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Daily Mirror from London, London, England • 21

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Daily Mirrori
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London, London, England
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21
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Ben Gazzara (left) and Ray Walston try to escape jail by tunnelling under the cell. A scene from Reprieve." this CREAM thrills Eke your first taste ofsnowflakes! James Stewart sets off on to escape from family worries. But things don't go as planned. A scene from "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation." mar DAILY IRROR, Friday, July 6, 1962 2 1 i ...,.....:....7.74.

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1. :5: ....11,.. ....7 wflakes- A 1 dancing, spa rkl ai in 7 al Off Lyons aid Family Pack ice cream is excitingly ess and lightness to ice cream. New delicio di us ff re SPECIAL TRIAL OFFER tal- An ice re a st WHILE STOCKS LAST Pe ut a wate erv ri ising coolness and lightness. Try super-whipped by Lyons Maid into tempting, tan it today.

It will thrill and refresh no ice cream has ever done you as Lyons Maid before! In 3 delicious flavours: Lyons Maid Vanilla, Strawberry. Vanilla 2wit 5fa-, and Neapolitan. 'T 44 Lm7g 'Get some where you see this sign FA ILY PACK ESCAPE! pL A I the annual holiday should be a cue for escape from woe and worry. But in films it rarely is. No, sir! As soon as Pop dreams of relaxation and maybe a second honeymoon with Mum you can bet there'll be a snag.

He'll be up to his eyebrows in problems, bickering and terrible children. Then, he'll spend most of the time working harder than he does during the rest of the year to smooth it all out. DICK RICHARDS 0n 1 recently, in Bon Voyage we had Fred Mac Murray precariously abroad with Lions. The dialogue is but the tension soon ends. his brood.

Now, in mostly brisk and bright Then we are faced with a Mr. Hobbs Takes A and with his easy, laconic, conventional situation, slightly bemused charm, A sympathetic prison Vacation (C arl VI, Stewart keeps the note ho 1 governor patiently works it is James thing on a cheerful note. on the prisoner and encour- Stewart's turn and his Lauri Peters makes a ages his talent for art. neat debut as a teenager Slowly the man is rehabiliholidays become holl- who is shy of boys because tated and, after seventeen -daze. of the new braces on her years of jail, earns his teeth.

In a ramshackle beach parole. house he is cooped up with As the awkward house Ben Gazzara makes a his wife (Maureen O'Hara). guests John McGuier and likeable and understandtwo young children, two arie Wilson arrive just in able figure of the rebellious elder daughters with their time to pump some fresh convict though we never temperamental husbands gaiety into the proceedings get to know the man's perand a terrible trio of grand- when it is very muc sonality as well as we children. needed. should.

A cantankerous Finnish There are some other housekeeper and two TRUE BUT good performances, too, unexpected, terri 1 notably from Stuart Whithouse guests are thrown in UNCONVINCING man as the governor and for good measure. The result is chaos. The OR the hero of "Re- Carey and Sammy Davis younger children sulk. The rieve" (Odeon, Marble Jr. as fellow convicts.

Rod married ones quarrel. A Arch, escape back to Steiger is particularly sexpot of a ex tra nymph his sma ll provides an extra hazard. small daughter becomes memorable in the opening sequence as a sadistic The pump won't work and a nagging obsession. But geyser blows up. the prison walls are warder.

high. Since this moody film is The toughness, despair Dogged and comedy of prison life based on the true life story are shrewdly blended but. of murderer John Resko, somewhere in the script oppa an Mom a and he acted as technical there is a story trying to wart plod on doggedly adviser, we must assume get out. The story should the whole holiday ends the accuracy of this well- move us, but doesn't. It in the entirely predictable meaning but stolid-prison merely holds the interest state of family togetherness film.

in spasms. so beloved by the Ameri- But it is difficult to be cans. convinced. HITCH HIKE That this lighthearted Resko (Ben Gazzara) film does not become as holds up a shopkeeper for TO ROMANCE laborious to the audience a Christmas toy for his as the holiday itself does child and, in panic, shoots to Jimmy Stewart is almost him. He is snatched from A YOU teenager (another new face, entirely due to his deft the electric chair by a last comic skill.

He wheedles minute reprieve and starts Agathe Aem s) escapes every shred of fun out of a life sentence. from it all by hitch-hiking so prolonged, under- These early scenes have from Belgium to the comedy situa- a chilly sense of foreboding sera in "Girl On The Road (Cameo Royal. A She Picks up lifts in an alarmingly indiscrim- TWISTWORDS mating way, but somehow manages to beat off all advances until the last one. Find two words which mean the opposite of That turns out to be true FOUL and MENDED and rearrange the letters of Er," love and it proves that even the new words to give a nine-letter word meaning the most madcap young forbearance. woma can sometimes i press her luck with success.

Miss Aems is surrounded by most of the top French actors and their Yesterday's solution: The opposites were SILLY ances, plus some excellent (sensible) and NEAT (slovenly). Twistword was photography, make this SALIENTLY. leisurely and quite believable iThill11111111111111i111111iiiiiIIIIIIII111111111111111illillillifililliiiIIIIIrr: pleasantly entertaining at the pictures.

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