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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 October 1950, Page 8

ENTERTAINMENTS Opera House

“Border Incident,” starring Ricardo Montalban and George Murphy.

This vicious traffic in human lives is a hard, cold fact. It’s an angry truth disclosed by the secret files of two Governments. Fable? No! Legend? No! It’s typical of today, and will be just as ' true tomorrow until the courageous representatives of the law finally prevail. It presents a vivid, dramatised story, suggested by the actual facts contained in these files. Unbelievable, perhaps. But not to those who know the facts that inspired this picture. It is the story of the no-man’s land along the United States-Mexican border, of the Mexican braceros, or harvest hands, who are smuggled across the border, and of the killers who prey upon them on both sides of the line. Regent Theatre “Madame Bovary,” starring Jennifer Jones, Van Heflin, Louis Jourdan, James Mason. The grippingly emotional story opens with the author, Flaubert, tried in a French court of law on the charge of having written an immoral novel and pleading his case for its heroine, Emma Bovary, described by the prosecutor as “a disgrace to France and an insult to womanhood.” As Flaubert speaks, the life of Emma Bovary is unfolded, beginning with her stifled upbringing in a strict convent, her squalid existence on her father’s farm and her marriage to the kind, but unimaginative Dr Charles Bovary. Unable to appease her romantic longings she involved herself in two unfortunate love affairs, the first with the handsome, young law clerk, Leon Dupuis, the second with the worldly aristocrat, Rodolphe Boulanger. Dupuis proves himself a liar and a weakling; Boulanger turns Emma away when she is most in need of help. Deeply moved by this story of a woman who was her own worst enemy, the court acquits Flaubert.