Here are 3 Terrific Films Coming to The Theater
THEY TURNED A SCHOOL
INTO A JUNGLE!
The shocking experience of a pretty teacher;
the kid with the switchblade knife - all the
startling drama of the novel is on the screen!
Starring GLENN FORD ’ANNE FRANCIS*LOUIS CALHERN
«ih MARGARET HAYES * Screen Play by RICHARD BROOKS * EV*N HUNTER ^
Directed by RICHARD BROOKS • Product by PANDRO S. BERMAN
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SHOWING THURSDAY and FRIDAY
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John Wayne
Reviews Dramatic
44 V e li i c 1 e s ”
John Wayne would one day
like to make a motion pitcure in
volving either an elephant or a
camel. That’s just about the only
means of transportation he hasn’t
used in films.
He has ridden everything from
a horse to an airplane during his
career, his steed being a DC-4 in
“The High and the Mighty,” a
Cinemascope production for War
ner Bros., which plays at The
Theater Sunday and Monday.
“To me, motion pictures mean
what it says — motion,” Wayne
explains. “That’s why I like
stories that take place out of
doors, and that offer a chance
for movement.”
Wayne rode horses for a num
ber of years when he was start
ing out as one of the “Three
Mesquiteers.” He journeys aboard
sailing ships in such films as
“Reap the Wild Wind,” “The
Long Voyage Home,” and “Wake
of the Red Witch.”
One of his most notable pic
tures, and the one which actually
brought him stardom involved a
stagecoach, from the picture of
the same name.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s
a tossup between the horse and
the airplane for the best means
* of getting real action into a pic
ture,” Wayne says.
|Juvenile Delinquency
| Problem Gets Dramatic
Treatment In New Film
The problem of juvenile delin
J quency crowding today’s news
I p: per headlines forms the subject j
of M-G-M’s powerful film “Blaek
I board Jungle,” at The Theater on
Thursday and Friday.
Based on the sensational best
' seller novel by Evan Hunter, with
1 its pivotal characters enacted by
Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Louis
Calhern and Margaret Hayes, the
picture tells a realistic, uncompro
mising and relentlesly gripping
i story of a young teacher whose
! career, marriage and very life are
| threatened by the teen-age gang
! sters who make a mockery of his '
| classroom in a metropolitan voca
| tional school.
Glenn Ford plays Richard
| Dadier, who finds the enthusiasm
I and idealism with which he be
gins his first teaching job turning
to ashes in the face of the hostil
ity, contempt and brutality he
encounters from his studetns.
Because of the extreme brutal- ;
ity of some of the teen-age gang
scenes The Theater does not
recommend the picture for young
1 children and in fact will not ad- [
mit them unless accompanied by
their parents.
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Another entertaining film to be
j seen soon by local moviegoers is
j “The Eddie Cantor Story” starring
Keefe Brasselle as Eddie Cantor
with Marilyn Erskine, Aline Mc
Mahone and Will Rogers Jr. I
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SHOWING SUNDAY and MONDAY
Due to the length of the picture—127 minutes
First Show Starts at 7:15 — Second Show at 10:00
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Keefe Brasselle* Marilyn Erskine ~
— COMING SOON —
Emphasis On
Realism In “High
And The Mighty”
“The High and the Mighty” is
the William Wellman - directed
screen version of the Book-Of
The-Month Club selection written
by Ernest K. Gann.
The dramatic story takes place
within a period of 12 hours. The
crew and passengers are intro
duced as they prepare to board
a plane in Honolulu. Halfway
through the flight an emergency
arises which unmasks the emo
tions and true characters of them
all.
The backgrounds for the film
are reportedly authentic as cam
era crews were sent from Holly
wood to Waikiki Beach, San
Francisco and Oakland Airports
for scenes. One special crew flew
500 miles to keep a date with a
storm. Scenes of an electrical
storm were needed and with the
emphasis ..on ..realism, director
Wellman dispatched a flying cam
era crew when the weather bu
reau notified him of a particu
larly photogenic groups of cum
ulo-nimbus storm clouds.
No Show Saturday
We’ll See You
at the Pioneer
Roof Garden