Whakatane To Have Good Selection Of Holiday Films

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 37, 24 December 1948, Page 3

Whakatane To Have Good Selection Of Holiday Films

Whakatane picturegoers are being well catered for during the Christmas and New Year holiday period. A good selection of films has been arranged for screening, which should satisfy almost all tastes. Tycoon On Monday and Tuesday next will screen “Tycoon,” an 9 unusual story of big scale engineering in the Andes. The story concerns the trials of a young American engineer building a railroad through the Andes. Cass Timber Jane Sinclair Lewis’ unusual book “Cass Timberlane” has been filmed and will be screening next Wednesday and Thursday. It describes •the problems' of a judge, Spencer Tracy, and the girl he marries, Lana Turner, who comes from the “other side of the tracks.” The Yearling On New Year’s day a film for animal lovers will provide a fitting way to commence 1949 with “The Yearling,” It is the story of a young boy and a fawn he raises and unlike most films has not the ending you expect. t If Winter Comes ». i . A. S. M. Hutchinson’s novel on English country life has been brought up to date and is picture in 1949. “If Winter Comes” with Walter Pidgeon and Deborah Kerr is a poignant story of a man who is too fine for the small, petty village in which he lives. It is a good example of how malicious gossip in a small town can almost ruin an innocent person. The Black Arrow “The Black Arrow,” the story by Robert Louis Stevenson has been adapted for the scrteen and follows .“If Winter Comes” to Whakatane. The plot is laid during the War of the Roses and will satisfy anyone addicted to sword fighting and archery. Collided—Film Star John Wayne’s picture career began oh an afternoon when he was property man on the film set. He was carrying a sofa at the time, moving at the easy gait that has since become almost a trade mark. Only, on this occasion, he bumped—■ sofa and all—into Director Raoul Walsh. Wayne peered around, the sofa after the collision and figured to himself that he’d pick up his final paycheck that afternoon. Instead, Walsh asked him to put down the sofa and walk for him. A little bewildered —Wayne did. The next morning, the former property man was an actor.