TV Radio Mirror (Jul - Dec 1956)

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Showing this month For your convenience in selecting your favorite movies from those shown on the TV screen in November, we give you these capsule reviews. This will be a continuing feature in TV Radio Mirror. ACT OF LOVE (U.A.) : Wistful romance of World War II. Lonely GI Kirk Douglas has an affair with Dany Robin, homeless French girl, and the adventure turns serious. Robert Strauss is Kirk's buddy. BILL OF DIVORCEMENT (RKO): Memorable acting by Katharine Hepburn and the late John Barrymore. As his daughter, she finds her happiness threatened by his fight with mental illness. Generally seen as a comedienne, Billie Burke has a dramatic role as Katie's mother. BLACK SWAN, THE (20th) : Lusty yarn of buccaneering on the Spanish Main. Ty Power, aide to Sir Henry Morgan (the late Laird Cregar), sees nobly-born Maureen O'Hara as the loveliest of loot. BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER (U.A.): Vigorous British salute to pioneer jet flyers. Ralph Richardson heads the company; Nigel Patrick is a test pilot; Ann Todd's the girl. CANYON CROSSROADS (U.A.) : Doing a lively switch on the Western, Richard Basehart hunts uranium instead of gold, romances Phyllis Kirk, battles a claimjumper who rides a 'copter. CASANOVA BROWN (RKO) : In a sentimental comedy, shy prof Gary Cooper becomes a father and kidnaps his baby as lie's about to wed Anita Louise. Teresa Wright plays the baby's mother. CENTENNIAL SUMMER (20th): Charming musical, set in Philadelphia of 1876. As sisters, Jeanne Crain and Linda Darnell compete for the love of Cornel Wilde, a visiting Frenchman. CRASH OF SILENCE (Rank, U-I): Touching, heartening story of a child born deaf. Parents Phyllis Calvert and Terence Morgan quarrel over how to treat Mandy Miller; Jack Hawkins is her teacher. DARK COMMAND, THE (Republic): Big Western. Marshal John Wayne clashes with Walter Pidgeon for mastery of a frontier town and for Claire Trevor's love. Roy Rogers is Claire's kid brother^ DARK MIRROR, THE (U-I) : In an interesting psychological drama, Olivia de Havilland plays twins — a gentle girl, a killer. Psychiatrist Lew Ayres and detective Thomas Mitchell solve the case. FARMER'S DAUGHTER, THE ( RKO ) : Pleasant political comedy casts charming Loretta Young as a Midwestern maidservant who runs for Congress, romances Joseph Cotten. With Ethel Barrymore. HOTEL SAHARA (U.A.): Wacky comedy, set in North Africa during World War II. Peter Ustinov tries to protect his hotel and his sweetheart (Yvonne DeCarlo) as one army after another moves in on him. JACKIE ROBINSON STORY, THE (Eagle Lion): Jackie composedly plays himself in the saga of big-league baseball's first Negro star. Ruby Dee plays his wife; Minor Watson, the Dodgers' Rickey. KISS OF DEATH (20th): Tough, topflight thriller, famous for Richard Widmark's debut role, a giggling gunman. As a convict, Vic Mature turns stool pigeon for the sake of wife Coleen Gray. LADY FROM SHANGHAI (Columbia): Distinctive melodrama with the Orson Welles touch. Lured by Rita Hayworth, sailor Welles joins the crew of the yacht owned by her husband (Everett Sloane). LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (U-I) : Graceful, tearful romance of old Vienna. From her teens to womanhood, Joan Fontaine worships composer Louis Jourdan, even bears him a child — but he keeps forgetting her until it's too late. LIFEBOAT (20th): Tensely, Alfred Hitchcock close-ups survivors of a wartime shipwreck, including a career woman (Tallulah Bankhead), a sailor (the late John Hodiak), a Nazi (Walter Slezak). LOCKET, THE (RKO): Complex case history of a girl turned into a kleptomaniac by a childhood incident. Laraine Day wrecks the lives of psychiatrist Brian Aherne and artist Bob Mitchum. OUTPOST IN MALAYA (Rank, U.A.) : Out of unhappy headlines comes a taut suspense story. The marriage of Claudette Colbert and British planter Jack Hawkins is near breaking when bandits strike. OVERLANDERS, THE (Rank, U-I): Exhilarating Australian equivalent of an American Western epic. Huge, personable Chips Rafferty leads a cattle drive to save stock from looming Jap invasion. PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (Selznick) : In a delicate fantasy, painter Joseph Cotten falls in love with Jennifer Jones, slowly realizing she's a ghost. Ethel Barrymore's a kindly art dealer. SHOOT FIRST (U.A.) : Neat spy story. Stationed in England with wife Evelyn Keyes, U. S. officer Joel McCrea believes he's killed a man while hunting. An atomsecrets mystery snares him. SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (U.A.) : Lov ing tribute to home-front heroism. With daughters Jennifer Jones and Shirley Temple, Claudette Colbert keeps her household going while Dad's in the Navy. THIEF, THE (U.A.) : No, the sound on your set hasn't gone wrong. This gripping chase story was shot without a word of dialogue. Scientist Ray Milland steals atom secrets, and the law tracks him. 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