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apaqpaMf DETROIT FREE PRESS Thursday. Aug. 8, 1954 jV STAR GAZING Dockside Violence Makes Great Film BY HELEN BOWER Trm Ftwi Merit CrM Hearing and reading advance raves about a new movie Film to Do Garfield Life Story BV HEDDA HOPPER HOLLYWOOD Richard Conte acquired the rights to Jay Richard Kennedy's best seller, "Prince Bact," and A towering performance by Marlon Brando very often seta up in a critic's mind a subconscious resistance to being oversold. This is a healthy state, and the one In which I approached "On the Waterfront," which opens Thursday at the Palms Theater. Now I believe that this dramatic American picture of dock- will produce it as a play on Broadway next spring.

Ben Simco wrote the first side labor racketeering may well be this year's "From Here draft, and it will star Conte opposite his wife Ruth. to Eternity," when Academy awards are voted. thrilling direction by Elia Kazan a story "On the Waterfront" should be rushed to foreign audiences Danny Mann, who gave with all possible speed, because in every department it la such strong contrast to the glossy "Hollywood" idea of American life. warm and moving -but she knows the truth about her Shirley Booth a new career With his direction of "Come Back, Little Sheba" on stage and screen, will direct. "Prince Bart," based on John Garfield's life, is quite an Indictment of Hollywood.

Based on Malcolm Johnson's articles, Budd Schulberg's story brother, she is the reed, fragile but unbreaking, upon which Terry leans. deals maturely with a brutal situation. Never at any time Cobb is a strong figure as the ruthless Friendly (ironic name), as Maiden is strong spiritually in does the action slip into melo drama. with ordss knuckles! mmSSi For love and terror as memorable as the screen rallying Terry and the others. The cast, headed by Marlon Brando, peoples the story with real human beings with the FATHER BARRY'S sermon in the hold of a ship over the shat tered body of another of Friend' "realism" that has so long been a strong quality of foreign lys victims is the most poignant and unusual of many dramatic has ever known mark down scenes.

movies. Right down the line every indl Filmed in Hoboken in simple vidual has been chosen to fit the black and white for the now old. ON THE WATERFRONT $. 4 i lliilia -y' 1 fashioned size screen, "On the Waterfront" has been photographed with great artistry and character. ELIA KAZAN, as director, i i.

as one of the great, great created this powerful amalgam variety of effect. This is a motion picture with a great deal to say, and a great deal will be said about it. with his special talent for drawing the best from each member of the cast. motion pictures! The story, in brief, centers Cool If ZFSk around Terry Malloy (Brando), whose hopes as a prizefighter have been destroyed. He has become the protege of Johnny 80e TIL 5 P.M.; $1.00 TIL CLOSE 8 COLUMBIA PICTURES presents Friendly (Lee J.

Cobb), waterfront boss who uses gangster methods under the cloak 1 of unionism. I THE YARN about how Greg cry Peck suffers while wearing a peg leg for "Moby Dick" tickled me no end. While Greg was here I asked. him about that. "Nothing to it," he said.

"I've practiced with the leg. I Just put my knee in a cushion of foam rubber and strap the leg up behind me. It's a Ty Power's beard, which he grew for "Untamed," Is getting mighty Itchy. But he won't have much longer to wait. The picture starts Monday.

Times change and so do actors' billing. Richard Wld-mark, the fair-haired boy at 20th after his performance as Johnny Udo in "Kiss of Death," gets fourth billing after Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner and Jean Peters in. "Broken Lance." This was his last at that studio. But I'm predicting they'll bring him back another day and give him the star billing he's earned. JUNE ALLYSON'S running a dormitory occupied by five children.

Besides her own Pamela and Ricky, her 20-year-old brother and Dick Powell's two children, Norman (19) and Ellen (16), are living with her. They have a horse, sheep, four dogs and four cats. "When I come home," says June, "the kids and dogs all run for the car. Takes me 25 minutes to get Inside the house." The rumor that she was ill is untrue but she practically had heart failure when her three year old Ricky fell through a plate glass window. All he got was a tiny scratch on the back of his neck.

June's excited about her role In "The Shrike." She plays a mean wench, something dif i r7 2 Charley Mal loy (Rod Steig-I er), Terry's; older is the "legal adviser" for! 1 Plus: "MAKE HASTE TO LIVE" DOROTHY McGUIRE- STEPHEN McHALLY Miss Bower Friendly. Fa ther Barry (Karl Maiden) is the' 1 Xlliffl: llr neighborhood priest who learns that he must take the docks for his parish. After Terry has been used to put the finger on a youth suspected of "singing" to crime in vestigators, Terry meets the mur sit vii lftllll KRAfkllAVIAII dered youth's sister Edie (Eva Marie Saint, introduced in this picture), who has been studying in a convent to become a teacher. These two are a Romeo and co-starring KARL MAIDEN -LEE l.COBB th ROD STEIGER PAT HEMNING Produced by SAM SPIEGEL and introducing EVA MARIE SAINT Screen Play by BUDD SCHUIBERG Music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN Directed by ELIA KAZAN Juliet of the docks and tenement roof tops, their love menaced by more dreadful and cankerous circumstances than a family feud. 80c 'TIL 5:00 P.M.: $1.00 TIL CLOSE TROUBLED BY the dawnings EXPLODES WITH BULLET-FORCE FURY! "THE BIG CHASE" Starts TodaV I OQUfT GnnoEn of conscience, Terry finally realizes the evil set in motion by GARY COOPER SUSAN HAYWARD RICHARD ferent for her.

iiaaaSa aaM fcaV AAi i 'TIL 1)30 A.M. LrcasJssJ WITH GLENN LANGAN LON CHANEY AGILE JERGENS DOORS OPEN OPEN ALL NIGHT Df EVIL ClNlMAScOPE A VrtUi P.tr.tt Thofr. COMFOSTSSIY COOl Friendly. Eventually he testifies for the crime defies Friendly and takes a terrible beating but leads the! longshoremen back to work freed of gang rule. WIDMARK STARTS TODAY I Brandos performance .1.7 IFWT I i i eotouuA of i tvj ma" trvtw wfifivnzrrw I WOOOWAID revelation.

The very soul cootis ry Terry looks out from his hooded STARTS TODAY! 0r ah ntht -m iiio HFHieiaATioM iMrt 0m Ili45 eyes. He emerges from frustra I Me Detroit TWr. COMFOSTASIT COOt I in TiAorriONi Of tion and futility to stand for LAVENOCK HILL MOI I t4y tioinci rmalO kttt CUMMINS-MORGAN-SQUIRE i avav i st i iiMi- rai-isiiiiiiJi sv Always a Bride" ifin AMA2INA AriVf NTI18I A BttuHlul Tim On BtllH f. something. This is clearly a character that Brando thoroughly understands.

His Terry is less acting than it is living the plight of a groping mind, and he gives Terry a strange, wistful boyishness. Miss Saint is a blond with high cheek bones who has something of the pathos Teresa Wright gives a character. Troubled and tender toward Terry, even when 0 SATIN SLIPPERS "PIT OF LONELINESS" IpROBERT ELEANOR 'j I W00DWAI0 Nil, i Ml. NOW mi Monroe To Revise City Charter Special to tha Free Fra MONROE Returns Wednesday showed voters approved a complete City charter revision in a special election Tuesday, 1,022 to 300. Voters also decided to remove a charter provision limiting the levying of taxes in special assessment procedure, and decided there shall be no change in the form of city government.

Nine persons were elected to a charter commission to revise the charter, adopted in 1913. Named were George V. Allen, Hazen E. Heck, William. J.

Braunlich, Mary Daume, James A. Doran, Walter G. Haes-sler, Burl C. Howell, Francis T. Ready and Arthur E.

Taylor. Gayety Revue "Paris Parades," opening Thursday at the Gayety Theater, features Lee "Hot Rod" Wayne with Helen Drake ss an added attraction. Scurvy is top banana backed by straight men Billy Foster and Pat Burns. Dancers Include Grace Reed, Fifl LaVern and Margo Malloy. Show Time ZETTERLINS kND SOftARDI BLACKMAILED" Why wait for October to cool off? Just step aboard that Bob-Lo boat for a cool 38-mile cruise to and from breezy Bob-Lo Island.

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