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The film from which these pictures taken has startled some people

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in Britain, but STEPHEN WATTS says:

BACK STREET Don't be afraid

ty FANNIE HURST Directed by ROBERT STEVENSON

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EPSOM, 1949. THE DERBY MORNING SHOW SUNDAY

AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY LOUIS HAYWARD. JANET BLAIR

in 4

"THE BLACK ARROW"

A Columbia Picture

of the "Snake"

THE night after I saw "The Snake Pit" I lost no sleep. There is no need for any normal grown-up to be afraid to see it. If it makes you want to run away, you ought to take a square look at life one day.

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It is about people whom, before fancy. jargon arrived, we would have called mad, about a place wo woukl call a lunatic asylum, but it does not sensationalise >them.

Controversy

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THE TRUE STORY OF A NATION'S HIDDEN SHAME!

THE PRISONER OF SHARK ISLAND

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ARLENE DAHL

MIT TO FOLLOW "That Mad Mr. Jones"

QUEENS:

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A Laughin', Riotin' Round-Up of Song and Spectacio! DENNIS, MORGAN * JACK CARSON In

TWO TEXAS KNIGHTS"

Colour by Technicolor and 7. Boautios

Another U,5.5.R. Super Production!

HE STORY ABOUT A REAL MAN".

MOR once, the censor is right in his "adults only" decision. Children shouldn't see this fim, but to have put it in the "horrific" category, with the gruesome-for-fum subjects like "Dracula," would have been absurd and insulting.

This story of a woman who has a mental breakdown does not exploit her suffering and her cure. I reports them.

If it takes you close to a subject you don't often think about it is no bad thing. It can only make you more sym- pathetic to the pitiable deranged.

Magnificent Performance

NE thing is beyond all the controversy which rages and will continue to rage around this picture-the performance of Olivia de Havilland is magnificent and moving. Leo Genn, whose voice alone is therapeutic, makes psychiatry a patient, dedicated science Instead of the smart-Aleck three-card trick Hollywood so often suggests it to be.

But don't chase after "The "The Sanke Pi" if your alm in cinema-going is to escape into sunshine, stardust, and life in primary Technicolours.

-{London Express Sarvice)

Red Skelton plays an American Civil War spy ́in "A Southern Yankee,” now showing at the Queen's. Co-starred Is Arlene Dahl (above). If you haven't yet tired of Skelton's one facial expression you'll laugh.

Notes From British Studios:

A Ballet Expert Taught Them The Charleston

ON

He is exelted at the prospect

Produced by Jit IPATEST Direct My GEORDE MARSHALL

Faramount praiants";

AULETTE MACDONALD

GODDARD CAREY

HAZARD

San-Fred CLARK • Stoniey CLEMENTS: Trunk TAYLEN Hosie ROSENBLOOM,

MARX BROS. in

NE scene in the British scored his greatest successes in TO-MORROW: "A Night In Casablanca”

Lion Production "The dialect character parts. Angel With The Trumpet" of playing a voluble French THE MOST UP-TO-DATE THEATRE ON THE MAINLAND ahows a wild party of the man, in contrast to such roles 20s given in Vienna by as the Cockney husband in I Hermann (Oscar Werner) the cynical schoolmaster. in, Mr Always Rains On Sunday, and

Ne'er-do-well son of Francis Perrin And Mr Traill. and Henrietta Alt (Basil he will be appearing with Eric In The Spider And The Fly Sydney and Eileen Herlie). Portman, Guy Rolfe and Nadia For this the actors and ac- Gray, the young Rumanian dis trcsecs have to dance the covery. Charleston-rago

of the post-1914 war years. AB

out

they were all too young to JEAN SIMMONS leaves Eng have learnt it at the time, to carry

land in the first week of July personal ap- ballet expert David Pal- pearances in Germany and Aus- tenghi Was engaged to tria in connection with Tho teach them the steps.

Blue Lagoon. She will then have thro weeks' holiday in Switzerland, before returning to England to start work on So Long-At-The-Fair.-

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STELLE BRODY, star of many British films between 1927 and 1933, has the role of

an American Wirt Divided. Two THE old rivalry between Lan-

in They Were Not

cachire and Yorkshire

on

Chies' Alm of the Guards Armoured Division's wartime the cricket fleld has been con- European advance, which is now Robert Donat chooses his

tinued in friendly fashion 05 cast on location In Germany.

Petite, dark-haired Estelle for first production "The Cure

Is a French Canadian, nu directing at Isleworth Studios. Brody

which he is now For Love," her accent can sound convinc- ingly American. Her first film

Donat Ifcading the cost is

Featured with him ure Dota Bryan, born in cashire, and Mnjorie Rhodes

Southport, Lan from Yorkshire. Other important parts are played by John Strat-

her

was the silent picture Mademol himself from Manchester. selle From Armentieres. Among Bryan

many successes are in Wakes, Gladeye and the flying film, Flight Commander, which Sir Alan Cobham appear

ed.

ton, Q nowcomer born in Clitheroe, and Francis Wigunt. from Preston. A Yorkshire lad, John French, was runner up [MPORTANT role of a French for the role of Claude, won by 1 Cabinet Minister. In The Francis. Lancashire also con- Spider And The Fly will be a tributes Edna Morris, - from new departure for Yorkshireman Bolton, in the part of Mrs Hartl Edward Chapman, who has son.

BROADWAY: BAN STARTS NEW FIGHT BETWEEN UNIONS AND TELEVISION

Bad films cause big

slump in U.S.A.

From FREDERICK COOK in New York

MERICA has

box-office

sloh. Mr James Caesar Petrillo, But one of the men who made boss of the Musicians'

Union. It all possible, Lloyd Espons has banned soundtrack from ehled, says: "The British.telovi television flims,

sion experts are doing a far bet- ter job. We in this country ought to be ashamed. "óf? our-

The studios are seeking ways selves." to elreumvent the kan. Pro- never of Broadway, the new Rogers ducers are snapping up. Round- needed good British Astaire dancing film, there has track in Mexice, France, South

fot been one picture recently America and Swellen, for, dub- ́· fline so

much as she does that has stuck in people's minds bing in today. The current Holly Ave minutes after they have left

the cinema. wood crop are appalling.

Rita boom

DEQUESTS have poured into. Jerry Fairbanks, one of Holly I Columbia Platures' head- wood's busiest exécutives in the quartors, ever since Rita Hay- After alms about newspaper- alms-for-television field, sant an worth married, for films of hers, men, is about doctors and entire company to Mexico City

me about gangsters, we now and made 20 shorts there have Alms about baseball.

One chain of cinemas covering the country admita that receipts are down by 15 percent. In California.

Soon we shall have It Hap two chains say there is a 25

pehs Every Spring, in. which porrent drop. Broadway is Ray Alland plays a professor Hecretivo about figures, but who turns to bareball as a pro.

star.

Try-out for plays'

however old.

Two of her dancing hits, Cover Girl, with Gene Kelly, and You Were Never Laveller, with Astaire, are to go on as a double feature,2,3) MA

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On the legitimate theatro, I see no "standing room Opposite him in Jean Felers. television is providing”, d⠀⠀ Bernard Shaw's next birth-

who is tipped as one of the only signa.

year's discoveries, and is said to try-out medium for new plays, day will be celebrated on Broad- have the sort of verve and wit atan of the cost of even way with a televisión production What Is - wrong? It is partly that made, Carole Lombard a smalltown theatre,

age of The Devil's Disciple.... telev'a'on, partly the thret of

Leonom Corbett in lipped” (for concern called For the lead, here in Noti Cowardle A now summer: but most, of all 16 In hopelessly bad. Hollywood pic

Angels Only will feature tele- new comedy (South Sea Bubble. tures

vision performances of impro- on Broadway Home and duced plays Behind it aro Colonial in the West End) if Ata 25 Le... Gallenne, ? Bidney Gertrude Lawrenos decides blackmer, Fare Emerson, Wal- to take the partedes not ter Abel and other well-known

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