The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 19

Page MOVIE REVIEW There is real feeling far farce in the script or directioa though, ard the result is simply to. make the moviegoer feel 1 uneasy as Mr. Niven docs. 87 Bob Bix-kbura troubled wish certain emotional problems iexp-ainabic Is the most basic psychiatric termsl but overcame them with help. Its a pretty good movie.

No more. Its biest fault is Its assumption that a baseball player's nervous breakdown is more significant than anyone else nervous breakdown. Anthony Perkins, who appears to be some'hin? of a minor-league Jimmy Stewart, does well, and so does Karl Maiden as his demanding father. provide? evidence that Hollywood has gotten too and Technicolorful for a format at which it once nee-lied: the bedroom farce, i It doesn't maf.er tnat in this 1 cae the bedroom is a desert i island it's still a bedroom farce. David Niven is marooned on this island with his ex-fiancee, Ava Gardner, and her rich and titled husband.

Stewart Quite obviously. Niven gets a bit miffed over his enforced celibacy in the face of the conjuxal bliss of the other two, and the situation develops the iuevitable complications. I aViil au.1 T4 I network will make him Fuller's surcesoor. As he does his reearch for the memorial show, he discovers I that Fuller was a romplete heel, and. being a conscientious fellow.

doesn't know whether he ihould perpetuate the lie or spread the truth. In the book, the forces playing on his decision were stronger and more complex. The movie barely suczests some of tiiem and corresponding loses impact. But where the book had a very poor ending, the movie supplies one most readers would feel the book should have had. I The picture probably exajzer-' ales in its effort to show television as a toush and rotten i trade, but it's only a Iter nf screenplay, has gone ail -out to preserve the impact of the book for moviegoers, Unfortunately, the movie lack both the time and talent to deliver the book's whole message to the screen.

It was a bitter book. Most people think it was written with Arthur Godfrey in mind, not because people regard I Godfrey as the sort of heel the Great Man was. hut because the 1 incidents in the book resemble some in Godfrey's' career. I Author Morgan, however, takes TODAY IILL WtDNfcSUAY CinerncSenpr Color "DESIGNING WOMAN" Gregrtrv Lauren PECK A CALL DOLORES GRAY A (id Ml Artlns "CUTUW TERRITORY" In Color JOHN IRELAND 7 Capitol LITTLE HUT jiasidttidaisi t.MGMl THE Snipwrecked on a desert Island with TWO MEN! HILARIOUS! AVA'S I "-'in the raciest Iv'V. n'-' funniest comedy degree.

It remains an essentially sincere and honest niece of work and an absorbing show. DBIGHTFUU ,1 rfl C1! lr. .11 TFAHOUSC 7 wiST 1 C' r- I hit frf the vpar! Jtf the uncharitable stand that his heel could have been any of the big-time TV personalities The story finds Jose Ferrer, a radio newsman with a successful nighttime show, handed the job of doing the memoriai show on newly-deceased comedian Herb Fuller, TV hero of countless millions of "the great unwashed" (TV parlance for you and met, with the understanding that if he does it weepily enough, the 'JTV'l ClnmaScop "COCKIESHEU ill. HEROES" jJj, JOSE FKRP.rR TREVOR HOWARD "LONE GUN" 1 Wrothv malone" Resent FEAR STRIKES OUT (Paramount! is the story of Jim Pier-gall, and It's dedicated to the proposal that the infielder's lot is not a happy one. Piersall, according to the movie, was AVA GARDNER OJpon THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (Universal-International) chap who is taking quiet pleasure cruise In the Pacific and runt into the fallout from a nuclear explosion.

He arU thrill king and keeps shrinking, Tiiia isn't too barf an idea. and it'i supported ly smart photographic tricks, but It doesn't come off at all. It makes a morbid and depressing story whose momenta of greatest import Inspire the audience to laughter. And It's not happy laughter, either. It's compounded of revulsion, nervousness and disbelief.

The story Is not told with the convincing logic which makes the most Imaginative science fiction acceptable Its( explanations are full of holes, it lacks form, and It ends without satisfaction. The moment of climax comes when the hero, by now less then a quarter-Inch tall, does mortal battle with a loathsome spider over 1 crumb of stale cake. The picture is not without fense moments. The above Incident makes one of them; another occurs when the hero 'then about mouse-size becomes a victim of the family cat. The uoshot of this Incident Is that his wife assumes he has been eaten by the cat, and evcrvone laughs, pointing up the film's big weakness: the moments intended to be the most moving succeed only in amusing the viewer and simultaneously making him ashamed of his amusement.

There is horrible tragedv here, but it's much too horrible to tvnke belief or sympathy. 1HW art 1 MtRLOH BRANDO I -KIM Si tWARi uRAftUtR DAVID NIVEN in ratKHFORO rii t-j lit miw i-, i 1 1 KYO 3 LI 1 cat Fddie ALBERT I' ''1 Mi-mi. I I 1 IT IIRA I ll Now! OHARA -t, from M-O-M BLUSHINQ coiorl CAREY a 1 a t' hi i tiri snow at dusk. Box office opens at 7 JO p.m. Ifcadmastcr Frome (Cecil Pari cr), Traaeaeh mi trexatt is lk retrial Wi a prim and rofrr Loicr the Classics is CZZT fv IHMJLteJtf IWfeiM iVlll Lruu Til JACK WEBB 1 11 Jt i i.

undermined by rrojessor Utngle (John JC-? I i "V1 iW s-i 1 nsps-if Al tils), ho is Afodern, Hc), and a Loi cr III MICKEY B00NET COinw 6AT ji v. JitT, Pfdiam reigns supreme the school is jumping! and you will agree that i rTtrri r.i7 1 Ontpr THE GREAT MAN Is a thoughtful celluloid treatment of Al Morgan's best-selling novel. Jose Ferrer, star, director, and co-author with Morgan of the Always a Color Cartoon 7 THAT EXPLOSIVE KIW STAR CF FRIIKDIY PERSUASICN AMUSEMENT DIRECTORY In 1 TTrt -1 KARL MALCER TONIGHT! ELECTION RESULTS Along With A A Ptrtmount P'dut WtlfflK -CL Good Movie! a fAMowi riATfit tm(am 8M at LAUKIM tsui tt. hnu 'A i NOTE! ALL IMPORTANT ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED TONIGHT! with delight at the antics of uc i mm mm (j illljiiHil. GREATer than in 'HOBSOX'S CHOICE'! GREAT, REALLY Movie Time Schedule ALADDIN: "So Big" plus "Fir Over Africa" First show it dusk.

AUTO-SKY: "Cockleshell Heroes-plus "Lone First show at dusk. BRITANNIA: "Forbidden Planet" plus "The First show at dusk. CAPITOL: "The Little Hut" 1 3.40 935 7JS 133. Last show at 9 o'clock. CARTIKR: "Designing Woman" 1230 2 24 5 9.28.

"Outlaw Territory" 4.30 8 02. Last show at CENTRE: "The Crest Man" 1 20 4 20 7.10 10.10. "Back to God's Country" 12 00 3.00 1.30 S.40. Lest show at 40. EASTVIEW: "The Bold and the Brave" t.30 54.

"Slightly Scar- let" 1.01. Last show at S01. LITTLE ELGIN: "Its Great to MAIN ELGIN: "Yangtze Incident." ELMDAI.E: "Foreign Intrigue" .30 M. "Hot Blood" 8 27. Last show at 8 27 FRANCAIS: "The Harder They Fall" plus "Count Three and Pray." LINDEN: "The Calne Mutiny" 1.40 8 30 8.18.

"Count Three and Prav" 1.13 3 50 7.45. Last show at 7 48. MAYFAIR: "Anastasla" 2.40 8.10 4fl. "The. Naked Street" 1.18 445 8.

15 Last show at 8 15. MONTCALM: "The Kettles In the Oiarks" 8 30 10.00. "Abbott and f'oatello Meet the Mummy" 7.18. "Mr. Muggs Rides Again" 8.48.

Last show at 7.18. KELSON: "Teahouse of the August Moon" 8.15. "Oh Menl Oh Women!" A .10 10.15. Last show at 8 05. ODEON: "The Incredlhle Shrinking Man" 12 55 3.10 5 25 7.40 9.55.

Last show at o'clock, URGENT: "Fear Strikes Out" 1.30 3.30 5.30 7.30 8.30. Last show at 810. BIALTO: "Battle Station" 2.00 8.00 "A Yank In Indo China" 1 00 4 45 8.45. "Thev Came to Blow L'p America" 3 20 7.20. RIDEAU: "Zombies of Mora Tau" 2 20 4 55 7.30 10 05.

"Man Who Turned to Stone" 1.06 3.40 8.15 8.80. Last show at 8 50. SOMERSET: "High Society" 2 40 -8 23 10.10. "Written on the Wind" 12 55 4.35 8 20. Last show at 8 20.

STAR-TOP: "Pete Kelly's Blues" plus "Twinkle In God's First show at dusk. CECIL PARECER i 1 EL' 'fiiU. fO- GREATer lhan he ufls in wuni.in...u i ClITCDTUillUICliITl Tm'mTTm? m.tjjJWM i mwm mmm mh mm ijii in flgG- 4 OF 7i'r- X- nrimnaua STARTS mmmmmj rm7xm TODAY wy I I if Dancing Floor Shows CHATEAU LAURIER: Dancing nightly. CHAITDIERE ROSE ROOM: Two floor shows nightly dancing. CIRCUS LOUNGE, Ottawa House Hotel: Continuous entertainment nightly from 8.00 p.m.; Saturday matinees from 2 00 p.m.

FAIRMONT CLUB: Two floor shows nightly, dancing. GATINEAU CLUB: Two floor shows nightly, dancing. GLENLEA GOLF CLUB: Dancing and entertainment nightly. ST LOUIS HOTEL: Dancing nightly STANDISHALL Dancing nightly. SUPERNATORAL UNDERSEA THRILLS! OR INHUWANINO WOMAN IS i Vliill Yllii.

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