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DDDOaDDOODDDODQ'DDODDDDO OF LI 1 ir a a a a ddddo do a do a few (Isabelle Corey) and Holo- (who works in a canning femes (Massino Girotn) are factory). "Black Orpheus" Gigantis" is, however, an as banal as the director. (Capitol). IN this unprecedented film French director Marcel Camus "GjnaRfjc Tn6 FlTC Iliads uui uui iw, imi uuuiny piuc 1 1 uui vi inc. CIIIV.ICIII icCliy of Orpheus and Eurydice.

interesting adult curiosity. Its stilted dialogue, spoken by Japanese actors, splendidly misuses the English language and American slang. (Palace). "Stop, Look and Laugh" Monster" THIS Japanese production offers monsters far superior to those from Hollywood. Indeed black-and-white Gigantis and his mass-suicide by leaping over.

It is a beautiful film, and shouldn't be missed. 'Please Turn Over' rpHE idea of a 17-year- EV1EWER stormed nf spiked foe, Angurus (sic), raze a modern city in their the theatre, looked at rough-and-tumble. the film (which has a man TU Im Wa. Unlln kiiCtk MiiMnA nA Hnta old London suburban lie -mill uses xiKJiiy- a pupi nnu oiaiv girl, writing a novel which woods stock ingredients of jokes to introduce the pecur maKes the most lurid a science-fiction thriller, and liar antics of the Three characters of her family and convention of hero (a Stooges in various situa- friends is good material for piIot) comic frjerid (an tions) and barely laughed. c0medv- other pilot), and girlfriend (Palladium).

June Jago in "Please Turn Over." His modern lovers descend from a Negro shack, high on the mountain top above Rio de Janeiro, to love, and lose one another, in the explosive tumult of the Carnival. But the pattern of their story follows the pattern of the legend, in which Orpheus, the musician and god, lost Eurydice to death's underworld, went there to find her, carried her off only to lose her again because he turned to at her, and was himself killed by the Thracian women he had rejected. The modern lovers of the film, Bruno Mello, as the powerful laughing Orpheus, and fine-featured Marpessa Dawn, as his white-dressed, shy Eurydice, communicate an intensity of delight, and of terror. They dance, too, and around them the whole film dances. For Camus uses the beat of Brazilian music, and.

British producer refer Rogers treats the whole thing in the terms described by the music-halls as "screaming farce." So he fails to make the right and amusing contrast between the two sections of his film, one of which shows the family as they are, and the other, as their daughter describes them in her book. Rogers and his director, Charles Thomas, certainly have an uncontrollable star in Ted Ray, whose father of the family Is wholly intent on seeing that another Ted mid '4Wm BA4831 BY POPULAR-DEMAND. EXTRA WEEKS Marpezza Dawn in "Black Orpheus." ot coloured ieei, to quicnen tn cuiuuicu icci, iu HuitJicii fii llfaJ 8aB clS across, the movement of the story VlHte WllDCrneSS The jokes, in the way tO ltS crescendo at the Ivniral r.f nrh Rritish Kay gag gets across, VT't -W'8 moment of Eurydice's death. vNCE again the Disney farces, with their bright, Canuis himself, with his vy cameras get to the heart synthetic sheen on black-and- superb colour cameramen, of animal activities, this time white interiors, range from created the most exciting, in the huge frozen Arctic the knockabout to the dazzling riot of the Carnival, circle. smutty, in which scenes of explosive The kinc of this recion is Orrasinnallv thev brine a so" -t: excitement are dramatically the Polar bear, large, white spUrt of laughter, but in gen- 6 iim air.kso contronea.

and lumbering; ana mere is eral, they have the subtlety In one scene he uses the a glorious sequence where Df a bludgeon, boldest motif of blue, black two junior bears miss their The cast as compulsively illilW: and white, when the dancers, step on a irozen siope ana determined as Mr Ray to in their grotesque magnifi- go rolling and tumbling 8muse include Australian rence nf the eiethteenth cen- downhill. Thev are helped Tion qc hie cicfpr-in. tury French court dress, by background music which aWj Jcan Kcnt as hjs wjfe stamp away me morning. iiKewise runs aim um.uica, and esiie Phillips as the we gives nis oreainiess put in a cumy ibmi. un doctor, DIG SPECIAL! people, and tne audience, re- is mans muuwou juiia Lockwood, the slim pose, in the pastoral dawns Nature.

in.t.tr fiim SCHOOL HOLIDAY MATS. on the mountain top where But, if you can forget the Mar8aret Lockwood Wednesday Saturday at 2 p.m. tne two smau ooys, nice music it seems to pe mere through the film's writer familiars of the god, enter to impress the kiddies in- 0. as dutifully as if she me Biuij. uiisiou ul ins miik.m were h-mdjmg a school I.

The teeming crowd around imsL exercise. (State), the lovers includes such 8elher delightful. vivid characters as Eurydice's There is. for. instance, an "RprailCp TnPV TP woman friend and her ram- intriguing section on the UGtUUJG 1 1 It bunctious sailor lover: the wolverine, that exceedingly i anxious friend of Orpheus, resourceful wolf-ferret-stoat- lOUFIQ nH th flnnntinw strntfins bear which can chase rabbits PARTY Sorryl Owing to tremendous box office pressure, parties for remainder of season must be limited to 30 persons.

Mina, who loses him to and large birds as expertly rpniS tepid piece about a Eurydice. as it can sn.n up a wuun 1 righteous young teacher rnmiio Ars.ac cnKnrli- raid 51 Tiest. tn ft Inrop pfi-pHnpntinnnl nate his living people to the And, Disney intrudes so scnooi js aimed straight at legend, although he echoes experuy on a coiony oi the ca(s and chicks. the motif of the old story, Lrt Thousands of Sydney's STATE "PLEASE (A). Plus: (A).

Scss. ST. JANES MATINEES 1.30 DAILY IN SCHOOL HOLIDAYS. NIGHTLY, 7.30 Sharp. Bookings at Theatre.

in snrti dftiail as the nets in smell them: waaunng, Tl'RN OVER" "The Witness' 11, 2. 5, 8. vacationing ones were at the theatre last Friday: they the shack, or in the death- grumpy things with silly like Carnival figure who squealed with joy when JU V. WILLIAM DIUK)' wilt BM243I. LYCEUM and Suburb.

"CARRY ON CONSTABLE" (G). Plus: "Third Parly Risk" (A). 10.45, 1.48. 4.35. 7.57.

MA4857. VICTORY an( Suburbs. "BECAUSE THE YOUNG" (A). Plus: "Don't Panic Chaps" (G). 10.10.

1.22, 4.39, 7.48. MA6R66. CAPITOL "HEAD OF A TYRANT," Colour (G). Plus: "Too Soon To Lore" (A). 11, 2.23, 5.50, 7.35.

BA4905. cruelly pursues Eurydice. there is a turnsione-Diro, sjnger james Darren briefly His film is not as perfect which trots around shal- appeared in a dance-hall in its form as in Its wild 'ow lu, sequence; and two chicks beauty. The aftermath fones hat sitting near this reviewer scenes when an exhausted ltem: Lu6-. bli00ted cleverly anticipated the scenes, wnen an exnausieo shoe.rabblt; the of the clot be- Orpheus searches the dirty white whales doing graceful and deserted city for Eury- gymnastics under the steel- crossfire of comrnent dice, are too prolonged.

blue surface of the Atlantic, Qn Dick victoria Again the finality of the fSJSt legend does not need the curiou of thc iotiem- laf trivial epilogue of the child- mings. mkesIt a ren at play with the guitar. These tiny animals, like K.r?'SW SCHOOL HOLIDAY SES SIONS: 11 a.m. 2.15. 8.15.

2.15, As well as singing, Ricky will ploy As well as singing, Ricky will play Drums and Pianol Col Joy. Lonnia lit, Johnny I 5.15. 8.15. Devlin. theNEWEXO'TICi i-JI Did Richards, Candy and Mandy, added attraction Johnny O'Keefel 1.141.

rttlllinn little These sequences are not mina in inniKimtis: STADIUM important, however, in a onrl PVPru fpW VfATS Whefl ft Friday THIS SYDNEY .45 Head Of A .43 Saturday inn mm mai ior ecstasy oi ieei- the population gets too large, ing, and blaze of colour has nearly all of them rush down not been matched. (Savoy.) to a precipice and commit MA6I07 2nd YEAR! Week Days, Tyrant' .7 Book at Nicholiont, Globe TheatreHe (8.30 a.m. to 9.30 p.m.). Palings, Kippax and D.J.'a. 00: M6 8.43: 12, 206, M4 PHONE BOOKINGS: FL5341 TODAY SUNDAY! 10.15 a.m..

2 and 8 p.m. 2 8 p.m. BWI374. THE Old Testament story M. of Judith and Holofer- J.

C. Williamson nes is more or less retold in a Franco-Italian produc Theatres Ltd. Pteuili iNiiihll), 8 p.m. A Mats. Weds.

I 2 p.m. I C. Williamson Theatre Ltd. Presents what is vareo gram See page 100 tion as remarkable for its 150th PEHF. Next THURS.

length as its boredom. BUNTY TURNER ROB IN BAILEY Director Fernando Cer- isva NIGHTLY MATS. SATS. 8.15 ft WEDS. 2.15 WILLIAM HODGE chio handles his wide screen PHILUPSTS and colour scenes as if he KEITH PETERSEN IVl 0'HARA were imitating Cecil B.

de Mille an illusion fortified by the American voices on RICHARP WALKER KENNETH LAIRD Simple I the soundtrack. anyrsuk i Special Labour Day Matinee, Oct. 3. Tickets at Her Majesty's, Nicholson's, David Jones' 15, 25, 33. By Mail.

Box 2S25, G.P.O., 33. Cerchio is not, however, BOOKINGS: Theatre Royol Nicholson's Dovid Jones Plaas: Palings, a de Mille, either in sincer ily or and his Judith HILARITY UNUMiTEDT FIl sale FV1IXITU11E BUSINESS IRRIGATION AREA Slightly run down owing to illness of proprietor. Applyt R. A. FORGE ond Box 1455, G.P.O., Sydney.

Tel. MA9381. in' 'r JtRKa c-Yi as TROCHDEnO rorin.AR DANCING TONIGHT AND EVERY SUNDAY THE CRITICS review 'WILD STRAWBERRIES' TONIGHT 2BL 6 p.m. ll HATS. 2.15, MIGHT 8.151 8 p.m.

to 1 1 p.m. IJi ipsa- 2o-so- 8o- Btvaaia It Frank Covchlan and FonuM- farnoni orcbeMra. 103 103 I I It I.