The New Pictures

City Beneath the Sea (Universal-International) is the onetime pirate stronghold of Port Royal, Jamaica, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1692 and submerged in the Caribbean by a tidal wave. Around this colorful historic event, the movie spins a modern plot about a couple of deep-sea divers (Robert Ryan and Anthony Quinn) searching for a million dollars in sunken gold.

When Ryan and Quinn are not trying to retrieve the bullion against the onslaughts of the elements, they are pursuing the lady skipper of a banana boat (Mala Powers) and a nightclub entertainer (Suzan Ball). Sample of the dampish dialogue: Diver Quinn, parrying a marriage proposal by Suzan--"Think of what our kids might be like, full of bends and nitro bubbles." City Beneath the Sea has a few eerily effective underwater scenes, filmed in Technicolor, depicting Port Royal's ghostly ruins.

Angel Face (RKO Radio) has as its leading character that familiar film figure--the beautiful but evil-hearted female. In this turgid thriller, she is a spoiled young woman (Jean Simmons) who, for no very clear reason, plots to murder her stepmother (Barbara O'Neil). She accomplishes her purpose by tampering with the reverse gear on her stepmother's automobile so that it backs over a cliff. Accidentally, the murderess' father (Herbert Marshall) also happens to be in the car at the time.

From then on things go from bad to worse for the beautiful killer. Although she manages to elude the law, retribution catches up with her. When the family chauffeur (Robert Mitchum) spurns her love because he does not approve of the way she goes around demolishing people and automobiles, she decides to kill herself. With Mitchum in the car, she throws the gear into reverse and goes catapulting back over the cliff where her parents died. At this point Angel Face comes to an end, having just about run out of both actors and automobiles.

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