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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1947.

BRITAIN MAKES THE WORLD A STAGE

by Harold A. Albert

ILMS, like everything underground movement. A Lounder Mevagissey! The effect was convine- team are in the Fijls, ing. Similarly shots of elvillan's bċ- else, have their phases, and Gillet Timo

when film shooting backgrounds for The Bine ing machine-gunned on the roads of W08

Lagoon.

France had all the clarity and makers were content to recon- The world is a flm oyster, in realism of a news-reel. Fow film- struct deserts and jungles in fact. This summer there was even goers realised that the shawled and scrambled tho studio; today the camera

n unit in the Antarctic, Alming the smocked peasants who

nativo Is rapidly escaping from such Great Ice Barrier for Scott of the into ditches were the same

Autarctic. Yet you never can tell. Mevagissey folk who enacted their padded artifice. British pic when Almgoers see Captain Scott's own lives in later sequences. tures are making the whole ship cutting its way through the In Beware of Plip, the Stefan world a sound stage.

floes, it will be authentic

South

Zweig atory demanded the atmo- The Overlanders' had "scarcely Polar leo. Imperceptibly merging

Stavaklan renched the screen, when camera into the screen story, however, (to sphere of the Moravian

border # It won when garrisoned men were off to Australia again for save the cast a tedious

10,000-mile

by Austro-Hungarian troops in 1914. the

Eureka journeys other scenes will be shot Scouring Britain for such a setting gold-rush thrill of Stockade. Hardly had Men of Tien on the Arelle fringe of Standing the scente experts decided on Chod Worlds revealed the inherent drama and not a few apparently of real Africa than Derek Twist sail- shots will certainly be taken in dar dorge. At first sight that limo-

Britain. Though the ed a crew of technicians 1,000 miles air travel

speed-up

stone ennyon in the Mendips scem- ined hardly to

requisite possess the ever smoother fact- The Alnazan to malce End of the

Balkan flavour. Nevertheless. Bratisporting

Units River. From this exploit has come lilies for

around proved the happlest choice. It a fim, played by natives of Brazil's the globe, locations in the

needed only a few window-shutters little-explored hinterland, that gives Isles сап st(11 provide somo

on local buildings, some plaster audiences a unique and thrilling ex- astonishingly foreign atmosphere.

columns and stray pieces of orna- perience,

mental Ironwork and Cheddar was Moravia. With the single addi- tion of a Hungarian algn, a collage garden became a beer-garden. The sult has since deceived audiences In Budapest.

Rain or Shine.

ย!

Crash In Alps:

Britis

it

A typical example was Francoise Rosay's first British picture, Johnny, Frenchman. The film fold the story So much for the trend. As I of the grim, sometimes bitter write,

and Sydney Box'

between cameramen struggle

Cornish have been in Switzerland taking Breton fisherfolk to win the hare The shots on the 12,000-feet Weiterhorn vests of the English Channel. for Rescue, a filmi based on the little hillside village of Mevagissey dramatic Dakota crush in the Alps. was chosen for the After shooting much of The Captive characteristic Cornish

But English filmgoers see nothing Heart in a prisoner-of-war camp in when scenes were needed of a remarkable in utilising, say, Shore- Germany, Ealing Studios have had Breton fishing village the cameras ditch, London, for the convincing a production crew in Brussels and turned on the same picturesque, Irish street scenes of Odd Man Out; the Ardennes for Against the Wind, Jumbled cottages from another or transforming lush Irish meadows a film dealing with the Belgian angle and still went on filming into

OSCAR WILDE BROUGHT

TO SCREEN BY KORDA

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DANNY KAYE

Swoon forests

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THE MANNED DARAUKS

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THE SOLES BOO

MANTING TO WALA.

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A LOVE STORY TOLD WITH BELOVED MUSIC ATTUNED TO THE HEARTBEAT OF OUR TIME!

The

JOLSON STORY

IN TECHNICOLOR,

LARRY PARKS EVELYN KEYES" WILLIAM DEMAREST BILL GOODWIN

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW,TO-MORROW AT 12,30 M-G-M'S "HARVEY GIRLS":

In Technicolor

FOR LONDON

By DAVID LEWIN-

LONDON.

But

the field of Agincourt for Henry V.

V. From the tourist stand- point the British Isles have always

famed for possessing the

quand the beauties-of every

in miniature, and recent films have more than. proved this contention.

Thus, rain or shine, the Welsh sand-dunes became the African de- sert of Nine Men; and North Wales the Spanish sailings for Stewart Granger's Caravan, and for the Yugo-Slavian guerilla In Undercover. fiere, again, Yugo-

bide-out

Slavs who saw the film were 'con- vinced that the backgrounds had been photographed in their own mounimins. Cornwall, too, was French territory for The Foreman Went to France and Next-of-Kin.

Perhaps the strangest reversal of geographic realities was when St Margaret's Bay, Dover, was

used for the reconstruction of the Commando- Paratrooper

raid on Brunewald

in School for Secrets. The arch!- tects who originally designed a row of now shell-shaitered buildings in Britain's front line, had favoured houses with small-tiled red roofs, steep eaves and quaint attle win- dows-typieni, in fact,

many country dwellings on the Continent.

back

the

Lucky Coincidences Such lucky coincidences, undeni- ably superior to fake Jath-and- plaster, need only a few additional touches to ussure perfection. Michael Powell and Emeric Press- Wation recently annous occu WHILE the J. Arthur Rank organi- burger faced an undoubted poser when they needed an exterior for change of policy from concentrating Black Narcissus, with its story

When on a few "big" films to making more ground of Northern India.

film, watch for "programme" pictures of quality to you see the offset tho Lower pictures from sequence in which Sabu, as a young America following on the 75 percent Indian prince, rides his white pony tax-Sir Alexander Korda's com- through a convincingly Asiatic sel- pany, London Films, has decided to

led to ting of azaleas, rhododendrons and clo the reverse; and the first of Himalayan pines. With minor addi- Korda's new series of quality films tions to the background this scene to come to Hongkong Oscar was taken at the home of Sir Giles UE HERE carly in the New Year Wildo's "An Ideal Husband.". DUE

The and Lady Loder at Leonardsice in -Danny Kaye. Others on the film will have its local gala pre-Sussex! Hist for London are Mickey Rooney micre at the Lee Theatre on Tues- Maybe this escape from the studio and Abbott and Costello-and at day next, December 30.

to the open air has come upon us salaries which English top liners

begin Paulette Goddard and Michael almost unawares, or only dream about,

£4,000 a week is about the sum Wilding, shown in the picture above, when British film-makers first dis- the leading parts 08 Mrs covered the treasure trove on their needed to tempt them away from play

own doorstep? There was the charm Hollywood and New York. These Cheveley and Viscount Goring. big names will be worth while only tions of Lady Cheveley, the mysterie ber, much

The story concerns the machina-of A Canterbury Tale, you

nuch of it gained by Aiming if they revitalice our turns at home

to secure the picturesque beauty of six vil- and set a higher standard over the tus anni Robert Chiltern lages grouped around the cathedral country. What English variety really

There were the Surrey com- needs are new faces and new Ideas Hugh Williams), a promising poli- city.

and parklands bubble scheme by mons

that gave for a tician, for preferably our own. Percent- age of foreign nets allowed to play threatening to reveal an embarrass-space to The Wicked Lady; the

episode Ing

in his past life, and of lovely on an English variety bill: 40 per Lord Goring's efforts to save

marshland vistas of Great his Expectations filmed in the actual cent in London, 25 percent in the friend from the intrigue.

Dickens country of the Hoo penin- provinces.

All this is superbly played against sula. Now the cameras have cap- n background of the Naughty Nine- tured the atmosphere of a Kentish

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fascinating.

did it

remem-

WEST END theatres report better ties, when London was the centre of farm in The Loves of Joanna God- business than a month ago. (The

the universe, where wasp-waisted den, and have been to Scotland for season's heaviest loss £25,000 on

maids and wasp-witted men circu- the seitings of Margaret Irwin's The "Finian's, Rainbow.") Chaplin's

Gay Galliard. "Monsieur Verdoux," showing at two lated in high society.. elnemas, is "niling 60 out of 100 seats," which is better than it did In New York. Basic petrol cuts are hitting the night-clubs. There are vacant tables every morning now.

MAE WEST is looking for a new leading man. Her show, "Diamond Lil," re-written and strengthened with new gags, comes to town in January, and producer Bill Mollison wants a tall, strong, handsome man to play opposite Mac. Bob Hope would have liked it.

THEATRE Directory

TODAY'S FILMS

KING'S Fiesta (Esther Williams),

QUEEN'S-Song of the Bouthi LEE-Copacabana (Groucho Marx,

Carmen Miranda) ··

CENTRAL-Time, Place and the Girl (Dennis Morgang. Janis Pulge)

ORIENTAL—The Jolson Story (Lar-.

ry

Evelyn Keyes) Parks, CATHAY-Story of Dr Wasscil

(Gary Cooper, Laraine Day) ALHAMBRA-Time, Placo and the

Girt

MAJESTIC The Yearling' (Gregory

Peck, Jane Wyrün). STAR-Aħnk-and-the King of Klam (Rex Harrison, Irene Dunne)

Ingrid Bergman as "Clio"" and Gary Cooper, at "Clint," In Warner Bros, film adaptation of Edna Farber's lusty "Saratoga. Trunk, which arrives at, the Queen's Theatro on New Year's Day. Others featured in the supporting cast of the Hat B. Wallis production are Flora Robson, Jerry Austa, John Warburton, and Florence Batos,

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RICARDO MONTALBAN

New Romantic Stär). He'sųžery In fights and dances, but at his best In love-making|

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