THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1950.
Pago
Theatre
NIET OSTEOB, DEMAND, ABANGTAN KHELPERIEN
COMMENCING TODAY
Four Shows at 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. This Film should carn our warmest and friendliest applause.............. Daily Herald
What was his secret P... Why had he to be silenced ?
LONDON FILMS persent A FRANK LAUNDERSIDNEY GILLIAT PRODUCTION
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS.. GLYNIS JOHNS. JACK HAWKINS
STATE SECRET
Horbert Lom - Karel Stepanek. Walter Allla Witten and dizecime by S'ONEY GILLIAT
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Th
Black Rose
CECILE AUBRY-JACK HAWKINS
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TAKE ANY EASTERN TRAM CAR OR HAPPY VALLEY BUS Showing Today: 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. A - GREAT, ROMANTIC MUSICAL COMEDY 1·
NEXT
The Hatfields
and the McCoys.
"ROSEANNA McCOY
AMBUSH”
CINEMA WORLD
GLYNIS JOHNS AND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.
He knew too much.
British thriller will hold your interest
Rating: ★★★
Thore is one particular type of film at which English
producers excel-the civilised thrillor. "The Third Man" was a recent peak achievement in this line. "State Secret," now at the Lee, which carries the distinctive, autograph of Launder and Gilliat, is the latest, and by and large, it strikes us as the most generally en- joyable English light entertainment that has so far turned up this year.
It is a genuine thriller. That ped in a European police State
which wishes to liquidate him.
is to say, it keeps the observer In a constant state of curiosity and cold fear as to what is go- ing to happen next.
The sense of claustrophobia, of
a whole State machine closing in
on a single man, is frighteningly Buggested and sustained.
RICHARD TODD SHINES IN NEW MGM PICTURE
Rating: ★★★
"The Hasty Heart," which made a very successful. stage production, comes to the screen of the Queen's and Alhambra Theatres teday and is, on the whola, a fine motion picture that deserves attention.
Starring Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal and Richard Todd, the film is a combined Anglo-American effort - successful from the entertainment point of view, and in that it establishes in Mr. Todd a handsome, virile, compelling new British star with a sincerity that stetches right out to the audience from the screen.
He plays a problem soldier-1
Gradually he responds to their an awkward, snarling, friendless cameraderie that curt, shame- Scot who is left behind after the faced cameraderie of men brought war to die in a Burma hospital close by war-only to freeze up from a wound which he thinks again when he learns of his death bas healed.
sentence. Finally they convince At first it looks like just him that there is, more in thair another military hospital picture, friendship than patronising play. But
this when
surly Scot Technically the alm 18 no stouches into the ward the film masterpiece. The rather thestric- acquires a new quality.
ally stalle setting suggests not He is an Ill-mannered, - so much Far East ng Near Ela
The sweat, the strain, and tempered lout with a strangulated tree. brogue. Ho hates himself, he the frustration of life in Burma hates his fellow men, and just are not very convincingly con- sulks over his bagpipes in a veyed, and the light relief harps And yet somehow you unduly that age-old Sasson- feel, with the other patienis, that ach problem concerning the kit. this psychological mist is worth But for the integrity of its act- getting to like.
ing "The Hasty Heart" is worth secing.
corner.
Comic opera film coming to the Lee
Something unique in the
way of screen entertainment
Sidney Gilllat's script and dl-is "The Barber of Seville", the comic opera rection could hardly be better. Rossini-Sterbini Nor could the acting.
Boon to be shown at the Lee Theatre,
It relles. not en violence itself but on
the constant suggestion of it, which is to much more fearsome, And It js graced
The film gives Douglas Fair- throughout by sly wit.
banks,
Jr., the best part he har The plot is the sort that had for a long time, and he takes The film follows faithfully the shouldn't be given away. Ithe fullest advantage of this cir- original opera, and was filmed at Exactly is enough to mention that it con- cumstance. ceros a nightmare escape essay- may be said of Glynis Johns and capital of the world of opera. ed by an American doctor, trap- Jack Hawkins.
the
TYRONE POWER JACK HAWKINS AND ORBON WELLES Kill or be killed.
same the Opera House in Milan,
ANOTHER FILM EPIC IN
...
LAVISH TECHNICOLOR
Rating:★ ★.
Twentieth Century Fox is reported to have” spent close to U.S.$2,000,000 on "Black Rose," now at the Roxy and Broadway Theatros, and, pictorially, the money has been well spent.
The lavish production makes personality, his Bamboyant de the film all that the poster says-livery of even the dullest lines, It is as big as Hollywood, al- give the aim a lift every time ho though it would have gained appears, - -
tremendously had the actors been Others present include Tyrone Power, Jack Hawkins and Ceclie provided with a better script,
We give "Black Rose" a better. Aubry. than average rating mainly bo-
of the ··· Alm's
pictorial O
'cause
beauty.
As it is, this -story of the ventures of two young Saxons who, after falling out with the Normans in Britain, Join up with one of Khubla Khan's generals on his journey from Antioch to China, turns out to be not as axelting or entertaining Ans: it, could have been done w
Apart
the from
specto cia (which I lavish in the x- treme) and the pictorial beauty of the fim, another real point of interest Is the performance of Orson Welles as the toMongolian Mr. Wolles Flays his role fri the grant manner. His witheatrical:
RATINGS
The "China - Mall” using "the"following classifications to indicate to readers the quality. of films reviewed:
Excellent
Above averago
the
The production-by Film Traders Limited (England)-- ➡features some of the best of the continental operatic and dramatic talent and stars the protagonists of the Rome Opera House. The musle particularly, will appeal to that large section of the community which responds appreciatively to concerts featur- ing the works of, the classic masters..
"The Barber of Seville" tella the story of love between the beautiful Rosina and the Count) Almaviva against the harsh prin- clples of the maiden's guardian D. Bartole,
The opera is given an extreme- ly light and cheerful treatment with each act climaxing in a crescendo of the merry-making theme. The film cannot be missed by those who have slech opera cisowhere. And to those who have not, this movie will indeed be welcomed.
THE WORLD'S GREATEST
LOVE STORY!
CECIL' B. DEMILLE'S:
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Samson Delilah
AND
Starting
· HEDY LAMARA : VICTOR MATURE: GEORGE SANDERS ANGLIA LANSBURY HENRY WILCOXON
hinduced and Erected by GEOTE I DANIELES,
COMING TO THE
AND
LEE LIBERTY
LIBERTY
Air-Conditioned
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GUY MADISON RORY CALHOUN
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SHOWING TODAY At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30
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WITH Warner Bros.
Hasty
AWAS DE PIÙE.....T
Heart
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- At 11.30 A.M. Only - Esther Williams in "ON AN ISLAND
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In Technicolor
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At 12 Noon Only -
Esther Williams in' "THIS TIME FOR KEEPS"
In Technicolor
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William HARTNELL * Robert BEATTY Joyce HOWARD in APPOINTMENT WITH
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SHOWING
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