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THE

plans

his first English film

When Samuel Goldwyn Jarrives int London next month from his Continental tour, he hopes to have plans well advanced for big new film production in England.

It will be

the first picture jever made in this country by

Goldwyn.

A SEAT IN THE STALLS

SAME CHARLES CHAPLIN IF IN A NEW DISGUISE

are per-

Two years after its that he was a much less subtle. general release,

than Charles and aestheile character, Chaplin's

Wainwright. Monsieur. Verdoux Intest film,

is sad to be Chaplin's idea of "Monsieur Verdoux," is

tragi-comic projection of now here. It is the week-end Wainwright and Landru,

who Verdoux and meige lite attraction at the King's and

brought forward in this Liberty Theatres, Like all sonnity into the world between Chaplin's films, it has the two World Wars character that is essentially its own, Like his other films, it attempts, to convey a message.

The Verdoux presented to us by Chapllu is a surve and dapper boulevardier, We learn as the story unfolds that he bank clerk, that

Unlike his other films, it was once

he had served his bank

tries to drum its message fully for 30

taith

Elix-

of

was years, into us with what amounts charged in a period of depres- to an unnecessary chapter tion and with a jogle barn

murder added to

story nirendy desperation turned to toll. One feels that Chaplin

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na a career.

is uncertain that his public However much suave ur dap-

Π

1 tially the little man whom

VERDOUX

at times, tls a scene

any comedian,

from

in J world that inoves per, Chaplin remains. essen- lurity Annabella, Murtha Raye faster with every day has large

world would trample Chaplin, un accomplishment for enough patience left to read underfoot. Tato those scenes in the message from the story. which we see blm assume the

character of an elegant gentle- Then there is Mady Correll Had the flm been

little man, he puts all hus genius for whose charm of character my for a Madame Verdoux, a Wannan shorter and skipped this characterisation and pantomime. epilogue, il would rank with When he is at home with his to Chaplla's best. As it is, "Mon invalid wife and small son,

whom be murders sleur Verdoux" is n ifm not to support ԱԽՐ }lered

The

Естест

be- has wealthy widows, Verdoux known few artists of Le comes Chaplin. He is in his stature of Charles Chaplin-one element and the necessity notes in the billing that he is act a role falls away. no longer Charlie and to the confirmed einenia - goer

il

amounts almost to a ritunt that

whatever Chaplin offers has to be sampled.

"Mousleur Verdoux" is the Bluebeard. on to the

But, when I saw hen Insory of a modern Paris, Mr Goldwyn indiquanty The credits flashed denied that there plans had any

connection with his growing!

pile of frozen carnings here.

"That is no way to inaku #

good picture - just to

to use up currency in

neede

particular

country," he said. "No: I have # stury

which absolutely European selting erpecially an English setting

nd, to get the right amosphere, I would g anywhere in the world. Even without any

money there,"

NO COLDWYNISMS

Hollywood's most

producer tolks

celebrated

quietly, almost

apologetically, And he speaks English, not the Goldwynisins quoted by the studio publicists. "Mind you, I am on holiday

I can 50 I

afford to relax

now,

fir, my speech,"

Goldwyn told

me with a grin, "In bustness. hours, I feel it is only fair to

use more

Annabella (Martha Raye). picturesque phrases the woman who would not from time to time.

"I have my reputation to be liquidated.

think of."

Samuel Goldwyn, for 11

on an idea

Clerical Precision

10

It is difficult to separate cari- vature from portrait in Chaplin's Verdoux. Here we are present- rd with a character who with a elerical precision, with the llers, 1sts and appointment pad of the trained office worker, disposes of one victim after another.

*

In Verdoux we are given criminal who looks upon inur- der as a profession, a means of carning a comfortable Aving and of buying a villa in tla country to house a loved wife and child to whom he can re- turn for a spark of comfortable home life.

The story Chaplin unfolds on the screen is not a memorable one. It is simple enough and could be

remembered after all other memories of the film slip away.

No Caricature

Isobel

In Madame Grasnay, Elsam prescots us with a por-

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CHARLES CHAPLIN

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In "Monsieur Verdoux"

there is a peculiar intensity of drama...

sif even more

peculiar bysteria

of laughter the

and a strangelova

story that hurts.

*MONSIEUR VERDOUX*

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Mady Correll Verdoux.

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told with dramatic trait of an ample #n<l selt- force by most of Hollywood's possessed dowager that has in

film-makers.

it not a shade of caricature. There is about Madame Gro- The Am will remain peculiar y a dignity that Hollywood to itself for two reasons We have seen and will see other

is

Bluebeards on the screen, but net in the realm of other film. #Chaplinexque Bluebeard

makers' fantasy.

is nut in the habit of associat- ing with its portraits ot wealthy widows.

Minor characters who stand out are Ada May ns Annabella's

Louis as Robert

the maid, Secondly, there

Verdoux, cast pharmacist friend of That diffkdent manner, a really screen announce that it is based

Chaplin the five who make up the Cou- the fiery rebel of Hollywood Orson Welles. Chaplin himself

from embled that only orighating

could

assemble. A great artist vals family and the assistant at the producer who insists on

characters the florist's shop, a young lady wrote the screen play

unly could pick hits being independent of at the directed the film.

and the actors to enel them who is not even mentioned 11 with the same precision. All the cast, who appear in the picture

big studio machines.

The "G" in M.G.M. su!11 stands for Goldwyn; Goldwyn has long since himself adrift. to produce pictures the way he thinks right and to fight any of the major cinema controllers who don't famee with him.

The Chaplin Version here to tell the story. No

hru

one There is Ont Incongruity the minor about the Him. Cutulterable is superfluous and dramatis personne contribute to emphasis is put by Chaplin on The story is built fargely on the atmosphere of the im. capturing a French atmosphere tre career of one, Thomas

to every background. But out- Wainwright, a forger and mur- As in all Chaplin's dims, we side of Chaplin, whose portrait derer who was

friend of must have the poor girl whom of a Frenchman is an excellent Charles Lami and other the tramp befriends. This time one, few of the others in the literary celebrities of the early it Is Marilyn Nash, * new east succeed in losing independent man-Nineteenth Century. It is based screen personality who should American accent.

Wainright not be easily forgotten.

INDEPENDENT

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and I'm proud to be an inde- pendent producer, says

Goldwyn. "No big-machine

h

on a pen portrait of

by Oscar Wilde.

Then there is Martha Raye methods for me; none of those In creating his own version as Annabella, the only woman fashionable m 'cycles, with of Bluebeard, Chaplin also he sets out to kir whom Ver- each studio apeing the other, studied the originat Blue doux finds indestructible. As

"First in the field, then out beard-Landru and decided the vulgar

undeservedly

of

it and into notother-than's)

[nie!t_

What, in Goldwyn's view, is

the most significant channe

in the Am industry during the past few years?

110

That clnemingoers are longer asking "Who is in the picture?" but,

stead: "What Producers are fit, about?

now

having to find Lood

actors to ni the story, not stories to ft. the sturs,

"In other words, llnigoers have grown up," he said, "I have been waiting for them to

du so for 30 years-so now tan satisfied."

-(London Express Service)

BUSY ENOUGH

Although film production In British sludios was at a low ebb

1

at the time the Walt Disney ver- sion of "Treasure Island" was made in England, Howard Doug- Ins proved to be one English | actor, rarely out of work.

When Douglas was signed to portray Williams, faithful fer- vant of Squire Trelawney in "Treasure Island," it marked his (eighth movie role in two months, The American pleture was the 417th film in which Douglas has appeared.

Broderick Crawford is to have another stellar role. This will |be in Columbla's picturisation of the Broadway stage hit, "Born [Yesterday. la which Judy

Holliday will team with him.

and

Chaplin's latest poor girl, Marilyn Nash."

their

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Starring Dirk Bogarde, Juck Warner, Jimmy Hanley Robert Flemyng. "The Blue Lamp" is the story of polleemen on the beat, and in particular one constable, played by

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The film shows what happens when he gets involved in a cinema hold-up. Il arrival ani the scorte interrupts the grooks, one of whom fires at him point blank. The constable, seriously injured, eventually lies from his wounds and the picture traces the activities of Scotland Yard in bringing the inurderer to Justice.

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