Independent Exhibitors Film Bulletin (1956)

V "You Can't Run Away from It" Rate*? GOO Re-maUe of "It Happened One Night", with songs. Lighthearted, fast-paced. Should register well above average. This lively Technicolor-CinemaScope re-make of the 1934 Oscar winning "It Happened One Night" should find good audience response. It offers June Allyson rendering several bright new songs and Jack Lemmon contributing the laughs. While oid-timers might say it lacks the spontaneity of the original, Dick Powell's production for Columbia release bounces along happily for 95 minutes of light, family entertainment, and even those who happily recall the original will find themselves enjoying this immensely. Miss Allyson, as the runaway rich girl, is dainty, delightful and smartly dressed. Lemmon gives his role of scoop-hunting news reporter an individual interpretation, refreshing and laugh-filled. Five new Johnny MercerGene de Paul tunes are offered, and comedy is added by the diverse talents of nightclub comedian Henny Youngman, Stubby ("Guys and Dolls") Kaye, Jim Backus, Paul Gilbert, and Allyn Joslyn. Powell, doubling as director, displays a skillful sense of comedy timing, and rolls the action along at a lively clip. Unemployed newspaperman Lemmon meets Miss Allyson after she runs away from her protecting father, Charles Bickford, who objected to her marriage to playboy Jacques Scott. Realizing there's an exclusive story in the runaway heiress, Lemmon offers to help her escape. While hitchhiking, spending nights together (platonically) in a motel and hay field, they fall in love. When Lemmon leaves to get money from his editor, Miss Allyson think he has abandoned her. Bickford finds her, agrees to let her re-marry Scott. Lemmon turns up to cover wedding, they skip off together. Columbia. I A Dick Powell Production!. 95 minutes. June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Charles Bicktord. Produced and directed by Dick Powell. "Julie" Sutiiete IZatiHQ O O Plus Fairly engrossing melodrama of romance and murder. Pace fast, but plausibility lacking. OK marquee value in Doris Day. The charm and appeal of Doris Day lifts this M-G-M suspense melodrama a bit above conventional standards. The action under Andrew L. Stone's direction moves at a good pace, but the plotting lacks plausibility. Grosses should be a mite above average generally, with Miss Day attracting some fern trade. Barry Sullivan, Louis Jourdan and Frank Lovejoy provide fair added marquee values. Miss Day, who is developing into a fine dramatic actress, introduces the picture with a title tune. When she discovers her pianist husband, Jourdan, murdered her first husband, Miss Day runs away. Because it is her word against Jourdan's, police are unable to help. Her late husband's cousin, Sullivan, drives her to a San Francisco hotel where Jourdan immediately locates and threatens her via phone. When she takes her old job as airline hostess, Jourdan boards the same plane. In a struggle in mid-air, Jourdan and the pilot shoot it out and both die. With the help of radar and radio instructions from the field, Miss Day sets the plane down safely. M-G-M 11 minutes. Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank Lovejoy. Produced by Martin Melcher Directed by A-drew L. Stone. Page H Film BULLETIN October IS. '956 "The Silent World" Scuincte IZatutf. O O O Rating is for art houses. Fascinating documentary of undei seas explorations. Good dualler in general market. This year's Cannes Festival first-prize winner is a faS cinating and technically superb marine documentary wit as much drama, action, and imagination as any fiction? stcry. Produced in Technicolor by Jacques-Yves Cousteai world renowned underwater explorer-writer, and Loui Made, it took a year to film in the depth of the Medite ranean and Red seas and the Indian Ocean. Distribute by Columbia, it is sure to enjoy great success in art house and should find good response as a dualler in the gene: market. This amazing record of the oceanographic e pedition employs highly skillful skin divers, special earner equipment, aqua-lungs, submarine scooters, underwat torches and floodlights. Thrilling underseas exploits mak "The Silent World" an outstanding boxoffice attraction fo those seeking something new and exciting, as well a "serious" moviegoers. Actors are the crew of the labor; tory ship, Calypso. Director Cousteau's English narrath is accompanied by music that blends with the shimmerinj emerald waters and multi-colored fish. Dramatic incident include : an encounter with playful porpoise following thi ship : a meeting with herd of sperm whales, the cutting o a baby whale by the ship's propeller, necessitating shootj ing it to ends its suffering, and the appearance of shark at the scent of blood to devour the whale. Columbia. ICo-produced by Filmad-F. S. J. Y. C.I 86 minutes. Produced b Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Mane. Directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau. 'The Mountain" ScC4lKC44 IRtl&Kf O O PIUS Spencer Tracy turns in fine performance in tense mountain climbing melodrama. Will need strong selling. A beautifully mounted VistaVision-Technicolor produc tion, "The Mountain" is bolstered by a first-rate perform ance by veteran Spencer Tracy and some exciting mountain-climbing scenes. However, its boxoffice value i. . questionable since stories of this type have rarely beei successful. Produced and directed by Edward Dmytryk the melodramatic story of two brothers (representing gooc and evil) suffers somewhat from the miscasting of Rober Wagner as the wicked one, and Claire Trevor as a Bavari an farm maid. However, visually this Paramount offering is very striking. The minute details of the slow and pain ful climb up snow-covered Mount Blanc in the Alps mak< for some gripping footage of high suspense and adventure Tracy, inarticulate sheepherder and once-famous mountair climber, leads his greedy brother, Wagner, up the ruggec terrain of Mount Blanc to locate a crashed airliner. Wag ner plans to steal the contents of the plane. At the wreck age they find one live, injured Hindu woman. Tracj nurses her, while Wagner loots the dead bodies. Trac> rigs a make-shift sled to transport the woman. Heavy with jewels and money, Wagner frantically follows, but falls into a glacier gap. Tracy tries to convince authorities tha' his brother really saved the woman and that he looted the plane, but they are not misled. Paramount. I0S minutes. Spencer Tracy, duced and directed by Edward Dmytryk. Robert Wagner. Claire Trevor. Prol li