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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1949.

Britain crisis

N this period of world criats in film production a British company has announced a planned pro- gramme for the next 12 months scaled for both all British and International casting.

in

tackles the

films

story of Dr James Stimpson,

nn Edinburgh Physician who sacrificed everything

who in

the war against pain and Anally discovered chloroform.

I fight to gain recognition One of these "Tho Hasty flying officer, and the role of the for this anaesthetic offers

one of goes to co-starring American barmald

the plenty of material for a droma- Heart," Ronald Reagan and Patricia Company's promising young the fim, the script for which Pluh- is now being prepared by two Neal, is almost completed. The contract players, Patrica

class writers, 3." other, with the descriptive title katt, as a practical demonstra- first of "Man Running will be tion of the policy of pairing Thompson and Dudley Lesile. started in April with Alfred established stars and talented Hitchcock as director and Jane youngstera, Wyman, the dis- tinguished Holly. Wood star

The company is the Asso- "Johnny Belln- clated British Organisation da," in the lead-

which has grown out of the old

British International Group, Ing

part.

feminine

Mi Wyman plays the role of

a

woman

rc-

directed

"Landfall" In

being

LONDON FILM COMMENTARY by

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MUCH more light-hearted is Anthony As the projected film version quith,

whose of Ivor Novella'n musical play which Dancing Years," work invariably "The

the oldest- breathes an au- Warwick Ward,

British established Associated Brilish In late producer will make In- spring.

He will begin work on the young producer with film, which is to be in techni- original ideas. will colour, in' and around Vienna

thentic

spirit.

Harliton

glis,

£1

whore productions through the years from the days of silent Alma made Elstree famous as a centre of film-making.

village Elstree was

when porter who helps

solve an intriguing murder some pioneer British producers Arst to went just outside London, to mystery. The story is adapted be responsible for "No Place and will complete the job at

successful novel by for Jennifer," h screen ver- Elstree, make their pletures. Today it from a

is a crowing community with Selwyn Jepson, four studio settlements tained in

con-

In it. Of these the huge new Asso- ciated British plants are the

date equipment.

sion of Phyllis Hambledon's This may prove to be a large novel which doals with the scale musical film which wil There are several Interesting bewilderment And emotional prove that Britain is ready once subjects among those planned problems of a child whose

to make a world con- more for all-British production. One parents are secking a divorce, tribuilon in this field of pro- which followa "The Hosty

duction to which she has not

This picture lo yet to be cast,

largest and have the most up-to- Heart" is "Lanctfall," from but it will probably be made at Elven much ailentlon since be-

IN

the company's smaller studio at Welwyn Garden City, Hertford- shire.

novel by Nevil Shute. This is the story of the early days of Hollywood Stars

the war, with the romance of n TN these fine studios Asso- flying officer and a barmaid to

clated British will make provide its emollonal" moments.

Particularly interesting is the tea Alms this year. Two of Michael Denison, the popular screen version of the play "The them Anglo-American Produc- young star developed by the. Human Touch," now running

Af the tions with top-ranking Holly company since he came out of successfully wood stars.

the army in 1945, plays the Theatre in London. This is a

fore

the war.

The most unusual item in the new programme is "You're Best Alone," adapted by that very abka screenwriter Rodney Ack land from

A novel by Peter Curtis,

It is story of a widely Savoy travelled introspective man who

RELAXING from their financial worries the Hanson family absorbs llerary 'culture from their pompous boarder in the RKO Radio pleture "I Remember Mama," which opened at the King's yesterday. A pleasant fim dealing with family life in old San Francisco, "I Remember Mama" stars Irene Dunne (extreme right above) with Philip Dorn (back to camera) us her husband. But perhaps the best performance comes from Oscar Homolka,

who is comically fierce as Uncle Chris.

Two men make you bite THOSE two ornaments of

the

British film in- dustry, producers Michnel Powell and Emeric Press- burger, have had a pretty bruising time in their en- counters with the critics.

They have been clipped over the ear for the shoddiness of the stories they choose to film, hit on the lead for the merciri- ciousness of some of their sels, and punched repeatedly on the Bose for their nasty habit of emphasising, brutality and sad- ism in every picture they muke.

an

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He doesn't get blown to smithereens, but it is a tribute

settles in solitude on an East Anglian farm and is content un ll he becomes involved in love affairs.

The director of this film is Roy Kelling who rather more than 10 years ago was James Mason's partner in molding small co-operative film called " Mot a Murder." Kelling was then a photographer with a fine feeling for landscape; which should find new expression in this present subject.

POSSIE

Old Crimester DOSSIBLY the most interest- ing of the remaining stories planned for production by As- sociated British is one entitled "The

First Cracksman." It will recount the adventures of the notorious early 19th Century criminal, Deacon Brodic, whose career is said to have suggested to Robert Louis Stevenson his "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde." Thin promises 10 bo wholehearted melodrama, with plenty of sus- pense and rapid action.

The above films indicate the wide range of subjects for thin year of planned production-

will which programme

£2,000,000.

cost

To ensure the economic pro- duction whileh can only come from first class script prepara- tion, Associated British has gathered togetlier a large team of highly skilled writers who include Rodney Ackland, Roger Burford,

Leske and Dudley Adrian Alington, four of the most experienced men of their craft in British films. They are the advance guard in a careful- ly Integrated-plan-to-beat-the. bogey of rising costs.

Donat is back in a film to be proud of

to fine film-making that you feel that he might. I had goose aling with these fuses, animoderate pimples ail the time he was fid-

* #el I think about it them again.hi

when

S one who indulged, la onis about raptures Terence Ratigan's play on the Having gone through this try-stage. I was impressed by how ing experience the scientist "The Winslow Boy" (which decides that he can't be such a opens at the Lee on Thursday) poor wreek of a chap, after all, has been Improved on the screen,

writes Stephen Watts.

and he rushes buck to London to throw away his, whisky bottle and pick up his girt.

Superb work

This flue production of An- the atole de Grunwald sees return of Robert Donat in an great a performance. as has ever given.

And the

e

of

screen production David Farrar, the hero with n jaw like the deck of an aircraft-brings out the two levels

the story with much greater

"THE SMALL He has an aching longing to carrier, is the false-footed man clarity than the stage version.

since

with the complex.

who

It seems to have done them good, For they have now un- rolled a picture that is one of the most shining examples of film-making that have good

He is a mess of a man-both come put of any studio-British, American or Continentia-fer in his work and his private life. He lets smarter, but less clever, months.

men ride rough-shod over him. It is called

Mr Winslow (Cedric Hard- BACK ROOM" and if you want swill himself in whisky,

Kathleen Byron is the gir

wicke is stubbornly determined evening entertainment, whisky drowns his pain and

vi

gels too many cuffs and

Ito prove that his naval cadet and intellectual also makes him forget his sense

too few klases. She looks stimulation you really must see of Inferiority.

beautifully sad about it all the son (Nell North) did not steal fighting Instead of

back time, and I couldn't help wish the five ehliling postal order was expelled against his smart-aleck

eing the pour gif would cheer for which

from Osborne. Personal hon- leagues, he bites the car off the up sometimes.

our is stake, girl he loves.

But his suffragist daughter The small parts are superbly The poor girl has to go played, particularly by Anthony (Margaret Leighton) through hours of gronning. Bushell and Leslie Banks-as a KC Who takes up the case grumbling. and whining for colonel in the War Office who (Robert Donat) are concerned every kiss she gets. In the end says; at one moment during a with the larger issue the right It has,, moments of deepest she decides that this is too high black period of the war: "Con- of the citizen to face bpen trial pathos and one, long sequence a price to pay for passion, even trary to opinions expressed in and defend himself even when that will make you bite your with a genius, and walks out on the Press, the war will be his accuser is the King. fingers down to the knuckles hlm. with tenso anticipation.

it.

A still small voice bids me At 2.30, 5.20,warn you that "The Small Back Room" is aimed at those, who 7.20 & 9.20

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But it is Donal's tremendous authority (especially his cany brilliance in the law court and Parliament scenes) that gives ND here are four films strict cowboy stories, with Randolph the film its glittering centre-

This which are long on talk piece.

nlways highly ly for your off-moments. Scolt, There is

Phyllis Calvert and short on gun-fire. It is film-intelligent actor is at the top Nigel Balchin wrote this story and Melvyn Douglas in "MY ed in colour that keeps making of his form

Margaret Leighton, makes, an of a group of back-room boys OWN TRUE LOVE" a little the characters' faces almost as .. "WHIS-

impressive rereen debut in a working in a secret department plece about postwar rehabilita- green as the plot. in London during the war, tion that even the stars don't PER CITY" is Canada's first part mado tricky by the un-

The brain he turns his talents seem to be interested in; and attempt at a full-length film, attractive fashions of the period NEXT

fand having to describe herself on la that of a clover young Veronica Lako and Joan Caul- and looks that way.

At all coals, don't confuse as "nearly 30,without much

Is that selentist with a false foot. The field as a pair of burtled and

crooks in "THE either of these "City" films with looks." What matters falso foot gives him constant petticoated

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