A Wild Life

'Darling' Is Story of Amoral Woman

By W. WARD MARSH

"Darling"

Loew's State, Vogue, Yorktown

(Opening Tomorrow

"DARLING.** drama from England directed by John Schlesinger. Screenplay by Frederic Raphael. Music: John Dank-

worth. A Joseph E. Levine presentation produced by Joseph Janni, released by Embassy pictures and played by the following cast: Miles Brand Laurence Harvey Robert Gold ......................................Dirk Bogarde Diana Scott Julle Christie Prince Cesare della Romite Jose Luis De Vilallonga Malcolm .............Roland Curram

Sean Martin

Alex Scott Alex Prosser-Jones ......................Basil Henson

Felicity Prosser-Hones.. Jelen Lindsay

Estette Gold

-Pauline Yates

and many others.

"Darling" is the story of a

man.

MISS CHRISTIE is an emotional anarchist; that is, her delight of sorts is in destroying men for no reason except a curious pleasure.

The star makes her at once a stupid dame and a cunning one, a cold woman and a passionate creature.

Directed with great skill and sensitivity by John Schlesinger, "Darling” roams through the restless and insatiable years of a woman who, like many, never knows when she has it good.

The dialogue is frank, intelcompletely amoral young ligent and completely for woman, an attractive and adult ears. The jazzed-up fascinating animal, who musical score is most fitting. wants something she never The production is on the has. Even if she had it she lavish scale of the mad life. wouldn't be happy.

The screens at Loew's State, Vogue and Yorktown show her reviewing her wild life in which she recognizes no mistakes.

LOVELY and talented Julie Christie, who crashed the screens with her special gifts in "Billy Liar" and "Young Cassidy," puts all her charm on display again. She plays Diana Scott, who comes from a kind of la dolce vita crowd, spoiling lives in finding no happiness for herself.

In the flashback of her life, she considers briefly her first unhappy marriage, then her long and tempestuous affair with Dirk Bogarde.

She has a fling or another sort with a homosexual photographer in Paris before she finally captivates an Italian prince.

THERE IS an interlude with a sharp businessman, played by Laurence Harvey in a strictly tailor-made grey flan. nel suit, but he is not much after Bogarde, and the prince outclasses him.

When she wearies of the prince, as she does of all men, she feels there might be excitement left in a return to Bogarde but he convinces the spectator that he is through with her although she has left damage in his heart.

Robert Gold's Bogarde is slick, smooth and properly emotional while Laurence Harvey gives his usual cold and almost unemotional char acterization as the business