Film Newcomer
Checks on Love

     There is not much difference in the love life of the American girl in Hollywood and the American girl on any college campus, according to handsome young screen newcomer Kerwin Mathews. Mathews, who makes his screen debut with Guy Madison, Kim Novak and Brian Keith in Columbia Pictures' "5 Against the House," now at the ..........Theatre, speaks from the authority of his young bachelorhood.
     Until recently a faculty assistant at Beloit College, where he taught drama and English, Mathews currently is considered one of filmdom's top-flight new actors. In the matter of the romance patterns of the co-ed and the starlet, Mathews cheerfully admits he has not done as much research as he might like, but he has learned that the film capital closely parallels that of the typical college campus.
     "Hollywood, like a college campus, is an island," he says, "with the more 'sinful' currents of big city life swirling around it. The starlet, like the co-ed, is concerned with the future; the former has her career to think about, the latter is aiming for a husband. Neither girl has time or desire to become too involved in so-called iniquity."
     In "5 Against the House," Mathews concocts an ingenious hold-up operation against the fabulous Harold's Club, Reno gambling casino where $100,000,000 annually changes hands. He finds a "gang," then discovers (a) Kim Novak and Guy Madison are more interested in a honeymoon than in a hold-up, and (b) Brian Keith wants to play for keeps.

(Columbia Pictures pressbook, 1955)

KERWIN MATHEWS        FILMS OF KERWIN MATHEWS