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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1948,

SEAT IN THE STALLS

BRITAIN'S FILM PEOPLE

WORK AT FULL PRESSURE

T

By H.II. Wollenberg

at the picturing's entertain- David ́ Tomlinson

O the ordinary Almgoer the nim ready for showing, and at the cutive producer, is supervising the business of making a film studios of the J. Arthur Rank Or final preparations of "The Blind }:09 in our of romaner ganisation alone there are no less Goddess", directed and produced by about it-an illusion which than 13 Alms in the process of being Harpid French from the play about

the law courts by Sir no amount of hard facts from the cut and edited.

Patrick part of those involved in the pro- Nearest completion at the Gains. Hastings, the famous English bar- duction of a film can dispel. Most bomugh Studios in Shepherd's Bush rister, and "Wedding Bells", the frat filmgoers de realise, however, that is "My Brother's Keeper" (formerly in the series of films about the there must be some jobs in film pro- entitled "Double Purruit"), a thrilles Huggett family, which Ken Annakin duction which can by no means be with Jack Warner in the lending, has directed. classed as romantle.

part, hending a

a casi composed almost

SCOTT'S EXPEDITION To the spectator,

comfortably entirely of young artists-Bill Owen,

Yvonne Owen, At Baling Studios two films aro settled for an

similar trestment-" ment

the job of put- Brenda Bruce, Jane Ilylion, Susah undergoing

"Saraband for Dead Lovers" and ting together a film out of langer or Shaw and George Cole.

A mora celluloid, cutting

Both aro serious subject, though "Scott of the Antarctic." shorter strips of

the les major producilons photographed in them here and there. Anding the bits that will not make it any

The former Is the and pieces that go toget

In "Portrait of 1ilde- Technicolour, together and entertaining, going over the whole jus again and gard", which tells the tragle story famous. Koenigsmark love story of gain to see that, everything fits in of the search for a girl among the 18th century court life, with Stewart perfect detail, that sequence follows displaced persons in postwar Europe, Granger, Joan Greenwood, Francoise of the title Is the Rosay and Flora Robson playing the, upon sequence smootlily and with The Hildegard

leading roles under the direction of out Jerkiness, will seem a most un- Swedish actress Mai Zetterling, ano

Dearden. The latter 18 the film was directed by a newcomer, Baall

the romantic, perhaps even a dull oceu- pation.

Terence Fisher.

reconstruction of Captain Scott's historie last expedition to the South Pole, in which John Mills Imper- sonates the famous explorer, with Charles Frend as the director.

The third Aim to undergo culling Were it not for the cutters and

Bush is editors, however, the Almgoer would operations at Shepherd's find himself watching an unbalanced "Quartel-not a musical quartet, but Jumble of scenes, unable to make a quartet of four stories by the re-

The well-known school story by head or tail of what goes on on the owned novelist, Somerset Maugham.

British Hugh Walpole, "Mr Perrin and Mir screen. In fnet, once the shooting With a host of well-known

stars to each story, they are "The Trail!" which Lawrence Huntingdon of individuni scenes has been com Colonel's Lady" (director Ken An- directed for Two Cities Films at pleted, the cutter and editor-fre- nakin), The Alien Corn (Intold. Denham Studios, has also moved to quently the same most important man on the picture French), "The Facts of Life" (Ralph' the cutting rooms, where "Sleeping "The Kile" (Arthur Car to Tricate" is now in its final It is his unromantic job which de. Smart), and

Crabtree). rides the Bnal success of a lim, and it is he who is responsible for giving the cinema audience pleasure with well-balanced, smoothly-running

Bla

person-is

the

the

sloges. As its Utle implies, this is u The fourth

Olin al Shepherd's thriller with an international back- Bush at present receiving

ground, directed by John Paddy attentions of the cutter and editor is "The Bad Lord Byron Carstairs, with Albert Lieven, Der- directed by David MacDonald, with rick de Marney and Jean Kent in the Dents Price In the part of the poet. with Joan Greenwood, Mai Zetter- ling and Sonin Holm as the ladies of his heart.

FULL SPEED Whatever the lmgoer may think, the cutters and editors now working in British m studios have ttle time to And their work dull. They are Over at Gainsborough's other working at full speed to get Alm after studio, Islington, Betty. Box, the exe-

TWO OUTSTANDING, FILMS

Charles Dickens's patheilo stary of the orphan "Oliver Twist" has appealed to readers of all ages. Now the makers of "Great Expecta- tions" have made it into a fim-and a very good alm, according to London critics. Here eight-year-old John Howard Davies, who plays. the part of Oliver, is seen being trained as a pickpocket by Fagin, the rancally fence, played by Alec Guinness. The film is showing at the Queen's Theatre.

Under bland litto, "Brighton Rock," is the toughest and most con- vincingly sordid gangster: Alm ever, to come from a Brillah studio. The central figure is a 17-year-old mobster, who commlis murder, marries.

young waitress who might be used as'a wliness to keep her quiet, and tries to make ber commit suicide. The two

are played by Richard Altenborough and Carol Marsh The film is akowing at the King's Theatre

cast.

STORY OF BALLET

:

The fare at Pinewood Studios is varied. Firstly there is the Archers' (Michael Powell and Emeric Press- burger) "The Red Shoesto be seen in Technicolour which is a story of the ballet with a number of world-famous ballet dancers in the cast in addition to the stars, hended by

Anton Walbrook

Another team getting their Intest picture ready for showing is that of Frank Launder and Sidney Gillist, who have Intely despatched "London Belongs to Me" (entitled "Dulcimer Street"

the U. S. A)

Blm of the novel by Norman Collins. Richard Attenborough, Alastair Sim and Stephen

Murray

ore the lucky "owners" of London. Finally, in the cutting rooms at Pinewood there is the second film by a new company, Wessex Pro- ductions. They have flimed George Moore's novel "Esther Waters. with Kathleen Ryan in the title role.

In the capable hands of the cut- ters of London Film Productions nt Shepperton Studios, Sir Alexander Kordn's Intest major production is being trimmed Cor release, It is the long awalted

"Bonnie Prince Charlie", a Techni- colour production directed hy Anthony Kimmins, with David Niven in the le part. Another two films in the Shepperton cutting rooms are Carol Reed's latest film, The Lost Illusion," for which the French actress Michele Morgan was brought over to star" opposite Sir Ralph Richardson, and Anthony Asquith's The Winslow Boy", based on the successful stage play by Terence Rattigan.

VALLI IS A CONTINENTAL

FAVOURITE

VALLI, the Hallan screen beauty

of "Miracle Of The Bells," now showing at the King's Theaire, was born in Pola, on the Istrian penin- sula in 1923. In 1928 her parents took her to Como, a town In the romantic lake region of Northern where she became a student the Camo Gymnasium until 1930, when she went to Rome to study dramatic art at the Motion Picture Academy.

Italy

After a year of intensive work at the Academy, Valli was chosen by a-producer to net in a one-reel test. It was successful and the blue- eyed, 114-pound Italian niri was signed for full length plcture co-star.

д

From then on, slie was assured of place in European theatres.

1938 she signed a contract with the motion picture company, Ilalcine, for five years, during which time she made

"Piccolo Mondo

Antico" "Little Old World"). The picture hod its premiere at the Vroico Festival in 1941 and won for Valli the coveted award of the year's flaest feminine star."

HID FROM NAZIS

In the next two years, the ap- peared in 10 dramatic films, but re- fired from the picture world when her company ran into political trouble. When the Nazis occupied Italy, she refused to make pro- paganda Aims and went into hiding. I was during this period that she mot and married Oscar de Mejo, Italian pianist and composer.

In June 1945, Valli came out of retirement and signed contract with the Minerva-Savoia nim Com- pany under whose banner she made two more pictures: "La Vita Rico- mincia," ("Life Must Go On"), and

"Jane) "Glovanna"

At that point in her carcer, American pro- ducera began to show an interest in the auburn-haired Lain charmer.

The five-feet, four-inch, slim ac- tress partial to

is

dramatic

roles

although she has appeared in a wide variety of parts, including comic characterisationg. All many fold, Valli has played In 34 Euro- pean nima and two American.ple- tures, of which "Miracle Of The Bells" is the second. "The Parra- dine Case" was her first American

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