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Daily News from New York, New York • 64

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Fwo Theatres Show 'Raisin in the Sun1 Horror Film At B'klyn Fox -Terror of the Tongs," a Columbia release in color. Produced by Kenneth Hyman and directed by Anthony Bushell fqr Hammer Films, based on a screenplay by Jimmy Sangster. Presented at the Brooklyn F'ox Theatre. Running time: 1 20 minutes. 9'EIE CAST: Capt.

Jackson- lieoffrey Tonne. lr. Kt.i-1 Kwotik H.irf'Olllt Mi'ian Wortli Helena Harbara Bmwa rhting: King Irft Lee Yvonne Monlaur. "A Raisin in the Sun," a Columbia release. Produced by David Susskind and Philip Rose, directed by Daniel Petrie from a screen play by Lorraine Hansberry based on her at the Forum and Trans-Lux 52d St, Theatres.

-Running time: 2 hours, 8 minutes. THE CAST: Walter Lee Younscr SkIiipV Poiiier Ina Toun8rcr Claudia McNeil nmh Ruhr Dee to a 1 Beneatha Diana Saints Ivan Dixon. John Fiedler Gosaelt if VS Mark TjriiJner Uforffe. r'liion if liquor store, a revolting idea to his honorable, godly mother, who 'Otitis i cannot see her late husband Lift Armored Car And Steal ICOGs Melbourne, Australia, -March 29 (UPI) An armored car driver and two accomplices stole $100,. 000 today.

While two other env-ployes were delivering money to pay Treasury Department, employes, the driver and two men stole the armored car containing almost $150,000. The car was found later. About $50,000 was left inside the vehicle. CO i I to memory desecreated by putting the insurance he left in such a de grading business. Conflict be tween mother and son rages per Hammer Films of England, who are responsible for more than just a few of the horror films that have flooded our screens of late, have come up with another chiller, "Terror of the Tongs." The picture, released by Columbia, is featured with "Cry for Happy" on the Brooklyn Fox screen.

It is replete with gore, including bloody hatchets, slit throats and chopped-off digits. At times the whole thing is a bit hard to take, and people with sensitive stomachs may find themselves feeling queasy every now and then. Set in the mysterious East of the early 1900s, the story tells of a group of Oriental terrorists, the Red Dragon Tong who are extorting money from Hong Kong merchants under threat of death and dealing in vice. A young merchant seaman becomes involved in the plot and before long finds himself battling the tongs. He does not win before several horrible murders occur.

The cast, a competent one, is topped off by Christopher Lee, Yvonne Monlaur and Geoffrey Toone. This one is not for the gentle folk. AXINE DOWLIXG petually, the daughter and daugh Claudia McNeil and Sidney Pokier ter-in-law siding with the former. Tragedy is averted when racial Hv WANDA HALE prejudice confronts the Youngers. could receive, cannot begin to They stand together refusing to predicthow many it will rack up here and abroad.

Considered far Oscars, it could easily win one, two and or three Academy awards: best picture, best actor, best supporting actress Claudia UeEKS 'J TODAY 2 4 8PM yy i SUNDAYS 1 I Mil Twt Holiday Umt Daily thfMh Aar. sa LOEWS STATE r.Tim& Mt xn McNeil, who is magnificent as relinquish the home Lena oougni in an all-white neighborhood. HUMOR SHINES through the drama, providing lightness when relief from emotional strain is needed. Diana Sands gives most of these light, touches as Lena's flighty daughter, who cannot make up her mind which of her two suitors to marry or to beeome a famous woman doctor. Ruby Dee gives a touching performance as Walter Lee's long-suffering wife, who understands her husband's need to mature but deplores his immature behavior.

Lena, the matriarch of the Young er family of three generations. First thinjrs first. Sidney Poit-ier is one of the true artists of our time. Repeating the role he played or. the stage in the film version of "A Rai.sin in the Sun," Poitier gives a thrilling performance, expressing every emotion known to mankind, as the self-pitying, embittered Walter Lee Younger of Lorraine Hansberry's story of a Negro family of the Chicago slums.

The picture, a David Susskind-Philip Hose production released by Columbia, is on view at both the Forum and Trans-Lux 52d St. Theatres. The Youngers dream is to get out of the sunless, overcrowded apartment in Chicago's South Side. Opportunity comes in the rs "A FREHZY OF FUN AND FROLIC!" Jesse Zunser, Cue mm mm nsurance check left to Lena by ft her husband. She intends divid ng it three ways: a home for her Ml Other featured roles are played with professional quality by the whole cast under the direction of Daniel Petrie.

Imagination and brood, tuition at medical school for her bright but self -centered A Kaisin in the bun, on daughter and a reserve lor emer A PARAMOUNT RELEASE TECHNtCOCOft Broadway for 15 months, won the gencies. skill have gone into Petrie's direction of the screen play by the VICTORIA I re0wy Otf St. I PMbra XiVS, SOS. tktcn Open 9 45 A M. I its film 1 1 9 aa LUI Walter l.ee, a chauiieur, counts Drama Critics' award for the best plav of 1959.

The film version, VtCTORlA PRU PARKING I Attv P.M wadayt. Aii My Sunday- KioarMM (Svga, 6b Amnm 44i tmt author, Lorraine Hansberry. on the money lor investing -in a virtually the play transferred to the screen with the same actors, is as emotionally stirring as the play. AS FOR PRIZES this picture "BEST BLOCKBUSTER OF THE r.moi OHO PREMlNGEft PRESENTS EXODUS T0 PERFORMANCES 0UIY-2 P.M. 8 SUNOAt PERfORMANCES-2 P.M.

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