Film Preview – Bognor Regis Observer – Friday, 27 September 1957

A TERRIFYING tale of a mad sculptor who uses human victims as his models, "HOUSE OF WAX" was the first film generally released in the " 3-D " medium. "THE LADYKILLERS" is the story of a group of crooks who pose as a string quintet as part of their plan to commit a robbery. Alec Guinness is a smooth, sinister villain-in-chief; Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom. Peter Sellars, and Danny Green are an excellent bunch of assorted crooks; Katie Johnson contributes a perfect character portrayal as an eccentric but lovable old lady; Jack Warner is at home in the part of the Police Inspector; and Frankie Howerd figures in a brief but riotous comedy sequence. In the comedy, "DOCTOR AT SEA," Dirk Bogarde plays the part of Simon Sparrow, a recently qualified doctor who takes to sea to escape a humdrum existence and marriage to his partner's lumpy daughter. Hilarious adventures start when he signs on as a ship's doctor with a cargo steamer heading for the tropics. Sparrow has a hectic time in a gay South American port, and when the ship sets sail for home there are two passengers. One is young, glamorous Helene Colbert (Brigitte Bardot), a Continental cabaret singer. The other is Muriel Mallet (Brenda de Basile), a talkative, likeable spinster. The crew are delighted but Captain Hogg (James Robertson Justice) is furious. There-is work and romance for the doctor, and fun throughout. In Irving H. Levin's "THE BOLD AND THE BRAVE," one of the most unusual and powerful war films, the battlefield serves as the background to personal stories of three men played by Wendell Corey, Mickey Rooney and Don Taylor. Laid against the Italian campaign of 1944, the film depicts the thrilling action of a patrol unit preparatory to an advance by the main body of troops. In this particular front line combat. the lives of Corey, Rooney and Taylor, three infantry enlisted men, are resolved.