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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1940.
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PAUL. HENREID AND JOAN BENNETT BITTERNESS ADDS ZEST
Absorbing Crime Thriller Coming To Roxy Theatre
"Hollow Triumph," coming to the Roxy. Theatre
this Sunday, is a picture that should rate high with those who like a dash of bitterness in their drink.
Starring actor-producer Poul Henreid, the picture doesn't offer anything new when it preaches Its treatment of that crime does not pay. the theme, however, is different and well done. Incidental music lends a dramatic impact to the story and the whole show is worth while seeing.
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Paul Henreid) Released from prison. John played by Muller (Paul Henreid) hold up whom he is delivering a package.
house. Muller gets a gaming
He comes in contact with Dr. away with 10,000 dollars but two of his helpers are esught and he Bartok's secretary, Evelyn Hahn
(Joan
in Bennett), who falls is klentißled.
love with him and unwittingly allows him to study the Doctor's
After careful planning Muller murders Dr. Bartok und assumes his personality.
His brother, Frederick (Eduard Franz) helps him to hide out in medical supply store and Mul- ler is several times mistaken for a psychiatrist, Dr. Bartok (also
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Tracy, Kerr In "Edward My Son"
Starring Spencer Tracy and "Edward, My Deborah Kerr, Son," which opens at the Queen's Theatre next week, is a success- ful picturisailon of a good play.
In a rote that gives him ample opportunity to display his acting inlents Tracy dominates Thu picture from start to finish. His Is a strong part and it is not Miss Kerr's fault that she is complete- ly overshadowed, for that is the alm of the story.
Revolving around a father's ob- session that nothing is too good for his son, the fim borders at times on the exaggerated and melo-dramatic. These weak spots, however, are more than balanced by Tracy's ability to sink his teeth into his part and act with a naturalness that gives the im- pression the role was made for him.
In this typical Tency-ism, be portrays the father who spoils his son, lovishes him with more than Is good! until he praelleally is saturated with money. He bullies
his
wife (Miss Kerr) who is sen- sible and unwise enough to sugest that Edward should lead suggest the life of a normal boy.
He
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Miss Jean Simmons photographed on location in the Fiji lelands during the screening of the Technicolor Mim, "The Blue "The Blue Lagoon" Lagoon." A J. Arthur Rank Production,
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It is due to make its Hong Kong debut shortly.
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sacrilleen his honour, his partner "The Small Back Room, ,"coming to the Leo
and his mistress in a mad seran
ble for fame and prosperity, so that his son con rest on the fruits
of his father's achievements,
That this en only lend to dis- aster is evident at once, and the end comes na arellef to those
Theatro is the love affair of a neurotic, crippled book-room scientist with the back- background of room secretary, told against Ministerial intrigue and "empire building."
who throughout the picture have Sammy Rice, the crippled scientist, is a
asked themselves, "How will it end?"
Edward is the invisible part of the picture. He is only the ideal, the cause for a study In failure. The real and only too visible part of the film is Tracy and his will of iron.
man
whose life is warped by a physical disability. It embitters his love for Suson; it makes him unsure in his work; it warps his valuation of himself as a man. Eventually, by solving the problem of the new bomb, he justifies himself and his love.
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One big waste of colourful splendour of the romantic scenery of Southern California, and of the volcas of Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson, in "The Kissing Bandit." MGM picture now at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres.
Sci in the era when California the good King of belonged to Spain and when a tax collector WON US Tore of a set of quin- tuplets,
"The
Kissing Bandit" is
a tedious attempt to make people laugh. There's very
little In the
picture to warrant the cinema- goer to strain his diaphragm, and were it not for the excellent act- Ing of J. Carroi Natsh, a simulant might be recommended,
"The Kissing Bandit" opens with Frankle coming home from Bos- ton. He is the sun of a notorious bandit who nipped his Kun et every stage conch and kiss from the girl in it.
stole a
Sometimes it was a pretty girl At other and he enjoyed it, lunes It was an old hag, and the enjoyed it.
"The Voice" returns to South- ern California to take over his father's business." The kissing bandit's gang, looking forward to the arrival of the young leader, get the disappointment which you also will suffer, for Frankie la anything but the proverbial chip off the old bluck. The first test comes when he makes his first hold up: the stage carrying petite Kathryn Grayson.
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What
he does should go down in the school books.
Gradually a romance develops between the two and has its op- propriate happy ending.
Saviour
of the
Kathryn Grayson is as pretty The lo opens with the arrival | Section, he lacks sufficient con- as ever in a girlish way and she of Captain Stuart, R.E. to Pro-fidence to make the decisive slep: sings as best as she can with the Lessor Mair's Research Section in A pompous sciential, Brine-rival best that she has which, unfor- RAMON NOVARRO
He London during the war. is to Professor Mair is given the tunately, isn't good enough. BACK IN FILMS seeking his help to solvo the appointment, with Waring as de- problem of a new type enemy puty. Susan, furious with Sam-
show-beside is causing my's inability to gel tough with the lovely California landscape Ramon Novarro, who rose to booby bomb which The doctor's check is scarred, fame as a Latin lover 25 years ago scientist Sammy Rice to work on him and leaves him
Mair detalls anyone but herself, quarrels with which makes too hurried an ap- many casualties.
and departure-is the however, and Müller, copying the and is returning to
pearance pictures in
Mair's Sammy drowns his sorrows in kear from a photograph of the RKO Radio's "The Big Steal Susan, secretary to
Waring, takes whisky.
He is shaken out of his performance of J. Carrol Naish doctor which unknown to him is after a 10-year absence, is paying personnel chief,
to meet Sammy, drinking bout by the news that 45 Chico, the henchmca.of the in reverse, printed
late Kissing Bandit and tutor of the bis first visit to Mexico City Stuart buck stars
his son. check. wrong
Fortunately he six years to film location scenes Sammy and Susan are in love, but Stuart has been killed while at- conceal this from their colleagues. tempting to dismantle one of the discovers tint no one notices the
for the picture.
Sammy has a false foot which booby bombs. Another one, has Rustalce.
hurts him most of the time. As been found on Chesli Beach, Dor Frankie's Bostonian manners and an oplate, he would like to drink set, and Sammy goes down to see athies in the end convert the hard whisky. To please Susan he what he can do, drinks beer, or just doesn't drink. With the help of notes dictated bitten bandit to a more domestic He lameness makes him fed in- by Stuart over field telephone form of life (provided by Kate's ferior-Inferlor
3 lover; in while dismantling the first bomb, old mald aunt): ferior as a man unable to wear Sammy manages to solve the my.
The best bit of the show is a a uniform; interior in his work, stery of its mechanism. He takes
extremely for though a brilliant scientist he his life in his hands on afty-fiftyfesta scene with on
beautiful-Mexican ballet sequence allows himself to be exploited by chance, Waring, whose sole concern is his In so doing, he ands his own performed by Ricardo Montalban, own self-aggrandisement in the salvation as a man and re-creates Cyd Charisse and Ann Muler. All whirl of Ministerial power poll- a new relationship for himself else is tripe cooked up and served ties.
in extravagant Technicolor. and Susan.
Tic fus Bartol has beer trienilly with a girl named Vir- ritun Taylor deslic Brooks), and visting a gaming house with her, disney pe
that Bartok owes 67030
deal of money. Shortly äftrewards. Evelyn disappears und Muller, going to her apartment, finds she knows of the murder and is going away to forget him.
Muller vows his love and de chies to go with her but arriving at the pier he is shot by gang- sters sent to collect Bartok's debt. He is dead on the pler as the baat pulls away with Evelyn on deck now convinced that Muller
nover in love with her.
was
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WEEK-END FILM FARE
ALHAMBRA: "The Klosing Bandit" (MGM) Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Gray- a vain attempt to son In
make folks trugh.
KING'S: "The Naked City" . (Universal), starring Barry Fitzgerald. A thrilling do- cumentary about crime that should not be missed.
ко аго cracted in the thrill-] »o< inden picture. Randolph Scott, Robert Ryan, Anne Jeffreys, George "Gabby" Hays and Jac. queline White have the starring roles in the offering, which was directed by Ray Enright.
The picture is now at the Roxy Theatre.
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This is made evident in the affair of the Reeves anti-tank ad- Though reported on gun. versely by Sammy, Waring per- suades Mair to "self" the Minister on its development. At a meet- ing called by military heads and rival scientifle bodies, Sammy in- sists on giving his true opinion, to Waring's fury,
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