, and who ever framed the shots showing the pearly Pacific dawn, with the minute figuros on the beach, was an artist of quality.

And in saying so much about Mr Brando, one should not over- look the performance of Kor Maiden, cunning, treacherous, a mealy-mouthed gunman turned respectable.

And a word for newcomer Fina Pellboer, as the girl an- xious in love, yet fearsome, with a heart that is genuine, but not entirely unaware of her lover's weaknesses.

Summing up, we have a one film, which soars to its director's aspirations, but surely Mr Brap- do is claiming a little more than what he is entitled to claim.

For his is not the first film to take the Western away from its cliches. Surely "High Noon" and "Shane" Arsi

broke the two generations of Cowboy and In- dian stuff.

THE

THE YOUNG SAVAGES (King's & Broadway). This must be gala week in Hongkong for all the pimps, and rough-necks,

and various assorted char- acters of the twi-lit world JACKS of the sub-normal.

Royal

For in "The Young Savages," and we reach, as were, our climax out to tell of the exploits of Technicolor. One might of the dustbin drama. Within the film is contained two Roman suburban lay- ask, at least I do, what One would imagine the all that can be said of civilians abouts during the course of Marlon Brando is doing in a caught up in war. The blark

they were our gamy production which sets State). Vista Vision

market. the opportunist peasant an evening and night in Western. with plenty, the rats getting out Rome. as the Duce falls from power. The unconcern of the bera- Line

The film has all the qualities of greatness. The skillful use of the camera, a hint here a sug-

out gestion there, brings meaning of war aniong civilians. in a manner no spectacular has yet done

Gone are the gimmicks, ravishing colours, the screen, the nerve

He

It

camera was in love with the

the way stuff judging by gives the Ungers over the decaying cab- answer himself, and what bage leaves and trash cans. he has to say is worth Yet out of squalor is born a listening to.

film that shakes you up, and presents you with • problem Brando says he is anxious to that would out-Freud Freud. with a respectable background, draw the Western away from But with Mr Lancaster on the they pick up a couple of tarts cliches; that is to put it in a class job, Dr Freud would have been

them accompany

of its own where it belongs. And out of work. where does it belong?

The film has the two with the proceeds of a robbery on their hands, and so as to sell the loot

the

to

"fence."

to

the

men,

I'll hand it to the director. He opens with a panch that goes for a first round knock out.

From there on, everything According to Mr Brando, the goes wrong, which enables the so called heroes of the West the producer LD introduce quite a were mean surly killers, colossal number of salacious incidents not so much outlawed by the shattering which camera laps up, with rough ethics of the frontler ing on their objective with the music scores, the huge

lovely the inevitable tumble these towns, but outlaws by nature. vulgarity of the modern cinema. films bave led us to expect,

Here is a return to art, aus-

Such € one

You see three youths march-

devil Incarnate upon their faces, the character They hold up the traffic; passers tere, yet devastating In Ita ira- The camera eschews nothing, portrayed by Brando, a childish by skip out of their way; un- pact. Every Intelligent person but local laws and customs do vain creature, not wholy divest daunted they make their way must see "Two Women." It not permit you to see as much of the remainders of gallantry, to a crumbling house in Harlem,

a blind is an essay on life. Life cruel, of the film as our more candid and with more than a whiff of New York, and stab

decency thrown in for make- Puerto Rican boy to death, life terrifying, yet life as it Latin claeina goers.

weight,

We see the whole thing hap- If then, it was Mr Brando's pen

reflected in the as it is intention to make a film to end glasses knocked off the face of all cliches, and to put the West the blind boy.

is.

in this film, and with her is Jean-Paul Belmondo, the cur- rent rage of the French screen (Breathless) and Italy's Raf Vatione.

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However, little is left to Loren is simply superb, she imagination, and the fade-out exhausts all one's superlatives does make the point of..

what is the use of life? This was last night, will tomorrow upon the screen bereft of all 78 Now having opened with the night be the same?

fairy tale ethics, the question climax of your Alm, you might becomes

has Mr Brando ask how you are going to spin A few old friends turn up in succeeded.

out the rest which is bound to this picture: Rosanna Schiaffino, He begins by showing us that be anti-climax. Not so. Accord- Elsa Martinelli, and Mylene there is dishonour among thieves ing to Mr Frankenheimer who is Demongeot, together with a con- and that loyally is merely a responsible for this film, our siderable Continental cost. dirty word among them.

fate lies not so much within ourselves as in lousy houses, This is the major emphasis trash cans, a prostitute for a of the film, and in spite of the sister, and a certain backward- lovely lady whose qualities ness, mentally. move him to some gallantry, From this point on, the AT 2.30, 5.39, 7:30 & 9.30 PM. At 2.30, 5.39, 7.30 & 9.30 pm.

film might be called The Agnes Laurent ● Gil Vidal în The Beauty the Gu

And with Vittorio de Sica in charge, a great work of art issues from the camera.

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SHOWING

KING'S & BROADWAY: "The Young Savagen," Tale_con- -cerned with juvenile crimin- als and their squallid, brutal, and violent environment. Burt Lancaster, Dina Mer- rul, and Shelley Winters.

ROXY MAJESTIC: "The Second Time Around" Wild West comedy in which Deb. ble Reynolds takes over the sheriff's job and cleans up the town. Also Steve For- rest, CinemaScope and East- man Colour.

LEE & PRINCESS: "Fanny." Comedy drama, photograph- ed in Technicolor, Inspired by Marcel Pagnol's famous trio "Fanny," "Markun,” and "Cesar." Tale deals with a young girl's chequered ro- mance, on Marvöilles water-

front. Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevaller, and Charles-Boy-

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QUEEN'S - ROYAL - STATE: "One-Eyed Jacks." an ex- cellent western, built around two friends, a betrayal and a long, savage_feud, bank held-ups, gun-fights, and girl. Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, and Pina Feillecr: Vista Vision and Techal- color,

HOOVER & GALA: "Two Women" English language version of the outstanding Italian Blan, "La Clonaris, which describes the events of war-time Italy as the Nazis collapse. Sophia Loren at her very best. A distinguished fim directed by Vittorio de Ston

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variations are" worked- upyn the principal theme.

Marlon Brando, as the direc- tor of the picture must take u rap over the knuckles for its major fault... uneveness of Jiave,

Temptation of Mr. Lancaster, for he

up with a lovely

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Had another director assumeu

other hand,

apart responsibility, I am positive he would not have permitted Mr from the complications, psycho- Brando to slow down his speech dogical and sanitary, I have to the degree where the film already mentioned, Mr Lan actually pauses.

caster, has Dina Merril for a But having made that point, wife, and she taunts him that I think that in the main, Mr he would burn anyone to get Brando succeeds.

promotion,

Secondly, there is Miss Win- Common sense tells us that ters, and she is his former giri Western heroes could not have friend, and now mother of one bean heroic all the time, but of the young killers,

Brando could not have made To crown it all, Mr Lancaster his point had he not used some gets beaten up himself and of the cliches of the Western, then retallates, thereby learning So if we have a prolonged the lesson that violence begets some when the traitor, turned violence, so

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