1950-10-28 — Page 4

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"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1950.

A SEAT IN THE STALLS

THE CENSOR GIVES SOME UNCENSORED NEWS

9.30 P.M.

A T. & Wetkine

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SOUTH CHINA MORNING, POST

Ban-children rules clear

the way for better films

KM0224530122201) AMSTELLS ABITAZIOASE

BY HAROLD CONWAY

Here is good nows from Britain's chief film consor.

Mr A. T. L. Watkins, whom I was taking to task a few weeks ago.

By the end of the year, The hopes, cinema 'audiences will at last he allowed to grow up-and see plctures which have not had the sense and point blue- pencilled out of them.

en-

Salaciousness for its own cake will not, Di course, be couraged. Bul short of that, producers will be able to send scripts on to the studio floor knowing that adult stories may be treated in an ndult manner.

Mr Watkins, in n long ilk asked me to give this news to producers und audiences alike. How encouraging to find a cen- Gor who admits that he hates censorship!

will

TIRED OF WAITING

What

this make volutionary change in policy possible? The granting of a new certificate for films-an "A only"

category which wil exclude under 16%, even when accom- panted by adults.

pre

SHOW TALKE

CLYNIS JOHNI

..a challenge for Dietrich

remaining big contract star-to make future Alms in let her Hollywood?

Rank-has a long-term option on Jean Simmons's time for a picture. Every year he on- nounces the intention of exercis-

thist

Ume option. This Jean was warned she must be rely to go.

Since then, there has been rilence from the Androclea front in Italy. A silence which may save Aisa Slinmont and A Granger writing another letter, beginning: "Please Mr Pascol."

TAKE IT EASY

I never exprefer to see that darling of critics and public, Betty Hulton, gel a

near-pan-

wing: but she has come off a bad second-best to Fred Astaire in that new film, Let's Dance.

Can it be that Miss Hutton has pranced and roared once too often? If so, Hollywood should enim down. fake heed-and allow the girl to

I contend that this star should

My bellet is that Mr Rank has be stopped singing and dancing been expecting the appeal for in

future. She has always sure time-and

will say "Go

thown signs of being a first- and be happy." Though he has class actress when keeping still. options un AURS SammRJAS 3 BAL - vices for two yeary more, Rank

Miss Hulton knows it, too. "I and hitt producers know that an

much prefer

A myself as actress does her best work where straight actress, but I live to her heart Hes.

du what my employers order," she told me during her London vizit, "Audicnees don't tire of ceting, but I could easily play myself out with those sang-und- dance unties."

soon see Holly

negotiating

to

So we may MGM "We are tired of waiting for wool's this certicate." Mr Watkins take over part of Jean's con- rays. "I agree with all you have track:-MGM being Stewart sald about the anomalies. Granger's present employers.

cinemagoers Grown-up

I gather there are no Rank having their intelligence seri- feed for the sake of the young- plans for a new Simmons pic-

this year, slers, whom we cannot keep out.

though her American "leave" is nearly over. The decks had been ricarea no that she could go tơ Italy and make Shaw's Androcles and ine Llan for Gabriel Pascal,

"After what you wrole I went. to the premiere of that French flin, Passionnelle. I found some of the cuts made by my own Board so absurd that I had them restored next moming. Thu

is the kind of excersive zeal the present censorship system can

encourage.."

The "A only certificate

Whitchall expected to receive sanction by Christmas,

"After that, new pictures can be judged with adult cycümand we can keep out of everybody's why," promised Mr Watkins.

No censor can say fairer, or more modestly thari that,

THE GUTHRIE KNIFE

Stage producers are accus- tomed to cutting chunks out of other people's plays-or persuading the authors them- selves to do the cutting. Now Tyrone Guthrie, one of our finest producers, has had to apply a surgical knife to his own play.

Taking the critics' advice after the first night he has shortened "Top Of The Ladder" by 25 icinutes-a painful sacrifice for anty dramatist. One big chunk has gone from the beginning, unother from the end.

"I've never denkt with so reasonable 1101 nuthor," Soya Guthrie, "He took the operation without inching,

Result: "Top of the Ladder''I is now down to comfortabiy ree hours' running time under three

at the St James's.

As D

Fur John Mills, the star, the shortened version comes relief--especially on matince tinyu For he has to be on the stage throughout, except for three minutes in, the last ect.

STATELESS DIETRICH

ture

The ebullient Mr Pascal who once spent £1,300,000 mal- ing Caesar and Cleopatra

for

MAGGIE AT

Now I hear that Miss Hution's next rule is a dramatic one-in cnited Sadle Smiter, a story about the shady side of politics. But even here there is to be a "murical ingredient" in a back- around of the Roaring Twenties.

if that means Betty Hutton roaring too, I give up hope.

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HER BEST

Margaret Sullavan, now too seldorn seen on the screen and busy on Broadway, plays one of her best know those

low roles in years in "No Sad Songs For Me", now showing Lones OI Marlene Dietrich, that husky accoat at the Lee Theatre.

-You vibrant

nearly 20 years of Hollywood?

which still fascinates after This is a touching and a well presented story of n Would you say they belonged woman who learns that she has but 1b months left to to a native of Indiana, USA.?

live and decides to encourage a successor to herself as Miss Dietrich doesn't think so

wife to the husband and mother to the child she is to citler. That is why me arrived in London worrying about her leave behind. role in No Highway as a star Irom the Indiana town of Terre Haute. ..

British critics have described the film as one of the best to come out of Hollywood this year.

In the picture above, Mary Scott (Margaret To pacify Marlene the charpc- ter on the screen will be left Sullavan) learns that she is doomed to die from cancer.

stateless so far as Below, a dramatic moment with the successor of her. discreetly

relief cholce Viveca Lindfors). dialogue goes. What from those coy references in some British films, to the Holly- star having. "been to

from

In the Stales" or

wood school Canuda,

Producera

have a habit of matching Dietrich against formidable competition from other star actresses, then letting them fight it out for honours,

In her lust two Alms she entered the ring with Jean Arthur and Jane Wymun-and achieved knock-out blows.

This time I am not no suŢIE. In No Highway our own Glynis Johns la ploying the air hostess who Cets James Stewart for husband in the end. And Miss Johns, with her still, small voice, is no mean exponent of stage- and film ringeraft.

She has been acting slump out

the scene-offortlessly and with- put intention—since the age of

welve.

PASSED TO MR RANK

What will Mr Rank say

It he receives that appeal from Jean Bimmons-his last

It's A Man WithDoom In His Bag

By

STEPHEN WATTS

The 36-year-old twin brothers, John and Roy Boulting, have already sub- stantial recorda-or rather one joint record, for they always work together-a9| makers of British films.

They were only 23 when they formed their own pro- ducing company and their first film, Consider Your Verdict," made for £1,800, catablished them as young

men worth watching.

But they have done more in their 13-year career than make a name for them. selves and. presumably, money. They have made a reputation for courage. taste and judgment. The first film to be frank about the Nazis was their "Pastori Hall." With "Thunder Rock" they greatly daring) tackled the supernatural, for which the film is so spt

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medium but which is generally regarded as box- office suicide.

of

They braved the politica "Fame Is The Spur," brought Graham Greene to the screen; with "Brighton Rock," and last # Sehr they decided to im story which they must have known would involve them in special difficulties. It was call-

ed "Seven Days to Noon."

It is therefore n pleasure to report that "Seven Days. To Noon" is not only a first-class Alm

m but that It is ntrendy proving Arst-class popular success in London,

The cvi- dence is that the picture fikrd by all levels of in- telligence in the audience and It seems that it

cannot

de cther than enhance the prestige ct British Alms wherever it is shown.

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The special difficulties of the subject are really threefold: It is not a "star vehicle," Its lending part, calling for a.mid- die-aged scientist totally de- void of glamour, it involves a fictitious evacuation of London which is not the easiest thing in the world to simulate con- vincingly, and it deals with the atom bomb, about which is notoriously difcult to re- main level-headed, Оп the cther hand, the Boultings must have known that they had got Fald of the rarest thing in film-making-a

novel truly Icea which was at once CX- citing, intelligent and topical..

Like all good ideas, It

сли

of

be capsulated in a sentence: a leading atomic scientist, com- ing to the conclusion that his work is serving the forces evil, vanishes from laboratory and home with a bomb in his suitcase and sends a letter to the Prime Minister announcing that unless the atomic weapon

is publicly renounced by Government within

the

week he will detonate his bomb and destroy most of London.

of

Once, of

course, the idea would have been a piece wild melodrama. Now I impossible to dismiss the roton as implausible withou! nn uneasy feeling that tomor- row's newspapers might make it come terrifyingly true.

NONE SO EFFECTIVE

Many Aims have attempted to put London on the screen, some have succeeded to a dei gree, but none has, achieved so eflective success 05 "Seven Days To Noon," The city serves ав the haystack in which the needle (the scientist) is hidden. And what a drama- tic, fantalising haystack it is. The film opens slowly not draggingly slow but

purpose- ful. For to Scotland Yard the ultimatum leiter

the Is Just routine outburst of

a crank, But when it is checked, and the discovery made that the writer is who he claims to be ond In fact, missing. the pace quickens and the tension Gevelops

The climax comes with the EvDquation scenes and how well the Boultings, na produ cer and director, understand The

temperament of the. Lon- doner. The observation of mats psychology under stress yet fonding to the chirpy and facetious, is quite brilliantly

dore..

The film makes no prolen- alons to be more than an«in» telligent thriller, and, because it: In something more, It Buc coeds amply in. It aims. The acting-la

of high standard throughout; especially by Bar- ry Jones, who gives the selen tist the right touch of the dis- interested,"" humanistic mind at the end of its tether without melodramaties, by Olive Sloane -as- ad ' ageing ex-actress under- Estandably terrifed to and her- Czelf housing a man with doom In his bag, and by Andre Mar- rell, a most impressively realla tic detective.

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