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GERARD GARRETT REPORTING; ROME

REX HARRISON

GETS A NEW SLANT

RE EX HARRISON is

'preparing a new and startling view of Julius Caesar in the filin Cleopatra.

ON

CAESAR.

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Mr

briefs revitalled by a passion recreated Alexandria, Mr Har- Fie makes an unusual figore ate love affair with an Egyptian rison dismissed the guards, in- in a city jammed with athletic nymphet.

vited me in, and talked for the young men in jazzy, pertad Mr Harrison is not an actor first time abou his part. He ex- costumes flocking for the

the plained why the dim. walch at current fim spectaculars.

Harrison, tall, slight and digni tourists than tracts mcrE

no weight-lifter.

who rushes to get into limelight, and

in Rome's

the

order paper Cinecitta Studios there seem to reliseum, is taking place be fed in his togn. is obviously

He is portraying him. not as a charmer no 215 an heroic warrior. but as a progressive politician fighting battles with his right wing. A sort of armoured and ageing Michael Foot of the Forum. He will also present a and equally starting image of ilex Harrison — debonair nu inore, but a failing, ageing man

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hind closed doors.

be more people guarding Rex Harrison than ever guarded Caesar.

In those days, perhaps, "Some of the scenes are very celebrities were commonplace. intimate and we feel that we Two weeks ago, fresh from should have an audience in the crowning Cleopatra in a glossily right place, which is a cinema."

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RICHARD LISTER SUMS UP THE NOVELS

lesser

of

and

Mention the muscle men making the other sort of epics and his intelligent face creases into a slight wince of pain, But, caustic as he can be if he wishes, he gallantly suppresses any comment.

This is not a spectacular pic- ture. It is the story of three people told against spectacular background. There are battles but I don't come into them.

"Cresar Is А man of many moods and it is too early yet to say how many come through. But Caesar as a liberal politi- cian, a humane, liberal

man aghling right-wing factions is a view we haven't had of Caesar. There is some charm, yes, but it Is faded.

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"Unlike the Shaw Caesar, which a love affair without

I have a real love affair.

SEX

"In fact," chuckled Mr Har-

rison, "we have a baby to prove

it."

NO WORRIES

Rex Harrison took the part over from Peter Finch after the film's epic collapse in England last year. He did it at a time when most actors would have dan- Alm too

At the time

had no worries about the

Rex Harrison and Elizabeth Taylor in

are very Cleopatra: 'Some of the scènes

intimate so we made them behind locked doors":

London Express Serv

big gamble AV

YEAR which has given us new novels by finances and an astute vid dicta- There are two comedics on Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Richard to controls the politics.

Peter Ustinov's The Hughes, Muriel Spark, Iris Murdoch and Angus my list.

10s.) is a Léger (Heinemann, Wilson must be accounted a pretty good year for story of a little, hunted Nazi considered the fiction.

marked down as a war crimin-gerous to touch. al, and at large in Europe just Cleopatra did not even have a

script Notoriusly forgetful though had all the success in the world after the war. the reading public is, they will and doesn't know how to live.

His story, gives Ustinov the film," he said. "When the diree- If a Man Answers. • Fragile Ava's with a chance to novels certainly, rocall the

try Grim, yes, but told

move around the ox, Joseph Mankiewicz, asked Leslie Caron having a tough there authors, but I think masterly grip of narration shambles of our demented con- the to play the part I took it on time in Act of Mercy, now being atmo-inent, with his eye alert for all trust." might be worth calling to mind a compelling sense

shot in Spain. Shoeless, she writers sphere,

its comic possibilities, and his known

A Rex Harrison no longer gay, swims a river, falls into quick- whom they may have overlooked

heart

for fte elegant and radiating charm is sands, dodges bullets and tramps compassionate shabby weaknesses and which gave me particular

Something the publle may find through a jungle. pleasure in a year's reviewing.

hard to accept from the man that But before

• Producer Richard Zanuck has escapee from modern Holly- they saw in My Fair Lady and comedy Purer comedy, high e doing

It is a shock lined up two British actresses, wood, will gamble her repu- should like to make the Lister

Midnight Lace. almost, comes from William Award the Year to Graham was particularly struck by An- Cooper who follows his Scenes Mr Harrison will be delighted to Claire Bloom and Glynis Johns tation next year in a bid to

thony Bloomfield's The Tempter from

provide.

for his hotly controversial film, bring herself right up to Greene his fellow convert, Evelyn Waugh, only (Hogarth, 16s), which is

Hollywood's The Chapman Report, a novel date as a significant drama- cen- Scenes from Married 14to un.

QUICK TAKES smartest young about tred round a little group of Macmillan, 189). his not qualifying because his

hero is

the effects on a small tie actress. marrieds, Bobby conditional Surrender (Chap pornographers fabricating dirty cursed with a "recurring pats

Darin and San- town of a Kinsey-type sex man and Hail, 18s.), is the third photographs in the backroom of term he simply cannot get dra De to star together in probe. part of a trilogy.

a shop in Soho, and pursued himself spliced in spite of all Greene sets A Burnt-out Case both by the police and the

the inducements and opportuné. (Heinemann, 16s.) in a leper muck-roking Pres

ties that offer. But that us colony in Africa.

1

Catholic

Innocent

Among the lesser

little defeats,

known I

not its subject. Its subject is It is less grimy than it sounds love and failure and grace, and because the characters have an what happens to a man who has almost innocent view of their

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and sad

Provincial Life with

Anita Ekberg: An

Delightful end to the romance

trade, and the novel combines the excitements of a detective William Cooper, as his ad- know, has a story with the psychological mirers already interest of its subject.

sharp eye for the contempor- Then Frederic Raphael is a dry social scene and a de- conversationa young writer well worth watch lightfully sly,

beneath the

$ small

of

I

REPORT the end of a big romance, almost the hottest thing Italy has seen this year. Be tween Australian inimitable Anita Ekberg.

actor Rod Taylor and the

ing. The anti-hero of A Wild way of putting it over to 15, Surmise (Cassell, 168.) is ય Or do you prefer pure escape? variation on the

fashionable This comes in two sizes, the "rebel without a cause," and romantic and the thrilling. From Mr Taylor is appearing as Sir and anti-climactically over. we watch himn poking about the romanties I can only re-Francis Drake in a film called Marriage, which looked very whom Seven Seas to Calais. While Mr close last week, is off this week. marky surface call Lows Auchinloss Near Eastern oil some people take seriously, but Taylor was aboard the Golden Mr Taylor, seen in London state, where a mammoth Eng- who seems to me an entire Hind, at rest for the purposes recently as the star of the Time has flown off to ligh company

the and agreeably escapist writer of the flim in Salerno harbour, Machine, controls

Miss Ekberg visited him daily in America to fim with SpenCCE her private motor launch bear- Trady, and Miss Ekberg stays in

Home to film with Fellini. Back in Rome they played games of hide and seek with the Mr Taylor, who has been £ireless photographers the balled as the new Errol Flynn, i Via Veneto

said inconically: "My career lles! Now both Mr Taylor's fim in Hollywood, Anita's lies ir land his romance are suddenly Rome.”

And here are the six top selling novels ing a bottle of vodka.

Met R Lady, by Howard Spring. Collins. 21s. 2-Unconditional Surrender, by Evelyn Waugh. Chapman and Hill, 18s. 3. The Pale Horse, by Agatha Christie. Collins. 15. 4-The Fox in the Attie, by Richard Hughes, Chatto and Widus. 180. 5.--A Civil Contract, by George Heyer. Heinemann. 16s, 6.-The Empty Canvas, byl Alborto Moravia, Becker. 188,

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Miss Gardner's exolic variety of sex-appeal is no longer eulti- vated in the harsh climate So created by the new wave, Miss Gardner is planning to make а new wave film herself.

There will be no happy fade- out kiss.. Miss Gardner dies, leaving two lovers to quarrel over her dead body.

The film, called The Jackals,

will be directed by British direc-

tor Terence Young on location in Italy and Slolly with studio

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