THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1950.
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Men as bold as the sea
they fought... riding full sail into mutiny and high-masted
*** RICHARD
adventure
DOWN to
the SEA
in SHIPS
LIONEL
DEAN
WIDMARK - BARRYMORE... STOCKWELL
20.
CECIL MELLAWAY CENE LOCKHART
HENRY HATHAWAY
LOUIS O. LIGHTON
ORIENTAL
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TAKE ANY EASTERN THÂM CAR OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS Showing Today At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. SEE....the During Train Holdup!....The Fate of n Double-Crosser !..... The Fury of A Man Betrayed!
JAMES
CAGNEY
IS RED HOT IN WHITE HEAT
Cheerful Performances
TO-NIGHT
at the
RITZA
SWIMMING POOL
BALL ROOM
花池鹿
In Presenting
THE FAMOUS
PAN YU JEN
TROUPE
TO ALL THEIR PATRONS
at 10.30 p.m.
with Comfortable
CINEMA WORLD
DOWN TO THE BEA IN SHIPS From Bad Boy To Good Guy
Widmark stars in
exciting sea story
Rating:★★ ★
It makes a welcome change to run across a sea story that is not just another cose of floggings, mutiny, and blood on the upper deck.
Jean Simmons
wins UK film award
"Down To The Sea in Ships, present traction at the Raxy! and Broadway Theatres, brings such a clange, and movie-goers} will find that as film
Sophistication key-note of new WB picture
Rating:
***
Bringing to the screen an absorbing and tempestu- ous story of the past decade, Warner Bros. is now showing at the Queen's and Alhambra their film version of "The Fountainhead," adapted from the Ayn Rand novel. Starring Gary Cooper as Roark, the architect, and Patricio Neal as Dominique, the picture is enjoyable drama and worth while seeing.
"The Fountainhead" In thứ In "John Loves Mary," and is alory of a young architect who here given a bröllaut dramatic fights out against complacency opportunity to display her tal and tradition on behalf of his own ents in the tumultous romance of work in
which he belleves so Knurk and Dominique. strongly. This theme is set agains")
Also in the cast are Itaymond
n lush background of beautiful} Massey as the nowspaper pub- buildings and Interiors, and the isher, Robert Douglas and Ken film promises.comething as pie- Smilth. torintly thrilling as any pleture
of the year.
Mr. Cooper's genius consists bi his maintaining that skyscrapers should be ruthlessly functional Instead of being tricked out with rococo frills and Olde English furbelows,
Mr.
For ht Independence Cooper guins (a) no ellerits; (b) the hatred of all New York; (c) the love of Patricia Neal, which is as bizarre and functional as Mr Cooper's skyscrapers; and (d) a script packed with plenty of talk about the relation between the individual and the collective. Gary Cooper has been east in
'Fallen Idol'
coming to the King's
Rating:
a strong role. Opposite him, "The Fallen Idol," an English
playing the brilliant and beauti- film coming to the King's ful newspaperwoman is Pat Neal, Theatre, is. polished, witty and the Broadway star who scared to engrossing, and has the further screen stardum after her debut virtue of including in its cast
Chinese film
gresses, it gets better and better. now showing
The ship is a whaler in the days;
a race
Henrey.
actor-young Bobby
Bobby steals the show in moro ways than one, which, in this case, 19
is praise indeed as the other members of the cast are all excellent.
A great deal of the credit for of sall. The parties chiefly in- "Wintry Journey," Chinese the lad's superlative performance volved are
the aged, and testy production now at the King's, ust Ke to Carol Reed, who pro-
duced skipper (Lionel Barrymore: hLiberty and Lee Theatres, de-
and directed the picture and who ty
responsible for o The London "Daily Mail" college ruined pest mate (termonstrates that technically, beguiling performance to watch.
art Widmark): the skipper's China's motion picture indus- has announced that Jean Sim-
In the screen play, which Mr. young grandson (Dean Steckwell), been mons, has
voted by
mode try has
tremendous feet devised
short from his memeer of the crew.
*The cinema-goers throughout the
Basement Moom." story', strides. Alongside some spectacular British Isles as the most popu- operations with whales and ice,
Photography, lighting, the pre- young Henrey is the son of an
ambassador accredited emotions-ORCE
to Britain, lar Film Actress for the year bergs, a frst-class conflict Di Bestation of
Because his mother }slI and 1949: With this award goes personalities is played out be mein weakness are now master. the title "First Lady of the tween the bigated old captain and fully handled, while the incidental away from home, the boy has with become the charge of the Em- British Sreen",
the younger man, with his new music blends excellently
How the
bassy butler, an amiable tale- fangled theories of navigation and whaling. The complicating;
spinner, whom he loves, and the butler's wife, a nag in every factor is the boy, whose loyalties
schse
of the world, whom he are divided between the two.
hates.
Few artists of the screen have deserved this award more than lovely Jean Siminons. Her rise to the heights of stardom and inter- national
acclaim has been achieved by straightforward hard
Richard Widmark forsaking shivery villulny-is admirable, and Dean Stockwell. one of the beat
touching performance.
plot.
Where local movie makers still full-at least as far as the Wes- Lem critje 1s concerned-is in the almalness and pointlessness of the
Drama story.
is usually emphasised, and the hero heroine invariably take the long
over- or
Complicating the situation in the fact that the butler bus taken up with a lovely stenographer
work and undoubled talent. She boy actors about, gives a moss and tedious way out of their pre--who works in the establishment. ]
Shtry Journey," in
.
short,
has endeared herself to the hearts
The film describes the boy'd
ΟΙ of millions of movie-goers in Of Mr. Barrymore-by this time dicament, much to the bewilder Innocent confusions about the every country in the world and
of the audience. # lovable Institution beyond
matler with frare dexterity, and has made many friends by, her criticism-we can only record that
when, presently, the butler's wife who appearances in and visits to
poor farmer to he emils another torrent of those deals with a
plunges to her death down a stali Aim's Europe, India, Australia and poweriu! histrionics which make loses his daughter to the
well, after discovering her hus- the land-owner. America.
Then band and his lady friend frolick- us feel that he should change his villain, "Hamlet", "Scott of the Antarc- nume from Barrymore lo Barry-
follows tragedy
and after tragedy, ing about the premises, it builds tle," "Madness of the Heart, "The most.
although the end Bees the
up,
melo-dramatic at- daughter escape, provides
ale, at the same Blue Lagoon" and "Adam and
time. Except for a tiny intrusion a
mosphere Evelyne" were some
studying of the J. the beginning, there are no ladier satisfactory punishment for the
who is as mean a cuss Sympathetically Arthur Rank pictures voted into whatsoever to muss up this man's villain
reactions. Master the first 10.
picture.
ister Henrey is extreme
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.ft.
no
as one can find on the screen; in fact, U.S. censors,
the
we are sure, fortunate in having the assistance would have cut his part to rib-jal Sir Rolph Richardson, as the hone
ARering butler, and Michela
On the whole, the movie-goer
will find "Wintry Journey"
as the lovesick. stenog.
The former is enormous-
exciting and enjoyable as the ly competent, and the latter won-
average film made in Hollywood, derfully decorative as well
花
The Alm's star is Miss Li Li- competent. The photography is hwa.
superb, and the dialogue enter- taining and reallio.
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COMMENCING on SATURDAY 13th MAY
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JOSEPH COTTEN · VALLI ORSON WELLES TREVOR HOWARD
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"The Third Man'
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Michèle Morgan
Ralph Richardson
Fallen Idol.
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