Pathéscope 9.5mm Sound (1956)

FORTV-SIX 1) rum a SB/866 Prince Alexia. (3 Reels). On his way home. Prince Alexia learns of the death of his father and the installation of his younger brother as King of Axelbourg. After battling to retrieve all that he has lost in the way of inheritance, Alexia renounces his rights so that he may be with the woman he loves. SB/869 Motive for Murder. (4 Reels). Pressed by his partner, Henry Corradin, Julian Villand has forbidden his wife to see an old friend of the family of whom he has suddenly become jealous. Returning unexpectedly from a journey, Villand learns that the restriction has been disregarded. Between husband and friend a quarrel ensues and the latter collapses. Villand hurries for a doctor and on his return finds his wife's friend a corpse. Arrested, tried and condemned, the husband goes to prison, but eventually escapes to establish his innocence a camera cannot lie I SB/885 La Maternelle. (4 Reels.) Directed by Jean Benoit-Levy and Marie LLpstein. This striking film is one of the most charming productions of the modern French cinema. It tells the story of a young girl, who finds her true bent working among the children of an orphanage, and its interpretation of the child mind has only rarely been equalled. Humour and pathos alternate in a clever rhythm, and as a famous critic has said, the film has " extraordinary vitality, emotion, and intelligence. " The heroine is played, most touchingly, by Madeleine Renaud, now married to Jean-Louis Barrault and who still, occasionally, graces the French screen, ■while the hundred or so extraordinarily natural children are led in performance by little Paulette Flambert. SB/4424 Oliver Twist. (4 Reels.) With Dickie Moore as Dickens's famous boy hero. Fagin, Bill Sykes, the Artful Dodger, and a procession of other immortals move across the screen exactly as if they were drawn by Cruikshank himself. In perfect settings and costume is revealed the familiar tale of " the boy who asked for more. " SB/30027 Blackmail. (2 Reels.) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, with Dona'd Calthrop, John Longden, and Anny Ondra. This famous British film is one of the landmarks in cinema history, and it first brought Hitchcock world fame. Its thrilling story of a young Scotland Yard detective, whose fiancee is threatened, quite unwittingly, with both a murder charge and threats from a slimy blackmailer, and how the path of duty leads him into direct conflict with the paths of love, is of equal interest to the manner in which the master-craftsman of suspense handles it. The development of character, swiftness of action, and mounting tension expected from a Hitchcock film, not forgetting the authentic London background with its famous policeman, are all here. SB/30029 The Ring. (2 Reels.) Directed for British International Pictures by Alfred Hitchcock. This was also Hitchcock's first original screen-play and his best silent film. Starring Carl Brisson, Gordon Harker, Ian Hunter, and Lilian Hall-Davis. From the brilliant opening sequence of a bustling fairground, this film has plenty of drive and action. It unfolds the rise of a young boxer, hi.s troubles with his wife, who becomes infatuated with a rival and the famous climax of the championship fight at the Albert Hall, where he wins the title and regains his wife's affection. The telling is masterly, and no amateur cine worker can fail to learn much therefrom. SB/30030 Piccadilly. (3 Reels.) Directed by E. A. Dupont. Scenario and sub-tit'es by Arno'd Bennett. With Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas, Cyril Richard, and Charles Laughton. A British International Pictures Production, probably the best film produced by this company. High life and low life in London's West End, with the enchanting .'\nna May Wong acting (and dancing) the part of Shosho, a girl dish-washer in a fading Piccadilly night-club, who