1951-10-13

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By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

AND PLEASE COME IN. OH, DEAR, THE WRONG NO TRICKS SO PLEASE. ONE AGAIN. MAGIC-JUST

SHOWING

TO-DAY

KING'S LIBERTY

Air-Conditioned

★ SHOWING TO-DAY ✰

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1951.

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

THERE! DON'T MY EARS LOOK DIFFERENT--NOW THAT I'VE TAPED THEM BACK WITH ADHESIVE!

JUST LOVELY, SWAMI A LADY OUT- SIDE FOR A READING-

INO! I TOLD YOU I'M THROUGH WITH THAT PETTYSTUFF!

PEOPLE'LL GET SUS PICIOUS IF THEY COME FOR READINGS

AND YOU TURN THEM AWAY.

YOU'RE RIGHT, CARA. THIS MAKES A GOOD FRONT FOR MY REAL ACTIVITIES

AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20

& 9.30 P.M.

AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30, & 9.30 P.M.

*played by Valli

one of the seves great flors in DAVID O. SELZNICK'S production of ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S

THE PARADINE CASE

GREGORY PECK - ANN TOOD CHARLES LAUGHTON CHARLES COBURN ETHEL BARRYMORE + LOUIS JOURDAN

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

at the LIBERTY

at the KING'S

AT 11.30 A.M. Columbia presents COLOR CARTOONS. 3 STOOGES COMEDIES

and

Special Attraction A DAY WITH F.B.I. Color by Technicolor At Reduced Prices!

AT 12.30 P.M.

M-G-M Pictures presents

A PROGRAMME OF

TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS

ORIENTAL

AIR CONDITIONED

Take Any Eastern Tram Car or Happy Valley Bus

SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30-5.30-7.30 & 9.30 P.M. The biggest parade of song and gladness in 10 years!

JAMES

VIRGINIA

BORTS

GORDON

GENE

CAGNEY MAYO DAY MACRAE NELSON

WARNER BROS

*THE

WEST POINT STORY

SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30

John Payne Maureen O'Hara in “TRIPOLI” Technicolor

LUNA PARK STAR

CINEMA AIR-CONDITIONED

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LITTLE TOWN

TO-DAY ONLY

Due to the length of the picture, the showing times will be:

2.30, 5.00, 7.15 G

9.30 p.m.

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The JOLSON STORY

TO-MORROW

TIME

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"Come with me.

¡YVONNE DECARIO

TONY MARTIN PETER LORRE MARTA TOREN

to the

CAGBAID

TO-MORROW.

“LORNA DOONE"

A PLAIN READING.

CONTINUED

James Mason's Rommel Will

Fan The Fires

Says LEONARD MOSLEY

with appreciative excitement.

From its opening moment it Before you jumps with drama.

SAW a sensational film sional German military clique- in London the other day. his film had me strapped down ROMMEL-DESERT FOX is its name. It is brilliantly made, fiendishly well acted, see any tremendously exciting but there were moments in it when I wanted to stand up and throw hand-grenades at the screen. it made that angry.

credit titles, you are ight into it-following that gal- tant group of British Commandos who landed near Rommel's head- quartos in 1942 and just missed kiling him

And then begins the excil- ng build-up of Erwin Rommel as he follows the fortunes of war as seen from the German side. is Alamein, Tunis, D-Day and after. The sensations of Hitler's War up

The July bomb- who are there, too.

plot against the Fuehrer's life at with his

East Prussia headquarters in East

What 1 feel about it. probably best summed by a British general saw it, in company Field-Marshals Slim and is graphically reconstructed. 80 be- Auchinleck, in the same un hysterical interview

tween Rommel and the Fuehrer; and that last scene, when Hitler's stooges come for the feld-

tablets. marshal with suicide

master actor

private theatre in London.

"It's a Jezebel of a film," he said. "You loathe it one moment, love it the next."

Rommel is, of course, Holly T strides

THROUGH this pulsing film James Mason. a. wood's Alm biography

that of

back

from the fantastic Naz: Held manshal. Erwin Rommel, otherwise known wilderness in a master role. One

British brigadier (an ex-Po.W. as the Desert Fox-the man who

who met Rommel three Vimes pushed the Desert Rats back to the gates of Alexandria, until during the War, said after see-

this performance: "Now Mantgumery put them

BL his ing

when 1 think of Rommel, I shail throat and brought him down

always have a picture of Mason at Alamein

my head. **

He died, by his own but on Hitler's orders the Battle of Europe.

•

hand-

during

That's tribute to big acting. And let me add mine to Leo G. Carroll for a beautifully motiu- in led performance as Rundstedt, Luther Adler as a

vun

WHEN Desmond Your wrote convincing Hiller and several

a book in praise of this TC- Agure two markable military

there were violent years ago,

This film adaptation arguments. will fun the games. Why?

Because there are words in it, in il it, suggestions scenes in

others.

This film is going to make you mad at moments. But it is a film you've got to see.

-(London Express Service)

Wronp Hitler sent the petrol.

rank it on the way.

tha! wil infuriate practically The RAF every British soldier who fough: with the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.

Because, in paying its tribute

brilliant

also

soldier, it seems to imply that be and his

have comrades would

stopped our D Day invasion--and won The war-f it hadn' bern for Hider.

JAMES MASON-back from the wilderness.

JACK DAVIES SEEKS THE

HILE the Germans are win- ning in the desert this film

over

ROYAL FILM WINNER

picture

as jewellery to get the Despite the shadow cast Fly" is being spoken about

by a French- the Royal Film the "nest film yet made by the started, directed

studio"a statement which, if man, Jean Renoir, written by ils of Rommel's skill in a voice Performance by the King's true, would make it almost im- an Englishwoman, Rumer God- that throbs with admiration. illness, a jury of producers, possible for it not to be selected den, and made in Bengal, it has

Somerset But when he is losing, it care-exhibitors and renters were and

Maugham's already been acclaimed in "Encore" could well be selected America Rom-

85 something of Д fully points cut thai (3)

viewing

foremost masterpiece. as a tribute to our mel wasn't there when the battle at work recently

eleven British and living writer.

Other films entered are "Mr began. (b) that he might have the

Alastair Sim's "Scrooge" must Denning Drives North," starring won at Alamein if Hitler hadn't American films from which refused to send him petrol," (c)

they will select that to be also be taken into consideration John Mills; "Blue Veil," starring

fault

Jane Wyman; "The Highway- shown on November 5.

man"; and "Never Take No for an Answer," made in Italy by Anthony Havelock-Allan.

that he was a sick man while the battle was going on, and (d) that it was "six miles of British guns that won the fight."

--it would be hard to Charles Dickens on grounds of suitability.

The dark horse among the entries is the one truly inter-

Around the West End it is The sound track commentator generally assumed that Carol describes Field Marshal Mont-Reed's "Outcast of the Islands" national entry, "The River." gemery as "another fox in the will be chosen.

desert

But it is by mo

Which of these fins do i think will be selected? K I LAURELS FOR FLORIST that most

were a racing correspondent I an even craflier one, per-moans the certainty

Produced by a former Holly- would tip “Outcast," "Vultures" haps." But the stapt writer puts people think.

wood florist, Kenneth Me- and 'Encore" to be in the first into Rommel's mouth such con-

For one thing, the story is Eldowney, who sold his busi- three, with "The River" as the temptuous remarks as: "We've plenty of time to retreat. Mont- not entirely suitable for a Royal ness, his home and his wife's best outsider. gomery is a deliberate fellow. occasion. The same objection He wouldn't think of leaping may apply to "A Place in the after me as I would leap after Sun," starring Montgomery Clift him in the same circumstances." and Shelley Winters, one of the

Ameri-

two most strone other, "Sister!

Can entries. The

which

NEXT CHANGE AT THE

Another Hitchcock Triumph

Str stacs

KING'S & LIBERTY

THRILL ..., as a sinabing

when dragy hand in turned – MARVEL .......et the play-

him last week as ND yet-and yet-despite the Carrie,"

Add together all the new after seeing ΑΝ

choler that these moments Laurence Olivier, may prove films that have come here Lewt in Duel in the Sun". Any doubt is entirely unnecesTM arouse in those who fought with more formidable opposition. within the past six months, sary.

British entries, the Allied Armies, despite its Among the

Ann Todd as his wife, Gaye, cblique praise for the profes- Ealing's "Where No Vultures and their total value-with

опе perhaps exception is a woman of complete under- would fall far short of "The ward Tony in whole and golden. standing; her love for the way- Paradine Case". The excep she is gallant in a very true

radiate Her scenes tion is "Happy-go-Lovely"; sense. but then that is not to be colonel's devoted valet lis as

Louis Jourdan as

the late compared, for it is a comedy. Intense as Valli, but fiery. He This is a drama with all the 19 a twisted introvert; wenk, power that can be generated by insanely Lybl-enigmatic, the human emotions in poople enigmatic as his relationship who are intelligent and usually with Valli in this extraordinary restrained Where personality care. and atmosphere write such Charles Laughton is there in a drama, only very fine players all his glory as the Judge-a can make it & success. It is in judge not unaffected by the finitely a success,

weaknesses of human nature, and repellent in his obesity.

His The drama is of the court- down-trodden, devoted wife is toom. Maddeleria Parodine, a Ethel Barrymore. beautiful and fascinating wor Alfred Hitchcock hua triumphed. man of questionable past, is on One must add "ogans' His trial for the murder of the alms are without exception worth- Coloral, a wealthy English while, Bu how much of this

obitinan her

blind tub. stoomed untent to to him two Kia- wongrsized She is Valli, who wouts base

In wore him. I throughout Europe, mureded with Agizo will live happly belt nasional dime stande come

huren und derlagt

MICHAEL

STROGOFF

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