Dec 30th
Silk Stockings** (U)
National Film Theatre

US 1957. MGM. 117m. Cinemascope

An American film producer in Paris corrupts three Russian commissars and their beautiful senior officer who has been sent to take a famous composer back home.
Inflated musical remake of Ninotchka, replacing Lubitsch's whimsy for the Paris of yesteryear with slightly more vulgar studio-bound Hollywood spectacle, but some of the acting is commendable (in the face of Greta Garbo for competition), and some of the numbers have their charming moments too.

Written by: Leonard Gershe, Leonard Spigelgass, based on the musical by George S. Kaufman, Leueen McGrath.
Producer: Arthur Freed.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian,
Starring: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Janis Paige, Peter Lorre, Jules Munchin, Joseph Buloff, George Tobias, Wim Sonneveld.
Photography: Robert Bronner.
Music Supervision: Andre Previn.
Choreography: Hermes Pan, Eugene Loring.
Art Direction: William A. Horning.