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THE LONG ESCAPE

... dis appeared from Pasadena five years ago. A1 traces the old car number, and this takes him indirectly to La Ceiba, on the Caribbean coast, to Puerto Barrios, Guatemala's main Atlantic port, back to Mexico City and down to Santiago in Chile, where he meets ...

Published: Wednesday 21 June 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 219 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

ON THE RECORD: TOP CHOICE

... realm of 78- speed discs looks like spreading to the LP lists with eight songs under the J J title of Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean. j Classical -pHERE can be little doubt that, but for his death in an air disaster in 1956, Guido Cantelli would now have ...

Published: Wednesday 01 January 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 734 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

The Crimson Pirate

... than Douglas Fairbanks. It tells a complicated story about a tyrannical governor and a sketchy resistance, group in some Caribbean island. The beautiful daughter of the local patriot enlists the help A Burt Lancaster, who is a Good Pirate. He is hampered ...

Published: Wednesday 14 January 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 323 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

CINEMA: Recent Productions

... actors John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier. The story 's a mere trifle about a young couple who fall in love, suddenly, in the Caribbean, and decide to build a home round a brass bedstead on the sunny beach of an otherwise uninhabited island. The Sheriff of ...

Published: Wednesday 19 November 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 478 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

TELEVISION

... Here Moshikin (Miles Malleson) is having a somewhat lengthy get-together with his ward, Masha (Sheila Shand-Gibbs). In Caribbean Cabaret the music was provided by a Steel Band, an astonishing conglomeration of instruments made out of old oil-drums each ...

Published: Wednesday 12 September 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 920 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

A KISS BEFORE DYING: TREASURE DIVING HOLIDAYS

... at Andros Island, in the Bahamas, taking up residence in a derelict fortress rising out of the sea at the gateway of the Caribbean (nesting-ground for millions of tern which do not recognise their eggs but only the place that they are laid in funny if ...

Published: Wednesday 25 August 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 962 | Page: 10 | Tags: Review 

THREE TIMES ROUND THE BLOCK!

... The film, based on a book by Alec Waugh, deals with an assortment of problems involving colour, in a Crown Colony in the Caribbean. There is the problem of the respected planter's children who learn there was once a Jamaican in the family; the problem ...

Published: Wednesday 14 August 1957
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1050 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

One Film for Adults and Three for the Children

... eventually take Long John Silver, accompanied by the faith ful Jim Hawkins (who has caught up with him accidentally in the Caribbean), back to the old stockade on Treasure Island, and a fight for what is left of Captain Flint's treasure. Newton play-acts ...

Published: Wednesday 29 December 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1218 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

LOVE, LIFE AND PROBLEMS

... man who goes mad by getting into a psychia tric ward; Rage on the Bar, by Geoffrey Wagner Alvin Redman, 15 s), is a strong Caribbean story. The Devil Comes to Winchelsea, by Philip Lindsay Hutchinson 15s), ends cataclysmically with the drowning of the old ...

Published: Wednesday 27 August 1958
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1282 | Page: 22 | Tags: Review 

Our Bookshelf: BELLA NORTH; THE STRANGER AT MY SIDE; THE HERO OF SAINT ROGER; AN ALLIGATOR NAMED DAISY

... film, none the worse for being improbable enough to list under the heading of fantasy it con cerns rival islands in the Caribbean Sea, and a spectacular device faked by the authorities of Saint Roger to score off Saint Matador and make their island popular ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1954
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1191 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

OUR BOOKSHELF

... Robert Henriques. Collins 10s. 6 d.) Reprint of a novel of 1939. GOLDEN GATES. By Joseph Cabot. (Museum Press 9s. 6 d.) Caribbean goings-on in the late eighteenth century told pleasantly but with no particular distinction. ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1951
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1559 | Page: 40 | Tags: Review