Film Preview – Bognor Regis Observer – Friday, 17 January 1958

PAVILION, SELSEY. TO James Blane, famous criminal lawyer, the courtroom is a stage - a cross between the theatre and a gambling casino, where the stakes are human lives. With his cynical outlook and clever mind, he makes a mockery of justice. Until, one day . . . he is too clever. This is the setting for "THE TATTERED DRESS," in which the cinema-goers are the jury. Starred in the tense drama are Jeff Chandler, Jeanne Crain, Jack Carson, Elaine Stewart, and Gail Russell. From the opening shot in "SHOWDOWN AT ABILENE," a feeling of despair and tragedy envelopes the screen—the tragedy of a youngster who returns from the war to find his former friends strangers, and his home town hostile. Ingrid Bergman and Yul Brynner form an unforgettable partnership in "ANASTASIA," the controversial story of the closing months in Czarist Russia. When the last Czar of Russia realized that the monarchy was likely to be overthrown, he deposited large sums of money abroad, including £10 million in an English bank in the name of his daughter, Anastasia. The revolution came, Anastasia was missing, believed dead, and the new ruling hierarchy feared no claimant to their new found power. But White Russians living in France decided to build up a woman as the Princess Anastasia. Their efforts to bring about the deception successfully, sparks off a world-wide controversy still raging today......