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SEAT IN THE STALLS:

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ILITCHCOCK

"Young and Innocent"

HITCHCOCK "The Lady Vanishes.”

secrets

BY MILTON SHULMAN

S

Fin the cinema you and feet away you indicate an open man- yourself tense on the edge of hole all you need do is cut from the seat, your throat dry, two or three times. Until the actor the approaching man to the menholo the palms of your hands cold, falls into that manhole your audience. and a peculiar tingling sensa should be stiff with suspense."* tion dancing up and down your

Such simplication is typical of spine, in all probability you are cinematic effects are not attained by

Hitchcock method. To

him being worked upon by Mr Alfred inexplicable feats of ethereal and Hitchcock.

Intellectual For films like The Lodger, application of shrewd, intuitive, and legerdemain but by the The Thirty-Nine Steps. The practical doses of common sense. In Lady Vanishes and Rebecca much the artistic genius as he is the other words, Mr. Hitchcock is not so have established Mr Hitchcock super-craftsman, as the acknowledged master of suspense in the cinematic world. How is it done? According to Hitchcock it is almost ab. surdly simple.

"Merely give the audience all the Information you have instead of the actor," he said in London, where he bas just arrived to direct a new film for an American company.

Thus, if you show a man walk ing along the street and about 100

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"GOING MY WAY"

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lines of your first illustrator, George

He has given life to the

Cruikshank.

Eschews Subtlety

"The public go to the movies for escape and relaxation, not for in- tellectual exercise," says Mr. Hitch- cock, and this theory dominates his and strips his plots of all superficial technique. Ho eschews subtlety and abstruse detalis.

His falth is: "A film must have a simple, uncomplicated story and should not be too long. It is not like a book, which can be picked up and put down again, or a play which is broken up into acts. I think the ideal alm length is about an hour and 20 minutes."

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To Hitchcock a film is primarily director's achlevement. Actors

are a necessary evil. "In the silent days we could talk them through p scene.

Now it is a little more dim- cuit, but we can sill make good Alms with mediocre actors," he told

ho

known actor in the cast. The cine-

Your characters are there, notably me. that man Fugin.

On tragi-comic, he is briliantly played "A star won't help a bad film," he

Hook-nosed, sping, evil

the question of stars and figuratively shrugs his shoulders, In a period of screen violence,

says, "but a good him undoubtedly twisted makes more mon if it has a well- Indian and Maori risings, and a

ma-going public somehow get much There is also little Oliver, whom, more out of middle-class poisoning contri- I confess, I had always

story

if they can share buted by Aldous Huxley, your but for whom, through the sensitive of their favourites."

detested, their agonising experiences with one share has not gone unnoticed. portrayal of nine-year-old John Hitchcock's You have inspired a great

Howard

Davies, I have

girth has become as now learned much a British film.

a national institution as W. G. and understanding. sympathy

Robert Newton gives

Grace's beard. Not only is it the 10 Bill Sikes trade mark of his pictures (he sidies

I do not think your disembodied 1lllng-eye, tortured mixture of surrepitiously in and out of every

brutality and bewildered passion.

You will find the Artful Dodger a shadow of what you intended, and perhaps that insufferably good man, Mr Brownlow (Henry Stephenson), will not be good enough for you.

stale should prevent you from see- ing David Lean's "Oliver Twist." But I feel I must warn you.

Your story is there, episcale, whittled down, cul and shuipened into a masterpiece flim-forrn.

of

They'll Find

You If You're

Any Good

K

the

☆

That uncluous villain, Bumble (Francis L. Sullivan), even Beadle Our sympathy in the end. How you would have hated that, and rightly.

wins

variations have become a matter of film he makes) but its constant journalistte concern on both sides of the Atlantic.

Telephone Booth

Well under average height, he now weighs between 14 and 16st. This makes him look somewhat like a telephone booth in a generous dimensions Hitchcock had nuit.

blue serge But to

rench Bych these

he carried about with him when to diet his way down from the 20st. People will come away swearing

he first went to America in 1939. that this is the very Dickens.

"The secret is self-denial," Hitch-. Then

cock why should 1 warn you? starches and drinks and I care-

explained.

I've given up Because this film is more Dostoiev-fully select my food. I can tell you sky than Dickens.

the exact

That gentle irony which enabled meal I patre content of every

sarcustic

50

the

By PATRICIA CLARY

you to write so lovingly, but EVENTUALLY, If you have

makings of a movie star, Holly-been ironed out.

Ignorantly, of the lower classes, has ter headings in a book on How To Hlichcock's career reads like chip- wood will discover you.

Your You don't have

Make Films. At the age of 15 he to leave home, Dickens, has gone, and with it your when his father, who was in

reportage, Mr was break into casting offers or stand on mawkish sentiment and

was forced to give up his art studies your head outside the Brown Derby melodrama.

dishonest fruit and poultry

the in Hollywood to attract attention.

business, died. you're really good, you can't help

His first job was writing subtitles getting it

a p That's what Mervyn LeRoy says, He is the director who has given their first

acting chances

to more than a dozen big stars, including Lana Turner.

Take Clark Gable, for instance. LeRoy saw him. Dest in a play called "The Last Mile" when it was ploying In Los Angeles 17 years ago, He recognised the unknown actor as A potential star and begged his stu- dio to sign him.

Gable's okay for the stage, the studio decided. But he'll never make a movie actor,

"So another studio signed him," Leltoy said. "This proves that an actor with talent will be discovered by somebody same time."

Lana Turner

She

Then there's Lana Turner. was a Hollywood high school student when a talent scout spotted tier in a store and marched her into LeRoy's offlce,

"Even then she had that certain Indefinable something that we cali glamour," LeRoy said. "I knew the minute I saw her that she'd be great star come day,"

LeRoy put her and a sweater in a pleture called "They Won't Forget." Miss Turnier couldn't miss after that.

Both Gable and Miss Turner came home to LeRoy in his last Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer picture, "Home- coming."

"It was the first time I had direc- ted Miss Turner for some time," he said, and I'va walled all these years for a chance to direct Gable." But they would have wound up ne the screen's No. 1 glamour 'com- bination oven If Lelloy had never seen them. People like Gable and Miss Tumer Just can't be kept out of the movies-United Press.

Short Takes JEAN Simmons, now saronged for

the home-made stages of "The Blue Lagoon," la looking forward to being a comedienne. Her chance for Comedy comes with Adam and Eveline," ns co-star with Stewart Granger, who belloves she will be surprisingly effective in a light role.

Buster Keaton, dead-pon comic of the allent era, has turned backroom boy. He is technical adviser on slapstick sequences for a new Holly- wood film starring Red Skelton.

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Saral Churchill has her first film role, as a reporter, In "All Over Town," adapted from H. F. Dolder- feld's stage play about a provincial hewspaper.

piece that reverberates

In their place is a grim, harsh like "Came the Dawn" or "Heart

the verte heartstrings as you intended. brae, rather thnn plucking

spoke to heart in the hush of the evening" in the old silent filme.

Then he quickly moved up the And, if you will forgive me, very good thing too. Much of your art director to scenario director, to ladder of cinema production from moralising has back-fired on you in the twentieth century.

cameraman, to cutter, to assistant Now, Instead of

director and finally to director goodiness,

your goody. combination of Imaginative

We have

producer. a tremendous balism and marching suspense.

sym-

and

Very Non-Critical By 1937, at the age of 37, with such pletures as The Lodger, Tho Ring, Blackmail and The Thirty- Nine Steps to his credit, he

was

I do not think it matters whether acknowledged as Britain's greatest this-is good or bad Dickens. It does director

bad parts of it are yours.

and

received a reputed a year to prove it.

maller that it is a good film. The chrock admits that he is o

very non-critical film-goer and that he enjoys almost anything he sees. "But I seldom go to the cinema."

When an American

producer

whole a

When that slut Nancy (on the hole a wonderfully moving per formance by Kay Walsh) stands on the steps of London Bridge and speaks like girl in school, she is betraying your ignor-asked aghast, "But where do you a finishing learned this astonishing news he ance of some women.

get your idean?"" But Join with mo In praising That remark probably magnificent flim.

why Hollywood turns out so many And believe that I remain, bad Alms and Hitchcock turns out

YOUR FAITHFUL CRITIC. so many good ones.

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