Modern Screen (Jan-Dec 1960)

THE SUNDOWNERS top-notch saga Deborah Kerr Robert Mitchum Peter Ustinov Glynis Johns Michael Anderson, Jr. ijjw This movie is certainly of Academy-award winning caliber. It has a solid, unusual plot ! : and, without straining, goes deeply into the human heart. Filmed in Australia, it is the story 1*! of a family whose head (Robert Mitchum) has JT a restless need to wander. Out of devotion, his «h< wife (Deborah Kerr) has tried to forget her jjfj desire to settle on a farm. Instead, she and her ' fourteen-year-old son (Michael Anderson, Jr.) w pitch in and help him on one sheep-herding ; drive after another (hence the term, sun-f downers — they pitch their tent wherever they 1 are when the sun sets). The marriage is good; ifj the love obvious, but as her boy grows — and at ?he gets older — Deborah's tension about settling a increases and she tries to maneuver Mitchum «|i into earning enough money for a farm. Atm traded by this family, a humorous, perennial itj bachelor (Peter Ustinov) becomes their mas: i cot and aide. Mitchum goes to work as a sheepinj shearer after a big drive, but even staying in ■ > one place for a few months is too confining for 4 him. Ustinov keeps his interest alive by arranging a sheep-shearing contest. Losing that, but winning a beautiful racehorse while gambling in a local pub cheers Mitchum. He figures that with his son as rider they can win races all over Australia. However, he has also won enough money at gambling to buy a farm. Deborah finally has the chance to tie him down. Trying to tie Ustinov down is a lively, charming pub owner, Glynis Johns. Neither Mitchum nor Ustinov tie that easily. Go see this film — the countryside is beautiful, you'll learn a lot about sheep and, you can count on it, a good deal about men. — Cinemascope, Warners. INHERIT THE WIND the animal in man . . . Spencer Tracy Fredric March Gene Kelly Dick York Florence Eldridge ■ In a small American town where the Bible is taken as the literal truth a young biology j teacher (Dick York) has the nerve to lecture ; on Darwin's theory of evolution to his class. [Since his action violates the state law he's arrested. This incident would probably have been ignored if a big city newspaperman (Gene ; Kelly) hadn't played it up, and if a three-time Presidential candidate (Fredric March) hadn't announced his intention to prosecute the case. Through Kelly's efforts, one of the outstanding lawyers of the century (Spencer Tracy) agrees to defend York. The townspeople, outraged at the thought that man may be related to monkeys, don't welcome him kindly. York's own fiancee (Donna Anderson), daughter of the local minister, deserts him temporarily. But the main drama occurs in the courtroom where jtwo brilliant performances (by March and Tracy) bring the issue of man's right to think and even to be wrong into the open. Knowing that this film was based on the famous Scopes' trial (whose participants were Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan) gives it added excitement and significance.— United Artists. THE THREE WORLDS OF GULLIVER Kerwin Mathews • j June Thorburn magic classic tee Patterson Gregoire Asian Basil Sydney ■ A special filming process whereby Gulliver tan seem like a huge giant when all around him are as tiny as ants — and vice -versa, makes this film delightful. In other words this is not an animated cartoon, its characters are real people. Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) wants money instead of livestock for his services as a doctor. Much against the wishes of his fiancee (June Thorburn) he goes to sea to make his fortune (she stows away on board). Unfortunately, a storm sweeps him off the ship. When he comes to, he's in the land of the Lilliputs. The king and his entire court can fit into the palm of his hand, but Gulliver is a kind giant who only wants to help them. Dipping his hat into the sea he catches enough fish for a year; uprooting "forests" he extends their farmlands which he furrows with his fingers; capturing their neighbors' fleet as if they were toys in a bathtub he leads them to victory in war. However, the Lilliputs turn against him and he makes his escape. Next time he wakes he's the ant surrounded by giants in a kingdom as backward as any in the Middle Ages. There he finds his fiancee living happily at court in a magnificent doll's house. But life isn't easy for "ants" who are smarter than giants, nor is it easy when a squirrel looms before them as large as a mountain. Another twist of fate and Gulliver and his girl are back to normal size in their own country. Was it a dream? It's really a story of every human being's feelings of omnipotence and insignificance, and a biting commentary on the puny, often stupid desires of mankind. — Columbia. 13 GHOSTS Rosemary De Camp Charles Herbert . . . and a handful of creeps Martin Miin™ Donald Woods ■ Donald Woods works in a museum. Too bad he can't live in it, because the finance companyis always repossessing the furniture wherever he and his family do live. Thank goodness old Uncle Zorba dies and leaves him a mansion (complete with spooky housekeeper Margaret Hamilton). Would you believe it? The house is haunted. Thirteen ghosts (the management will provide you with lenses to see them) are constantly rattling around horrifying everyone. Sliding down the bannister one day, 10-yearold Charles Herbert finds a couple of $100 bills at his feet. You mean Uncle Zorba was rich, too? Zorba's lawyer (Martin Milner) apparently thinks so. At first Marty just seemed like an affable fellow enamoured of Woods' attractive young daughter, Jo Morrow. Now, I don't know. . . . — Columbia. RECOMMENDED MOVIES NOW PLAYING: PORTRAIT IN BLACK (U-I) : Lana Turner is the wife of Lloyd Nolan, but would rather be the wife of Anthony Quinn. Well, Nolan's dying anyway, Quinn's a doctor— everything can be arranged! Nolan is dispatched with a long hypodermic needle and a teeny air bubble — the perfect crime. Only, it's not so perfect, 'cause Lana gets a letter congratulating her on the murder. Nervous-making, yes? The letter-writer suspects include Lana's step-daughter Sandra Dee, maid Anna May Wong, chauffeur Ray Walston, Nolan's lawyer Richard Basehart, and Sandra's boyfriend, John Saxon. More murder, more problems, before the letter writer is revealed. Go see' PSYCHO (Paramount): Janet Leigh, an unlikely thief, ts one, to the tune of forty thousand dollars. 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