KING'S MAJESTIC
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Here, without shame...
is the Naked Truth
about a Boy, a Girl
and a Sinful Crime..
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
›presenti
EDGE OF DOOM
Storing DANA ANDREWS - FARLEY GRANCER - JOAN EVANS
with ROBERT KEITH » PAUL STEWART » MALA POWENS - ADELE JERCEKS Directed by Mark Robson • Scrown Play by Philip Yordan
Masad no the Karolis Las Henry » Ristzbated by 2TB Radio Pictures. Jos.
Also WALT DISNEY COLOR CARTOON
KING'S: "CRAZY |Majestic: “GREENER
OVER DAISY"
YARD"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1951.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
"SHAKING IN MY SHOES, I ENTERED THE DARK ONE'S CASTLE. IT WAS SO QUIET? SUDDENLY I HEARD A STRANGE HOLLOW VOICE
THOMAS--
-- I NEED A NEW COLLECTOR. HEREAFTER YOU WILL DRIVE THE VEHICLE AND COLLECT FOR ME--FROM THE GATEPOSTS? ↑
By Lee Fall and Phil Davis ·
WEAR THIS. NEVER TRY TO SEE OR SPEAK TO ANYONE--OR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY DIE AT ONCE /
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POWER OF BEING
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HESTON-SCOTT·LINDFORS·JAGGER·DEFORE
Drontal by WILLIAM DIETERLE - Gervopny by Jan Bloretyn Zacon and Lary Macaé « Adaptiven by Betti Fangs
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Tako Any Eastorn Tram Car, or Happy Valley Bus Final Showing To-day: 2.30-5:30—7.30 & 9.30 p.m. Here is the story of the kind of night life that can load to anything -scandal, handlings or avon murder!
BANDARA
JAMES.
SHANWYCK MASON
HEFLIN GARDNER
EAST SIDE WEST SIDs
COMMENCING TO-MORKOWĄŻ
'AFFAIRS OF DIANA” Chinese film
MORNING
E ENGAGEM
VËREQUESTI
Linda, Tyron,
Who is the most attrac- tive woman in West End show. business? Many people-and I am one- would any Linda Chris- tian, 26-year-old wife of Tyrone Power.
- bng
But this Mexican-born ac- trass-whose marriage in Rome two years ago gave that city a real Roman holiday Fearned, the penalty of being the wife of a famous air,
For the best part of a year busy Tyrone Power has been
and, in London on the stage
fir studios. recently, in the
Goldwyn's accent on lament
mean
wear the robes of
FIRE INSURANCE
Samuel Goldwyn produc- as may tions, like De Mille produe. priesthood. tions, have come to superlative quality, but the Goldwyn touch, unlike that of De Mille, is not always based on mere appeal
to
in
RO
the eye.
"Our Very Own"-apart from that unfortunate lapse into propaganda the end-was a fine picture because it portrayed
tumult of eloquently the young love.
In "Edge of Doom," Mr Goldwyn has again resorted to youth for his inspiration, but this time dark, imponderable tragedy is the only theme.
Such intense pathos is provided in the fare that unreality wears the final crown, and the homage one may have wanted to pay is ultimately suppressed-be- cause while giles may re- freshen, hurricanes de- stroy.
Goldwyn
Obviously Mr attempted to convey a
than one.
has message,
In the end the murderer
makes his peace with God, but a broken mirror is held up to reflect the scene. The impression is inescapable that religion, for him, is only another form of fre insurance.
The Alm is entirely Farley Andrews has Granger's. Dara nothing to do in his role as a priest who still remembers that Christ was born in a manger. Joan Evans appears in two or three socnes only, and in the whole picture says less than 20 words.
the grave,
Hy
Granger is the boy who moves in a pall of tragedy from the cradle to stalks the region between the devil and the dorp, with not a moment's respite.
The plat piles such intense misery on his shoulders that I suspect Mr Goldwyn, for a change, has resorted to fiction for his ideas.
Real life, within the limits of one family, rarely descends to such a level of pathos, and Death, while it slashes, also re- leases.
-GLOOM—AND - MORE-
The action of the story tales
but like Pandora, lifting of place in the poor neighbourhood stings of a large, town. From the be- this lid released more.
ginning the atmosphere is one of gloom-and the engulfing The picture may be interpres terror is not it by one relieving ted as an attack on people who ray of light. continue to do nothing abou:
the slums, or a plea for the It is just a long lament, with- end of American capitalism, or out the benefit of walls, and in an exposure of such Philistines
THE GARRISON PLAYERS present
now tradition (for even the Elizabethans mixed their hell with a little bit of heaven.),
All this makes it a bafiling mm, out of tune with the law of retribution and the dis- proved contention that virtuo
THE ANONYMOUS LOVER has its own noward.
By
Vernon Sylvaino produced by Peter Hards.
at
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JEANNETTE MacDONALD
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In,
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An M.G.M. Picture
• TO-MORROW...
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ROBERT WALKER
TILL THE CLOUDS
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chure
Taken on the whole, "Edge of Doom" is poor entertainment because immersion in sorrow (in these days of universal sorrow) is not the best way to spend two hours.
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Nothing
*can w/
change
our love-
neither
the colar of your Eskin, nor
mine.
James STEWART BROKEN ARROW
POWER
her
During that time Linda Chris-
tian, to
disappointment, has not really been in show business at all. She has just been Mas Power.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.15,
QUEENS ALHAMBRA 7.20 & 9.30
THIS WEIRD
THAT DELILAH GIRL DOES IT AGAIN!
THAT'S ALL, I'VE NOT BEEN HOME SINCE--MY FAMILY THINKS! I'M DEAD --I'VE NOT HEARD THE DARK ONE
AGAIN--
NEXT WEEK: ROOM OF THE DARK ONE
Debbie
العام سين
the fig
HEDY
LAMARR HODIAK SA LADY WITHOUT
PASSPORT
has
*
a "perm"
on safari
By SUE DAWSON
M-G-M's version of Rider, Haggard's "King Solomon's
Hollywood,
As such, she has looked Mines" is very true to Africa after their flat in Park Lane-and
What accompanied her husband to social functions. Between makes the film outstanding domestic duties, she has gone is magnificent Technicolour job-hunting.
right
photography.
Granger is convincingly along. the tough, blunt hero, tanned Power to a deep mahogany, white being at the temples of his jet
Brit, somehow. the part has never come Tric
Mrs beautiful could not get back to Linda Christian, the intelligent actress.
Then, a fortnight or so ago, she did a successful test for a star role in Leslie Arliss's new picture. "The Woman's Angle,"
black hair, and admirably the reckless explorer whose wife has died, so that his the guide on presence as
this trip is only for the pro-
It meant a professional come-] mise of the £5,000 which he will use for his boy in Eng-
back at last.
A few days later, after aland. consultation with her doctor, One realises straight awny Miss Christian has had to de- that he will get more out of this
than cline the part. She is back to trip
For the money. being the wife of a famous there is Deborah Kerr, Instiga- star and, in the early autumn. tor of the search In deepest a mother.
Atrica for her lost husband, about whom she is feeling rather guilty... Her part calls chiefly for exhibitions of 'guts,'
Sim as Scrooge For many years Scots come- dian Alastair Sim was so good in secondary roles that he won all the
the laughs Kund. nolices) from the stars. Pro- ducers. of stage and screen, decided the wisest course`, was to make
Mr Sim himself the star in future.
few collapses (remedied by Stewart Granger) and several Intensive glances his way, all of which lead smoothly up to the climax and the end.
One touch, however, bore the unmistakable stamp of Holly- of coping wlth wood. Tired dressing her long auburn hair arter
exhausting days in the Now, 50, this one-time jumple, she snatches up a pair of elocution professor from Edin- scissors one night and hacks burgh tackles his biggest part off short. Next day she is lying ---Scrooge in George Minter's languorously over a rock, com- new flm version of "A Christ-plete with a beautiful "perma." mas Carol."
Rider Haggard's book makes a thrilling film-as the trio and their black relinue crouch, under hooves, escape from stampeding
Will Sim And, like other ac- fors before him, that new per- formers of talent arise to do
a war dancing tribe, and get shut the "scene-stealing" in their
into the caves which are King turn? They'll have a job in Solomon's Mines, Richard Carl- Scrooge-he is
son gives just the right touch as screen from first shot to last. the heroine's brother, and the
Mr Sim
to be on the
thinks
audiences whole picture is swift-moving, will like it that way, especial-with truly superlative photo- ly in the USA, So sure is he graphy by MGM, about Americana liking for Dickens (and presumably Alas- tair Sim) that he has asked for a 20 per cent cut in salary - bargain for a share in the United States takings.
Russian way
Brian British Alm director Desmond Hurst on the prob tom of handling stars who can- not act:
"I take a look at the actor's frozen features-and decide on the Russian technique. I switch the camera to focus 01 In
for - plate
several emply seconds, then quickly swing back to the actor,
0:
"By contrast, the actor's face begins to seem alive. Fine-the audience will recognise it acting the scene can proceed." (World Copyright Reserved-London Express Service.)
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SOLOMON'S MINES
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RICHARD CARESON
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