Film Listings – Bognor Regis Observer – Friday, 25 January 1957

PAVILION, SELSEY. "JUBAL" starring Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine and Rod Steiger is a Western with a difference. Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford) is a drifter given a job by a rancher, Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine). He makes an enemy of Pinky (Rod Steiger) when Shep's restless young wife Mae (Valerie French) is attracted to the newcomer. A new story of flaming adventure set on the Mississippi River in the 1820s is brought to the screen in "DUEL ON THE MISSISSIPPI" featuring Patricia Medina and Lex Barker, it is a vivid tale of the days when men fought duels at the slightest provocation and the laws of the period permitted the taking of a man into bondage for debt. The unusual law is fully exploited by Miss Medina, who, as queen of a gambling ship, takes Barker, the son of an aristocratic Louisiana planter, into service to work off the debts incurred by his father. Hot-tempered and stubborn as she is, Barker continues in the girl's service despite the jealousies of her own fiance and despite her own vengeful behaviour which grows slowly into love. A lovely New England woodland on an autumn morning is the setting for much of the action in the Alfred Hitchcock comedy-thriller "THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY". Laughs are more frequent than shivers in this Technicolor production in VistaVision, which tells what could have been a macabre story. Time after time a corpse found in the wood is dug up, discussed and reburied by a group of odd characters. The retired captain (Edmund Gwenn) thought he had shot Harry when he was out for a morning's poaching. Harry's wife (Shirley MacLaine) thinks she may have killed him with a milk bottle - she is not worried because Harry was never much of a husband to her. A middle-aged spinster (Mildred Natwick) on the other hand, is convinced she brought about Harry's demise with a blow from a shoe. The trouble with Harry is that he never stays buried for long. "THE SCARLET HOUR" a romantic thriller in VistaVision stars Carol Ohmart and Tom Tryon, with Nat "King" Cole as guest star. It tells how a salesman, out at night with his employer's wife, overhears the plot of three men to rob a house of some jewellery. He is persuaded to rob the thieves in turn, but there are complications. Alastair Sim, Bill Travers and Brian Reece star in the enchanting British comedy "GEORDIE" in Technicolor. The film is set in Scotland. Geordie is a little boy who greatly wants to be a big boy. At the age of twelve he sends for a correspondence course in physical culture and aided by this, not to mention the course of nature, grows into a truly gigantic man. Mr Samson, the originator of the physical culture course now suggests that Geordie takes up throwing the hammer, which he does with astonishing success. After winning the event by a huge margin at the Highland Games, he is visited by the Olympic selectors and invited to throw the hammer for Britain in the Games in Australia. "ROOM IN THE HOUSE" with Patrick Barr, Hubert Gregg, Marjorie Rhodes and Leslie Dwyer, tells of a widow who visits her three married sons and causes quite a stir.