KING')
10-MORROW
★ 5 SHOWS ★
““THE BIG HEAT”
EXTRA MORNING' SHOW AT 11.30 A.M.
*
KING'S · PRINCESS
HONG KONG
AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20
& 9.30 P.M.
KOWLOON
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30
& 9.30 P.M.
SHOWING TO-DAY
THE BIG HEAT
"I'm an ox-cop with a big beef against the guy who killed those four dames.
One lived long enough to
talk to me. He's one guy
A HARD COP
AND A
no girl's going to worry | SOFT DAME about again-ever!"
GLENN
GLORIA
JOCELYN
FORD GRAHAME BRANDO
FROM THE SENSATIONAL SATURDAY EVENIND.
POST SERIALT
Alexander Scouty Lee Marvin Jeanette Notan
Screen Play by SYDNEY BOEHM
Ben the SATURDAY EVENING POST seriet by Witam P. McGavara Medové by ROBERT ARTHUR - Owaclad by FRITZ LAND A COLUMBIA, PICTURE
PRINCESS
TO-MORROW
AT 11.15 a.m.
EXTRA MORNING SHOW
NEW TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS, POPEYE, PUPPETOON Etc.
From Paramount
AT REDUCED PRICES
CAPITOL
LIBERTY
Tei. 13315 THE HOPa or Metro-Godayilayor PICTUREE
CAPITOL TOWN BOOKING OFFICE:
Tel: 60333
Wing Hong Firm, long Korg Hotel, Queen's Road, C,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1954.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
I'LL JUMP DOWN 13.
THE GROUND, AND HAVE A LOOK AROUND THIS LITTLE ASTEROID-
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
HE JUMPS BUT BECAUSE. OF THE LAWY KAAVITY OF THE TINY VRTEROY
NES OUT INTO SPACIT
FILMS-CURRENT
It has always been my ambition to bring you 14 comprehensive view of Q112* present and future films in the colony-and to a cer- tain extent I do. But this is not always entirely possible.
For instance, when I was
+
AND COMING
By MARGARET BRUCE
she
the Charonne and Belleville dis- tricts of Paris, Mixing in the
"Apacher' of the world brought tragedy and death to those who lovest her.
Jheques Booker, in collabora
Distributors to cir- American culate his somewhat blousy pic-
tures.
ONE WOMAN'S CONFESS- ION" stars, together with Hong himmell, a blonde metress called Cleo Moore. The word 'actress
in this sense may prove
collecting my information on tion with J. Compancez, wrote susing to many, i would be
week,
film schedules last two films were not mention- ed to me by their manage ments.
THOU.
the script for "GOLDEN MARIE" based freely on this true story. Simone Signoret the character tato throws startling roller.
A luxuriant head of blonde hair, with the ample skirts and shawls of the perfod, gives her an entirely new silhouette,
#1
Pearl Buck's story
hus tremendous Impact and pathos and these have been translated to the screen in essence. When I rat saw this picture I found hunting and powerful and captured with a realistically
Having "atmosphere." even this fringe of the Orient naw I em no longer quite so convinced, and i think it risks ridicule from the Chinese to bring
Hollywood's version
scen
of
more precise to say "you the revolution and its back-
1 wo
B
be
woman who appears, profess- ionally, on the streco" and there is a world of difference between
this ninction fullting
"acting." This is n They were "A
singularly amateur performance. SAND AND ONE NIGHTS"
actually
The story falls sudly between with Evelyn Keyes an
stools We set off to Cornel Wilde and "THY
appalled by a tale of degradu- As Marie Cosque d'Or"
Qoa
circum- NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE,"
the heroir's fur errated a type of vamp that
stances at the opening of the Ilugo nas production,
will not be carily forgotten. Nor
the Almore so cotid that what- wall the distasteful end of
chose would the alm for
Ghe's
path she over The FORMON
escane cardly from
អ៊រ ។ been memory. It h. to often painful be understandable Becrecy
has by noW
worke 1 trad! rather grubby made painfully obvious and, is apparent that the French are
in a stocking front ofe, she rubs the pro- as they have finished their len geed at realism.
prittor who is reputed to have runs at the big cinemas. I
ebeated her father of everything think it is best to let them
he owned. both rest.
"A THOUSAND NIGHTS"
AND
ONE has been superseded at the LEE and GREAT WORLD by "ALL I DESIRE. Barbara Stanwyck scores a great drama- little the triumph in this nasty story of the attempts made by faithless wife nut mother edge her way back to the pro- tection of the family she fert when it sulted her.
Lo
Filmgoers have learnt to ac- rept this situation quite urbane- ly but quirrel with the tempts made in this particular
im to laugh off the gulf,
sider
is surely so much better to free up to a situation and for- give it if prssible, I did not con- the meandering wife's elder daughter, us played by Marela Henderson, u sufficient penance, however,
"DERBY DAY"
A British picture made by Herbert Wilcox will follow at the LEE and GREAT WORLD next, called "DERBY DAY." I has a formidable list of stars to Its credil Anna Neagle, Googic
McCallum and Gordon Harker.
ond
I
TWO ARE COWHANDS THREE YOUNG TEXANS" will follow at the ROXY
very shortly; BROADWAY cannot say exactly when. Apart from Harold Lipster's excellent photography of the Colorado scenery around Durango and the wide retenses of valley border- ing the Rio Grande river. picture seems to me to be one of the most irritating Westerns produced in a long Ume.
this
These three unattractive young people lived in Texas in 1870; one is a rancher's daugh- ter, the other two Le young cowhands.
Mitzi Gaynor has deserted the dance and long silk tights for bool and saddle. It is the denco's gain, In the story, the two young cowhands, played by Keefe Hunter, Brasselle
and Jeffrey drive cattle rustlers away from the
aren't runch when they vleing for the favours of the resomely vivacious Miss Gay-
HOT.
The story is so involved that it is difficult to follow which of the young men is likely to turn out to be the hero.
waitress
water
before
ground nid wave their eyes. In this I may be
wrong.
"DILAGON SEED" is to bo followed by "CRY OF THE HUNTED," starring Vittorio Gassman and Barry Sullivan. Another saga of violence, located in the
it swampe, secins to me to be one vast mud-pack with two faltered and battered about men thrushing endlessly To it. And an alligator! I often wonder whether all flm com- pants have access to a library of such stand-by pictures RS this good old one of a crocodile slipping silently into the slush confesses of a tropical river. To me tho sentence.
hunted orled in vain!
'A' IS FOR AVA
Very soon we pre to see a pleture whileh I am sure most people have been looking for- worst to. 'A' is for Afrion—oko for Ava--two of nature's grotest achievements, And "greatest" in fome obscure Longur is "MOCAMBO," already booked into
CAPITOL
and LIBERTY.
The filmsy upon which all the voluptuousness is built duals with the affairs (one
might an E to make almost add Affaires) of one of those obscure figures, the Big Game Hunter who arts as a guide to Innocents on safari.
Donak Sindon und Girnce Kelly
She hides the loot, and accepts her gaol and we confidently expect interesting aspect of the seamier side of the downward
Pulli when she gels out. But that la before the pure light shining in her eyes has become noticeable. She proves herself to be a girl of solid worth-and is allowed out on parole.
WISELY LEAVES IT She wisely leaves her loot to
with begin
A new and gets
in another sweater and a jub cafe, rua, this time, by Hugo Haus, the too tiresome, but this thing telis Haas kund, little where her money is hidden that he can redeem his gam- bling debts.
sha
The
Bre
the anthropologists; he is after Big Game and she, to all appearances, is after ani entirely different type of game- with Hunter Clark Gable.
he
Mr Sindon tries to retain an
When he cannot find i thinks he is lying and eventually hits him over the head with a bottle. Now she goes to check and finds that the money is it 10 а there after all-gives
Mr Charity and bears that Hans merely had concussion. air of well-bred rednement, but A fisherman has been dragged is fighting a losing battle against every in somewhere during all this, in most of the time order to provide a happy end-
known discomfort, danger and ing, which we get on a nice emotional crisis.
There is also some
rently
here is jungle, not just a locale suggested by a tree, a vine and a tame llon.
OWING TO THE LENGTH OF PICTURE Withers, Michael Wilding, John wards the end, however, when ing out to catch fish, and any wonderful animal photography;
PLEASE NOTE
CHANGE OF SHOW TIMES
Daily at 2.00, 4.30, 7.00 & 9.30 p.m. M-G-M'S BIGGEST TRIUMPH
The GREATEST CHINESE adventure ever filmed, it tops "GOOD EARTH"! BATTLE of the GUERILLA FIGHTERS
EXCITEMENT that will
leave you BREATHLESS!!
DRAGON!
SEED
sting KATHARINE HEPBURN-WALTER HUSTON
Based on the Novel by PEARL S. BUCK
SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.00 NOON
Esther Williams
In
PAGAN LOVE SONGY
AT REDUCED PRICES: $1.50, $1.00
SHOWING TO-DAY
STAR
Phony 58715
It has not been possible to see a review of this film, but I can tell you quite a bit about it; the most vital thing being to hurry ulong if you want to see il be cause you know how transitory these things can be unless the racing aspeel will attract..
Certainly recommend it to all the local race fans who have not seen an English race meet- ing, and particularly the Derby, us a comparison that they should finkt both interesting and umusing.
Because, although the human dramas of a half dozen of the racegoers are the princ
It's all made quite clear to-
one of them is killed--being a Western it's bound to be the right one--and we can relax.
of
day with the blonde sail-
thing else she can, in a new summer outst.
What could be nteer? Es of the pecially as it is the end Alm.
MORE TOUCHING Shortly, the KING'S, PRIN-
he
But it all serves only as a setting for beguiling, beautiful, bewitching Miss Gardner, Sho couldn't be more out element, poor girl, than as Honey Bear,
dream a sartorial
who
of her
However, during the run the picture there is so much gambling, robbery with violence, double crossing, misunderstand- ing, kidnapping and mistaken identity that everybody in It was left branded on my mind CESS and EMPIRE are going hangs around the jungle sing- us a double-dyed villain.
to show "STALAG 17" pri ing Comin' through the Rye. soner-of-war camp picture of "UNDER THE 12 MILE
an entirely new variety. Be- REEF" will, I think, be the next
causo this one is n comody, I Cinemascope picture shown at find it far more touching to see these cinemas, No subject could the prisoners bravely making be better chosen for this the best of things than harp- medium,
ing on their grim fate, though we have yet to see how it handled in this particular In stance,
NO "TEAM"
motif "THE BIG HEAT" seems to it seems that enough attention be proving a great attraction has been paid to the actual at the KING'S and PRINCESS. sport to make it a nostalgie ex- This is not surprising because it perlence for those of u who is a most impressive production know and love the Course. even though it is startling and
horrific.
ia
Avn and what But take away have you got? A lot of highly entertaining nonsense--and, of course, Africa.
WEEK-END CHOICE
"CALAMITY JANE" would be my choice of programme It I were going to the pictures this I recommendi it week-end.
SHOWING TO-DAY ★
Wide Happiest Hit!
Warner Bros. High
DORIS DAY
AND
HOWARD KEEL
Calamity Jane
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QUEEN'S:- Extra Performance At 11.30 a.m.
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SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THE NAME THEY CALLED,,
HER IN WHISPERS...
NOW WAS TRUE!
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At 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
"THE
AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20
9.30 P.M.
MAZE will amaze you!
CMPIRE
PRICHARD CARLSON » VERONICA MURST
OF
ADDED ATTRACTION
Before this film, however, the EMPIRE will be presenting unreservedly if you like to be "THE MAZE." This picture was cheered by what you see, I hope
3-D it runs + long
time. originally intended as a
But thenMen 1 have been shocker. It is being shown now in the flat version and though promised the "MASTER
this will be gentler on the BALLANTRAE." I have, I only story. I disagree with the ad- that it will lose
I have already told you the nerves, I cannot help feeling dare whisper this in case; but we Aim for the a great deal.
cah hope. Here is vertisement which invites us to Because in its fantastically far- young of all ages. A picture of 2 thrill
to the new fcom of fetched and suspenseful
way, colour, action and romance that Glenn Ford as the hard cop and this is a classle.
can excite and thrill and pledge. The action takes place on Gloria Grahame as the soft
@ Don't see it to get logic; see it dame; in fact it belies the very fabulous Riviera estate, In a to relax and enjoy yourself. strength of this drama,
small Mediterranean hotel,
Which is also true of Doris Day's the Scottish moors and in the "CALAMITY JANE," There is no "team" ng have come
we vast halls and grim rooms and to understand word.
the dank garden of an ancient Scot- The two characters are tish castle. drawn together by appalling I have been asked not to
EDDIE CANTOR circumstances and A mutual
tal divulge the plot and I agree that STORY" is coming along very At the other end of the scale but Glenn Ford's wife having effect. If you like your spine ALHAMBRA after the last two danger and desire for revenge; oven a hint would ruin the soon to the QUEEN'S AND John McCallum and Google been killed, there is no more chilled,
don't miss
SUV다.
The personalities involved cut right across all grades of society: with their problems cleverly
and interwoven presented the plot. Anna Neagle is n Mayfair widow and is paired of with the
Michael Wilding as a well-known car- toonist. Suzanne Cloutier as pretty little housemaid finds her "Derby Luck" as a companion for the day to the elegant film star with the Narcissus com- plex, played by Peter Graves.
"THE
Withers aro desperately for A chance to which adds to the stack escape the police sentence that that marks the picture, Carlson (also in "ALL I DE.
SIRE") and the lovely and
lovers gambling #love angle" to the story, a fact MAZE." The stars are 465 fims I have mentioned.
is due to overtake them. Gordon Harker is the garrulous, cheer-
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 G. 9.30 P.M.
IT'S MORE ALLURING, GLAMOROUS, DARING, SCINTILLATING THAN CAROLINE CHERIE'
Caroline's Fancy
** MARTINE CAROL
In Lavish Technicolor :• Relaatad Thru Pithe: Överians.
I must repent myself here- talented British actress, Veronies
the cinema while this film. is Hollywood. showing?
ful owner-driver of a 1920- on no account take a child into Hurst, who is our latest loss to interesting aims in the making. vintage taxi, and this, I must sec!
As you will have realisexi thero is something for every- body in this picture, bound to gother by the thrilling back cloth of the Sport of Kings.
NEIGHBOUR'S WIFE
The KING'S and ALHAMBRA seem to be having quilen run on the squalid type of movie be- cause they cfiamgo from ""THE BIG HEAT! to "ÕNE WOMAN'S. CONFESSION."
Betty
Mr Giovanni, will pick pockets plons on the stage to consolidate the ceric effect of the programme. A magician with a difference. he should provo a great sweet.
Columbia Have Somc very
Grable joins the cham- for in Cinemascope "PLEASURES ALL MINE" while Danny Kaye in going in do THE MAURICE CHEVALIER STORY". Can no ono write Action
for the screen there days? VERY OLD ONE
I like the Boun of Judy
don't Holly's "PHEFT Hongkong's home of MGM Though
Kra Stanley films, the CAPITOL and "CAINE MUTINY und THY NEIGHBOUR'S WIFT" " Liko PTHY:- NEIGHBOUR'S: is making way at the ROXY WIFE" this is a Hugo Huas pro- LIBERTY," have a very old the "PICNIC with Burt Lancaster this weck-regrettably will, cunoodvably, be better and BROADWAY for a French duction and starring vehicle. It on
dmcult flim "CASQUE D'OR" or, if la
you
to understand why fashionable! "DRAGON SEED
Tho Bibia is going to fakto must "GOLDEN MARIE this phenomenon pours so frostars Kathryn Hepburn in the
day's when she was rather more anotiser
khock 100, with Simone Signoret, who has ofter quently
Hang Lo played the unhappy. and cruel
a Czochoslovak preoccupied by lamour than "TOBEPIE-HO NANDI, HIS lover, has in "GOLDEN MARIE" who coped to the United the cable hohe BRETHREN/In Cinemascore. the role of a vamp" of 1900. ne e refused he de uial Impeccable performance properly scripted and presented when tile colitry was gives us now. Walter Huston's If only Biblical stories could be
"whatsa' "CASQUE D'OR" is, in fact, serves our sympathy rid he is also hidden in this case be a without adornment," the soubriquet, of a celebrated has certainly achieved A | Erent patrician, oriental inaku up, wonderful" tikrar (A4 would be. beauty of the period whow ads ›dest in retaining his individuals whicharonensis hie, festaria and Becha parthayday will onenet Venlaude, wore the mention of ily in Hollywood; and Jnduring his emotiona., Jerslelavably, plus, hapa. Abl
fline.
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At 2.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. shows only
AS USUAL PRICES
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CASTING MEETING
"COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS'
THURSDAY, 4th MARKE
8 pm.
There will be a preliminary reading of the play on Tuesday, 2nd March at 8 pm. MISSIONS TO SEAMEN,
Gloucester Road,
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