The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 107

FILf.1 nGVIGWS timmrrtuft of Arabia7 Only Itfie "sl LIKE T. Lawrence this splendid film is compounded of a great adventure, and a 4- 1 StuMrBuAuieA fog "Lawrence 9 A 1 besi for great tragedy. it The adventure is that ot the Arabian revolt against the Turks in the desert of i Lawrence, who disappears at the end is the; man vho hated was forced into it, and then deliberately slaughtered (after his degfa-': Ration at the hands of the? -Turkish He was also World War I the tragedy is that of the young Englishman who led it and who died before his death. A supremely engrossing film, Lawrence of Arabia makes one torget that it runs nearly three and three- quarter hours: and sends one OUt haunted and shaken. Peter O'Toole in "Lawrence of Arabia." For between them, play.

tali; soft, of-speechj hand-Dryden, represent British wright Robert Bolt some has already, in Bolt's diplomacy: and Arthur Ken-director David Lean have SUCcinct dialogue that dis- nedy, as the American news-sought for the truth behind sects character in a sentence, paperman, the outside world. ii su given us clues to his nature. They are sound dramatic The hrst half of the film His is the solitary glow devices, needed for simpli- travels, with the solitary of that victorious ride to the fication. But they, are ihe Lawrence, into the heart of sea, with the Arab women most obvious part of the the desert: and out of its ululating under the wadi film. it Call Me Bwana it A LONG and dogged humour, and its cosy sec-farce takes Bob Hope ond heroine (Nagali Noel).

me man wno dreamed or freeing Arabia (or did he dream, of hpmmino its leader, "El for; ever? Bolt crystallises the pressures upon Lawrence by makine Claude Rains as Mi Certainly, Genera) Al- lenby (finely played by Jack HawUns) epitomises kind of ruthlessness: nd Prince Fiesal a superb, blade-sharp study by V.ler Guiness another Omar Sharif, as Law- rence's true and bewildered Arab friend, Sherif AU and- Anthony Quinn, as the rougher tribes leader, stand for the desert that was part of Lawrence. They assist OToole's subtle telling performance. From GERARD GARRET! in London as Bret Maverick to laces ass el toe cinema's most sought-after leading Gen, hopped about a corner ot Elstree Studies' back let la Ihe ra'n If wed only in a pair of tasks and a vest This seems to indicate 'Maverick turned that, while making a tele- i out, beat both programs, vision film once every six "I was getting 500 dollars days is -hard work? the 5 whilc loftier world of. motion nnni Tf" 8ettmg pictures has its uncomfor- dollars a table side Three years later I was Mr Gamer is making his "iD first film in Britain but it a Mr (5ar" will be a brief and damp neJ? hurt tones experience. i Then one day went to The picture, called doctor and he discover-Americanisatibn of Emfly," ed had fln ulcer War- a satire on wartime Brit- ner couldn believe it.

A ish-American relations' and Wfl'-adjusted peaceful guy is supposed to be taking me conMn't have an place during the' months of USL May and lunel before D- doctoi explained Day." at you got an ulcer by Mr Garner, entered the. bottling things So I series "Maverick" with eluct- decided to let- few things ance and escaped from- it ut- -three vears later with dif- "The only way they ficult' hit back was by stop- a nt i ii Nrn Pi0 my Pay and the Holly-w I ULLbK wood writers' strike orovided the right excuse Before Maverick I was under contract to Warner them tot hreach Brothers and doing- gij of contract, which is very right," he said. v. nard to do; they write i "I didn't particularly want those contracts themselves to play a cowboy, but being and 'thev make them fool-under contract I hadn't Proof- 11 cosl me 1 00,000 much option. dollars but I won "And they were planning And lost hi nU.

-to put it on at a keyutime Garner, getting the and whereas a successful top motion pi.tti an he TV series can make an top leading ladies (Doris actor a. flop series can ruin Day and Kim Novak 'are him. recent ones) hn no need to "I would preferred worry now to have it go on somewhere In' fact, as a sideline. be quietly and let it build up.v is to co-produce his own "As," it was we were up telefilm series. And he is against the Ed Sullivan 'determined to have a nappy Show and the Steve Allen ulcer-free leading man.

Show, which were top of He is going to pay him the ratings." 3,500 dollars a week Director David Lean jses a game or goii wun pro- the magnificent colour pho- tography of F. indi of film. and Maurice Jarre's music Unhappily for Hope and with its peculiar themes, to laughter, Mack Sennetl did shade his history (Barcla this plot much better in two- Kv Tite Anita Ekberg's beautiful Soviet 8Py They are both, out to re- trieve a U.S. rocket-capsule from the usual plumed sa v. ages, and comic lions.

English character come-'. dian Lionel Jeffries (who probably wanted to. earn some holiday money in Hollywood), appears as a spy in missionary disguise. "ope nas time, nowever. 'L Ul AnSOnSIl THE D'Artagnan ouia never' 88 meagre substitute does mark enemies ferehea lb0re them back to But then, Dumas would bave screenplay, for.

an- other massively coloured, Ited Italian he burly and Brci uuiiuiib ucauiy Wmc i-ORUM: CHARLTON HE8TON, AVA GARDNEB, DAVID NIVEN, "05 DAYS AT In 70 mm Super Tcchnl-rams Technicolor (O) 1.45, ie. AUo 6 p.m. Bat-urdaye only. (61-4881). BARCLAY: "LAWRENCE OF ARABIA." Alec OUINNE88, Anthonj QUINN Jack HAWKINS Jose FERRER, and Peter O'TOOLE, as "LAWRENCE" (70 MM Super Pana vision Technicolor) G) 1.00 and 7.30 (01-08271 TATE: AND 8UBDRBF "BYE BYE BIRDIE." Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke.

Bobby Rydell. (Color). (Panavlslon). (Q) Plus: FEATVRETTES: 11 2 5, 8. (28-2431).

WCfUM: "THE LIST OF ADRIAN MESSENGER." Tony Curtis, Kirk Douglas Burt Lancaster, Robert Mltchum and Frank Sinatra (O) Plus: Big Added Show 10.55 1.55. 4.85. 7.55 161-4857). 'ICTORY: "THE RAVEN," Boris Kar-lofl, Vincent Price and Peter Loire (A). Plus: "What a Whepper," Adam faith (O).

Continuous from 11 a.m. "The Raven" 11.05, 2.30, 6.55, 8.25. "What a Whopper" 12.45. 4.16. 7.40.

CAPITOL: THE SECRET MARK Of George Vader Magall Noel, George Marchal. (G) Plus: "No Time To Die" Victor Mature (A) Sesi: 11, 2.25, 5.50; 7.35. (13 Campbell St. 211-2522). reeis, ana wiuiout sex iKe- cneapiy maae, Parofalr Arc" Kent.) white film explains, but does iiiv vuiviuiivu I WOULD have, banned "The SeCfet Matk craze of thV hootenanny-1 this film from public ixr.i rr r.he lois irom puouc Af fi'Ij direc hi 'Hventun a cniitaru witb Arabs ending in the great feat of the ride across the deserf to capture Aqaba.

pee. fYTnnle's Lawrence clffs and of the grcat, slow rhythms of his rescue of his friend Cassim in the wilderness. But Lawrence could not remain a solitary. In the second half of the film, in desert; soiled by war, he becomes part of Allenby's plans, and part of Feisal's plans: and is dismissed by both after the Arab Coun- ci's disintegration at Damascus. The gaunt and feverish MAYFAIR TAE CARETAKERS' (SOA).

Plus "SECRET OF DEEP HARBOUR" (A). 10.40, 1.45. 4.50 and 8 28-1374. PLAZA CINERAMA 'HOW THE WEST WAS WON" (Colour) (G). 1.30.

4.50 and 8.15 p.m. 61-6107 PARIS "THE KING AND 70mm (Colour) (G). Featurettes. Daily at 1.50 and 0.10 p.m., plus 5 p.m. on Fris.

Sats. 61-9193. REGENT CALL ME BWANA." Colour (G). 11. 2.

5 and 9 p.m. 26-2487. XENTURY CHAPMAN REPORT" ESQUIRE THE VO'JNG LIONS. C'Scope EMBASSY 'THE WRONG ARM OF THE LAW (G). Plus "DEAD-MAN EVIDENCE" G).

10.20. 1.30. 4.4S-and 8 P.m. 28-1863 PALACE i.st i o.v.i 'the condemned of ALTONA (A). Featurettes.

f. 15 sJKif 8 IS 61-6287 LAST 12 NIGHTS JKDS SATURDAY Mario film's Petri scant feZTinH saying her fortune: and once yet again France, gets an artificial blonde duchess (Alessandra Pamro). The other Musketeers, Athos and Aramis, were wiRe to 1It 1. eJ2 "I1. V81? UaI" Jl00l6nonnY tlOOI "13I7HAT is Hoote- nannyY Folk-sing- mg country music and dancing," the Missouri xy teus tne ignor ant IV director from NeW Ydrk.

Producer Sam Katzman's not endear, the American tor (Peter Breck), leaving his iV producer-wife, discovers Mm, ZS w. tii agent (JODy Bwr, and tne we- ri ffWwute Henske, and a snatch or two of genuine folk-song epcinr seat, (SL Jain AUS1 P.M. SHOWS 17, Porthos ot takes the GALA PREMIERE SAT. NEXT -I 4288 13 IP i 211 WMF VBBSS QUO sM2TilllUll FOR PARTIES -r- RECEPTIONS SPECIAL OCCASIONS, rniprf 'jw ma- a 51 4 LONDON ACCLAIMS MONAYS TO WEDNESDAYS LET QUO VADIS CATER FOR YOU. 4 ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHIS IHERE'S THE BIG CITY TALENT QUEST COMPETED BY HARRY WILLIS.

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PHOKE 28 5563: Tfce Bni.Stmw In. SO Venn The Entertainment that ha Evervthinfll showing as a public harm. no'oneside Js doctor il is oasea on ine lie inai hero knows the modern treatments of the mentally ill urouD theraov anH the It is presented, by 'direc. tor-writer Hal Rarlelt in thr SosT vulgar wayShi? of effective, sensationalism, jn fact "The Caretakers" does wht it apru nnt b2 dong-lknT shameful freaks. of the mentallv ill.

Its hero (Robert Stack) has to fight a villainous head nurse (Joan Crawford), and a criminally apathetic superintendent (Herbert Marshall) for the cure of his women patients. The Nbehavioijj and the treatment of these women, led by Polly Bergen and Janice Paige, is designed to alarm. "The. Caretakers" is only top offensively made out of commercialism, and not like "A Child is out of compassion (Mayfair.) 11.0. 2.0.

SlD. B.O. BW83I3 SUOR Hill THEATRE Rlflht at station UASO03 fiirol at tar. Ik SUNDAY CINEMA CLUB itartiKa tcraanlna Oacambar Mambarihlp 10 ar yaar. For hill detail CMtact Ihaatra EXSBSIE NIGHTLY.

pirn frtadrkh Ourrcnmatt modern -satire. msKisTS' Seats from. 10 a.m Monday. 91-21 1. 02-4651 or all Mencle.

I BOOK HOYf, 'JpFGi for tHt firs' 12-'daw at TIVOL1 (211-4288). PALINGS, NICHOLSON'S nd. DAVID 10NES. Mall Order nonkings Accepted for first 4 weeks. Theatre Party Concessions Phone Miss Retchiess (211-4288).

Stalls and Dress Circle 30-Orad inle 10- GALA PREMIERE) Stalls and Dress Circle 40-- Grand "'rcle -10- Chr'tv Preview Next Friday at 0.13. Good Seats- Available at Royal Blind Society (31-9222) or TWoli. Theatre. BBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSBSaaSSSBSBSSS( HURRY. (28-7376) Nightly at 8.

i Weds. B-Sats. at 2.15 ELIZABETHAN THEATRE a t73 NIGHTLY AT 8. MATINEES SAI OPEHA I96i ELIZABETHAN TRUST OPERA COMPANY Monday FAUST Mary O'Brien, Althea Bridies, Miry Blake. Edward Bylas, Alan Light, John Germain Conductor: Geore Tintner ji- heirs 9 13, 13, LAST IGHTS SEASON OPENING YyED.I3fh.N0V.

TiiACfW-- DIF Marv' O'Brien. Rosalind Keene. Peter Grant, Jo- rt niutly i pm. mi sais. mi, pm.

61 IOOO6 1 4613 rsmxm pyvo3Mws 1 55 Neil Warren Smith, Robert Gan' Conductor: Walter Stnsny 9, 11, 1 It, j. SYDNEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Corns i Bookints 12 days in advance. Pslinf. Nicholsons David ionw, rheatre. Prices 30-.

ChiMren kaJT pries aM rrforrMSKsw, greatest musical FLFDERMAUS presented with the generajisa rNewsaoers Umlted PLANS NOW OPEN. PAL.NCS NICHOLSON'S. HOtEL THEATRI, priccSi aa l4 101. SSS: Phone Bookinn o-oays in advance ineatre oniy. rnoni wwn.

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