Hollywood, 28 June 1956
"THE KING AND I" a sumptuous success

Yul Brynner repeats his smash-hit Broadway performance as the irascible
King of Siam in Fox's lavish silver screen version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's
THE KING AND I, that has been loosely based on a 1946
non-musical motion picture, ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM.
Brynner's Broadway co-star, the late Gertrude Lawrence, is replaced
here by Deborah Kerr, who whistles a happy tune as the
resourceful governess of his unruly children. Deborah's vocals
are dubbed by Marni Nixon, but her warm performance provides
a perfect foil to the dominating style of the bald,
brooding Yul Brynner.

COSTUME Films

"Major Barbara"
"Penn of Pennsylvania"
"Hatter's Castle"
"King Solomon's Mines"
"Quo Vadis"
"The Prisoner of Zenda"
"Julius Caesar"
"the I N N O C E N T S"
"The King and I"
* "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"

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EVERYBODY LOVES A GHOST STORY

20th
Century-Fox
presents
DEBORAH KERR
in
"the I N N O C E N T S"

***

directed and produced by
JACK CLAYTON

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"Folks who have never seen a movie set in a scary old house, where the doors creak, the wind howls around corners, ghosts pace the long, dark halls and hideous, spectral faces appear in the windows at night, should find themselves beautifully frightened, even intellectually aroused. Director Jack Clayton has done a fine job that should clobber the gullible. Send some formidable chills down the spine!"

--- Bosley Crowther, N.Y.Times

______________________________

Curtain call for Deborah Kerr
in "the I n n o c e n t s"

Everybdy's Talking About It - It's Terrific!

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COLONEL BLIMP
photograph copyright 1945 United Artists Corp.
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THE PRISONER OF ZENDA No. 4 and not bad.

COLOR 1952 SP John L. Balderston, Noel Langley B/O novel by Anthony Hope, and drama by Edward Rose
DIR Richard Thorpe. PROD Pandro S. Berman - MGM - STARS Stewart Granger + Deborah Kerr
with James Mason, Louis Calhern, Jane Greer, Lewis Stone

This fourth version of the old Graustarkian cloak-and-sword adventure of a commoner who substituted for a lookalike monarch and saved a wavering kingdom from some court schemers looks splendid, in smashing color appointments and truly royal decor, plays well, with dashing Stewart Granger in the double-role and, as wily evil and virtuous beauty, James Mason and Deborah Kerr further enhancing a tattered property that looks fresh as a daisy. Much of the success comes from the lively, stylish grace and exuberance of Richard Thorpe's direction


TM Photo from the Hugh Miles-Hutchinsen/Hiller Collection c2003
COLONEL BLIMP
photograph copyright 1945 United Artists Corp.
Permission is Hereby Given to Newspapers, Magazines, the Internet and other Periodicals to Reproduce this Photograph without Malice
1943s
* "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp"

It was scandalous enough to portray a forty-year friendship between an English career soldier (Roger Livesey) and a German one (Anton Walbrook) at a time when Britain was losing a war, but this glorious Technicolor epic earned the ire of Winston Churchill by also daring to satirize Britain's military mind, showing how ritual and manners facilitate war, and suggesting-from the mouth of a German officer-that the time for fair fighting was over. Livesey is perfection as Clive Candy, the titular thick-head based on a David Low cartoon which lampooned Chamberlain and the appeasers. From the 1902 Boer War through World War I and World War II, we see him go from brash young man to the type of staid elder he once despised, evolving as convincingly as Orson Welles in "Citizen Kane."
While both "Kane" and "Blimp" were cautionary, the former was disdainfully pessimistic while the latter ultimately put its faith in the saving power of friendship and love. Butchered in its original American release, Pressburger's cyclical structure, revealed in flashback, has been restored, making it clear that the "Death" in the title is in fact a rebirth. Along the way, we meet the three women Candy loved and lost, all played by Deborah Kerr. It's an audacious stroke of genius: Deborah"s reverberating presence not only emphasizes Candy's missed chance as time passes, but makes the mystical suggestion that rebirth is a liberating and timeless realization that all chances come at once.

I need to give it * * * * * stars when 4 are certainly TOPS . . .
DIRECTORS : Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
CAST: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook

A truly superb film chronicling the life and times of a staunch for-king-and-country British soldier. Sentimentally celebrating the human spirit, it opens during World War II and unfolds through a series of flashbacks that reach as far back as the Boer War. Roger Livesey is excellent in the title role. Deborah Kerr portrays the three women in his life across three decades with charm (there is that word again C H A R M ) and insight.
Definitely a keeper!
approx. film running-time 163 minutes