Modern Screen (Dec 1954 - Dec 1955)

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PLEASURE MAP OF U.S. -WITH TOUR DETAILS Mail to Greyhound Tour Dept., 71 W. Lake St., Chicago, III. for map — with details on 50 Tours. Name -■ Address , City & State Send me special information on a tour to: DM-2-5B GREYHOUND CREST OF THE WAVE The British Navy is hard at work on a little island off Scotland. That is, they were hard at work perfecting an underwater missile when the perfecter himself exploded testing the tricky thing. American scientist Gene Kelly arrives with helpmates Jeff Richards and Fred Wayne. These two bunk with a crew of British seamen and have their own little dramas involving international amity, plain amity and the meaning of heroism. Kelly's British assistant, John Justin, resents him. He figures the missile was just about perfect and now Kelly is going to walk away with all the glory. Kelly is more anxious to walk away alive which is why he displays such thoroughness and starts his experiments from scratch. Even so, the first trial run ends in disaster. Looks like the jig is up until Justin gets an inspiration and everybody feels brotherly love. With Bernard Lee, Sidney James — MGM THE BLACK KNIGHT From Castles Usk to Yoenil to Camelot; from dungeon to tower to Patricia Medina runs Alan Ladd. And who is there to stop him? Well, there are some crazy knights. Ontzlake, for one. Wait a minute! Ontzlake is his only friend. Ontzlake (Andre Morell) gives him a horse; King Arthur (Anthony Bushell) gives him leave and Ladd gets ready to avenge the burning of his master's castle. (Patricia is master's daughter.) Okay. So King Arthur is having his own troubles. Sir Palamides, his Saracens dressed like Vikings, and King Mark want to overthrow him and Christianity. Not that Arthur believes it. He tosses Alan into a dungeon, thinks he's the traitor. Wait till you see all those pagans whooping it up at the Druid's Temple with poor old Pat writhing on the Sacrificial Stone. Wait till you see those Saracens storming Camelot. Guess who gets knighted after the battle. Technicolor — Col. "SO THIS IS PARIS" If this is Paris, I'm Helen of Troy, but I'll go along with a gag. Sailors Tony Curtis, Gene Nelson and Paul Gilbert looking for romance find Gloria De Haven, Corinne Calvet and Mara Corday. Not all at once, but the idea's the same. Tony thinks Gloria is a sophisticated French singer since she's singing in a French cafe. Turns out she's a Jackson Heights, New York, American with five kids. This gives Tony pause, till he's assured they're orphans. He likes Gloria but Corinne Calvet, who is loaded with French money, flips for him. Gloria is furious; Gene Nelson is jealous (Corinne was. Ms discovery) and the guy who has been paying for the orphans dies. Tony arranges a big charity bazaar at Corinne's place when Corinne isn't home. Because if Corinne were home she would call the police. But she does come home. Fate, you know. Plenty of songs and dances. Technicolor — U.I. DRUMBEAT All of a sudden Alan Ladd, who has shot more Indians than anyone, is appointed Peace Commissioner by President Grant. He's got to talk sense to those scalp-happy Modocs who are piling up trophies along the California-Oregon border. Ladd will talk but Captain Jack (Charles Branson) won't listen. Me big man, he grunts, thumping his chest. All the Modocs aren't naughty. Marisa Pavan and her brother Tony Caruso are reservation types. They ride with Ladd into hostile Modoc territory, eyes peering at them from every rock and root. Ladd talks to Bronson. No soap. Next thing you know there's a massacre. Ladd is itching to pull that trigger because the Army can't fight Indians worth a dime. Finally Ladd, a general (Warner Anderson) and some other earnest characters arrange a peace parley. Disaster. Go get him, boy, the President tells Ladd and Ladd nabs that monster Modoc in no time. With Audrey Dalton. CinemaScope — Warners THE GOOD DIE YOUNG The title of this movie stumps me. Don't see much good about three men who can't find anything better to do than sit in a pub drinking beer and falling into trouble. Weak, maybe. Confused, maybe. John Ireland has this bit player (Gloria Grahame) for a wife but she has ambition. Every time he's on leave from the Air Force she's on the town with a movie star. Richard Basehart is in England to carry home bis war bride (Joan Collins) but all he has to do is lift a valise and his mother-in-law (Freda Jackson) takes an overdose of sleeping pills. And Stanley Baker — he's a boxer who has finally saved enough money to quit the ring but is too beat up for normal employment. All of them fall under the spell of Laurence Harvey, a playboy supported by his wife (Margaret Leighton). He talks them into robbery No violence, says he. My, what a liar !— U.A. ; J; RECOMMENDED FILMS NOW PLAYING A STAR IS BORN (Warners): Judy Garland and James Mason in the story of a girl who became a star with the help of a man who couldn't help himself. The acting is fine, the musical numbers wonderful. No one should miss it. Technicolor and CinemaScope. THE COUNTRY GIRL (Para.) : Bing Crosby delivers a superb performance in a tense, beautifully acted version of Odets' hit play about a has-been actor, his wife (Grace Kelly) and director (William Holden). CARMEN JONES (20th-Fox): Dorothy Dandridge is probably the sexiest Carmen ever seen on the screen. Harry Belafonte as Joe is fine, Pearl Bailey great, the singing excellent, Hammerstein's lyrics ring remarkably true — and the music was good to begin with. CinemaScope. PHFFFT! (Col.): Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon, teamed this time in the bright and clever story of a just-divorced couple. Light-weight but very funny. With Jack Carson. UNCHAINED (Hall Bartlett) : An exciting, off-beat prison story about an off-beat prison. Elroy Hirsch, Barbara Hale. THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA (U.A.): An amazing mixture of love, sex, satire, tragedy and Technicolor that will keep you fascinated, if slightly confused. Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Edmond O'Brien and others turn in topnotch performances in this complex Cinderella-like tale.