Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

lusty guerrillas). They're both shot at dawn. One of the girls (not B. Bel Geddes) waits out her pregnancy in camp, while another ( Jeanne Moreau) finds it very hard not to fall in love with a Xazi prisoner (Richard Basehart). Sylvana. fighting like a lion, takes part in a daring raid on her home town during a Xazi celebration. Heflin (and life) are beginning to teach her that violence, is sometimes necessary. — Paramount. THE ADVENTURES OF Eddie Hodges HUCKLEBERRY FINN Tony Randall ■ Huckleberry Finn is admittedly a classic, but why people think it's for children remains a mystery. Huck is a child (Eddie Hodges), but they don't make them like that any more — thank goodness. He has more 'personality' almost than you can take — and crafty? Such a little liar has rarely been found the whole length of the Mississippi. His saving grace is that he lies for the sake of a greater truth and. also, to stay alive. His father (Xeville Brand), a mean, miserable alcoholic who lives in a filthy shack, orders the two gentle ladies who've been harboring Huck to sell their slave. Jim (Archie Moore), for $500 and give him the money — or else give him Huck. Huck and Jim escape on a raft. Together they run into 'slicker' Tony Randall and his companion. Mickey O'Shaughnessey, who overpower the pair and use them to swindle a couple of young girls out of their inheritance. When, through Huck's efforts. Randall is exposed he promises to get even. Huck becomes a cabin bov on a riverboat and runs into Randall again. Learning that Randall plans to have Jim captured as a runaway. Huck and Jim swim to shore, where Huck talks their way into Andy Devine's circus (offering Jim as an exotic King of the Patagonians) . Randall catches up again and this time bloodhounds are set after Jim. This is a lively picture of the Old South from the pen (although several times removed) of Mark Twain. — Cinemascope. MGM. HERCULES UNCHAINED Steve Reeves Sylva Koscina Primo Camera Sylvia Lopez Gabriele Antonini cr-.ciem ■resiem ■ Rest assured you can bend Hercules (Steve Reeves) but you can't break him. He is a walking gymnasium, completely equipped. That may be why Queen Omphale (Sylvia Lopez) wants him for her king. This queen has one king after another. The reason Sylvia has access to so many kings is because there's a spring in the bottom of her garden which, if you drink of it, makes you forget everything. By the time Hercules has quenched his thirst he's surrounded by a bevy of beautiful handmaidens. This is dangerous because Hercules has just left a beautiful bride (Sylva Koscina) at Thebes and has a message he must deliver within three days to Mimmo Palmara. If Hercules doesn't get through. Mimmo and his horde of Argives will swoop down on Thebes and massacre its inhabitants. All because Mimmo's brother, who's been ruling Thebes for one year, has gone back on his word to let Mimmo rule the second vear. Mimmo's brother, aside from being stubborn, is insane. He's been amusing himself by throwing tiger trainers into a pit with tigers. Well, now that the last trainer in Thebes has been slaughtered, he's willing to give up the throne to Mimmo — and that's the message of peace and goodwill that Hercules must deliver. But Hercules and his young companion Ulysses (Gabriele Antonini) weren't counting on magic spells to delay them. Wherever this picture was made it's certainly out of this world, which, I suppose, is its major charm. — Eastman Color, Warner Bros. RECOMMENDED MOVIES: PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES (MGM): Doris Day and David Niven have a healthy family of four boys, and a happy marriage. They do, that is, until David leaves his teaching job to become a drama critic. It seems a critic worries over whether he's got any real friends, and his wife worries about all those actresses. But, the problems here are small enough so everybody has a good time. TALL STORY Warners): On this college campus is co-ed Jane Fonda who doesn't know anything about basketball except that she wants to marry the team star, Tony Perkins. The money they need to get married is offered Tony if he'll throw a game against a visiting Russian team. Tony's conscience and his professor (Ray Walston) are active participants in the teamwork. CAN-CAN (Todd A-O, 20th-Fox) : In the Paris of the mid-nineties, the illegal can-can dance might be seen in Shirley MacLaine's cabaret (if the gendarmes had been bribed). If they hadn't, Shirley might be seen before Judge Maurice Chevalier. Frank Sinatra and Louis Jourdan, both lawyers, get involved legally and romantically. Cole Porter's music and the dancing of Juliet Prowse and Shirley are a few delightful ingredients in this Parisian cake. 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