THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, “JULY 7, 1950,
Pagu 5:
LEE Theatre
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SHOWING TODAY
DAILY AT
2.30, 5.10
7.20 &
9.30 P.M.
They've won on TARAWA and IWO JIMA...
They'll do the same in KOREA ! THEJMARINES
THE MARINES GREATEST
HOUS
...and the
situation
is well
in
hand!
SANDS OF MO JIFA
darring
JOHN WAYNE
............. JOHN AGAR · ADELE MARA-FORREST TUCKER
=== WALLY GAZETTE - JAMES BROWN - RICHARD WEBS-ARIMUR FRANZ - JULIE BISHOP - JAMES HOLDEN PETER DES RICHARD JAECKEL » Soyan dua ba Marrykenen James Toward Crame Story by story brann Beated by Alan Lean Associate Products Comuna Granger
A REPUBLIC PICTURE
FLASH!!!
ADDED ATTRACTION—SPECIAL NEWS EDITION
"THE BATTLE OF KOREA”
5 SHOWS
SUNDAY
-Extra Performance at 11.38 A.M.
“SANDS OF IWO JIMA”
&
QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA
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THRILL-BY-THRILL IT POUNDS INTO YOUR HEART!| The Story of SEABISCUIT
WARNER BROS W
PRESENT
who raced to glory!
PRIDE OF KENTUCKY
COLDE BY
TECHNICOLOR
DARRY
SHIRLEY TEMPLE FITZGERALD LON MCALLISTER
DAVID BUTLER
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"SILVER SPRINGS SWIMCAPADE"
--- In Technicolor
SEE BATHING BEAUTIES IN SPECTACULAR WATER BALLET — CHAMPIONSHIP HIGH-DIVING |
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MAJESTIC
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BING
AND
Walt Disney
THE ADVENTURES OF
WALT ICHABOD
wake up Sloopy Hollow
Two Tail Tales in an
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CINEMA WORLD
Skilful film on racial prejudice merits mention
Rating: ★★★★
"Home Of The Brava,” which is now at the Roxy and Liberty Theatros, is a great motion' pic- turo. It is like the voice that cried in the wilderness, and although it is likely to cry in in vain, it cannot fail to leave a doop impres- sion on the movie-goer.
With finesse and skill the producers have brought to the screen a film about racial prejudice that neither offends nor cries for pity. The human drama that is bared in "Home Of The Brave" is so real, and the plot's course is charted so convincingly as to make the pic- ture not only great entertainment, but on ex- cellent lesson in assessing human values. Pulling no punches from the charge of four men on à strutegic, opening scene, "Hame Of The dangerous mission. Brave" tells of a small recon- naissance group of soldiers on an is an average, pleasant, GI, one island in the South Preifle some is an irritating bigot, one is 0 time during the late war. It is hardened veteran with a Jedi by a young, callow major, Iphical outlook, and
frightened of the magnitude of to be a sensitive, well-educated his task, but doing his best in Negro who is an expert surveyor. The pressure of work accom- plished in the Jup-surrounded Jungle, and the varying renctions of the soldiers not only the imminent presence of death, but to the Negro in their midst, are depicted with spine-tingling realism. The climax of the ple-
Seabiscuit rides at the Queen's
Rating:
A love story that brings the grown-up Shirley Temple 10- gether with Lon MeCallister to the screen, is now at the Queen's
Theatre tucky."
four-
One of the men, all volunteers,
one
philes3- happens
JAMES EDWARDS
"You yellow-bellied ni-**
Rossellini's Stromboli
opens at the King's
Rating:
ture has the Negro undergoing "Stromboli," which stars Ingrid Bergman and
treatment as a psychoneurotic, a condition brought on when he cracks up after seeing his one faithful friend killed after period of extended abuse by the Japanese, but which really atems back to the neuroses built up in his own post life. It is an Army medico who diagnoses the case and finally effects the cure.
Brodle
which is now at the King's Theatre, isn't made of the stuff we thought it would be. Although it is directed by the famed Italian direc- tor, Roberto Rossellini, who has made the head-lines in more than one way; "Stromboli”. never seems to be able to rise from the medio- crity into which it plunges from the word "go." In the role of the Negro soldier, with "Pride of Ken-James Edwards does a finely tem-
The film is an Account of the conduct themselves throughout pered job, revealing the man's marital woes of a Czech woman the film with stiff uncertainly. With the inimitable Barry Fitz- inner torments from behind a who marries an Italian fisher- "Stromboli" is evidently in- gerald, Irish character actor and frame of stoic dignity. And man to escape a displaced persons tended to demonstrate how a comic, co-starring in a leading
Lloyd Bridges is equally good ng camp and discovers that life with spoiled and fretful lady can be role, this film story, which em- his hall-fellow Well-met old him is about as attractive as The method employed in work- Induced to accept a simple life, ploys as its background the events school friend who tries, without eating garoupa balls seven days ing out her salvation is perhaps and racing career surrounding the too much success to assuage his a week. For all we know, he a bit too life of the amazing Seabiscuit,
anguish.
specialised to be adopted widely, although we can promisus a fair share of thrills. As the young majer, Douglas probably smells of fish..
suggest a day at the local golf Seabiscuit, from the stable of Dick turns in a competent per-
As the Czech, La Ingrid is course with the the temperature C. S. Howard, California sports-
formance, with Frank Lovejoy ng astonishingly handsome for a at 98 as a fitting alternative. man, came along in turf annals the hard-bitten Mings, and Steve woman who is supposed to drag) a few years ago when as
the brazen corporal put her days in accommodations Two of the film's Interesting year-old, the doughty little horse well in line.
Jeff Corey is the wise, weary but as refined as a Wanchai tenement sidelight are the sequences show- romped to fame, and fortune for
house. As far as her acting is ing fishermen hauling in their his owner, by beating everything The cost is small, but in "Home hold
always competent psychiatrist, concerned, "Stromboll" cannot catch of fighting tuna and the in sight, including War Admiral, of the Brave" they seem to re-efforts performances
a candle to her previous eruption of lava, rocks, and cin- another.
great competitor, in present the whole wor and a large carried depth and understanding sends the villagers flying to the which ders from the volcano, which special match. He amassed one of the greatest earning totals in
portion of life.
of the parts.
bonts to stand off-shore until it all racing history.
Is over. directed by the studio which The cast that supports her Barry Fitzgerald plays the made "Champion," "Home Of consists, largely of actual real- trainer-who-retains-such great The Brave" is one of the most dents of Stromboli, and faith In a horse that has not daring pletures to come out of shown much form as a two or Hollywood. It has been banned three-year-old, while Shirley in almost all the Southern states Temple is his niece whose brother of the United States, and its has been killed in a race in Ire-treatment of racial prejudice has offended the narrow-minded When Lon McCollister, one of more than has "Pinky." It is. the top Jockeys in the sport, falls after all, human nature to per- in love with Shirley, she tries to secute what is feared. persuade him to quit riding end It is indeed a pity that in this she succeeds-up to the point age of so-called enlightenment, a where Seabiscuit needs a jockey alm such as "Home Of The for one of the most Important Brave" has to be made to bring races of his career.
home to the averago citizen the Filmed in
colpur by Techni- ugliness that stems from racial colour, "Pride of Kentucky" pro-
prejudice. mises to be pictorially thrilling as and since the makers of the Elm Since our world is what it is, well, what with some of Ameri- have done on excellent job, ca's leading tracks, with their ktrongly suggest that "Home Of attendant colourful crowds and The Brave" should be seen. It is Race Days, playing an Important a great experience. part in the film.
land.
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What may make the film worth they while is that, it isn't Hollywood.
"Bande Of Iwo Jima,", starring John. Wayne, is still pack. Ing them in at the Loe Theatre. The film' established momething of a record for Hong Kong when it played to four full housre on Monday, "Bands Of Iwo Jima" is an excellent action plc- ture and deals with the invasion of Tarawa and two Jima by U.B. Marines-the same, incidentally, who are now on their way to strengthen General Douglas MacArthur's command, Photo shows the crowd outside Lic.
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RAGING ISLAND..RAGING PASSIONS I
This is IT!
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THE STAR:
BERGMAN
UNDER
HEINSPIRED DIRECTION OF
ROSSELLINI
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ONE OF THE TEN BEST PICTURES OF 1949!
OUTNUMBERET 3000 TO ONE
Thats the kind o
Odds The
NEVER HAS THE SCREEN ENTERTAINED WITH THE BOLDMISS TH
"Home of
Brave
THE FIRST MOTION PICTURE OF ITS KIND!
Presented by SCREEN PLAYS CORP. with Dengdus Dich Frank Lovejoy • Junus Edwards ↑ Stave Deodiy * Jell Convy Lloyd Bridges• Prodved by STANIEY KRAMER
Directed by MARK ROBSON + Ameise Producik.ASA
Robert Sililman » Berithplay by CARL FOREMAN + Based' on the originst play by Arthur Lavoest ‹ Musical Böure by DIMITRI TIOMKIN • Released Thes Unierd Aristo
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"WAR BREAKS: OUT"
IN SOUTH KOREA”
LIBERTY ADDED: PARAMOUNT, NEWSREEL THE OUTBREAK, OF
WAR IN KOREA“
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