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pect in shooting of gambler, reveals herself
as his partner and the helpless victim
in his feud with a rival gambler. She is
freed. Glynis Johns, Dermot Walsh, Charles
Goldner. Harcourt Williams, Yvonne Owen.
Director: Gordon Parry.
Tony Draws a Horse. ..(90). .Fine Arts Films
Farce. British-made. A physician and his
wife differ about the upbringing of their
son. They separate and she goes to live
with her parents, whose home she di.srupts
before she comes to her senses and makes
amends. Cecil Parker, Anne Crawford,
Derek Bond, Joan Parsons. Director: John
Paddy Carstairs.
With These Hands... (50)
Classic Picts.
Documentary Drama. Originally produced
by International Ladies' Garment Workers
union for its members. Cloakmaker, applying
for retirement pension, reminisces about
his early days with the union as a crusading
garment worker who ultimately sees
his dreams realized. Sam Levene, Arlene
Francis, Joseph Wiseman, Louis Sorin,
Rudy Bond. Director: Jack Arnold.
Wooden Horse, The. (98) Snader Prods.
Drama. British-made. A group of British
officers escape from a German prison camp
by concealing a man in a wooden gymnasium
horse. Smuggled into the compound,
the hidden worker digs an escape
tunnel. Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony
Steel, David Greene. Director: Jack
Lee.
You Can't Fool an Irishman
(67) Bell Picts July
Comedy. Made in Ireland. Self-styled
Hollywood genius moves in on Irish countryside
to produce St. Patrick film. Money
mixups follow close on love mixups. Tommy
Duggan, Shamus Locke, Shirl Conwa,y,
Josephine Fitzgerald. Director: Alfred
Travers.
Foreign Language
(All have English subtitles unless otherwise
stated. Foreign dialog indicated after
film title.)
Blue Angel, The.. ..German
(97) Classic Picts Reissue
Comedy Drama. Revised from the German
film released in the early '30's. High school
teacher falls in love with beer hall singer.
He marries her, travels with the troupe and
at length discovers she is unfaithful to him.
Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Kurt Gerron,
Rosa Valetti. Director: Josef von
Sternberg.
Buried Alive. ...Italian
(83) Casolaro Films.. ..Jan. 12
Historical Melodrama. In 1860 an Italian
Royalist buries his mother alive to inherit
lier estate. His sister is rescued from him
by her sweetheart, a soldier in Garibaldi's
army. Milly Vitale, Paul Muller, Evi Maltagliati,
Tina Lattanzi, Piero Palermini. Director:
Guido Brignone.
Cheat, The French... (87) Discina Int'l
Drama. Unfaithful wife of owner of riding
academy is crippled in an accident. Flashbacks
reveal story of their marriage, his
self-sacrifice and her mercenary, ruthless
ambition. Bernard Blier, Simone Signoret.
Jane Marken, Frank Villard. Director:
Yves Allegret.
Christina ("Das Madchen Christine")
Italian. ..(85) Central Cinema ...Jan. 13
Historical Drama. Romance and adventure
in Germany during the Thirty-Year War.
Petra Peters, Wolfgang Lukschy, Tilly
Lauenstein, Use Hulper. Director: Arthur
Maria Rabenalt. (DEFA Deutsche Film
A. G.I
Crossroads of Passion.. ..French
(96) Films Int'l
Melodrama. Motivated by revenge, Italian
girl becomes an espionage agent for the
Germans. She regrets her activity when
her own friends are killed through information
she has obtained. She seeks to escape
but is caught and shot. 'Viviane Romance,
Valentina Cortesa, Clement Duhour, Fosco
Giachettl. Director: Jacques Companeez.
Desert Bride. ..French... (90). ...Hoffl)erg Prods.
Drama. A murderer, a detective on his trail
and a professional soldier down on his luck
enlist in the Foreign Legion. One man marries
a native girl. They volunteer for a
dangerous mission and only the detective
survives. Jean Gabin, Annabella, Almos,
LeVigan. Director: Julien Duvivier.
Difficult
Years. ...Italian
(90) Lopert Films Sept. '50
Drama. Traces the experiences of a lower
middle class Sicilian family through a
decade of fascism under Mussolini. Umberto
Spadaro, Massimo Girotti, Ave Ninchi,
Odette Bedogni. Director: Luigi Zampa.
Doctor, Beware!. ...Italian
(90) Academy Films
Comedy. Young doctor takes a job in an
orphans' home to pay off debts acquired
in dissipation. A girl inmate learns to love
him and helps him to solve his difficulties.
Vittoria de Sica, Anna Magnani, Irasema
Dillian, Adriana Benedetti. Director: Vittorio
de Sica.
Face to the Wind. ..French
(85) Souvaine Selective Picts.
Comedy Drama. A group of street urchins
embark on a. career of dog-snatching. With
the rewards they play Robin Hood to the
impoverished adults of the community.
Jackie Gencel. Pierre Larquey, Armontel,
Georges Gosset, Laurence Aubray. Director:
Robert Vernay.
Film Without a Name....German
(79) Oxford Films. ...Oct. 10, '50
Drama. An actor, an author and a director
discuss making a picture of the life of a
young girl. Three possible versions of the
plot are presented. Hildegarde Neff, Willy
Fritsch, Hans Sohnker, Irene von Meyendorff.
Director: Rudolph Jugert.
Flame of Paris, The. ...French
(60) Hoffberg Prods.
Musical Comedy. French author goes to
Tunisia where he becomes interested in a
girl of the streets, whom he brings back
to Paris to introduce as a princess. She
captivates the city. Josephine Baker, Albert
Prejean, Robert Arroux, Germaine Aussey.
Director: Edmond T. Greville.
Formosa. Chinese... (80) Hoffberg Prods.
Drama. First modern Chinese dramatic
production shown in the U.S. Story deals
with a young graduate doctor who comes
to the hills intent on bringing better standards
of living to the primitive mountainfolk.
His love for an island princess is opposed
by her father, and the girl drowns
herself in the sea. Shen Min, Tsung Yao,
Lin Tse Hou, Chow Yin Yun, Sou Hu. Director:
Ho Fei-Kwong.
French White Cargo.. ..French
(89) Distinguished Films
Drama. How two competing European
newspaper reporters, one a man, the other
a girl, capture a dangerous white slave ring,
and find romance together. Jean Pierre
Aumont, Dalio, Suzy Prim, Kathryn De-
Nagy, Jules Berry, Charles Granval. Director:
Robert Siodmak.
From Little Acorns. ...French
(98) Souvaine Selective Picts.
Comedy Drama. Adapted from the world
famous Goncourt Prize novel, "La Maternelle,"
by Leon Frapie. Filmed some 20
years ago, but with a different version, by
Jean Benoit-Levy. This one depicts the
little comedies and tragedies in the lives
of a group of nursery school children from
the slums of Paris. Jackie Gencel, Blanchette
Brunoy, Pierre Larquey, Yves 'Vincent,
Marie Dea. Director: Henri Diamant-
Berger.
God Needs Men....French....(90)....A.F.E. Corp.
Drama. Troubles of inhabitants of a small
island when their priest deserts them and
an arch criminal goes unchecked. Church
sexton tries to take priest's place and turns
the criminal over to police who arrive to
investigate. Pierre Fresnay, Madeleine
Robinson, Daniel Gelin, Andree Clement,
Jean Brochard. Director: Jean Delarmoy.
Hidden River. ..Spanish.... (98) ....Clasa-Mohme
Drama. Mexican-made. Schoolteacher in
a Mexican village opposes a tyrannical rich
man and battles a smallpox epidemic, with
aid of young medical student. Maria Felix,
Fernando Fernandez, Carlos Lopez Moctezuma.
Director: Emilio Fernandez.
Hoboes in Paradise. ..French
(84) Distinguished Films
Comedy Fantasy. Killed in an accident,
two men, dressed as saints for a masquerade,
go first to Hell and then to Heaven,
but are returned to life to profit by their
experience. Raimu, Fernandel, Alerme.
Armand Bernard. Director: Rene Le Henaff.
(Produced by Gaumont Productions.)
Ignace....French....(78) Mot. Pict. Sales
Musical Comedy. Orderly serves his colonel
well, speaking of nothing he sees. He even
masquerades as the colonel, in his absence,
to impress the general. Fernandel, Alice
Tissot, Saturnin Fabre, Nita Raya, Dany
Lorys, Charpin. Director: Pierre Colombier.
L' Affaire.. ..French. (92). Int'l Film Associates
Drama. Loyal wife allows herself to be
drawn into a compromising situation. Her
husband discovers her indiscretion but forgives
her. Claude Dauphin, Anne Vernon,
Henri Guisol, Jacqueline Francois. Director:
E. E. Reinert.
La Ronde....French ...(83)....Commercial Picts.
Drama. A cycle of scenes between two people,
in each case a man and a woman,
depicting love episodes. The whole is loosely
tied together by the proprietor of a carousel
who touches the lives of all. Anton Walbrook,
Simone Simon, Danielle Darrieux,
Isa Miranda, Fernand Gravet, Jean-Louis
Barrault. Director: Max Ophuls.
Lady Paname... .French. ...(97) Discina Int'l
Comedy. Singer, combining an impromptu
strip tease with a song to which she has no
legal right, becomes a sensation. As a
result, her sweetheart becomes involved in
a duel but all ends well. Louis Jouvet, Henri
Guisol, Suzy Delair, Monique Melinand.
Director: Henri Jeanson.
Last Illusion, The. ... German.. (89)..Films Int'l
Melodrama. Plight of a professor who returns
from America to teach in his old
German university. He is defeated by anti-
Semitism. Frizt Kortner, Johanna Hofer,
Rosemary Murphy, Lina Carstens, Ernst
Schroder. Director: Josef von Baky.
Lovers of Verona, The. ..French
(94) Souvaine Selective Picts.
Melodrama. Stand-ins working with a motion
picture company making a film version
of "Romeo and Juliet" have an ill-starred
and tragic romance paralleling the immortal
Shakespearean play. Serge Reggiani,
Pierre Brasseur, Anouk Aimee, Louis
Salou. Director: Andre Cayatte.
Mad Queen, The... Spanish
(107) Azteca Films
Historical Romantic Drama. The Spanish
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