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Show iroOVD comm mmeim Frankie and Johnnie" ta iry iti RIALTO By Elvis Presley has been on the scene now for some ten years and he's pretty much on the decline. What the poor boob and his producers don't realize is that he doesnt have to keep on wasting his time making these movies. Just change the title and the old ones, nobodys going to be able to tell the difference. In Frankie and Johnnie he's a riverboat gambler sailing down to New Orleans. Jim Seare Excellent irkk Good Fair "Cast a Giant Shadow Poor I LYRIC Stop the World Want to Get Off" PARK-V- The trouble with Cast a Giant Shadow is that its a STUDIO Stop the World is the latest, and probably the best, in the recent series of legitimate theatre productions filmed on stage and released as movies. Good production and excellent acting help considerably to get over the stagey atmosphere and extensive use of pantomime. The early minutes are fairly slow, but once it gets rolling the film moves very well. The Sound of Music" kirkir CENTRE The movie is a little over-lon. but its a touching . good story and the music is a joy. The cinematography is excellent, the aerial photography fantastic. The story, based on actual events in the lives of Baron von Trapp, his children and his wife Maria, is delightful and quite .. exciting message picture that doesn't quite make it as an action picture and an action picture that doesn't quite make it as a message picture. The cast is great Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner, Frank Sinatra, John Wayne, Senta Berger, the idea Angie Dickensen is good the incredible trouble Isreal had getting started after the war and the hero is an honest one David Marcus, the kid from New York who died fighting on the side of the Jews. Nothing works however, and you leave the movie with a bad taste. rights on World War II) have used the Cinerama screen and process with a vengeance, completely forgetting that there are actually people involved. A Patch of Blue" Born Free HIGHLAND irtrkir TOWNE Patch of Blue is a message picture and a valuable one. It deals with human relations as well as any American film has to this time and it manages to do it with a love story of considerable charm and entertainment. You cant help leaving A Patch of Blue feeling better for having seen it. The story is of a blind white girl and her growing love for a Negro she accidentally meets. She also has a pretty bad home life, in fact the situation there is so bad that it sometimes tends to get in the way of the basic situation. Anybody A would look good in comparison to what she has. Its an movie .however, excellent honest and extremely moving. orn Free is no doubt the most honest animal picture ever made. Unlike the usual movies in this genre there is no sensationalism, no t Brothers Ringling cute - tricks - these - little devils - are - capable - of type foolishness and no needless padding. It's a good movie and Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna are remarkably good as the family who adopts the lions. see-wha- The Rare Breed CAPITOL fair western, that's all. James Stewart is even better A than Shenandoah isnt saying too much. which Firey tempestuous OHara Maureen plays firey tempestuous Maureen OHara. The rare breed is in big troublq at all times. So is The Rare Breed. "The Ghost and Mister Chicken" MOTOR-V- Doctor Zhivago kkkk UPTOWN Doctor Zhivago has man- aged to bag six Academy Awards, world wide film prizes and almost universal critical approval. It is an excellent movie, definitely a tour star movie. It just misses being great, perhaps because it is too big. Lean can make "The Battle of the Bulge excellent big movie but the VILLA maybe he should try a little The Battle of the Bulge is one again. Three and hours is a long time at a spectacular super Cinerama movie full of sound and that. fury signifying nothing. Warner Brothers (who seem to have obtained exclusive film one-hal- f Picture this if you will. Picture Don Knotts, poor chicken Don Knotts, in a. haunted house. The poor slob is even afraid to cross the street, think what he can do in a haunted house. Look, we can have creaking doors and ghosts and dead bodies we can even have him run into a mirror, its always worked before. The audience will laugh themselves silly and we can even scare them too. Whatta combination, I can just see the cash rolling in. Don Knotts is a gifted comic actor, but The Ghost and Mister Chicken pushes his style to absurdity. ... 12 |