Pathéscope 9.5mm Sound (1956)

FORTY-SEVEN Drama becomes the star cabaret turn. Jealousy and murder add complications to a gripping tale told with craftsman's skill by Dupont, and photographed most brilliantly against the lavish settings. Werner Brandes and Alfred Jijnge, two top-flight German technicians, were responsible for the photography and decor respectively, while Charles Laughton makes a brief but unforgettable appearance as an irate diner. SB/30034 The Informer. (3 Reels.) Directed by the distinguished German director, Arthur Robison, for a British company, this film was the first to be based on Liam O'Flaherty's povirerful novel of the same name, dealing with the Irish rebellion. With Lars Hansen, Lya de Putti, Warwick Ward, and Carl Harbord. Here is drama of the first order, a fugitive from justice betrayed by a former comrade, two men's love for the same girl, and the fearsome vengeance of the gang upon the informer. Robison's direction is tense, and the culminating roof-top battle with the police excitingly done. SB/30039 Dolores. (2 Reels). Featuring Gerald Ames and Benita Hume. That his young friend Ramiro might see Dolores in her true light, Don Andres pays attention to the g.rl and finds her susceptible to his more mature manhood. In making his plans he arranges for the boy to discover, seemingly by accident, the alliance so provoked. Sick at heart, the youngster goes off into the mountains and is only saved from certain death in scaling a perilous height by turning back to render help to his friend who slips and falls in endeavouring to restrain the boy whom Dolores really loves. SB/30043 The Lion Tamer. (2 Reels). Featuring George Bellamy. A film Vifith dramatic happenings set in unusual surroundings, the life of a circus adding interest to the account of Professor Swinley's flight from justice. For refuge, he joins a circus and exercises his power over the lions. Soon he is a popular attraction, but the time comes when he is accused of a second crime, murder. Fortunately he is cleared of both cases, but instead of returning to his studies he remains with the circus and the girl he loves. This film will assuredly be popular with your audiences. SB/30059 Tommy Atkins. (2 Reels). Featuring Lilian Hall-Davis and Henry Victor. A British International Picture. A stirring melodrama w^oven round events in the English mansion of an earl and ending with a great fight between a British Force and Arabs in the desert of Egypt. The story concerns the consequences of a disaster which overtook a small force in the Sudan and left only two survivors, one the heir to an earldom. His rescuer hides his identity in return for a sum of monev By the time the truth comes out, the young man has joined the Army and is somewhere abroad. His rival for the earldom and the love of a girl at home tells him the true facts just before he dies from wounds received during the battle which brings the film to a close. SB/30070 The Manxman. (2 Reels.) A British International Picture directed by A'fred Hitchcock. With Carl Bresson and Anny Ondra. Hall Caine's well-known story of the lives and fate of two Manxmen, one a humble fisherman, his friend a successful lawyer, and how they both became inextricably involved with the same pretty girl. Hitchcock makes the most of the drama that is woven within the romance, and the location shots of the Isle of Man scenery are delightful. SB/30071 Kitty. (2 Ree's.) A Burlington Picture, with Estelle Brody and John Stuart. Based on Warwick Deeping's famous novel about the young wife, Kitty St. George, confronted with the two-fold task of nursing her husband back to health after severe injuries