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CINEMA WORLD
SHADOWS BEFORE
ac-
the Jotter he can prove bla uh- failing courtesy by reviving the uneasy sleepers EX the curlait fails. Should the managemen object a "crafty`bunt down the aisle ahould serve.
public affulta should, require her approval seems to the Ignornit
■ Judicrous situation.
All this would be of no mo- count were it not for the fact that the producora of the film meaning. The English titles shown
obviously wish it to appeal to Road To Ilo" Is a worthy with the film do help, but only in
foreign audience.
successor to the rest of the series. making the outline bolder. They
This appent with
may well bej Crazy situations follow one an- provide, 200, a distraction
is intended, other pell mell; Crosby sings a quaint achieved when, as misspelling and
the film is sent to America with little, as does the Lamour; Hope to sound-track in English "dubbed') di plays a fine set of teeth thr
in".
oughout, which Crosby remark: There can be no carping about at one stage is understandable us
initial he paid the photography. In the
their shrnecology
None of thi Intended mean that the mating is poor or the photography faulty. Both, in fact, are excellent.
them."
preity penny for
"BORROWE OF THE FORDID-¡tails with which to brush in its
DEN CITY" (King's). STARS: T'ang Jo-Ching. Bhu
Shih, Chou Hound. A knowledge of Mandarin and a more than passing quaintance with the history of China during the period in which the story falls would probably make for Intense en- joyment of this film. The lack The Empress Dowager Tzu Hai singes the cameramen have ittle
10 exercise their There can surely be no personi of those accomplishments un- (Tang Jo-Ching) is formidable "ppurtunity doubtedly detracts much from 4s the complete autocrat, control-talents, bound as they are by the in either the English or Ameri-
formalised scenes and situation. its appeal.
sing with a ruthlessness born of
young Emperor in the palace, though even there It is asserted by those who ambition the
their virtuousity gleams through look upon the film as an art that Kwang Hsu (Shu Chin
at times.
he give the impression that he Crosby In one very bright num-| becomes more active as he grows "good cinema" is that which tells
He. In his part, is
more than
When, however, they get free is acting or that the words he is ver.
[ mjet older.. There was a time when he of the palace, they produce somej saying hove beck prepared for Hope supplies a little music, scarcely moved in film oxcopt excellent work showing any him.
too. At least he does some to glide gently from one scene to amount of Imagination in the use A pleasunt addition to the spirited fingering of the valves of another. Then he started doing of lighting and angle,
musteni side of "Road To Rio" a trumpet while the sound is an occasional vague shuffle now One point on which the pro- is that lively trio, the Andrews] 'ghosted for him, ducers should be congraluinted: | Sisters, They join voices with] It would
•
Emperor Kwang Hau (Shu Shin) kneels before his aunt the Dowager Empress (T'ang: Ja-Ching) in a scene from the latest historical drama from the Yung Hwa studion. Pearl Con. cubine
(Chou Hauan) rapieters contern (second
inset: Shu Shin.
from left).
in the final stages, when Pearl Concubine is about to hurt her- self down the palace well on the orders of the Dowager Empress, they did not ape Hollywood's Intal mi treatment of historica" fact and have the Emperor dash In just a time to provent her from carrying out the order. Down' went Pearl Concubine and up went the value of the film. (Yung Hwa)
ROAD TO RIO" (Queen's). STARS: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope,
Dorothy Lamour.
HI
be
up the sound
Fr there is any fault to fourd with the Bob-Bing Road to Somewhere beries it is that the merry jess flow so rapidly from the lips of the ten loon." that i almost impossible for the Average patron of the aris catch more than ty per cent of the dialogue, Unles, that is. he happens to have a soundproof behmet Alted with eurphones
can' pick which the progressive, rack on short wave, its story sufliciently vividly and convincing
An alternative is for the really completely in a pictorini fashion keen-minded enthusin t. eager t
reform which will enthusiastic Crosby-Huge fan te to make the sound-track merely institute complementary and not an essen-benefit his people, yet hamstrung ake with bly to the cinema a containing (1) # tial in the understanding of the by the antagonism and self-interest small parcel
baschall bat, and (2) a phial of stury. In this respect it must be of the Empress Downger,
Chou
Pearl Cun sal volatile, 11 man, as
With the former he concluded that 'Sorrows Of The City* s
good cubine, is delightful in her acting should be able to produce a cer- Forbiddett
not
treat to hear in her singing, fan nount of prace and quief cinema.
But, from the foreigner's point among the other cash customers Much of the nelion is static-
In his immediate vicinity. With which of view, the whole position conversation. situations
Why convey Ble without the cx- confusing and remains so. plantory dialogue. There in Is the Emperor powerless in the That his deed, o" story told by the solely bands of the Dowager? pictorial matter, but it is a bare, marriage be arranged to the old Leatureless outline only, which ludly's satisfaction is understand- leaves you grasping for the de- able but that ble every move in
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can movie world who appears quite as much at home in a fim
A hilarious scene from "Good Time Girl” at thà Lee,nexe
work.
as Bing Crosby. At no stage does:
"ROAD TO RIO“
and again in the pauses of his appear that Crosby songs, Now he gets around like
Dorothy Lamour, with a magnificent wardrobe to encour- age, har to put up with the ax haveling activities of her com- panions, is once more the focal point of amorous efforts on the parts of Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in their latest wild careerings on the "road.”
MAGICIAN ·
*I RUSHED TO THE PLANE THAT WAS CHARTERED TO TAKE ME HOME. IT SEEMED ODD THAT THERE WERE NO OTHER PLANES AROUND.
RIP KIRBY
YES! BUT
CAN YOU -
GET IT BACK
AGAN?
Witch Brow.
ALMOST IMMEDIATELY THE DOOR WAS SHUT, AND THE PLANE START ED OFF SO QUICKLY THAT I WAS ALMOST THROWN TO THE FLOOR.
Fred Astaire-well perhaps not quite like Fred Astaire, let us stick to the cliches, and any like. a two-year-old. (Paramount)
"GOOD TIME GIRL" (Lee).
6TARS: Joan Kent, Dennis Price,
Flora Robson.
Good elnerma must abviously have its roots In the character of the time, and since the early days of the war British film makers báve made admirable use of the current scene.
The aftermath of war, with its disillusionment. shortages anc
easy money led, particularly in London, to an increnne sterism and erime generally. But'
gong-
British
If you judged by some studios, this is the major occupa-
tion of the populace, And one sordid production after the other.
has brought people overseas to
as once
We
"think of London
thought of Chicago. "Good Time Girl" is
gripping and exciting entertainment, but it won't dc
our prestige any good.
The story of a girl who runs away from home, becomes in-
valved with a fast set and oven- tually, faces a lifetime of
Im-. prisonment for manslaughter will keep you on the edge of your seat throughout, you like your violence up to date. (J. Arthur Rank.)
Much unbinding
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
DRUGGED. GO ON.
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EVERY
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