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SINATRA'S ACTING REDEEMS SORDID FILM ON DRUG HABIT Schwiefka, the poker boss, on a ferocious mustache, newly acquired. More at home in their parts are Darren McGavin as the sinister peddler, John Conte as Drunky and Emile Meyer as the police captain. The screenplay is by Walter Newman and Lewis Melt- zer, from the novel by Nelson Algren, and the score is by Elmer Bernstein. United Artists, which is releasing Preminger's production, withdrew from the Producers Association after being refused a code seal. I wish it had been in a worthier cause.

i ram a first place. And it took cour tjie mobile camerawork and the music. Whenever Frankie feels the craving coming, on, 18 Port 1 DEC. 28, 1955 HEDDA HOPPER Jennifer Jones Will Costar Witli Travers CALL THEATRES DIRECT OR RE. I '2nd mm iirr" cou Addttl is Exciting CowmcScopt "WONDEi OF MANHATTAN nt-ow Dy lacmilcelor TOM A JERRV Celo Cwloon performances given by women were Bette Davis in "Virgin Queen;" Katharine Hepburn in "Summertime;" Jennifer Jones in "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing;" Susan Hayward in "I'll Cry Tomorrow." But Anna Magnani will get my vote for her work-in "The Rose Tattoo." She's a whole battalion of women rolled into one.

I'm pretty certain Charlotte Greenwood will get an Oscar for supporting actress in "Oklahoma;" if she doesn't 1 11 lose my confidence in human beings. And, as I've said before, James Dean must have a special award for "East of Eden" and "Rebel Without a Cause." MATCH MAKER Albert Zugsmith's being tagged marriage broker producer. Joan Crawford married right after a picture with him; ditto Mamie Van Doren; then Yvonne de Carlo; also Rock Hudson and Phyllis Gates. Al's presently making a picture with Dorothy Malone and Scott Brady. Their romance is at the boiling Al's next production will be "The Shrinking Man" with, he hopes, Dan O'Herlihy.

Harry Brand's wife, Sybil, does the nicest things. Mostly they go unnoticed, sr I'd like to applaud her for. the party she gave-at the 20th Century Studio cafe for sjven bus loads of children from all orphanages in Los Angeles all sizes, colors, creeds. She gave them a tui key dinner, and each child left "loaded with gifts, and Sybil did it all herself. Released by Chicago Newt Syndicate, 1956 There's one dramatic justification: Sinatra gives a near-gre performance.

Slum Setting He is the only one, in a company that i I as many wrong as right castings, who does. The setting is a Chi cago slum and its people. are drab or degenerate or both. Frankie goes around and around in it like a drowning rat trying to escape from a beer joint to a back-room poker game to the police sta tion to one or the other of his two women Eleanor Parker, his wheel-chair-r i wife, and Kim Novak, his B-girl friend across the street. 'Round and 'round.

He goes one other place when the Machine needs one nore "fix'' the dope peddler's hideaway. Sense of Monotony Preminger gives you the feeling of claustrophobia, to be sure, but that's not the only reason you'd like to get out. Along with in there is a growing sense of monotony and, in my case at least, an increasing dis- association with the whole shabby affair. I could not, in fine, lose myself in it for' more than moments at a time. Two effective elements are SSST and SUSPENSE! (BmUiles fna jnUritj't Utt XIMms) BY PHILIP K.

SCHEUEB Fox Beverly first-nighters tasted the dregs last night, and the dregs were bitter. In "The Man With the Golden Arm" those present found themselves experiencing a new kind of social evir, certainly one that has seldom been pictured on the screen bef drug addiction. Two hours later, when the picture was over, they knew they had had it. Frankie Sinatra, as Frankie Machine, the man with the golden arm, had had it, too. All of us, in fact and that included Frankie were licked from the start.

At the close Frankie thinks he has the habit, that he is "clean." Well, all right, perhaps he has and is but he and I say it with no real conviction. The fade-out leaves us right down there. I will state that I don't believe a viewing of the film will encourage the use of the stuff. Nobody but a masochist would want to go near it with a 10-inch needle after suffer ing such tortures, the tortures of the damned, even vican-ously. But this is the strong est defense I can offer for the whole miserable concept, or for the courage of Otto Pre- minger, its producer and di rector, in defying the Produc tion Code to tackle it in the DAT PRI-REIIAM of Next Year's Alhlivs Artie" fo" d- JaneWymm AGNES MOOREHEAD CONRAD NAGEL A im fl 1' -rvr 1 II "GARY COOPER IS JUST So is the im IUI urns' cois i ihi.jj.jw is.

(ft Miuled STORY" )' fffhnf A 'ycmsrtBwi-TisMiMiii 'fl Comedy Hit I 115 -LOUBUA PARSONS 1 ALL showino SAT, DEC. 31st 12 NOON untl th ww tmal lours of 19561 MAJOR SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31st rf 1 JK "'COURT MARTIAL' Dynamic Cooper Excellent" A- 3 LO0 3ngdCS CilttCg think they would; he's excellent. He has a personality which spreads confidence and sunshine. VOTE OF CONFIDENCE June Havoc's pretty daughter April Kent, who's 20, with summer stock and TV experience, has been added to "The Gentle Webb" with Esther Williams. Her mother and Aunt Gypsy Rose' Lee keep bragging about her.

Dana Andrews is signing up an all-star cast for his own picture titled1 "The Build Up Boys," and has just about got the signature of Vincent Price and Rod Steiger on the dotted line. Eddie Fisher's many luncheons' at Paramount with Y. Frank Freeman weren't entirely social. They talked big business, Paramount wants Eddie for a picture. DELAYED ACTION Vera Miles, playing opposite Van Johnson in "23 Paces to Baker Street" has quite a story.

She' was a beauty contest winner as Miss Kansas; came in third as Miss America in 1949; was signed by Howard Hughes, but never got into a picture. She married, had two children, and was tested by Darryl Zanuck. So finally she gets an opportunity to It's time we started talking about the Oscar winners for 1955; so I'll air my views. "Marty" will be the to beat. Finest Stanley Warner Downtown and "INSIDE DETROIT" HalWallis I vALL IHLAIKtUlKtll.Or.Kt.

I-4III That perennial play "Bar-retts of Wimpole Street" will rje put on the screen again by Metro with Jennifer Jones and William Travers, who was opposite Ava Gardner in "Bhowani Junction." We haven't yet seen him on the screen. Pic- I sL Midi Gaynor ture won't start until April, so Jennifer will be able to accompany David Selznick on their European trip. In-c id en tally "Barretts" is about to be revived on firoadway with Kit Cornell. the creator of "Li'l Abner," Al Capp, should be happy that Donald O'Connor and Mitzi Gaynor will star in the picture. Warners liked Charles McGraw so much as Rick, star of their Casablanca TV series, that they've resigned him for more of same, and promise him a starring movie in 1956.

I should L. I Held Over Exclusive Al I "THE LAST FRONTIER" PAlfPAOiFic TKEATrFs I 111 Distinctive Pictures Hl the. W'jL'' B. tes" I fWy VSRsIlvC jb SlrW. 6272 I Contfton 10 A.M.

Vgm "THE STRANGE LOS ANGELES th0enalVe 10:30 A 2:10 THE MAN WHO OPENED THE WEST! KIRKDOUGLAS. yINDMN FIGHTER Shorty Rogers and His Giants start pounding the jazz. It reaches a terrifying crescen do when Frankie has his last bout with the stuff, trying to quit it "cold turkey. The room, the man and the audi ence are a shambles. Miss Novak sees him through the ordeal.

It is a sincere performance, anyhow, though one may wonder how so pretty and purring a creature could conceivably have sunk so low Miss Parker, as the scheming slat- tern of a wife, is frightfully miscast. The more humble she pretends to be the more hauteur she unconsciouslyuts on. Remnant Sale But the choice of Arnold Stang for the role of Sparrow. a half-witted punk, passeth all understanding. The erst while "comic looks like something left over from Halloween.

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