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· RANDOLPH SCOTT
HANGMAN'S KNOT
DONNA REED
TECHNICOLOR
Claude Jarman, Jr. • Erant Faylen • Lewn Marvin • A scort BROWN PRODUCTKOT » Froduced by BARRY IDE CROWN
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"ASSIGNMENT-PARIS"
MAKÝ
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1958.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
| limm➡HE WANTS ME TO GO IN. ALL RIGHT.
BUT THIS IS TOO MUCH LIKE A TRAPS- I'LL GO AROUND THE BACK WAY--
THE SILENT MAN SUDDENLY RAISES NİS AXE--
LOWER YOUR AXE-- YOU CANNOT MOVE-
WILDA--
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
MANDRAKE GESTURES HYPNOTICALLY-
MY HYPNOTISM HAD NO EFFECT ON HIMI ARE THESE
PEOPLE TRULY
THE 'LIVING
DEAD"?
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Flaming Arrows!..... Smoking Gans!... and
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It's M-G-M's
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Filmed in the
Southwest's historic
Molare Desertį
CAPACHE
WAR
SMOKE
Gilbert ROLAND - Glenda FARRELL
Robert HORTON Barbara RÚICK Gene LOCKHART
SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M.
M-G-M's Academy Award Winner TOM and JERRY
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At Reduced Prices $1.50, $1.00
BAO XUNG BROADWAY
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
20th Century-Fox presents
INFERNO
Robert
TECHNICOLOR
Rhonda
RYAN FLEMING LUNDIGAN
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
At 12.00 Noon
ROXY
NEWEST TECHNICOLOR CARTOON PROGRAMME
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SHOWING
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ONE OF THE TEN BEST FILMS OF 1952
THE MOST AMAZING PICTURE EVER SCREENED!
Vittorio DE SICAS
MIRACLE OF MILAN
ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A ITALIAN Polar
Refossed by PATHE OVERSEAS LTD. Fantasy by Vittorio De Sica who gave us the “BICYCLE THIEVES”
COMING SOON
CIRLUS BUSCH
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WATCH FOR THE OPENING DATE
FILMS-CURRENT
Our films this week ap- pear to be of a somewhat bloodthirsty nature. Last
AND COMING
By MARGARET BRUCE
beards such olde-Indlan ob- Pervations as "Say, he mure must have gotten onto that train." week we had children, now take it Scuth as a form of pre- its
its draina,
After this they will be show- adventure. we have Hangman's Knot. Staratal Aid.
its spirit and its human warmth, Stanley Kramer's "MY SIX Dawn Inferno, The
of
CONVICTS." To this end he commandeers thrillingly fold,
I probably won't China's Revolution and The Stage Coach In
como on until after next Satur which п The plot is familiar. A day, when I can review it more Jonner Union Cruel Sea to name but a
Army nurse of men being blended
Fulky, vat nee can (Donna Reed) is travelling. It formidable lighting unit; their few.
is pursued by renegade Vigl- Captain burdened by the sor- Jones, and A Unnecessarily rows exciting time is bad by every leadership; their ordeals suffer
and responsibilities one
ed together. But Is produced in- to a magnificent picture, silr ring and touching.
The KING'S and MAJES- TIC share the first one, PHANGMAN'S KNOT," in which Columbia presents Randolph Scott and Donna Reed. This is a violent Techniqolour Saga-I think that's the word for it.
The hero is a Confederate Anny Major who has captured gold bullion from came Union Troops and, ou hearing
that the war is over, he decides to
HONG KONG
STAGE CLUB
MIRANDA
at
CHINA FLEET CLUB THEATRE
29th, 30th & 31st. OCT, 1953
Booking at
MOUTRIES H.K. & Kowloon,
the
-
ና።
the
into
of
never be sure here, unfortunately, so want to warn
you not to, mis W
this fine film
account. on any
its title is so unendearing that I have you might well, and heard it snit that although Kramer makes such wonderful
ims
they are seldom "box- office." Take my advlee and
ve this wrong. prove
A will be followed by other Columbia fim,this line e Paul Galilee theller "AS-
Jack Hawking dominates the SIGNMENT-PARIS." The as-
ent signment In question
is to an scene
Captain Ericson. I know of another actor American reporter (competent- don't
Here we have the story of a who by played by Dana
con- can more sincerely Andrews) who follows hußel and
vince his audience that he
whose first is young psychiatrist plunging neckline on
ving his part. Pretty Virginia appointment is to a State Pri- lovely. exelling Marta Toren into more Me
McKenna has the feminine lead son, where he is on probation
for Julle,
six months, It tells his ex- adventure than he
bargained 99
most in periences, known as "Glamour-pants
particularly OPS"
with his six convict assistants. Denholm Elliott again It is perhaps, a Ritle bit the
From tho
moment tho usual thing about political in-ves an appealing perform-
ance you ny
remember him cumeras begin to turn you can trigue, with Eastern European Governments standing or fall- SOUND BARRIER."
as Ann Todd's brother in "THE feel the grip of a master on the reins. This 18 direction. Every- ing on the evidence in the re
The place. this I hope you'll see
film. thing falls into porter's hands. However, it is You should. You must,
casting, the dialogue, the photo- graphy, the acting. It is NOT a dreary Prison Epic; it IS full
for.
a well-neted Bho, with George Sanders as one of Its anvers,
ment.
"INFERNO. from
Wrên Officer
the
2012
We should see more of John Beat who, together with Gilbert Holind and Millard Mitchell, is outstanding. But there is no such thing as a bad or mediocre performance.
CVET
and the uspence is kept at a Century Fox studios, is or at the of humour and humanity. suBelently high level ta pro- vide you with good entertain- ROXY nad BROADWAY. The is a clever, though again vioken! film, with an excellent perform The QUEEN'S at ALHAM-e by Robert Ryan as the spoils
million Inc. BEA, are, at the moment, show-
obanlaned to die ing a Chinese film with English rong's the rocky cunguns of the sub-ifles called "THE DAWN
Mojave Desert by his beautiful mf faithless wife (Rhonda Following "IVANHOE" at the Fleming) and her secret lover Capitol and her M
have William
WAR APACHE Lunchigan).
SMOKE." Strangely it combines two in-
OF CHINA'S REVOLUTION, but I haven't seen It. How- ever, it is to be followed by a
alm we've all been waiting for It gives a wonderful opportun-
THE CRUEL SEA," un Faly, to Robert Ryan, because gredients from other lins that f
Studios
of during half de fim the Techni have reviewed today. Gilbert production Monserrat's best colour esenora! Cho focurre Roland and the Mojave Desert,
dimly onto him alone as he Roland plays an amiable but splints his broken leg are makes formidable lus derseat down a mountainside
ing Nicholas seller.
bandito whose As you would expect, this is
situation saves the Kallantry a very expurgated edition, and fraught with menace,
when a group of people are what emerges is the stark story Rock
an Isolated desert slides, rattlesnakes, hum- besieged in of two ships and a handful of cry wolves, third and a wild fight station by horde of vengeful men during the War when the stared in a burning cabin-this Apache Indians. He also saved Royal Navy hunted U-boats by nm, and Robert Ryan, has her the situation for nie by his the pack. These men are the all It will come as no surprise sense heroes, the heroines are
and ships
the villian Cruel Atlantic itself.
the
El
of humour.
Retribulion
is the to you to learn that this character comes to the villain, and, one
proves and improves himself with
his courage and entire supposes, a great deal of loot to the debonair but dangerous at and cemerges "quite a guy."
bandit.
Directed with authentic mosphere by Charles Frend
it
maintains
Rhordia Fleming is very lovely
(the THELI responsible for and a very adequate actress. It's The LEE and PRINCESS are "SCOTT OF THE ANTARC strange to note that, although she showing a Japanese Alm, but TIC." this film telescopes all is co-starred with Ryan, they one that is directed by Josef the
epic nvents of the won't ences until the very end. von Sternberg. The narration book, but
This really is an unusual is. in English and the film was thriller, and if you can stand all exhibited at the Venice Festival. the agony you should find it well All those who saw "RASHO- worth vinjl.
MON" will roolise that this is an Interesting event.
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RECEIVELER
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"LABURNUM GROVE"
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8.30 P.M. THURSDAY OCT. 22 FRIDAY OCT. 23. SATURDAY OCT. 24
MISSIONS TO SEAMEN BOOKING: SKINNERS.
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At the EMPIRE AND GREAT WORLD
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WILD
true
"THE SAGA OF ANATAIIAN" STALLION," and although I is fiction based on the have not been able to oco this fact that several Japanese men nim
I should think that it and one woman were marooned would be Ideal for
on the South Pacific Island of older on children.
Anatahon during and atter the It is to be followed by a film war for seven years. Von called "LAST TRAIN TO Stemberg decided that the true BOMBAY." If your taste is for story was merely sordid and has "mysteries" set in the East, added some fun and games of here is your chance. It has all his own. He has succeeded in film the ingredients. Club feet, producing an arty-crafly heroes wrongly accused of mur of unparalleled boredom. It has
the oll
freshness der, will-the-train-run-into-the lost bomb, sinister characters run "RASHO-MON" and I scams a ning around in turbans, and pity that they look the trouble burnt cork, muttering into their to import the man to do it,
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"THE DAWN OF CHINA'S.. REVOLUTION"
XX
A Chinese Picture WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
QUEEN'S:-
- 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW Extra Performance At 11.30 a.m.
LEE-PRINCESS
DAILY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M..
* TO-DAY ☆
1953 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL CONTENDER DAIWA PRODUCTIONS, INC. of JAPAN
And
JOSEF VON STERNBERG
present.
THE SAGA
OF
AMATAHAN
Written, Photodimpled and Dineled by
JOSEF VON STERNBERO
NARRATION IN ENGLISH
BY POPULAR REQUEST, Morning Show To-morrow at LEE THEATRE At 11.30 a.m. — At Reduced Pricas!-
“THE STOLEN PLANS ”
(A Children's Film Foundation Production)
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EXTRA MORNING SHOW
:
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AT REDUCED PRICES
Parisian Grill
presents
PAT KAY and BETTY ANKERS
from
“96" RESTAURANT, PICCADILLY,
London's most famous cabaret act.
Ring 27880 for - rasarvations,
GREAT WORLD THEATRE
MORNING SHOW TO-DAY AT 12.30 P.M.
"THE STOLEN PLANS"
(A Children's Film Foundation Production) Released through: J. "Arthur Rank Distributors
A film of great educational value. Recommended for all, children by loading teachers in Britain.
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