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Entertainment

Valoric Hobson as Estolla In “Great Expectations,”

SEX IS IN

THE NEWS

By ERNEST BETTS

Britain makes her greatest

film

REAT EXPECTATIONS," the film of the

"Gopular Charles Dickens classic, acclained

on all sides as the best picture yet made in Britain, opens at the King's Theatre on Wednesday next. It hasn't taken long to come to Hongkong; it had its first showing in London in December, and New York hasn't even seen it yet.

Here is a review of the pic- ture by the well-known London film critic, Stephen Watts:

There is only one way to succeed in making a ilm of a classic, and that is to make a flm which is in Itself a classic.

A tall order? So tall that I would not prescribe such an. ideal were 1 not about. to point to its fulfilment. Look, then, at "Great Expectations" and marvel.

Sex and Betty Grable came into the news recently. Mr F. Tyrer, teacher at Waterloo (Liverpool) secondary school, said: "You

Dickens was a great script writer hear children whistle when they himself, and I think he would be come across acantily clad screen content with this Alm. His strong lovelics, And hear them sny: Isults were character, description and say! It seems a that these action. They are all in the Alm.

pity boys are having their outlook Sould, credible, richly detailed on sex moulded in this fashion." people you know and care about. Agreed. But what sort of legs are, Beiflant descriptions → by you to show the children? Passed camera. And lively action, paced to Mr Rank, who makes films for according to mood, touching, funny kida.

or dramatic, us required.

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But what is even more important, the Alm is faithful to the spirit of the original, that quality of simple, human warmth which makes Dickens

Norma Shearer is coming back into pictures. Dald Lewis, one of the men behind Enterprise Productions, now Hollywood out-beloved. fit told me recently that Norma Ia putting her

money into pic-

In

Lot To Live Up To

tures with a bunch of other rich and rosy stars. Among them are

The young men who have per- Ginger Rogers, Veronica Loke,

formed this feat of bringing 21 Ingrid Bergman, Barbara Stan- wyck, Charles Boyer and John ainous story to the screen with the

added illumination of their

own skill and Intelligence had a lot to live up to. only Dickens, but their own record.

Gärflold.

We

MORE FUN with the US, censor- ship. When the Johnston office wanted to ban Ann Sheridan's They had made "In Which

and "Brief Encounter," two pleture. "The Unfaithful," it get by because "what happens in the of the finest of British pictures. Now, in my opinion, they have aur- the story often happened

Judging passed both. war." That's a new one. by Jane Russell, whose "Outlaw" is slaying them in the provinces, It's better to be banned and lost than never to be banned at all.

From New York recently I hear James Mason will star in "The Life of King David," to be pro- duced by Alexander Korda.

►

John Mills plays tho part of Pip grown up.

and expert polish in every depart- ment, it is beyond nationality. In: brief, a classic.

fa

Good, solid, simple story-telling the foundation. The atmos- phere of the Kentish marches is caught right away, and the meeting between young Pip and the convict in the

churchyard is a brilliantly handled piece of shock-tactics which will jolt you half out of your sent. The boy Fip (admirably played by Anthony Wager

grows up. vincingly into John Mills, who pro-

con-

ceeds to give a performance which In "Great Expectations" surely for attractive, sensitive, Ano-shaded the last doubter will see what we, acung has rarely been

cet excelled in

This puts him right at the top of our male stars-I mean those stars who really are actors.

who have been signalling the od vance of British films, have been making all the fuss about

Here is a picture which is British

The memorable scenes uro too to the backbone, yet belongs proudly many to catalogue. The climax to the cinema of the world.

For the near-death by drowning of the beauty, good taste and intelligence, convict Magwitch under the paddles for dramatic and emotional content, of

ship in the Thames.

PULITZER PRIZE NOVEL

TRANSFERRED TO SCREEN

Table Manners

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But some of the lesser scenes stick my mind. Pip being tactfully instructed in table manners by Alce Guinness (a lovely performance throughout, by the way); Pip's dis- covery that the convict is his bene- factor.

Young, pretty Jean Simmons starts off the character of Estella delight- fully, and Valerio Hobson takes it up with her customary grace and good sense, but in honesty I have to .say that for once..ste_is_outshone. And what out-shiners there arc around!

Finlay Curric's rugged, macabre Magwitch, Martita Hunt as the eccentric Miss Haversham, Bernard Miles as Joc, and Francis Sullivan as the lawyer Jaggers.

Earller I mentioned the young men responsible for this fino picture which is a triumph for all concerned. As they mean much British films today I give you their names—and a toast to their futures: David Lean (director) und Ronald Neame and Anthony Havelock-Aflan (pro- ducers).

Bing Crosby Musical

"Dixie" is Bing Crosby's latest

Tientsin-born war author mocratic Ideas work in a bewilder- John Hersey won the Pulitzer ed and fear-ridden community long crushed by the Fascists. It also Prize for the best novel of the tells of the loneliness of Tina, the year 1944 with his story of an fisherman's daughter, and of har American military government love for the American Major. official in liberated Sicily, "A story into a film, and this is

Twentieth Century-Fox made the film and a tuneful addition to his the long line of musieni hils. In the Bell for Adano."

next change at the Queen's role of composer and originator of the old-time minstrel shows, Bing Theatre. This honour climaxed a remark-

has an

an opportunity to do a lat ably successful career built on no John Hodial acquits himself well singing, and his songs are all the more than a couple of books, "Men In the difficult role of Major, Jop-kind that have made him America's of Bataan," and "Into the Valley," polo, while Gene Tierney plays the Number One minstrel man. a first-hand account of મ Guadal part of Tina with polish and feel- Co-starred with Bing in "Dixie" canal battle.

William Bondix is good

of

la Dorothy Lamour, looking lovelier A Bell for Adune" tells the story Sergeant Borth of Brooklyn, who thun crer in the hoopskirts of the of an Italian-American, Major Jop- takes often to the bottle.

polo, who is sent to govern the The film, a refreshing and original bomb-blasted Sicilian village of Adano after the Allles had freed 1. It tells of how he tries to make de-

Film Technique

Exhibition

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Preparations are under way in Venice for the International Ex- hibition of Cinema technique be- tween August 14 and September 19, The promoters propose to show materials, machinery, and inventions which

directaratus production of motion pictures,

All nations interested in cinema technique and industry have been invited to participater The

The show will be housed in the pavilions of the blennial art exhibilon. It will be the Arst show of its kind and will be made as complete se poa- sible to cover the past, the present and the future possibilities, of

or the

rasvision and stereoscopic Almi have a special section. The show will complement the eighth International exhibition of cinema art to be held in Venice at the same time.

1850's.

The picture is on at the King'a experience, was directed by veteran Theatre. Henry King

Picture above shows the Major.) and the fishergirl in a tenso sceno from the film.

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