Film Listings – Bognor Regis Observer – Friday, 14 September 1956

PAVILION, SELSEY. PROVIDING Claudette Colbert with one of her most forceful roles as the fighting editor of the only newspaper in a lawless Texas frontier town of the 1810's, "TEXAS LADY," in Super Scope and Technicolor, is an action-filled adventure drama. Miss Colbert has Barry Sullivan as her co-star and aide in breaking down the hostility of powerful landowners who see the emergence of the newspaper as a threat against their almost feudal control of the town and its people. Supported by ruthless gunfighters, the landowners use every device to prevent Miss Colbert and Sullivan organizing the townspeople in their fight against terrorism. The North African city of Benghazi is the setting for "BENGHAZI." starring Richard Conte, Victor McLaglen, Richard Carlson and Mala Powers. Gold is precious but life is cheap in this town and it is a quest for a hidden gold treasure guarded by fanatical tribesmen, that provides the main theme for the story. It had been secreted in a desert mosque to preserve it during the fighting between the forces of Montgomery and Rommel. and when an Army deserter, who knows its hiding place, enlists a pair of former gun-runners to find it, the strange adventure begins. "THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA." stars Humphrey Bogart, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Marius Goring, Valentina Cortese, Rossano Brazzi and Elizabeth Sellars. This dramatic story of a famous international film star was photographed on location in Rome and other parts of Italy. Humphrey Bogart plays the role of Harry Dawes, a broken-down Hollywood director who fights his way back to the top when he discovers and makes a star of the slum-born Madrid cabaret dancer. For the musical, "DEEP IN MY HEART." based on the life story of composer Sigmund Romberg, a great array of stars has been gathered Jose Ferrer as Romberg, Merle Oberon, Helen Traubel, Doe Avedon, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Henreid, Tamara Toumanova. and guest stars Rosemary Clooney, Gene and Fred Kelly, Jane Powell, Vic Damone, Ann Miller, William Olvis, Cyd Charisse, James Mitchell, Howard Keel, Tony Martin and Joan Weldon. The plot traces the composer's rise from his humble beginning as the leader of a small orchestra in a New York cafe, and centres on the three women who played a vital part in his climb to fame.