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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1948.

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CONSIDERED onc of the

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Brillah Alma ever made, "Oliver Twist," a faithful adaptation from Charles Dickens' beloved classle, comes to Hongkeng next week.

The pleture had its premiere In London only a few weeks ago, and this is what Leonard Mosley wrote afler seeing it:

There were moments when I had my doubts about the new

Britisht picture, "OLIVER TWIST.” It start- rd slowly and gloomily with many shadows lurking across the screen that it might almost lnve been photographed in a tunnel,

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I sighed and settled down to what thought Was going to be a sepulchral evening, and I said to myself: "Why, why, why mitisi British Alm-makers keep going back to the past, digging out these old classics? Why can't we have some big fins about our own times?"

Remarkable Child

Then Oliver Twist appeared on the seruen. In the person of ittle John Howard Davies, and I knew everything Was going to be all

right.

ALAN LADD AT BAY

SHOWING

TO-DAY

Veronica Lake and Morris Carnovsky look on as Luis van Rooten has Alan Ladd at a temporary disadvantage. The scene is from Paramount's new adventure-romance, "Saigon," now at the Queen's Theatre. Douglas Dick. Wally Cassell, Luther Adler and Mikhail Rasumny are also

featured in the supporting cost.

SPOTLIGHT BY DAVID ́LEWIN

Hollywood Puts On The Cowboy Hat

TOLLYWOOD producers

number off their pictures three ways: No. 1, Dramas; No.

What a remarkable child this is 2, Comedies: No. 3. "Which- Dway-did-they-go-Sheriff?" films,

in looks, personality, feeling. kens must have had him in when he wrote his famous πάνει, for he is the genuine Oliver in every word and gesture.

David Lean has directed this film as an unabashed weeple, and there wasn't a dry eye in the house by the time he had finished with us, Yet somehow, for pnee, no one seemed to be ashamed of tears,

The necent will be on No. 3 during next year. By the time all the Hollywood stulios have reopened in the autumn after their summer economy shut-down, any actor who can ride a horse-and a great many who can't will be chasing over the studia prairies in search of gold, bad men, and good-looking women.

Even studios which have hitherio frowned on the Western have decid- ed to join in. Sedate M.G.M., for example, which normally prefers prestige pictures, in the Middle West prestige films, will, make its first it is "Fury at Furnace Creek" which last Western with John ("Stagecoach") gets the crowds.

I followed Oliver's heartbreaking odyssey from the horrors of the workhouse to the thieves' kitchen of Fagin and Bill Sikes, and at to the protecting arms of his grand-Ford directing The Three God- father, with a sense that I was infathers."" volved, that It was happening to It all started when. Hollywood someone I knew-and I was a decided that the best way to make happy man when it all came out money who to turn out flims which right in the end.

appealed to the country-town American

Rich In Every Sense

It is no use, when you feel like that about a Bim, trying to analyse it. Just you go along yourself and see if you can keep the tears back.

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FOOTNUTE.-Agonised plea to producers from a showman In Mon- tana writing to un American film paper: "Please let the cowboys lose their hats in fight scenes. Although we go for action pictures in a big way here nearly all of them When the man in the Middle West ruined by glued-on hats. It is em s to the cinema he pays his barassing trying tu explain to money for a pleture with plenty of pistols, a good, hard-riding

patrons why the cowboys' hats don't come of."

chase,

to

It is a rich flim in every sense of fund an uncomplicated love story; the word. It looks as if it is taking the clever stuff he leaves to the sile- place in the dirty, teeming Londonkers in the city. that Dickens used to know. It has An American-producer told me the humour (from Francis L. Sullivan other day: "Our Aims have got us Mr Bumble and Tony Newley as be noisy for those audiences because the Artful Dodger), superb acting they crunch pop-corn half the time (from Alec Guinness and Robert and miss most of the dialogue any- Newton us Fagin and Sikes), and way. Give them a good "shooling exciting chases and fights.

match and they are happy."

The sixty Westerns which happy. Any star who happens coming up should make them very to he available will

them. go Into Deanna Durbin will make "Western

A

It also has John Howard Davies, who makes me think that there may be something in small boys besides noist and mischief after 1.

Intrigue In Lisbon

War is not only a battle of brawn but niso a battle of wits and both elements are combined in "Lisbon Story, which comes to the King's Theatre next week,

Titles. pTulsa."

art

SCIENTIST

INSTEAD

are

OF TARZAN

By Patricia Clary

do

Story" and there will be Gregory IT doesn't take a Tarzan to Peck In Yellow Sky" and Louis

stunts in movies; it takes ♫ Hayward in

scientist, tell the story!-- "Smoky Mountain Melody." "Sheriff of Medicine Bow." "Robin Hood of Sin Town.” The most overworked star of all the latest cowboy here, I should say will be Roy Rogers,

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If we do not fancy sitting through dozens of Weaterns with almost identical stories Hollywood will not

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who has. been hopping from one castle bal- cony to another for years, says weeks of planning make the final feat as simple as walking down the street. Now producing and co-starring in

Fairbanks "The O'Flynn,"

polo- vaults from rooftop to roaltop, slides down a castle well, rides a barrel being hauled up-by block and tackle,

and drops from ↑ second storey window to the ground, anong others.

The story revolves round an at- tempt to rescue a French atomic selentist from his Nazi-overrun be perturbed. Cowboy Alms are not "I've been doing these things for country, and gives David Farrar, as expensive, and they do not need big years without more than a bruise Д British intelligence agent, much money stars. They are not being for an occasionni strained muscle," scope for his acting gifts.

made for you anyway.

Fairbanks aald. "The reason Patricia To get its money back now an science. A man would be crazy to musical American Bim has to be a success in try this without weeks of planning comedy slar. She sings some Ane America, and although New York to smooth out the difficulties." songs, as does Richard Tauber, the and the other big cities may like famous tenor whose records have "Gentleman's Agreement," "Mourn At 2.30, 5.20, sent his voice, around the world. ing Becomes Electra," and other

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MORISON JERGENSHOWBRAY

Cast opposlie him is

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KEY

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DANGER

James Cagney and Annabella are tuned in'to the. enemy agent plans that threaten to upset Allied counter-espionage in, “13 Ruo Madeleine,” the now Twentieth Century-Fox film now showing at the King's theatre.

Timing Important

Take the pole vault from balcony to balcony, for Instance.

Timing and smoothness of action are what make this go over. But the risk is high. A miss in Uming, `a clip of hold or bad judgment could throw the set halfway across the sound stage.

So precautions are taken to make sure Fairbanks won't be thrown across the stage.

"I practised that stunt for three weeks before we filmed it," he said. "They put heavy mats on the ground so I won't break a leg in case I slip or my alm is wrong.

"After doing it a hundred Ulmes, there's litle chance of falling as there is walking along the street." Sliding down the buttress lakes another technique. That's balance, like riding a surfboard on rolling waves.

jumps

In the Alm,' Fairbanks with Helena Carter in his arms on the buttress, alanting at a '00-degree angle, and standing up-zips down to the ground.

Practised 3 Wooks

"I practised that one for three weeks too," Fairbanks sald. used a dummy, instead of Miss Carter, When I got it down pat, I made a half dozen practice alldes with her. Then we photographed

Riding a barrel being hauled up Isn't much in itself. You just hold on for dear life. But when tho barrel reaches the top the trouble begins. The barrel smashes on all overhead beam, and Fairbanks has to grab. the beam to avold dropping 30 feet.

That's dangerous, no matter how much science you use,

“I practised to let go of the bar- rel just na it reached the top' and grab the beam,” he said. "The only | risk is that a shattered barrel stave-

will conk-me on the bend."

Dropping from a second-storey window was part of the Navy's commando training, Fairbanka said. "I only had to do a 12-foot-drop In the Navy," he said... "I have to. I do a 18-foot one in the filmi."

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