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SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1949.

FAKSEAT IN IME STALLS:

Directors Develop

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By Leonard Wallace

WO films now showing in the West End of London illustrate admirably the way British studios are achieving a national idiom compounded of integrity of style, distinctive quality and a native sense of drama.

They are 'Pasaport to Pimlico-a delightful comedy which is almost a fantasy in the best French manner and yet contrives to be inescapably British- and The Last Days of Dolwyn, a half-lyrical half- melodramatic story of a Welsh village,

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a flim full of delightful altun tions developed with delicate wit and enlivened by selfless character studies of authentic London types.

Then there comes to Dolwyn,

self-confident young mun spurned by the village for his misdeeds years ago. He comes to buy out the village, tenant by tenant, as the representative of the water development com- pany. Dalwyn must be drowned for his private vengeance.

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Pimlico is a typical piece of UT one wqman, Merri, stunds Londin just north

of the out against the sale of her Thames, You could not find any cottage, and for a while it tooks. where more English. Yet after as though Dolwyn will be saved, some children have brought as she alone has a clear title to about the accidental explosion ownership of her home. But a of the last burled bomb in that melodramatic twist, a little out much-battered area. an old of document is thrown up with the the story, in the end brings the rest of keeping with debris revealing that centuries about the drowning of the vit- ago this small part of London Lugo. and denth to the man who was ceded to Burgundy,

wished it ii.

Emlyn That this half of France now

Williams, Welsh, and Ane dramatist, wrote the state does not bother the rest story, directed the Alm and dents of the area. It is enough plays in the vengeful young ter holds good in law and that director he has done à sensitive for them that this ancient char- business man. A wrlier.

they are, for many delightful job. He can be forgiven his practical purposes, an Indepen- lapse into melodrama for the dent state.

fine restraint of the engulung scene,

Two other Alma at present in fact, is often a spur to no longer exists as a separate -2. running in London-For Them Imagination. That Trespass, and Man on the nun also

express national

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qualities, if in a lesser degree; QIR MICHAEL BALCON, of and both are well worth seeing Ealing Studios, who has as representative of the sincere sponsored so many distinctive film-making which is now go British pictures, ing on in British studio despite hand in Passport to Pliniico to Have a free difficulties of rising costs or script wriler Ted Clarke perhaps to some extent because director Henry Cornelius. And of them. The need for economy, together these two have devised

A scene from the British Olm Saraband For Dead Lovers, now showing at the Queen's. The story is that of the love affair between Princess Sophie-Dorothea (Juan Greenwood) and Count Philip von Konigsmark (Stewart Granger) one of the greatest sandals of. 17th Centpry Europe. Also starred are Flora Robson and Frederick Valk.

and

This Made me laugh a lot

WHEN

BY STEPHEN WATTS

comedy is neat, quick, and has (the word can be dodged), charm, what more do you want? Such is "That Wonderful Urge." It made me laugh a lot. It is romantle, and I thought the two young people concerned (Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power) eminently -equipped to make the illusion easy to take.

They set up a customs barrter Edith Evans, one of Britain's between them and the rest of greatest actresses and herself abolish rationing eleel their own pression of the spirit of Dolwyn. London and Brilais. They Welsh, makes Merri a living ex- Government Ministers from The rest of the cast, nearly all local tradesmen, and build a thriving export trade with beautifully.

up Welsh, At the lyrical neighbouring postal districts.

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HAVE little space left to say would be unfair to

much about the other films. more of the expansion

of For Themn That Trespass is the this brilliantly contrived jest. story of a man wrongly sen- It is enough to know that the tenced to imprisonment for mur- development is as fascinating as der and of the man who knew the basic idea. Teamwork by the sentence was wrong a fiue cast of character playera, kept silent. It is a melodramu, which include such skilled per- but it is given distinction formers as Stanley Holloway sensitive camera work, and by and Hermione Baddeley, by a two One performances from resourceful camera drew and by Richard Todd, a newcomer skilled set-builders, is respon- immense promise, and Stephen sible for the pace and richners Murray, who plays the

but

by

of

coward

of the comedy. All concerned with a keen sense of a tortured have been fimbued with the eonselence. enthusiasm of the guiding Man On The Run would Le spirits Clarke and Cornellus. sheer melodrama except that, in The result is a film of distinc- spite of improbabilities in ite tion

The Last Days Of Dolwyn tells a story of a Welsh village which is doomed to be flooded In Its beautiful valley co that a servoir may be provided to all the taps and baths of the Indus- trini Midlands,

plot, it grips attention through- out and has something werthi- while to say about the psycho- logy of a deserter, who would like re-

to give

himself up, but hasn't the nerve to do so until he becomes involved with reel criminals. We first see Dolwyn in 115 It is a nice example of a taut- unspolit peace; its shepherds ly made film produced to a on the hillsides, its housewives moderate budget. Like For gossiping cheerfully at their Them That Trespass, it comes gales.

from Associated British.

Notes From British Studios:

He's Happy To Be A Murderer Again

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ELIGHTED to return to Green For Danger, in which murdering is Dirk he starred. He understood very

French did

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Bogarde, who leaves Boys because his school

Ittle of what he was saying fn Brown, a story of young not come up to scratch. delinquents, to become policeman's killar in Meanwhile, in England; Ealing's. Scotland. Yard film. Howard's "voice." Ivan Desny

now a star in his own The Blue Lamp.

right, was appearing opposite Ann Todd in Cincguild's Madeleine.

All this despite its Inrgely meaningless lille. "That Wonder- ful Urge" has nothing to knock your eye out in the way originality or brilliance. It is a routine product-or rather what his screen name in roman

of Although Dirk has made producers would like to be routine. Only this time it cones off.tic roles he prefers playing

"Come to Sunny Italy"

the villain. He got his first

HE come-to-italy movement has a wonderful'time in the new screen part because of his MB J. ARTHUR RANK has re-

British films, "That Dangerous Age" is only a few minutes outstanding performance as the people of Malta, congratulat

ceived a cable on behalf of old when Myrna Loy tells her barrister husband Roger Livesey young murderer in the ing him on "that excellent pro- that a kind friend has lent them a beginning of "The Golden Madonna" Phyllis Calvert inherlis a Caprl villa. Right at the small palace outside Naples. Later, the business of the plot takes

play Power Without Glory breaking all records after a gala duction Hamlet." The film is her to Casri, too,

premiere altended by the Governor, Prime Minister, Mem- bers of Parliament and leading

I'm all for film makers getting out and about. I love a breath of baliny air and a spot of sub-tropical sunshine on the screen. TREVOR HOWARD, at present nolubilities of the George Cross But for all the purpose these two films have achieved by their fascinating and exotic backgrounds they might as well have been Ronald Neame's The

on location in Tunisia on Island, made in the Mile End-rond.

Golden Salamander, went

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Britain has ever had, Myrna Loy has little to thank us for, She is badly photographed in "That Dangerous Age." and her part is that of a very silly and implausible woman who falls in love with her husband anew when he goes blind. She farms

out her boy friend (Richard Greene) on her step-daughter (Perry Cummins). Morally dublous, it is unconvincing dramati- cally,

If the equable and graelous Miss Loy can bring herself lo throw blame where it is due, she should not forget the script writer who has unloaded some cliche-ridden and corny stuff on her. He is her husband, Gene Markey,

Peggy Cummins, despite a terrible Irish-English-American accent, shows signa of being once again something like the actress she was years ago on the London stage. She must be 20 now If she's a day.

Couldn't Be Sillior

TF films can be much silller than "The Golden Madonna" I don't want to have it proved to me. Phyllis Calvert and Michael Rennle spin out a bloodless romance while they search Naples and Capri for a missing picture. They find it, as never doubted they would, at very long last

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What's Wrong With Ford ? WHAT'S come over John Ford, the man who made "The In-

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former" and "Stage Coach"? His "Fugitive" was. with symbolism and did not come off. His latest, "Three God- fathers" is a wider miss,

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For half an hour it is a goodish Westem (in pleasant colour) about three bank robbers. Then It turns to low comedy when they find themselves nanny-ing a baby.

After an hour it switches again--and believe it or not a parallel is drawn with the three wise men, the stir in the cast, iha Babe in the manger....I thought the end of this un- speakable, maudiin bad taste would never come.

How Not To Suck Eggs

AM now going to tell my grandfather how not to suck eggs. In "Enchantment" (coming to the King's), Bam Goldwyn, whom I hold in high esteem, sucks the egg of sentimentally bon-dry, and it is unworthy-of-him-I-presumptuously give him those "Don'ta"

Don't ever again make a flm about 'n London house that is full of memories, far less one that talks about them; Don't ever have anything to do with a story in which characters-are-called- Lark, Rollo, Crizel, Selina, Felham, Froutla-arid -Uncle-Bunny; Don't ever have English people played with American accents Have Bashbacks If you can't avold them, but don't have flash-to- and-fros they are maddening

save thus sticky mass from total liquefaction,

Only, the sold abilities of David Niven' and. Terena Wright (London: Express Service)

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Is he rich-toned -volas■-welcome: contrast?"

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of most. British, stars.

She has just been signed up for s_role In.. Anthony Havelook-Allan's-new-plo- ture, The Oerd. But her part to allontone that loveulok young, girl, (London Express Service)

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ĮLONDE, 18-year-old Noni Piper, a Sydney radio star, has been chosen by director Ralph Smart from a hundred Australian girls to play Chipp Rafferty's daughter in Ealing's third Australian flim, Bitter Springs.

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