THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1950.
YING'S
* SHOWING TODAY' AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.
-EXTRA PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY-
•
At 11.30 A.M.
THE HATFIELDS AND THE MCCOYS!
All the Drama and Excitement
of America's Most Famous Feudi.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
presente
ROSEANNA McCOY
Berons Play by John Colle
Team › Parel by Allava Hawa
slarring FARLEY GRANGER
CHARLES BICKFORD RAYMOND MASSEY RICHARD BASEHART GIGI PERREAU and introducing JOAN EVANS
Directed by TRYING RELS
BAD RADIO PICTURES, ING
ALSO WALT DISNEY'S COLOR CARTOON
"CAT NAP PLUTO" And Latest PARAMOUNT NEWS
LEE Theatre
AIR-CONDITIONED, OZONIZED AND WARM...
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4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.15 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.
INTRODUCING THE NEWEST
DISCOVERY OF THE FILMDOM
RICHARD TODD
HAUNTED by his action.
HOUNDED by his memory..
HUNTED by the police!
Valiant Films (ld presents
CALLEVARLÄNGEMENT ANDY CONSZEN BIOM ZAMESTRI
Valerie HOBSON Richard TODD Christine NORDEN Tom WALLS
Cheval and à SANT HYỀN MAN, ÚTTO DRACON ACTONE COMPILAN
ZEY ARRANGERINE NOU KAN PUSOILTADOR ITF)
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THE
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JOURNEY
RALPH TRUMAN VIDA HOPE-ALEXANDER GAUGE-DORA BRYAN Produced by ANTHONY HAVELOCK-ALLAM Directed by DANIEL BEKT
SCREENPLATARD GRIBAL STORY PYJANEKALI PERTWEE
TODAY
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Rod CAMERON & Gale STORM
IN ASE
"STAMPEDE”
Cathay
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7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
ADVENTURE GALORE WITH THE
'FOREIGN LEGION OF THE RAPI
INTERNATIONAL SQUADRON "
CINEMA WORLD
Comedy fare now showing at the Roxy, Broadway
Rating:
Mr. Preston Sturges, that sympathetic satirist of sacred conventions, has often bèon described as Hollywood's most explosive one-man film outfit. Those who saw his "Miracle of Mor gon's Creek" will readily agree. Now, cinema-goers have a chance to view Writer- Director-Producer Sturges latest effort with the screening of "The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend" at the Roxy and Broadway Theatres.
Starring Betty Grable, the film is a running gun battle between sex and slapstick, with the latter utually emerging the winner. Betty Grable fans, in fact, will find plenty of cause to complain, as their favourite gal gives only two rather fleeting leg shows.
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend is, on the whole, enjoyable dim fare, mainly be cause Mr. Sturges has successfully taken advantage of the plot's stronger points.
Western at the Lee
Rating: • *
Laid against a background of conflict between the cattlemen coming and settlers, "Stampede, to the Lee, is a fairly exciting film in the Western tradition.
The producers offer beautiful' backgrounds and authentic West- amazing ern atmosphere, with a scene of Mr. Sturges has an ability of making capital out of hundreds of stampeded cattle go- Rad Cameron the ridiculous. Another Sturges Ing over a cli. specialty is repetition. Some of turns in a solid job as a cattle his gags, even the must familiar king refusing to recognise the Gale. Storm, ones, are run through the camera inevitable,
while four or five times in rapid succes- given more to do than is custom- slon. To keep the gags rolling, heary in Westerns, takes full ad- deploys a whole range of comles, vantage of the opportunity to re including
Rudy gister a pleasing performance. Vallee (who, incidentally, favours the audience with a well-rendered a group of settlers into the land song), Hugh Herbert as a butter- they have just bought, they come hils against Cameron and fingered doctor and a couple of up
hillbillies. yowling
brother, Don Castle, inheritors of a cattle empire. The brothers re- fuse to recognise the rights of the settlers and deny them from his lake,
pince-nezed
Although the film is not one of Mr. Sturges, best, it is neverthe less worth while seeing because it
And
Belty Js unconventional. Gable proves that she still has enough charms-visible and in- visible to be rated Box Office attraction No. 1.
RATINGS
The "China Mall" is using the following classifications to indicate to readers the quality
of fime rovlowed:
物
Excellent
Above average
Avarage
Below average
When Gale and her father lead
water
Don Curtis is the brains of the crooked real estate men who have sold the useless land to the set- tlers. When he tries to blow up the dam at the lake, he is dis- covered by Castle who is prompt- ly murdered by Curtis. The lat- ter then sends men to stampede Cameron's cattle over a cliff.
Despite Cameron's and Sheriff Johnny Mack Brown's efforts to stop the stampede, the cattle are all killed, while Brown 18-wound- cd. Rod then discovers Curtis making another attempt to blow up the dam and kills him.
He then decides that the settling of the land is inevitable and that there has been too much killing already, so he blows up the dam himself and, with Gale's encour- agement, decides to start all over
again.
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A VERY EXCITING - CHINESE-PICTURE-IN-MANDARIN
DIALOGUE WITH VERY FAMOUS STARS IN THE CAST!
A Strange
Woman
美媚妖代一
GREAT WALL votre
• COMMENCING TOMORROW "BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE”.
LEE THEATRE
NEXT CHANGE. THUNDERING SAGA of an UNTAMED BREED!
ALUMI ARTISTE' pasivals
AMP
ROD CAMERON
GALE STORM
DCASTE
DAM MIC, BAWN
Realistic war film starting today
Rating:
What is up to now the best war picture to be filmed --the first down-to-earth story of the GI of World War II, sans flag-waving and mock heroics—is opening today at the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres. The name is "Bottle- ground." Taking the members of a squad in the 101st Air- borne Division as the pivotal characters, "Bat- tleground" gives the audience the laughs, the tears, the bravery, the cowardice, the griping, the bantering, the boredom and the guts of a cross-section of American GI's.
In the fateful December of 1944 this squad of mud-stained, weary, battle-scarred soldiers is awaken- ed from reports of crumpled Nazi resistance and dreams of Paris furloughs to find itself once again on the move to make a stond against the Krauts at a French town called Bastogne.
And here we get a close-up of some of these bedraggled "Scream- ing Eagles"Holley (Van John- son), carefree six-footer with a weakness for gals, gugs and pur- Joined
Jarvess eggs;
(John Hodiak), cynical smalltown news- whose own editorials him to enlist: "Pop" (George Murphy), 35 plus, sweat- Ing out his discharge; Roderiques (Ricardo Montalban), courageous California
Wolowicz Mexican; (Bruce
combat loving Cowling) squad Icader: "Kipp"
(Dougals "wise guy": typical
second
ferd (Don Taylor),
in command and leery of inherit ing the squad leader's job; Betlis (Richard Jaeckel), who has un- dergone one shelling too many; Layton (Marshall Thompson), the naive new replacement, and a number of others.
What happens to this assorted group in the crucial battle of Bastogne, is the story of "Battle
Joan Evans and Farlow Granger { ground."
Old feud is film's theme
▾ Rating: *
*
moun-
On one side of the Big Sandy River, in West Virginia, lived the Hatfields, a family of dark-haired, saturnine taineers ruled with an iron hand by "Devil Anse," father of the clan. Across the border, in Kentucky, their blood en- emies, the McCoys, headed by Old Randall, farmed theli modest land.
The above clucidation, taken from any American history book, Is the basis for "Roseanna Mac- Coy," which stars Joan Evans and Farley Granger at the King's Theatre.
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MORGEN STARS
THAN THE MAY...NDOM SAUPONS
~ THAN THIS PLATS —————————
BETTE DAVIS
AM
Hathelds and the MacCoys is a
The relationship between the SHERIDAN
rather difficult one to describe. the one existing between the Roughly, it may be likened to Cavallers and
the Roundheads
during the days of Cromwell.
The American hillbillies, bow- ever, took time out to forget their grudges when the county falc passed by their way once a year.
was during
of those celebrations, that Roseanna Mc- Com played
well by newcomer the
one
hot-blooded young Hatfeld, who
TOMMAS meets passionately
woos his enemy.
Torn between family loyalty and
love, Roseanna tries to forget
MONEY
WOOLLEY
The
Mow
Who Came to Dinner
Johnse, and she almost succeeds; March
but then, what chance did
American hillbillies have against
the power of Cupid's bowt
Before the young lovers sail Into the setting run
love's tender wings, however,
there's more than one hurdle to be mas- tered, and the dificulties placed in the way of Roseanna.... and Johnse form the story of the film,
Liberty
12th, & 13th. Humphrey Bogart Edward G. Robinson Lauren Bacally
In
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