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SUNDAY
MORNING
KING'S
A. Arthur Rank Presentation
STEWART CRANGER in
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
FRANCO LONDON FILM presents
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1954.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
RIVE
PLEASE YOU, CARMA,
SHE DOESN'T
ÏO YOUR FLOWERS. NUTCAKE!
I MUST DEFEAT SEVERAL FIGHTERS BEFORE I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO FACE YOU,CHAMP, I'LL LOOK FORWARD TO THATĮ
YOU LAUGHED AT ME ONCE WIEN YOUR BOY FRIEND HIT ME. YOU ARE STILL LAUGHING--
YOU RE A SKETCH!
WE SHALL SEB WHO LAUGHS LAST.
AT
h
11.30 a.m.
SINGE
“THE MAGIC BOW”
ADMISSION $1.00 G $1.50
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At 2.30, 5.00, At 2.30, 5.20.
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FINAL TO-DAY
LIVED, LOVED and
GREGORY
PECK
AUDREY
HEPBURN
FILMED IN ROMANIC ROMEI
- WILLIAM WYLER'S
PRODUCTION OF
ROMAN HOLIDAY
KING'S PRINCESS
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THE LAST
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AND SINFUL
NIGHTS OF
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SLAVESOF BABYLON
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Producy
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either possibly just
alpething over this wenic. let's look at their suc-
A
Fedlow "ROMAN thu
into
HOLIDAY" KING'S and PRINCESS there will be a Technicolour pretstream callest "SLAVES OF BABYLON". The 4 1.1 NS and ALHAMBRA Will be
"KEY Paving us
after LARG09"
PHOS MAJESTY O'KEEFE" and the CinemaScope pro-
aud dneten. at the ROXY
after "BE- BROADWAY
THE 12-MILE who have NEATH
of life. RELE Will 126 "HELL
way AND HIGH WATER”.
13. CAPITOL TANC LIBERTY Join the
By JANE ROBERTS
Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman in “GASLIGHT”.
no use for his way scientists one is Victor Francen It's the only Combiber bum from Continen- films PACCUSE" etc?} honestly tal They quite
and the other is fella Darvi. ES. 1 is getting het Best starring
"HELL AND
HIGH
perplex lum,
Fajita to argue with role them and one can almost admits WATER" and it remains to be which he tries to seen if this latest import from 14N and ALHAMBRA the way in
1ls Fraure
Ther worth temper, when
C.L.L in tonging back one of the much fie
Tal reaction would be a costs. relen wes of a few years back dot ROYONG who disagreed
Whether this arti "LASLIGHT" after with him.
rein on his natural - Jane tip. "MOGA MBO”
Hur will. charms succeed it will map is one of the ronartbuting factors to the overs
suspense.
the state Allyson at the 1.1 : the Glm being of "THE FRENCH
LINE".
V
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ANOTHER REVIVAL
Another revival is the Charles Eloyer-crid Bergmon pleture "GASLICHT Very much pre- Rossell, this Bergman, On the showing 2. "STROMBOLI which is the only Rasselint Then the characters. them dirveted picture Fre seen her
Every member
of the in. he doesn't seem to have done
NO STOCK REACTIONS
All this gives ample scope for introducing native dances, cus- tota and plenty of Tahitian scenery, It should be very love. ly and restful to watch.
INTRODUCES WISDOM
The other two films I want to tell you about will be following "SLÁVES OF BABYLON" and "KEY LARGO" respectively, To one, I was invited to a provlew and the other I've not Beer, They are "TROUBLE IN STORE" and "DAUGHTERS OF DESTINY".
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TROUBLE IN STORE" in- troduces to Hongkong audiences the new British comedian we've heard so much about, Normon Wisdom. I can't compare him with anyone that I can think of,
idea of to give you an
what brand of humour to expect,
But
can go to You TROUBLE IN STORE" secure
that in the knowledge
Your I telligence won't be strained. Slap- stick is his line-slapstick that
the doesn't quite descend to
of bad taste we've seen levels in some
alms; so-called funny but be prepared for kome old faithfuls in Norman Wisdom's
to re-
fucin!
repertoire, Ice cream down the fut fly's neck, failure cognize the new boss, etortions by the dozen--they're all there.
heard some people iterally screaming with laughter at the ones of the Three Stooges the other day, so there is 5111 city market for slapstick comedy
The EMPIRE they'll east is allowed
4 personally, a great deal more for her than apparently and it this is your Falseard Lowing a cloured pics with
Henson, she had simplished by hurt, you'll enjoy "TROUBLE
IN STORE Barymore and #tum self In "GASLIGHT”.
It's diffeult to criticise Norman the wild the romantic unine Led
phrey Bogati as the priorit As the wife, supposedly Wisdom's perforniance when I TANGATIKA".
adored by her husband, Charles Boyer, she so obviously, basks
1
SLAVES OF BABYLON"
Christion wears Trail atle knowu os "The Babylunion This to keep her sup- the fashion of the Nebuchadnezzar's the Pashmind give you the key to Fature, small pest though
may be.
tbree
There are no quickly roughed in types with stock reactions, In the confined space in which the setion of the picture takes
anything less
At tempt to give a complete pare orally to ench character would etmediately shown up.
don't share his brand of humour
act perhaps his
10-
docan't
in the light of his approval that spring from a personal love of You and yourself hanging on his fum. He works SO hartt for expression just as anxiously
Isubs that I'm prepared to she, hoping that he'll give het helleve that he's a morose mon the smile that's so vital to her. at heart.
When
It begins to become evident that he's trying to drive her insane by subtle suggestions that she's mad, she conveys her bewilderment and terror so well that it's like seeing a child hurt. An Every ounce of your sympathy in the fiery furture and the gangster's girl-friend.
contelbution to the
ine is with her. famous writing on the wail excellent
her. from picture
Lauren "GASLIGHT" may be a very iheal legumi.
Bacoil. vaguely
resembling the many times revived melodrama, Linda Conventional "nize girl" in most but is performance by Ingrid
plots. 11.
Mas much more to
Ta adelition to the three men-
the tioned, there's Claire Trevor as
1 bangs in the fall of Babylon. Danted in the Bom's den,
SARNAS
12.1
Rihatal Conle and
sian are the only two numes
I recoghue in the cast, while annng the credits I see that of Sam Katean as Prodtærer,
"KEY LARGO"
HOWLS AGAIN
her than appears on the surface. Charles Boyer 1 And then there's Thomas Gomez une of the best.
the ገና une of
Kangsters- thoroughly repulsive ant greasy tok at, but certainly not the top right hand man of most
ob pictures,
revival and very glad 1 am to see one of the better older pictures re- Thorning to show up sote of the up-to-date failures 1% dos - I SAW "KEY LARGO" quite
three dent on
thing action,
a long time ago, but it's stood +Six * 1* * uci
dominant the test for me by three
very clear in my mind. Psonalities.
The action is supplied by the force of the hurricane howling!
and
battering at the floors of
The
Aimsy Hitle fotel, inside
The purity leagues growled #1 Jone Russell in "THE
hints that
have
Sa
Lana Morris, on the other hand, though no beauty, has a basic ebullience. She seems lo be a tremendously good natured girl-next-door type. When she alls for Norman Wisdom one feels that
wart- her simple heartedness is being taken advantage of by a self centred onf.
However, Maurice Cowan, the producer of "TROUBLE IN STORE," says "I think that Norman is the greatest comedy personality we have brought to ibe British screen.”
"I've said nothing so far about
OUTLAW" and from all the the wonderful comedy act put
on by Margaret Rutherford as carefully leaked out about "THE shoplifter.
The Now there is humour. FREN FRENCH LINE" I looks as
flitting remaining though these
expressions worthy people are subtle
the old deur's face as in howling across jining the wolves
the commandeers
shop that too. at her
Howard she
move the Hughes, her
to help her manager, must be staff mling smugly,
enormous amount of loot she's
aro to collect
CX- funny.
embarrassed was acutely
West Saloon, on it and its story is extremely when Wisdom made fun of the
we're scanty although
Hiven Children's Wild provocalive peek-a-boo shots of but perhaps I'm being over Jane Russell clad in those un- sensitive on the children's be mentionable garments.
"HELL AND HIGH WATER" adventure story about
on
which the atmosphere is as stil aples and atom explosions.
ruct tensO Da it outside,
115
urbulent
about "THE traged
Everybody xems to be acting extremely easily
FRENCH LINE". Information
Like "BENEATH THE 12-on and MILE REEF which it follows into the ROXY and BROAD- WAY, it goes in unpreviewed and It also appears to share
the same element with its pre- decessor, us 1 sec that must nf
its action takes place under publicity
water in a cubmarine.
of st
to
half
may
Here's what one little bit of To sum up, it all depends, Professor Joad would say, заув, "100 as beautiful giris were used on what you mean by humour, decorate the musical and fashion "TROUBLE IN STORE"
numbers. What with make you laugh, and
promises to be a
cartablish
A group of gangsters, led by Edward G. Robinson,
have chosen the hotel at Key Largo
hideout, dur Lo inaccessibility and the fact that it's the off season when nobody is expected to go there anyway.
It seems odd to have chosch how Russell starring, this ple- you on a lifelong Wisdom fon, when, ofler Suspense comes
the confining space of a
Jane sub- their
the
or you may feel ho's been over arrival.
hurricano marine to explalt CinemaScope, ture blown up and the gangsters are which is supposed to enlarge musicalulu!”
praised and that the founda really cut off and forced In everything.
Do you like "musicalulus"? tons of his act are firmly em-
in bedded in gand, Sounds like, something now their own upon
natures. It's hehightened by the ntutudo
TWO SAD EPISODES Richard Wilmark is an ex- the lollipop line to me.
submariner who us
Actually, from the press book Of the three episodes making towards them of the crippled wartime
OF DES "DAUGHTERS hotel proprietor (Llone! Barry-arked by a group of anti-Com- and various other sources, I've up inore), his daughter (Lauren munists to get together a crew
Information that TINY", gleaned the
two are sad, though Bacall) and nn adventurer and go chasing off after
munists operating in the lalands "THE FRENCH LINE" is mostly each represents a crisis in the (Humphrey Bogart).
story very fe of the heroine, which she of the Aretic. A point that spectacle, with the
surmounta and the third, up- Robinson, clever he is, doesn't seem quite clear to me much in the background.
Janc "Russell westy
by contrast, almost whether the
many pears hasn't allowed for the fact that i
different gowns on her trip comedy. these three refuse to ba sponsored by the U.S. Govern-
from Texas to Paris, dances, In the first, Claudette Colbert intimidated by him. He gives ment or not.
as ber leading goes to Italy after the war to sings and has mun Gubert Roland.
fuck the grave of her husband: To the dance
and the cos- She also Ands the peasant giri him and his tume in which she performs it, who befriended the reactions are again varied. BOʻL. The press book says "It'll knock BOTH your eyes out", so pre- sumably neither roly for their appeal on the subtle approach.
ns
Com-
venture Was
wonderful performance 09 In addition to the crew, Wid-
the gangster faced with peoplo mark has to take along
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“KHAZANA
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WELCOME REST
1
That strong actress, Michele Morgan, fentures in the second episode. She is Joan of Are. It is one of her moments of tiisillusionment and she feels that she has lost her faith. Tho peasants' belief in her restores Although an outdoor pleture, her courage and, though know- tram the sound, of 1, "TAN- ing that
and her capture GATIKA" should prove a wel- death will result, she leads her come rest from the violent side mon onward to Complegne, of nature. Though it contains Martine Carol in the third a hurricano, the majority of the episode uses her whics to fight
Her tactics picture shows abote of the love against war.
pro
ly tranquil island of Tahiti, very simple-she stirs up her The film is the result of a fellow Roman women to with- two-year stay
there
by an hold their smiles and embraces Amserlenn. cameraman
who from their anlle menfolk until speab most of his time in photos pence is declared. And the ruse graphy and the rest in weaving works their husbanda rue for an island-alory around the re- pease]. sults. Its
а pretentious We've been hearing about tola-a nativo girl and her loyer. WHE SWORD AND THE are saving up to get married, ROSE" for a very long time and caught in his boat by a at last it weens to be definitaly hurricane and is marooned for on horizons. It will be othe
haihin klagh him dead giling100 [-to: marry' someone.alay;"
DAUGHTERS OF
DESTINY
Dialogue in ENGLISH
Sect
MARSINE CARDI GLÁNDIZIN COLBERT
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