Photoplay (Jan-Jun 1959)

f iW EXCELLENT \/^ v' VERY GOOD 'S'S GOOD 1/ FAIR What’s on tonight? to see the best! Look for these new pictures at your favorite theater The Diary of Anne Frank 20™, cinemascope V'VV'/' Snow flakes drift through a broken skylight onto Millie Perkins’ face as she looks at young Richard Beymer, and you see in her eyes all the sweet, puzzled yearning of first love. For the moment, sdie appears to be facing the world of every teenager. Then suddenly she isn’t. She’s Anne Frank, the girl whose tragic story won the sympathy of people all over the world. And the film becomes a drama of overwhelming emotion, calling on a person’s deepest feelings: love of a sweetheart, love of family, love of life. The closeness of death sharpens these feelings, as Anne and her people are Jews, hidden from the Germans by Dutch friends in a factory loft in Amsterdam. Outside, they can hear the horns of Nazi trucks, the tramp of Nazi feet, the blasts of bombs. But inside life has to go on as usual. Anne’s parents, Joseph Schildkraut and Gusti Huber (top left with Millie), might be your own; Shelley Winters, your foolish nextdoor neighbor; Ed Wynn, the fussy old bachelor down the street. These aren’t heroes and heroines out of fiction; they’re warm, real, sometimes even funny people. And George Stevens’ splendid direction shows in them the human dignity that is one of the most precious things in life and makes this a film to be remembered — especially at Academy Award time, family Pork Chop Hill u.a. V'V'V'V' Most of us know men who fought in Korea, and probably they don’t talk much about it. This movie tells us what it was like, and the scenes are strong and convincing. Gregory Peck plays a hard-talking lieutenant, leading his men in an attack against an enemy-held bastion on Pork Chop Hill. But the men want to know why they have to fight, because at this very minute, peace negotiations are going on at Panmunjom, and this scarred, stony chunk of earth is hardly of any strategic value. Why should they die for it? And gradually we get to know the personalities of each one of them, as if they were our own boyfriends or brothers. It all happened just yesterday — but it could happen again tomorrow. Don’t miss this! It’s one of the most realistic war pictures ever made. family W arlock 20th; cinemascope, df, luxe color V'V'V''/' Give yourself a treat with the best western that’s come your way this year. It’s loaded with starpower. Everybody knows the marshal (Henry Fonda) is mighty fast with his goldhandled guns. But his deputy sheriff (Richard Widmark) is stubbornly ready to bring in some real legal law. And where does Anthony Quinn line up? Well . . . better keep an eye on him. For a change, there’s excitement in the kissin’ as well as the shootin’. Dolores Michaels is a lady, yet Dorothy Malone is no better than she should be, but each gal loves the excitement of a guy who’s likely to get gunned down any minute, family Green Mansions m-c-m; cinemascope, metrocolor '/'V'V' Who’s for romance? Come along with Tony Perkins on a jungle journey into a green wilderness where the strangest and loveliest wild creature is a sprite named Audrey Hepburn (bottom left with Tony). Tony plunges into the tropical wilderness, thirsty for revenge and hungry for gold — until he sees Audrey. Then the story turns into a tingling blend of love and mystery, with old-timer Lee J. Cobb guarding a guilty secret about the girl. And the background’s as pretty as a romantic postcard from Florida. family {continued) 18