Screenland Plus TV-Land (Jul 1955-May 1957)

Coming Attractions continued from page 10 dent, because of a resemblance to his dead son. Peck has a hard time trying to hold on to his convictions and not becoming another yes man to the boss. While struggling with his business problems. Peck learns that he has a ten-year-old son in Italy, the product of a wartime romance with poor, lonely Marisa Pavan. Not wanting to shirk his responsibility toward the boy. Peck confesses his indiscretion to Jennifer, hoping for understanding from the woman who's always preaching about being honest in all things. Instead, Jennifer, outraged, runs out of the house, takes the car and goes on a wild drive. While Peck is sweating out the night alone, his boss phones and asks Greg to accompany him to California to launch his pet project. This is Peck's big opportunity, but he turns it down convinced that it is better to be a nine to five man and be close to his family than to become a big shot and lose his family as March has. A powerful drama in De Luxe Color, every member of the cast gives a superb performance. You won't want to miss this one. (20th Century-Fox.) Stranger At My Door ^ UIDED by his belief that one redeemed sinner is worth a handful of good folk, country' preacher Macdonald Carey spares no effort in the reformation of bank robber Skip Homier. For quite a spell, Carey fights a losing battle. While using the preacher's home as a hideout. Homier spends a great part of his time with hand hovering over gun and eyes taking roller-coaster rides over Patricia Medina, Carey's wife. Despite Homier's stubborn penchant for sin, Carey gradually breaks him down, and a fabulous renegade horse plus a freckle-faced boy finish off the job. Fine, unsophisticated drama that shows some amazing horse sense and temperament. (Republic.) The Harder They Fall JUST when you think you're inured to * seeing human faces smashed to pulp by boxing gloves, along comes a shocker like this. Based on a Budd Schulberg novel and starring Humphrey Bogart with Rod Steiger and Jan Sterling in opposite corners, this is one of the strongest damnations of the prizefighting racket yet shown. An out of work columnist, Bogart is dragged into Steiger's corrupt world of fixed fights and broken men when he agrees to take over the publicity campaign on Steiger's latest find. Fresh from a tiny South American village, Mike Lane has Goliath's body, Simple Simon's brain, and punches like a weary homing pigeon. After Mike is indirectly responsible for killing a man in the ring, and almost being slaughtered himself. Bogart decides to 74 take wife Jan's advice and shine up his tarnished self-respect. He accomplishes this by getting himself and Mike out of the game while both are still humans. None of the gruesome details are spared and few will be able to take the final ring sequence which mercifully is in blackand-white. (Columbia.) Good-bye, My Lady TAKE a boy, Brandon de Wilde, a dog. ■ grizzled philosophizing Walter Brennan. and place them in the heart of Mississippi swampland — the result is a sensitive, warm portrait of a boy about to enter manhood. His parents gone. Brandon was brought up by the illiterate Brennan. Life in the swampland was bleak and barren until Brandon found a strange and unusual dog— an African Basenji. To Brandon, this barkless, tear-shedding hound meant love and companionship he had never known. But as so often happens, youth's first love carries the greatest heartbreak. The dog's true owner finally turns up. Brandon is forced to weigh his right to keep the dog. The decision should come as no big surprise unless you came in after the picture started and missed the title. (Warner Bros.) A Day Of Fury TTHERE'S nothing like a gunfighter to ■ stir things up a bit in a peaceful community. Take the citizens of West Etid, the most exciting event they were looking forward to the day Dale Robertson rode into town, was spiking the punch at Marshall Jock Mahoney's wedding to Mara Corday. Then, in a matter of minutes, the wedding's cancelled, the townspeople slowly shed their halos of respectability, and by nightfall, everything is so loose at the seams, Marshall Mahoney is dang-near lynched. It isn't until the town's preacher is shot dead, the old maid school-teacher commits suicide, a juvenile delinquent is reckoned with, and Robertson slumps to the floor of a saloon, that everyone sobers up. An arty-type Western that leaps with reckless Technicolor abandon into all sorts of warped emotions and reappears on the surface slightly worse for the dunking. ( Universal-International. ) The Man Who Knew Too Much FOLLOWING a Paris medical convention, Doctor James Stewart packs himself and family, Doris Day and their son. off to French Morocco for a well-deserved vacation. What happens to them in mysterious Technicolor North Africa isn't covered by any of the tourist guide books but it sure is standard formula for Alfred Hitchcock. Right off the bat, a heavily DORIS DAY finds herself in the middle c a nightmare in "Man Who Knew Too Much. accented stranger attaches himself t Stewart. An English couple ' make ordi nary middle-class sounds but strike im pressionable Doris as cloak-and-dagge material. Then, when a dying man gasp a cryptic message to Stewart, he an Doris find themselves in the middle of nightmare. To keep Stewart from turnin the information over to the authoritie.1 his son is kidnapped. Afraid to enlist th aid of the police, it remains for Stewar alone to find the boy and clear up a stick international situation. Every elementar approach to suspense and all the stoc1 gimmicks are used, which might be a clu as to why the stars often seem just little too precious. (Paramount.) Gaby U ER parents killed during the Nazi in " vasion of France, ballet dancer Lesli Caron knows the pain of losing someon loved. Certainly, wartime Britain i scarcely the time or place to recover he balance. Onto this thin emotional ice G.I. John Kerr charges with each las measure of his boyish charm unfurled, t 48-hour leave spent with him change Leslie into an ecstatic young creature wh shows one flash of sensibility. She pack an all too eager Kerr off to his barrack the night before he's due to be shippei out. When word comes that Kerr is killed Leslie is guilt-stricken. To "atone" for thi fancied wrong he suffered by her refusal Leslie puts an end to merely servim doughnuts and coffee at the canteen There are other Gallic goodies service men would prefer. Of course, a nai\< Kerr reappears with an offer of marriage Leslie honorably refuses, but a buzz boml has the courtesy to blast them back inti one another's arms. An Eastman Colo remake of Robert Sherwood's "Waterloi Bridge" that sags too much at the point: of stress to carry much of the origina weighty drama. (MGM.) ENT