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GO Intense Suspense in 'The Hitch-Hikers' World Theatre Offers a New Italian Movie WANDA HALE e3 1-5 C5 a Kavoralile reports on "Rome 11 O'Clock" reached us here long before the yiieture arrive! at the World Theatre yesterday. The new Ituliun film, with Knjrlish titles, live up to the promised dramatic quality but it's a long picture that could have stood more careful editing for American audiences. "Home 1 1 O'clock" is ba.ed on an incident in the Eternal City in VJ1, an accident that injured a rouplu of hundred or so ftirls who I ike I 1 'The Hitch- William Talman in Hikers. My KATE The producing company of Film-akers, in which Collier Young and Ida Lupino are partners, has turned out several pictures of a sensational nature. In their latest, "The Hitch-Hikers," they have made good and exciting use of incident that occured not long ago in the Southwest, when a couple of vacationers were kidnepped by a convict with a gun in his hand.

xThe picture on the Holiday Theatre screen Is filled with a terrific atmosphere of suspense that will keep the audience in a state of excitement from the very beginning of the picture until its thrilling end. "The Hitch-Hikers" was made on a modest budget from a screenplay by Miss Lupino and her ex-husband. Collier Young, and is being presented through RKO, with Fdmond O'Rrien, Frank Ixivejoy and William Talnian in the leading roles. A couple of hard-working fellows, Hoy Collins and Gilbert Uowen, off on a fishing trip, are stopped on the road leading to the Chocolate Mountains by a hitchhiker. The rider turns out to be a man with a gun who means business if they fail to follow his directions.

Collins and Bowen soon learn from the car's radio that they are in the hands of a desperado who has killed several motorists and is being hunted by the police. The convict, Myers, sits in the bark seat of the car with his gun at the ready, and directs his unwilling hosts to head for the Mexican border to enable him to elude his pursuers. The Mexican police have been alerted and are on the SHATTERS EVERY LONG-RUN RECORD IN THE 34-YEAR HISTORY OF THE lookout for the American car, but Collins and Bowen have little hope of shaking off the killer long enough to flag the police. The action is taut throughout and Miss Lupino has done a fine job of directing her own story. The three principals are very good, indeed, in their roles, with O'Brien and Lovejoy expressing the terror of their situation realistically and Talman lending conviction to his portrayal of the killer.

Anyone in search of a vicarious thrill will get it by picking up "The Hitch-Hiker" at the Holiday Theatre. Lucia Hose in "Rome 11 U'Clock." for a typist. The stairway, in an old building on which the jrirls were wailing in to be interviewed. Astor Schedules 'President's Lady1 "The President's Lady," 20th Century-Fox historical romantic drama starring Susan Hayward "The Hitch-Hikers," an RKO Radio Pictures release, directed by Ida Lupino and produced by Collier Young. The screenplay by Young and Miss Lupino.

Presented at the Holiday Theatre. Running time: 1 hour, 11 minutes. THE CAST and Charlton Heston, is sched-u 1 for the Astor sometime late in May. The featured cast of the picture based on Irving Stone's novel about Rachel and Andrew Jackson, includes John Mc-Intire, Fay Bainter. Whit Rnv Cilhn O'Brien rank J.ovhjh.v hmmctt Mvpph -William Talmati Joue Tnrv-iiy Tal't.

Alvrraiiu -ini Mav- w.mlii Nilrn Hini-tif (inifra! li.a Vul Susan Haywood field Connor, iovcriilut'iit Audit Clark Howat Va in William JoluldUll Rmllipy Bell I'mtinWor (talmilfi llarli'iiiicr Martin mam I THE CAPITOL HALL OF FAME li 1 THE CAPITOL HALL OF FAME Carl Betz, Gladys Hurlbut, Ruth Attaway and Charles Dingle. collapsed, injuring some slightly, others severely, one fatally. Using this accident as the nucleus for a movie plot, Giusep de Suit is and collaborators have woven a story around these girls, most of whom needed the job desperately. Irirecting, Ie Santis has made, a moving drama that points up a relatively small number of the trills, Kivinjf an insijrht into home-life, revealing why each applied for the position, showing the result of the accident on each girl. Among the girls brought closely t't audience attention are a giri of aocial standing who marries a trutrgling artist, a retired general's daughter, a girl who doesn't want to return to her country home, an unmarried Rrl who is expecting a baby, a prostitute who wants to become honest, a very young girl whose mother is with her, a young married woman whose husband is also out of work and an older, unattractive woman who thinks the world is against her.

Under De Santis' direction, the performances are restrained and Htncere. The players include some of Ita'ly's outstanding movie actors and actresses such as Del I'oggio, Dose, Varzi, Padovani, Scala, Van-icek, llirotti ami Vallone. Overlength of the film can be attributed, 1 think, to too many authors, live in all. Facts have been heavily embroidered and some of the padding could have been eliminated without harming the picture. 11 O'clock," directed by Uiuseppi de Santis and produced by Paul Craetz.

The screenplay by C. Zavattini, De Santis, It. Franchina, K. Sonego and Puccini. Presented at the World Theatre.

Running time: 1 hour, 17 minutes. With Knglish titles. THE CAST: One of the BIGGEST OF Pi THE World Ul: Sun A PLACE IN THE'SUN 7 Weeks AFRICAN QUEEN .,.7 Weeks THE QUIET MAN 7 Weeks QUO IN WHICH WE SERVE 8 Weeks' STAGE DOOR CANTEEN 8 Weeks NAKED CITY ..8 Weeks ANCHORS AWEIGH. .10 Weeks SINCE YOU WENT AWAY. ...10 Weeks GONE WITH THE WIND 11 W'ks, 2 Days and now topping them all MOULIN ROUGE 12 Weeks I Rosalind 1 1 Rosalind brightens Broadway in a rib-tickling film!" "Rosalind is having a field day on Broadway!" Doily Nwt Paul Douglas Marie Mson Prodvtmd by Oirctd by NO MAN I.

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rWflB I Academr Award Wnnin( 2M 'Bright Road' MGM "Hright Road," at the 65th St. Playhouse, was financed by MGM nd produced under that studio's banner, not an independent production released by Metro was tated in yestetdaj'a movie leview of the film. I tw A 'w it KCHNICOtO It. Mm Si ETHEL MERMAN DONALD O'CONNOR i i VERA EUEN GEORGE SANDERS 3.