Modern Screen (Feb-Dec 1958)

PERIODIC PAIN Midol acts three ways to bring relief from menstrual suffering. It relieves cramps, eases headache and it chases the "blues". Sally now takes Midol at the j ^ first sign of menstrual distress. r "WHAT WOMEN WANT TO KNOW" a 24-page book explaining menstruation is yours, FREE. Write Dep't F128, Box 280, New York 18, N. Y. (Sent in plain wrapper). WORTH SEEING THIS MONTH NEW MOVIES FOR SPECTACLE The Barbarian and The Geisha The Inn of the Sixth Happiness FOR DRAMA Separate Tables In Love and War FOR MUSIC Damn Yankees FOR LAUGHS The Tunnel of Love FOR HORSEPLAY Born Reckless Ingrid Bergman (right) becomes indispensable to Robert Donat (left), and Curt Jurgens, an Eurasian officer in the Chinese army, in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. THE INN OF THE SIXTH HAPPINESS Ingrid Bergman D 7 . . Curt Jurgens Bergman plays missionary Robert Donat Athene Seyler Michael David ■ Ingrid is a servant girl who has a burning desire to work as a missionary in China. Anyone can tell her she's unqualified. So she hoards her small salary and buys a ticket on the Trans-Siberian Railway — and almost winds up in a labor camp. Finally she arrives at the remote mountain town of Wancheng. This 'foreign devil' soon becomes indispensable to the Mandarin (Robert Donat) who has tested her by making her his Foot Inspector — she has to enforce a new law which forbids the binding of little girls' feet. She also becomes indispensable romantically — to Curt Jurgens, an Eurasian officer in the Chinese army. Ingrid is no mere do-gooder; she loves China and its people and becomes a citizen. Breathtaking mountain scenery, vivid and shocking scenes of civilian bombing, heartwarming incidents inspired by Ingrid's indomitable courage — go to make The Inn something to remember. — Cinemascope, 20th-Fox. THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEISHA John Wayne T _ Eiko Ando spectacle in Japan Sam Jaffe So Yamamura Kohichi Umino ■ For sheer spectacle alone this is an outstanding film. The setting is the empire of Japan in 18S6, untouched by Western influence. Here — in color and filmed in Japan — the costumes, the pageantry and the emotional atmosphere are brilliantly recreated. Townsend Harris (John Wayne) sails into the small port of Shimoda as United States Consul General to Japan, but Governor So Yamamura forbids him to land ; he does not recognize the treaty between the countries. John Wayne insists on recognition and is reluctantly given a house. But he and his interpreter, Sam Jaffe, are either harrassed or ignored by the superstitious population who hate and fear foreigners. In order to learn more about his enemy, Yamamura provides Wayne with a beautiful geisha girl, Eiko Ando, who is supposed to spy on him but becomes enchanted instead. Wayne becomes a sort of hero to the villagers when he stops a fierce cholera epidemic, and they escort him in an elaborate procession to the capital where he can advance his country's cause to the shogun. The colorful incidents are unforgettable. More than history, more than a love story, the film is a gorgeous documentary of an exotic land. — Cinemascope, 20th-Fox. THE TUNNEL OF LOVE and baby makes three! Richard Widmark Doris Day Gig Young Gia Scala Elizabeth Fraser ■ There's just no justice in the world. Take a man like Gig Young ; he plays fast and loose with the ladies but still manages to keep his wife happily supplied with offspring. Then take commercial artist Richard Widmark who is a model mate. He and his wife Doris Day want a child. But (Continued on page 8)