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GUEST IN THE HOUSE ANNE BAXTER

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RALPH BELLAMY RUTH WARRICK JEROME COWAN

MARIE MCDONALD - PERCY WILFRIST • MARCAREF HAMILTON CONNIE LAIZD From The Stage Play by tager Wilda ond Dole Tumion Screen Play by Ke frings Director of Photography, the Gormei, AS,C,«Released the United Artists

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1947.

THE KILLERS' IS HEMINGWAY PLUS

HE

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crime ration generous this week, but I have no doubt your appe tite will be caual to it.

sound Public digestion is when it comes to large portions of anurder and mayhem,

It's a remarkable thing this, if you reflect on it for a moment. One of the bases of the cinema's appeal is generally supposed to be self-identifica-

By STEPHEN WATTS

Tho

It is done through the medium of power of the fim lies in the creation an insurance investigator (Edmond of atmosphere, the Arm relevance of O'Brien), who traces the dead man's every detail. past and gradually pieces togother a The opening sets the tone. story of boxer

ก

who turned two killers are terrifyingly convinc-

types--one gangster.

a dal lump of flaccid It is done in flash-back, which, evil, the other hard-eyed, craggy- when properly handled (and it is featured. really constructively done here), still one of the cinema's most effec- five story-telling devices.

Like all the work of Robert Slod- mak, the director of "Phantom. Lady" and "The Spiral Stairense," tha

ing

Towards the end, the plot becomes a bit feverish in its intricacy, but there was never a moment when the grip on me was relaxed. Burt Lan- caster, who plays the ex-boxer, may

well be a new star.

tion. The argument is that CRIME AS PER HEMINGWAY

much of your pleasure lies in imagining yourself into

the personalities and situations on the screen.

For a couple of hours the girl in the stalls can be, according to fancy, Grable to Garbo, anybody from Lockwood to Loy. Vicariously che Is gowned by Adrian and adored by Boyer,

Rarely Glamorous

Fine, tailor-made theory, but how then do you account for the popula- rity of murder? It's not much fun identifying yourself with a

corpse,

and delectives are rarely clamour-

boya.

Perhaps this line of thought hatl better be abandoned here before becomes uncomfortable,

see

I certainly don't want to suggest that you will go blithely along to film called "The Killers" (Central and Alhambra Theatres) because the title answers the call of the wild within you,

mild

But the fact remains that characters like you (and certainly mo), who would feel terrible to see one sample of death on the roads, will cheerfully watch a multiplicity of deaths on celhrigid.

At the end of "The Killers," when the chief bad man is breathing his fast and thus chalking up about the sixth violent expiration in the fim, I caught myself thinking with callous detachment what a nice cleft that is Miss Ava Gardner has in her chin.

A Neat job

Educated by all those films about psychiatry, I should now start worry- ing it I have a split personality or something. It's all very mysterious. and i leave the problem shamelessly

your lap.

in

The Killers" is a very neat job of taking up a story where the original author left off. If you recall Ernest Hemingway's short story of the same brilliantly you will and it

ted on the screen in the first 15

reaus

gummen come to a small town and quite openly kill an ex-boxer, The film nu- now a garage hand. thor has imagined the background to this grim execution.

(

"The Yearling”

Contest

AVA GARDNER' and Burt Lancastor in a scene from

and "The Killors," now showing at the Central Alhambra Theatres. The film la adapted from the famous short story by Ernest Hemingay.

RICHES TO RAGS

NOW THE VOGUE

By GUY K AUSTIN

HOLLYWOOD. H hair, unde ate on singh and

TOLLYWOOD'S glamour stars, usually groomed to

dressed fashion- high are finding down to earth roles that seem to these days.

A

pay.

now

his

MYRNA LOY, for the first Both are tanned almost black. time in her long career, is not was beginning to fall out, hos

Bogey says that his hair, which the well-dressed perfect wife started to grow again all over

head. "It must be the Mexican today. In connection with the show- In "Red Pony," her first in technd- climate or something," he remarked. ing of "The Yearling" at the colour, she spends most of her time do- over a kitchen stove, plays a King's Theatre, a colouring conglamorised character: a hard-work- test is being conducted among ing horne-pun ranchwoman schoolchildren of 15 years and combs her hair with her fingers.

JANE WYMAN scored as such a character in "The Yearling," which the sarned her a nomination for Academy Award.

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Forms with the figure of Claude Jarman Jr, who plays the boy Jody in the film, have been sent to all schools, and the asked to return children are the forms coloured in crayon or water colour. The forms are to be returned to the manager of the King's Theatre not later than tomorrow, October 19.

The first prize is a Waterman's fountain pen and six tickets to The Yearling. The second prize is set of water colours and five tickets, and the third prize one dozen pencils and four tickets. Each of the fitt three winners in addition will receive one case of Coca-Cola.

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THEATRE Directory

prizes

TODAY'S FILMS KING'S The Yearling (Gregory Peck, Jane Wyman, Claude Jarmani Jr).

QUEEN'S The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer (Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple).

Killers

Burt CENTRAL The

Lancaster, Ava Gardner). LEE Guest in the House (Anne

Baxter, Ralph Bellamy). ALHAMBRA The Killers

who

ANNE BAXTER dragged herself through alleys and opium dens for Razor's Edge," and won The Razor porting Oscar.

GUD-

JENNIFER JONES, also nominat- ed, clawed through the dust, her face bleeding and her nails dorn for "Duel

Sim in the

In Mark Hellinger's "Brute Force,

de a tough prison yarn, Yvonne Carlo (hitherto technicoloured as an exotic character like Salome or Scheherezade) plays a shabby Italian farm-girl.

in

And in black and white too, Carey Wilson's

Dolphin "Green Street" although Lana Turner wears the docs hike through jungles, rip- quite a wardrobe for many scenes, ping her clothes and musing ber hair.

One man who is pleased with this James roturn to realism is artist Montgomery Flagg, who in praising Jane Russell's beauty, rot in a dig at Hollywood's methods of standardi- sation.

"Jane is beautiful, voluptuous and swarthy," he said. "I'm amazed that they haven't hacked her down to the usual Hollywood standard-the coat- hanger with lipstick on it."

Bo

TAR QUOTES

MARLENE DIETRICH

answers this question: "Did you have any ex- perience during the war which would influence in some way your future work?"

YES, because of

my travels everywhere during three years of the war, when I was entertaining men- bers of the armed forces overscas, am restless now,

can't stay put. now under- stand what it is like to suffer from claustrophobia: have moving

Hacall are

back ROGART and

drom Mexico after weeks of shooting on The Treasure of the of travel. Sierra Madre."

KID STUFF AND ADULT TANTRUMS

CARY GRANT, Shirley Temple and Myrna Loy/ow they appest in the now scroon comody, "The Bachelor and the Bobby- Soxer," now showing at the Queen's Theatre.

to keep BARLENE DIETRICH

I respond like the old firehorse to the sound of the alarm at the thought So I must keep going away and coming back again. First I work in Paris, then Hollywood. Always after Hollywood, Paris or some other place where they make pictures will be my next destination. I am always very excited about going to Callfomia or to Paris although I may have only come from there,

That will be the policy of my cateer from this point on-to be "in- ternational." To go wherever there is the best story.

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CARY

MYRNA

SHIRLEY

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It Paris has something for me. column inches (other than that then I'll go to France. I now am to under contract) are requested to do another pleture in Paris to follow

up the one I did there with Jean give at least 48 hours notico. Gabin at the end of 1940, just before I came to America.

If London calls after Paris 1 there next or back to Hollywood."

I don't want to be confined.

As I say, I'm restless because I am used to being on the 'go' from those immediate past few years. I

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I want to go.

This is another reason for me to

be very sympathelle with my rolo P.m. on the day preceding the of a gypsy fortune teller in my latest date of publication.

pleture, "Golden Earrings." She is

a nomad, She and I are kindred

souls.

today!

נקום

a

cinematic

nomad

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