AMUSEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 28 June 1947, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

Opera House

Now Showing: "The Killers” starring Burt Lancastaer and Eva Gardner.

Ernest Hemmingway’s famed short story, “The Killers”, has been translated to the screen by Producer Mark Hellinger, who is himself a noted short story writer. The tehse human drama features a trio of young, dynamic players in Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner and Ed'mond O’Brien.

The central figure is an insurance man, played by O’Brien, whose attempt to settle a small claim leadi him to uncover a long-disbanded group of criminals. Shapely Ava Gardner is the sulien but beautiful woman in the story and Burt Lancaster a sensational newcomer, plays Swede. A curiously resigned' murder victim, Lancaster is hailed as the “post-war” type of leading man. Rugged, sincere and a “man’s man,” he is one of the first ex-G.l.’s to hit the starring trail in Hollywood The film introduces the moon-faced William Conrad and the icy-eyed Charles McCraw, who play Max and Al, respectively, professional killers In the supporting cast are Albert Dekker, the popular Sam Levene. John Miljan, Virginia, Christine Vince Barnett and others. Regent Theatre NOW SHOWING: "To-morrow is Forever” starring Claudette Colbert, George Brent, and Orson Welles. The part two men play in a woman’s life, motivates the compelling screen drama “Tomorrow is Forever.” Starring Claudette Colbert, Orson Welles and George Brent, the International Picture presents a surge of critical dilemma dilemmas trying the soul of the woman. The heroine is played by Miss Colbert, who jus't before the birth of her son is supposedly widowed. She marries George Brent to make a by a desire to go to war. How the returned husband skillfully reconciles the lad' to his mother and foster father, leads to a tremendous "Umax But her first husband', played by Welles, is still alive, having decided better to let her forget him than to rejoin her as a disfigured wreck. Under an assumed identity, twenty years after, he comes in contact with his family. Unrecognisable to his wife and son, he finds that the boy has made his mother heartbroken home for her son (Richard Long), in which he is challenged by the mothers’ aroused suspicion of his identity. The roles of Miss Colbert, Welles, and Brent are all highly sympathetic in this drama based upon the Ladies Home Journal story and novel by Gwen Bristow.