Photoplay (Jul-Dec 1956)

AK>%J Continued W' €€ Geordis go, technicolor V'VV'V' A delightful British comedy, filmed mostly in the magnificent Scottish Highlands. gives an endearing role to Bill Travers (seen as Ava Gardner’s AngloIndian suitor in “Bhowani Junction”). Wee Geordie is introduced to us as a small boy, sensitive because he’s so under-sized for his age. Hopefully, he takes a correspondence course in muscle-building, and because of this (he thinks) he proceeds to grow up into the strapping, husky Travers. Bill’s a modest, gentle soul, with no competitive spirit at all; but bis pen pal, the muscle-builder, persuades him to take up the hammer throw. With the encouragement of his eccentric boss (Alastair Sim), Bill finally goes off to the 1956 Olympics in Australia. His romance with the comely girl-he-left-behind (Norah Gorsen) is complicated when he meets up with an aggressive lady on Denmark’s team. family The Silent World COLU MBIA, TECHNICOLOR VVVV In an exciting documentary, filled with a fine sense of adventure, JacquesYves Cousteau takes us deep into the mysterious world of the ocean. Co-inventor of the Aqua-lung and a pioneer in its use, Cousteau leads a group of modern mermen, swimming freely among marine animals and plants of incredibly brilliant color. They explore a sunken, coral-covered ship; they find they’ve acquired a pet, an ugly but amiable fish. Taking their ship, the Calypso, on a scientific expedition, these young men look instead as if they’re simply having a rousing good time. family The Shark fighters U..A.; CINEMA* SCOPE, TECHNICOLOR V'/V Here’s a brisk, commendably direct action film, shot in eye-soothing Caribbean locales. World War H is on, and Navy officer Victor Mature has been assigned to head a group conducting dangerous experiments on an island off Cuba. They’re trying to concoct a shark-repellent, which downed flyers may release in the water around their rafts. But the formulas they devise must actually be tried out in the shark-infested bay. Vic goes about his work with bitter determination, for in the Pacific he has seen some of his men killed by sharks. Karen Steele is his pretty wife; tall young James Olson, a likable newcomer, is a chemist eager for combat duty; Rafael Campos is a jaunty Cuban lad who loses his life during a test. family Julie M-c-M A taut, hard-driving suspense movie sets Doris Day to exploring the emotion of fear in all its degrees. Married to Louis Jourdan, a gifted concert pianist, she discovers that he is jealous literally to the point of insanity. He even admits that he murdered her first husband, supposedly a suicide, and he promises to kill her if she should leave him. The law can’t help With ardent kisses, Louis soothes Dot fears, after the two have escaped deal her, because she has no proof of his gu or the sincerity of his threats. With t help of Barry Sullivan, a loyal friend, s; escapes Jourdan and goes back to her cj job as an airlines stewardess. But her hi; band does not give up so easily. Fra Love joy plays a sympathetic police deti tive, and Jack Kelly’s co-pilot of the plai on which the breath-stopping climax tak place. Some plot twists seem pretty w — but similar events can be found in t newspapers. fam The Power and the Prize cinemasc yyy Though star Robert Taylor perfori capably, this drama of big business notable chiefly as Swiss actress Elisabe Mueller’s first American film. Combini blonde Nordic-style beauty with Latin f of temperament, she gives a sense urgency to all her scenes. She and B meet in London, where he has come on business trip. Boss Burl Ives, a power; and unprincipled executive, has sent h to put through a devious deal that will ta control of a British firm away from f Cedric Hardwicke, its founder. But wh Bob falls in love with Elisabeth, a DP a a concentration-camp graduate, her stv born integrity and utter honesty lead h to examine his own standards critical Mary Astor, as Ives’ wife, and Richa Erdman, as Taylor’s associate on the tr contribute understanding portrayals. B Nicola Michaels, lovely in the Grace Kej manner, seems ill at ease as Taylo socialite fiancee. adi The Opposite Sex m-c-m; cine? SCOPE, METROCOI yyy Glittering and witty, though lacki: the elegant cattiness of the original, “T Women” in musical dress provides a ge erous helping of entertainment. The most ( Continued on page 2‘ M I( TOI up I fix ( twi Hi fa Ha Sii wl i df' tea Ire 1 ili tho