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CBS SPECIAL — James Mason and Janice Rule star respectively as Sourab, magician and fortune teller,
and Nericia, a tiger trainer, in William Kendall Clarke’s adaptation of Jacques Devoi’s rcmantic urama
“Tonight In Samarkand,” the Breck “Golden Showcase” special, Saturday at 8 on KTYF, Channel 11.
PRIEST AND BANDIT HAVE BITTER BATTLE
Capturing the provocative
drama of an embittered bandit
and a dedicated priest who bat
tle each other for the possession
of a remote Mexican village and
the fate of a beautiful young
girl, the Warner Bros. Techni
color presentation of “The Sing
er Not The Song’’ opens Thurs
day at the Lacey Street Theater,
starring Dirk Bogarde, John
Mills and Mylene Demongeot in
Roy Baker’s production.
The two distinguished British film
stars and the rising young French
actress bring brilliantly alive the
three conflicting characters whose
meeting in the village triggers the
film’s explosive atmosphere.
Bogarde. England's most popular
screen star returning to unsympa
thetic portrayals after his interna
tionally acclaimed characterizations
in “Doctor at Sea*'’ “Doctor at
Large" and “Song Without End.’
makes his bandit a man of brood
ing evil—alone, supreme, ruthless.
Product of Revolution
The vengeful product of the Mexi
can Revolution, he permits himself
no human failings—no frailties, no
loyalties. He smothers his intelli
gent, inquiring mind until the priest
stirs his interest and wins his grudg
ing and secret admiration.
Mills, a veteran of over 60 films
including the recent “Tunes of
Glory,’ etches a telling portrait of
a humble, honest priest. A man of
NEW FRENCH STAR — Mylene
Dcmongcot stars as the beautiful
young Mexican girl who falls in
love with her priest in the W'arn
er Bros. Technicolor presentation
of “The Singer Not The Song,”
opening Thursday at the Lacey
Street Theater. Miss Demongeot
stars opposite Dirk Bogarde and
John Mills.
dignity and determination—and a
man of flesh and blood.
As the seductive teen-aged daugh
ter of the town's richest landowner.
Miss Demongeot, who has already
scored with impact in several
French and British films, portrays
a girl whose awakening love for the
priest provides the climactic turning
point of the story.
Produced In Spain
Boy Baker produced and directed
“The Singer Not The Song" in Cine
mascope on rugged, mountainous
locations near Malaga in southern
Spain. The Nigel Balchin screenplay
was adapter from the novel by
Audrey Arskine Lindop.
Baker, who has directed an im
pressive series of successful films in
England since World War II—and in
Hollywood, where among others he
helmed “Don't Bother to Knock,”
most recently directed ::A Night to
Remember," a stirring account of
the sinking of the Titanic.
Laurence Naismith, John Bentley
and Leslie French head the out
standing supporting cast of “The
Singer Not The Song.” which also
includes Eric Pohlmann. Nyall Flor
enz, Roger Delgado. Philip Gilbert,
Selma Vaz Dias, Laurence Payne,
Jacqueline Evans, Lee Montague
and Serafina Di Leo.
Disney Scores Again With „■
'Moon Pilot' Space Comedy
In what must be the most topical of all subpects—space
flight—plus a great cast and his well-established flair for top
comedy, it seems hardly possible that Walt Disney can miss with
his latest and perhaps greatest laugh-getter, a Technicolor feature
muiion picture succinctly naiueu
“Moon Pilot,” opening today at the
New Empress Theater.
Tom Tryon, one of Hollywood’s
most popular and versatile of all ac
tors, plays the reluctant astronaut,
with Brian Keith as the rip-roaring
General Vanneman, “America's fore
most spaceman,” and Edmond O'
Brien as the frustrated, shouting,
apoplectic Federal Security agent
who neither understands the gen
eral, the astronaut, a will-o-the-wisp
girl from outer space, nor the im
plications of his own earthly mis
sion.
Dany Saval, a beautiful young
comedienne from Paris who might
just as well be from outer space for
all she is known in this country,
plays Lyrae, a girl from a planet of
the same name out yonder some
where near Andromeda. Lyrae falls
in love with the astronaut she has
been sent here to save and the com
plications are marvelous.
The story is fun all the way, from
the successful flight around the
moon by Charlie the Chimp, who
goes nuts from too much exposure
to proton rays, to the great astronaut
hunt in storied San Francisco.
Although unknown elsewhere,
Miss Saval is famous in France as
a beauteous comic. She has eight
movies to her credit over there, and
nearly as many stage roles.
Another Disney Find
Tall, honey-haired and honey
eyed, and only 19, she looks like
another great Disney discovery.
Film fans are certain to find her
as charming as she is lovely.
Always versatile. Tom Tryon tries
on the role of comedian this time
with enormous success, whimsically
underplaying the part of a truly
reluctant astronaut who has no
stomach for flying of any kind.
Slum Landlords
Subject Of Probe
On ‘Corruptors’
The “slumlords” of our cities—
absentee landlords who perpetuate
sub-standard tenements, gouging un
fair rents from low-income ten
ants without properly maintaining
the ramshackle dwellings—are the
targets of "Target: The Corrup
tors'." Thursday at 9 on KFAR-TV,
Channel 2.
In "A Man’s Castle.” the occu
pants of one of the.-e crowded build
ings band together in a rebellion
against their landlord, arousing the
curiosity of newsman Paul Marino.
Seeking the facts for his syndi
cated column, Marino befriends one
of the tenants. Tito, a spunky 18
year-old who is supporting and car
ing for his orphaned brothers and
sisters.
From Tito, his pretty fiancee. Luz.
and others, Marino obtains informa
tion pointing to the possible col
lusion of their landlord. Pebbles,
with a member of the City Build
ing Department for the purpose of
safely evading the regulations of
the Building Code.
Keith, now a veteran at Disney's,
and O'Brien, doing his first stint
for Walt, nearly steal the show in
this romantic comedy with their
hilariously loud differences of opin
ion in every scene of the screenplay.
Tommy Kirk appears briefly in a
guest spot as Tom Tryon's smart
talking young brother and turns in
his usually highly competent per
formance.
Maurice Tombragel did a bril
liant job in adapting the Saturday
Evening Post serial by Robert Buck
ner, while James Neilson, with more
than two hundred television show3
to his credit, launches in motion
pictures with a vengeance. His di
rection is superb.
Golden Showcase
Presents Drama i
About Circus Life
“Tonight in Samarkand,” Jacques
Deval's romantic drama set against
the colorful background of the cir
cus will be the fourth in a series of
Golden Showcase specials, Saturday
at 8 on KTVF, Channel Eleven.
Deval's story is about a traveling
circus in France. The heroine of the
little outfit is the tiger-tamer Ner
icia; as played by the fascinating
Miss Janice Rule, she is clairvoyant,
glamorous and temperamental.
There are many who want her—
her assistant Angelo, played by
Paul Valentine; a cynical rich man
who would like to add her to his
collection; and a circus magician
and fortune-teller played by James
Mason.
The girl, not knowing what op
whom she wants, gazes into the
seer's crystal ball, and even though
he disclaims any real occult powers,
she sees two visions of what might
be happening on her next birthday.
The first time, she is wed to hep
assistant and is about to sail fop
America on a ship that is fated to
sink with all hands.
The second time she is about to
sail with her millionaire on the
same doomed vessel. The third
time . . . well, this time it is real
and no crystal vision. She is wed
to the fortuneteller and must live
out her life as it happens.
Man In Frenzied
Search For Self M
Richard Long stars as an ordinary
young man who has suddenly lost
his identity and embarks on a fren
zied search to discover who he is
in “Person or Persons Unknown” on
Rod Serling's “The Twilight Zone”
Friday at 9:30 on KTVF, Channel
Eleven.
Long, as David Gurney, awakens
to find that Wilma, the woman he is
sure is his wife, claims she has
never seen him. Employees in the
bank where Gurney says he works
don't know him: even the woman
he caiis mother says she has no son.