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1 A fj 4 i 1 s. 4 'i -i 1 rrar qU' a- ft't tS-, 'Y tss vr 1 TbeKlntrKew btis captured on Car Jika'VTo ax Mkbener atory. (which La- Nipponese who first Umeki, a sweet, moon-faced well looking absolute lanaiwu drl Rut thtlf PO- Japanese. 4 Japanese girL But their Japanese. Also helping overall effect Is a fine mucal score by Franx Waxsaar which avoids the usul cliche oi Oriental sing-ttrj mebdesr 51 BY DICK WILLIAMS EitoriilHawt Miter Sayonara (Warner a modern-day version of Madame Butterfly," ia an enchanting love story of great beauty, delicacy and good taste.

It is one of the years top-ranking option pictures. The holiday attraction at the Paramount Hollywood has been; splendidly produced with flawless taste on ocation in Kyoto, Japan. It wnefits from one of Director Joshua Logans most inspired pieces of work. Clear-his was a labor of love folr subject and locale. Based on the James A.

i tries. to ignore Brando later succumbs. i Jot keo ia Japan Tfie story unfolds during the' Korean war when battle-fatigued jet ace Brando travels to Japan for rest and rehabilitation. Even the surprise presence of his American fiancee, Patricia Owens," with her preoccupation with duty and social position, cannot alter his depressed mood-But when he chances upon the beautiful dancer, be feels like a new man. Eventually he meets her through the help of an airman buddy -(Red -Buttons) who is married to Miyoshi twimm ti.

Imam HmiiHa' hit jgan originallyilEr pired him to write, by the way) MSay. onara tells of the love af fair of an American pilot and a premier dancer of Japan. Marloti Brando, in one of his best and most sensitive a boy i with latent racial prejudices who is attracted to a beautiful buLunappitachable Matsu-bayashl dancer. The latter is an all-girl troupe whose lives. are dedicated to the theater, Newcomer Miiko a Lbs Angeles Nisei girl, is fine as the i fragile, lovely ran MlrfiulKk him Red Buttons especially outstanding as a fighting Irishman who his Japanese gif 1 despite -Uife Armys disapproval- Pitted against him is a -Jip-hating, bigoted colonel played i extremely well, by Douglas Watson.

--T Both girls are delightful Miss Taka is the more aristocratic In keeping with her role, while cute Miyoshi is the pixie type. James 'Garner, an impressive, and able is excellent as a Marine. Corps pal of Brando's. Martha Scott and Kent: Smith. add strongly as.

the parents of Patricia Owens. 1 Filmed in Technicolor and CineiAaScope, the picture is a thing of visual beauty romance faces stumbling Mocks. At the time the American Exclusion Art barred Japanese brides from entering the United States. And the dancer has taken 1 troupes 'traditional chastity vow. Skillfully woven into the story is a background of Japanese culture including its theatrical traditions never before presented on screens.

These include performances of the famed Kabukt dancers, Bun-raku Puppet Theater and the all-prl Matsubayashi Revue, a lavish sort of Oriental Ziegfeid Follies. Kahaki Ricardo Montalban appears as a top KabuU dancer and dou a flawless Job as seeing that a pupiathered by the gallant; mongrel bean the same spunky characteristics of nis faithful pet. Tommy end small. Kevin turn the relationship between a boy and his uog into one of the mlraclesLOLchiid-. hood.

Miss McGuire is fine as their mother Parker (formerly Davy Crocket) is1 stalwart as the STEP 111 TIIE HEART OF EVERY IS. TIIE ML TO KILL Walt Disneys Christmas gift to the youngsters this ear is a snaggy yellow mutt tamed Spike who plays the title role in Old Yeller, fred Gipsons tale ox a small oy and a mongrel dog on the Texas frontier. Paired with t-year-old Kevin Corcoran in the new Disney film at the Fox Wilshire, Jpike has it made as the Lids' latest canine screen avorite. Old Yeller comes crashing onto, the Coates farm, chasing Jackrabbits. Young Kevin adopts him immediately over tiie protests of his old- er brother (Tommy Kirk) who is manfully assuming responsibilities as head of he family during his fathers absence on a cattle From Bear.

The big hound proves-his oyalty by rescuing, Kevin rom the angry mother of a bear cub befriended by the ittle boy. Old Yeller becomes ndispensable to the Coates family, keeping the corn patch free oil marauding raccoons, and rouUdihg 'up a ost cow and her newborn calf. The dog wlns over Kevin and his mother (Dorothy McGuire) hut Tommy still wants him run off the place. Tommy's heart finally melts when Old Yeller, courageous as ever, saves him from a herd of wild boars. Later Old Yeller, badly fitted by a wolf, gets hydrophobia an has to be shot father, but the role is so brief it keejm him out of sight most of the time.

Kindly Rancher Chuck Connors plays kindly rancher who claims Old Yeller but does not press his claim when he sees how the boys yearn to keep him. Jeff as a blustering neighbor, and Beverly Wash-bum as his granddaughter, are other wonderful contributors. to this Disney adventure. Nature's harsh realities are never glossed over but in of Its enough to make strong there Is tenderness, too, men weep and tesr the heart many rural scenes full BRJGJTTE BARDOT, tho French mx kitton, looks aihorulf in minor in scans from And God Croatod Woman, french color film porting today et Bovorly Canon end Vagabond Thsofe rs. raccoons, Jackrabbits, squirrels and MARGARET HARFORD out of young Tommy.

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itwmww.sKiwm SUOSSMSITi Gentle Story Of Japan To ld in 'R ice' A gently told tale of love, poverty and conflict among ice- growers and fisher folk of modern-day rural Japan, Rice opened on Christmas Day at tiie Monica. English subtitles and good performances in this Japanese-made film serve to Ihring unfamiliar waystnd tttitudes into partial focus for Americans. It is, however, apparent from the start that so far as the Occidental viewer is concerned, stray and acting in Rice are secondary in importance to the photography. Universal Beauty Universal areas of identification are implicit in the beauty, delicacy and strength of its pictorial quality. The dark night shine of softly lapping waters, the tree-cast filigree of sunshine and shadow, the bright' colors that celebrate any festival anywhere need no translation for Western audiences.

Photographed in Eastman Color, with- emphasis on tasteful simplicity, the picture is always visually artistic, never arty. Cinematographer credit goes to Syunichiro Naki, and direction to Seigo Shin do. Foigaent Climax By Western standards, Rice suffers from lack of coherence in direction and editing until the final scenes which culminate in poignant funeral procession of the very poor. Masako Nakamura is a beautiful impoverished gi 1 who helps her mother (Yuko Mochizukl) eke out a living between rice growing end fishing, until the mother DSC ir. it, ml st, SS SI MSJM.MIM mwmruvi BmiHJuto Oristam Sift Cartilicatas Ntv BnBRUs Via Maw Isi Dfficsi Tag rwmrtmmWMttunmiiitHa MM tr car 0w WwW mV Mull llOIHMiISit CARTMAV CIRCLE TH KATR CM W.

Sm WcmM SM t-SMI GILBERT RERUNS plays hid-oovs monstor In Ttoftage Monitor" no at Globa downtown, Southiido, Capitol Ghndolo, UA Huntington Park and sin diwe-ins. a phenomenon comes to ultimate tragedy by fishIng wlth the bidden with the Alto Starring DIANNE FOSTER KEENAN WYNN WHITMORE EFREM ZIMBALIST, Jr. PledUttf to MARTIN MCKM Dncttd Of R. MATl Hay by JOHN TWIST, MARTIN lUCKIN MS MARRY BROWN From WARNER BROS, in WamstColor i A IAGUAR PRODUCTION STARTS WEDNESDAY w. AIL OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BY MARGARET HARFORD, Staff Writer A Virile stranger foments some fiery emotions In three lonely women on an isolated farm in Passionate Summer, a French-Italian film based on Ugo Bettis play Island of Goats which readied Broadway briefly a few seasons ago.

The film, one of the years best foreign entries, opened yesterday at the Sunset and Crest Theaters. Other emotions pride, jealousy, hate erupt frequently in this strange, primitive tale. But It is passion, raw and basic, that keeps the story boiling until, ironically, the four people involved go their separate wy. The film is beautifully acted and photographed. It Is full of subtle, imaginative details.

that tell almost as much about the drama as the Individuals themselves. That is Why that despite meager action, the film is anything but dull Lonely Vistas Director Charles Brabant has caught the trenchant loneliness of these people in vistas of barren, sun-baked land. Against a background of remoteness and decay, passion rages as evidence of the' indestructibility of life itself. A broken shutter banging gainst the wind, tells With eerie eloquence of the futility aching in the hearts of the three women struggling to survive alone. The arrival of Raf Vallone, as husky Italian vagabond, not unlike that of the handsome stranger in William Inge's play Plcqlcr has a cataclysmic effect on the ladies.

Vallone heard about the widow from her husband, who was sn army buddy of his before he dieo. The visitor fully intends to share the widows bed, -During her initial aloofness and hostility, he Is distracted by her teen-age daughter, visibly unsettled I by the presence of a man, and a febrile brunette relative hungering for love. But the lady soon gives in and seething tensions build up as the women vie bitterly for the lodger's favor while he glibly plays cock of the walk. An unexpected twist of passions nearly destroys the stranger as the women turn on him in united hatred. Besides Vallone, who is a fine specimen of manly vitality, Madeleine Robinson is a strong figure as the widow who would kill her lover rather than lose him.

Dany Carrel the awakening teen-ager, and Megali Noel, a smoldering brunette with a -Jayne Mansfield bosom, also disclose the terrible frustrations that lurk in the Gene Is Revenooer Gene Barry portrays a revenue officer in Thunder Road," in which he acts with Robert Mltchum. STARTS TONIGHT! HCvL. proudly presents gill net. Shinjiro Ebara is the needy young fisherman of the romance. Another Japanese beauty, Toshiko Oka-da, is prominent in the cast, as are Koh Klmura and Hito-ml Nakahara.

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