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1 i -V POSITION'S RUED "4 BROOKLYN EAGLE THUR AUfl I 1954 i MOVIES I Add Others Work tor a Living Suspense Thriller in Color Reopens the Rivoli Theater tn Hitchcock Riy(fry drams I as aivel as it is Writing as bright and nmasingly satirical a It is adult The troubles ol the cast are Tsrled but they g(n the spectator a good tine ByiAXE CORBY' 'J-Rear Window" at the Rivoli is a suspense film a murder mystery in color The mystery is not who committed the dastardly crime of killing a woman and cutting her up in little pieces but whether or not such a crime was committed at all It's going to remain a mystery as far as this review! is concerned because this MB WINDOW' Twhat- Swili mS mliw tv HHrknck tmn SU Mb M- Bar Association Convenes Aug Id Chicago Aug Problems of citizenship Communism atomic energy law and the procedure of Congressional investigations will undergo searching examination by the top legal experts here Aug 16-20 During that period the American Bar Association will hold' one of its most Important annual meetings in history: It will reach Its climax Aug 19 with the dedication of the pew $2 000000 American Bar Center located near the University of Chicago campus The main speaker will be Chief Justice Earl --Warren Others participating will 'be Associate Justices Sherman Minton: and Robert H- Jackson chief justices of the various State and of the 10 Federal judicial circuits and the deans of 128 law schools Jane Wyman Troubled Star Of Picture at State weaves a weepy story around altrulNm as a theme with results that will please those who enjoy a good rry Obsession" In Technicolor at Lopwto State Theater leaves me with various obsessions which are not magnificent Obsessed for instance with the notion that suffering for-suffering's sake throughout nine-tenths of a picture la not fun to watch Also' that Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson are for the purposes of this story an ill-assorted romantic pair Also that operating room procedure should be based on technical knowledge rather than an encouraging expression on the face of Otto Kruger viewed through a window This is the second screen visit- for' Obsession" which appeared In 1936 with Robert Taylor and Irene Dunne in- top roles The book which we are -informed has sold 2000000 copies Was -written by Uoyd Douglas in 1928 'The magnificent obsession of the title 1s a kind of homespun1 philosophy the ONa Kraft to make events to nd philosophy jibe Put into practice it sets up (according to the-'story) a chain reaction like this: An eminent surgeon Jane husband dies at the beginning Of the picture leaving his widow and daughter Barbara Rush as good as penniless having helped those in need right and left But before Miss Wyman Is reduced to hunting a job millionaire Rock Hudson having become 'Copters Replace Horses in Wilds Qn Survey Jobs Fort Worth Texas Aug flJJO Helicopters have replaced the pack horse for the past six years for delivering survey teams their instruments and supplies to the remote regions of Canada the Bell Aircraft Corporation said today In one year alone more than 57000 square miles of unln- habited barren land was surveyed In a 14-week period by helicopters owned by Renting Aviation Ltd of Oshawa Onl Bell Said officials estimate this Job would have taken ground parties 25 years to equal? the helicopter manufacturer said Beil said Kenttng recently purchased two model 47-G helicopters and is using them to plot the wilderness of Labrador for the Canadian Department of Mines and Technical Surveys 'Current' operations are in the vicinity lnob Lake Labra dor site' Of the gigantic Iron ore company of Canada Mines Bell said plant' has no intention of quitting she says are several hundred girls here and they all want the Job" Bruns who Is on the payroll of a' big bait and tackle company has plenty of work ahead always coming up with a new kind of lure and up to Bruns to find out If It will catch any fish Miss Foley a pretty 22-year old brunette punches the time clock and promptly climbs Into a bed She Is supposed to bounce around now and then for the benefit of people passing the store window but she admits she snatches 40 winks on the job whenever a chance- Then thereto Jack Blue Of Deiter He hires chorus girl for a string of night dubs 'sad theaters ia tav flock Sloan-tstu greu 'and cbfoplalas of eyestrain girl has to have a good figure -you know and sometimes they fool you- with the way they stand' I have to spend a lot of time looking them he says Foor fellow! 1 By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN They aay working but we say just got it made Like Sarah Krause She sits all day In an alrcondltioiied soundproof room In Indianapolis' and plays phonograph records Or Hank Bruns of Newman Gawho goes fishing all year and gets paid for it And Mary Ann Foley of Minneapolis Minn She earns her bread and butter demonstrating the softness of a mattress Our mldsMiner survey of the soft touch field those Jobe that aever seem to come oar way produces the usual depressing uewsf ail takea' Miss Krause chief record-tester at the Indianapolis Raca MOVIE TIME SCHEDULE aoouni uis-riMi ita" isiinr Mdai -n i ItiML S-M Sill rOX-Tka Slak aaf-ttaL Wfktr? ll 14:34 TOaaa WHk tka WM? 14 liH 1:44 3:34 -Tka Urn Walt" It-U 3:41 VOnataaB VaaMa1 11: 4TBABO- laa al 11 4:44 "Oartllk a4 Ur' 13: 3:1 MANHATTAN AITOB :7 MOT the top mystery thriller of EW sealon and I would fear for Jw tCET consequences to myself if I in- mu terfrred with rights JEgH" to first-rite set of thrills Alfred Hitchcock the old master of suspense has proved all giver again In Window that there's always a new wai to make a suspense movie Thu time he has- strictly limited the camera range to what Janies Stewart the star confined-to a wheel chair with a broken leg- can see from that vantage point of his own apartment and through the windows' of an apartment house across the court and in the couftyard below He has restrained the action to a point of ilmost non-existence except for Jbrief glimpse? of the win-- devs-Yiewed actions of the apartment dwellers and he has kept the major part of a large couple whose shades are drawn as soon as the man carries his bride across the threshold a young composer who gives parties a woman he dubs a couple who Lonely -Hearts' sleep on me fire escape and who lower their little dog to the flower-bordered court below in a basket: a woman Stewart' calls Hearing A and another a young dancer he watches avidly at her practice and calls Torso" 1 Many Conflicts Window" is rtfe with conflicts Besides those Implicit in the lives of the dwellers the court Stewart is idea--somewhat -being Ud fat wxn IMT FILM IMaVfll IV mi- suddenly Imbued with the philosophy -starts helping Miss Wyman in-secret to the tune of what must be thousands by means of a phony insurance policy ruse -There is fnly one other practicing link in the chain a minor one Otto Kruger who passes the formula on to Hudson having become a successful artist through following it Blame It oa Hudson Aside from the worthy philosophic theme the picture is the weepiest kind of soap opera with Jane Wyman a figure of bravely smiling woe The source of all tier troubles Is Rock Hudson husband dies because the resuscita-tor he needs Is being used on Hudson inconsiderate enough to get himself half drowned at the same time Hudson falls In love with Jane and insists on plying her with attentions so that she hops out of the car on the wrong side and becomes a traffic casualty with an injury that makes her blind Hanging around under an assumed name because he still loves her and wants to help he makes Jane fall in love with him before she learns his years later Hudson an emlriffnt surgeon himself by now finds Miss Wyman dying of pneumonia and' performs an operation which disposes of the disease and restores sight (Explanations are nebulous at this point Hudson didn't even think he could do the operation till he caught Otto Kruger's eye got a telepathic infusion of the -old philosophy and went to Work There are so many discrepancies in this film' so many holes can be punched into Its flimsy fabric that it Is doubtful If any pair of stars could make a reasonably poignant story of it Nobody could help feeling sorry for Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman Rock because he looks so acutely uncomfortable in the romantic scenes Jane because she has to keep remembering to tone down the radiant smile that the sight of Hudson naturally eyokes wwffwtt 8 mb BMtnmiiiiMiuMm across beset by his conflicting desire to marry Miss Kelly and his belief thaU she will find his wandering style of life unendurable Also Stewart Is In conflict with all three close associates when he tries to convince them that the salesman across the way has murdered his sick nagging wife Thelma Ritter scorns his conclusions with acid comments Grace Kelly laughs at them every to his 8p3rtitiBnL to offer 8 lovefregh cluf Corey undermines that' If you help sbmeone in need '(generally of money) tell no one- else about It and refute repayment you will release hidden -powers within yourself Haw Theory Works As' a theme this line of thought is more high-minded than convincing The plot has to be stretched till it creaks to make of Window" the rare piece of movie-making it is have to be applauded here though' more than the allotted space has already been given to this review They are Hal Pereira1 head of art department1 and Mac Johnson -unit art director on the production who created the single extraordinary set used throughout and Bob Burks in charge-of cameras for the picture who used a variety of lenses and a vast expenditure of know-how in getting the maximum of excitement out of an essentially static story The Rivoli which opened with a benefit premiere of Window" last night after 11:3 1141 9 1:1 11:11 --LKtaf vt" ltd II: 4: 4:1 IS: 11:14 "FMBw" 14:47 11:44 4:3 4:3 1:3 14:1 "AMk" 1:34 11:11 1:14 3:44 IJA :43 1:34 UlH HOMO "Sma Mta hr mm Min" 1:31 4:3 lB-Ul kn 11S3 3:1 FAR AMOUNT "Bla rw" 14:17 11:44 1: 1:44 fell 11: Bn WMw" 11:41 7:3 (: IX OUT "Nwkw Um" U-1X :4 4:4 7 Hill- ICtOBIA "hM INti HX" I- IlM 1:47 1:3 "CklliiBl" 1:4 Si4 c-l CONINTIONEO Noli HC1 WE i IHCAUTHQROF JANE 1 ROCK BARBARA WYMAN HUDSON RUSH cast wordless Op the positive side he has managed to make those pantomimed actions across the cou speak as loudly as wards He has given Rill play to brijmt sophisticated almost rac dialougue between Stewart' ind the other three principal Grace Kelly Thelma ter tend Wendell Corey More-ovet he has very shrewdly unefcr the guise of being concerned only with a mystery bee tell 81 engaged all the time-in -n-il vvAtAMt irtva potent BOOH OWN I A1A COOL" AIR-CONDITIONED omHtomi STAR MADE! SEE THESE HITS ON OUR W1DE-VISION SCREENS I being closed for several weeks is also showing an interesting identity Then she makes good MH GORE WITH THE WIND I short -'TOO Unusual Boys" It deals with the activities of a Boy Scout troop jn LaJuitga Colorado her disappearance for years Why? Dunno -Her blindness maybe Her age maybe -The get-together scene Is 6 I 6 Rl 00EATER THMI EVER Bl WOE ECREEIIUUPERRtECTRniREOHIOWIC IQUItO F8MRrvm MMI ONH ffJtflil Putty au COLON awar BAtWV NAVI I fNOCIMMOOO' omuoduh wro MIMIT HmTI lilt a Photographer ewart is seen as an injured magazine photographer the jivlgg-dangerously type whose woifc has taken him into the nxnfe Inaccessible parts of the wodd Grace Kelly is a Park Avdnue model who loves him Ritter is an insurance nurpe who drops by daily to look after him and Wendell Corby is his former war buddy nof a detective Who is called on bv Stewart to investigate whitthe latter thinks is wife-mutder across the court Observed through Stewart's binoculars 'or the telescopic ien from his special camera for the three days and nights the story covers are a jewelry' salesman and his ill-tempered invalid wife a honeymoon VALEICIA fftalMUMa IIIIBIO irk MHHU HWF Pk MATBCD WlBWglt CRAWFORD IN COLOR STUUNO HAYDEN' 'HELL'S HALF ACRE' WENDflU BYBLVN COREY a KEYES jp'- i i 'K S' '4 i i I i 1 i 1 i a 1- i 1 is i 1 i 5 i 1 'A fi -r i i -s 3 i if 5 L' Al dec (Mvcoora I HLDIC SUSAN HAYVUO1 GARDEN NFKIHBOR'S Prill' IntQ Human Emotions ITIEtl AIMHE IRIV00RI CONEY IRV RATER I AM I 0 Emit ORIENTAL MTRIII PREMIER mtumlmuHi I ilmedl his findings In time' Stewart enlists the enthusiastic support' of both Miss Ritter and Grace Kelly and eventually Corey Miss Kelly's partnership in the sleuthing activities is of more than surface importance I(is through her daring Invasion of the apartment looking for dues that she proves herself at heart a suitably adventuresome mate for a roving photographer Window" proceeds at a leisurely pace yet the suspense accumulates until 1 reaches a point when the whole picture -seems electrically charged It is this desultoriness With the sccompahying attention to small angles of the story that helps to make It full: bodied adult entertainment The Romance Is handled more realistically than is the custom in Hollywood films yet its happy casualness makes it more tender and amusing than shocking In the long taxing part of the photographer Stewart gives a flawless -performance that at times reaches feverish dramatic heights Grace Kelly is Park Avenue to the life smartly outfitted and colffed Thelma nurse is a satiric jewel and Corey Is a nice detective suitably bored by amateur sleuths Three who helped materially iS MARLON BRANDO UKAMisian-caTramE iFUvussvnx ffUTMl DnaTUNKiTr RANDFORCEiTHEATflES BEACH MflRINEJHEAIRE nr-l1 (Jt TIT I STEmRU Wje'-iaJSOkaAV-- CUT 10MIA8D0 'GORILLA AT URGE1 MITCKKU LAURITZ MELCHIOR 41FREPHTCHC0CK'S OH THE WATERFRONT MUHOINIMM uiiivm SAVOY WALKER Also 'Siege it Red River1 J7 REAR JMkk Dra am YiGminri CLINTON SML EYE DUFFIELD 7(wlrd GaRar nix i aefMatai9iASAAIL WJNBGWi mmt' 44-X Mia Bkaata 1 Bkkard Wltaar MARB0R0 SLT culver WVt KONfM A NEWPOSPCCmr-Mtaar aUe 'Jesie Jamei tr tbe Dahou Say Md roadway imaiu vroaiMa I Ur 7-7VY1 md COLX7W vJONH IISCN MARINI THUNK Mima MMWSS4A SMS Ra UUlM lun AM ta Spencer Tracy ROXY COLONIAL Daai Opaa Ml AJL ()apX-0MHi BOB BOH aka latthabwa BEVERLY taaMrfi Bit Klttf atw-nroinmAn RIDGEWOOD SStX I 0KHAR0 WIOMARK XATY JliRAOO iSi IAYMONO SUES OirMtaJ by AlHfD HITCHCOa Sawnplar by JOHN MICHAH HATES on xocBt smsTOpav Amtn 1 the nwri AVENUE Sly JlSEr EXECUTIVE SUITE also Sudia BAT BIDOB BUD MKHT TABS STANLEY ffltf ESttPHace VaEaat Regular Continuous Perfomances sm today 2St Yaaiw Twiaa BURT LANCASTER uolhu Apache i ROGERS Story alio The Biganuit RQ NdillHAMn CHET 11 KH GLOBED i BOBOCOK HAU AND DOWNTOTTN ST GEORGES Wood Saracen Blade TAGS rUTS TAGS FLATS iay MAYFAIR Hw Hikrtm A LLOTD ItIDOII ta OH WOMEN! 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