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SUNDAY MORNING

KINGS

11.30 A.M.

20th Century-Fox Presatite JAMES STEWART JEFF CHANDLER in “BROKEN ARROW"

In Technicolor

At Reduced Prices: $1,00 & $1.50

KINGS PRINCESS EMPIRE

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At 2.30, 5.30,

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1954.

FILMS

Looking at the cinema

fare for the next week or

Bo I'm struck with the un-

CURRENT AND COMING

By JANE ROBERTS

re urh th. Rome.

usual variety of the dishes. fnt Joanne Gilbert, but as Rome who toss a coln each into So often we find a spate of atways, too little is better than westerns on the night we too much. feel like seeing a show or nothing but sticky love dramas with overy move telegraphed ten minuten be fore it happens.

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THRILLING ADVENTURE STORY

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M-G-M'S FIRST PRODUCTION IN

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Knights of Round Table

STARRING

in COLOR magnificence!

ROBERT TAYLOR-AYA GARDNER-MEL FERRER

OVERTURE:

"MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR" Presented by M-G-M-'s Symphony Orchestra

HOOVER

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TEL 22371.

NOW SHOWING

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

from the Honky Tonks to the penthousas the crops, the hoods, the killars: come out to war with the city!

between

choose

two widely different musicals, Intelligently produced French film with an histori- cal background, a western. an American football pie- ture and a crime thriller,

One of the musicals is at the KING'S, EMPIRE and PRINCESS "RED GAR TERS". These three houses separate for the mid-week change and come back to gether again with "THE LOST TREASURE OF THE AMAZON".

acquire three

perhaps

One either, likes o. in Irritated by Pat Crowley, so na 1 fall into the latter category, R's not fair dunh to comment on her, except to actrit (grudgingly) that she "RED exhibits more chann lu

than she did in GARTERS" "FOREVER FEMALE

come

Axtures in imodern physics Jaboratories.". .11 you amateur physicists, It's nil Join

we'tu

13 BELT and the scriptwriters

the Trevi Fountain. This is

Bong, bang, bang and ensure that supposed to

they off again on yet another ennler They also into the wild west. In this case boy frens our excursion is called UN

"boy" Chitton Wab's have brought not that a litle takin

tomous frontier marshal, Wyatt case.

maln clalm He is partnered with Dorothy Earp, whose McGuire, his secretary,

while fine probably rests on the fact the other two

Birla

Maggie that he was rather well played McNamara and Jean Peters, once by Henry Fondn.

and d a Prince

ppor snare

the the story goes to having Cum Daley in the ple- translator respectively.

But it's not for

aroused that this film hos

perudo

Billy Ringo George Montgomery to you. As is usual in this kind of situation, he Ands it difficult to hang up his Guns and turn his back on his old aquaintances, in spite of teminine encouragement Helen Westcott.

I couldn't to the point of

ture at all, but taken all round, musical 1 ked "RED GARTERS".

TRUE TO FORM

It would be easy to write oli LOST TREASURE OF THE AMAZON" ne another of those far fetched jungle romance in which not the lost out of place person is the glamorous girl.

"LOST TREASURE OF THE true to form, AMAZON" rung

because of but perhaps presence of the very photogenle

to the attractively ugly Fernando Lamas found it most enjoyable.

the

lot of interest. The main talk- ing point has been the splendid

al photography, laying

Venice beauty of Rome and before the audience.

From the technical point of view it's in DeLuxe colour, with

Stereo- 4-track High Fidelity

Cinema- phonte Sound-plus Scope.

As Д brash, chip

on tho shoulder

ruman, Tony Curtin would appear to be na ausent-

American college boy That he isn't testifies

Betwem these two pic. Rhonda Fleming or possibly due charm of this young man,

tures the PRINCESS have got a stage show, "FUNZA- "FIG POPPIN'" plus LEAVES FOR EVE"; the

Duryea KING'S. Dun

it "CHICAGO CALLING" and the EMPIRE will probably keep "RED GARTERS" for the whole week.

His isn't a very large part in

GUN BELT though that

reförmed deg.

MODERN SHREW

be, original

Had merely read the Press Book of "ALL AMERICAN"

Ron

from

3D,

"KISS ME KATE"". in follows the same story as the ing as it's possible for a screen play based on Shakespeare's OF THE TAMING to the SHREW". In the modern

within play version It's a play within a alm.

Оп the outside, as it were, I'd have been tempted 10 we have Cole Porter (played cover the film with a couple of by

Randell) who has show, helping lines telling you It was about written a new Americon football and that bis producer-cum-stor, Fred two girls called Lori Nelson and Graham (Howard Keel), with Mamie Van Doren had some the casting of It. how got mixed up in it too.

Conventional though the plot is, however, I'm glad to be able to say, after having seen it, that him as the led the actual football scenes (and the play they are

It's a pleasant Mitte im, that

sec

Khon Flemming comes to the Amazon country to marry the fance whan she hasn't

The relaxert, for a long time.

has hanged him from the steamy Jungle atmosphere

The man an knew back in California, how- she although

ever.

letters.

urc

Opening the packago a littlo more we find that the cast L meant to be A company of strolling players and-coming invagines

to the centre of the parcel. The QUEEN'S and planlation owner he's

putting 021 of have

his ALHAMBRA

being in པ་

THE TAMING OF THE "LUCRECE BORGIA", really he's become a drunken there are plenty of them)

the very exciting Indeed and that SH

SHREW The shrew and her loafer, chasing a will

Tony Curtis succeeds in making lamer are represented by about which I told you last wisp rumour of buried treasure

you like him even though he Kathryn Grayson and Howard week and have arranged as guarded

head-hunting goes through most by

of the film Keel-divorced, but still This their next big picture "DIAL South American Indians.

with that "other side of the love and trying to hide it from character is Richard Denning. M FOR MURDER".

Trucks" inferiority-superiority each other.

Van

AT RED RIVER" and then back to the big screen again with "THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN".

It's "ALL AMERICAN"

the

to be

spite

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DIRK BOGARDE MURIEL PAYLOW KENNETH MORE

DONALD SINDEN

COLOUR OF

her

complex.

in 16 "CARNIVAL STORY" the

of looking more local is postwar Germany before (blonded and streamlined

ethereal than I've ever 8£04, Munich and Frankfurt, specific-which is where it was

from her previous plumpness), Kathryn Grayson manages actually tuned. Anne Baxter and Steve Cochrun are the stars.

Infect just the right amount of He's

thoroughly bad type with asperity to her well modulated voice when she yells u her the fascination that so many of AND

tommer on the set "You

lousel" his kind apparently have for t

For much of the time, however the washed-up-from-nowhere for the

She doesn't know this when A brief rest from Cinema-

she pays her surprise visit to Scope at the ROXY and South Amerles though and as BROADWAY brings us R her letter has

reached never ་མ་ ber

there to booted and spurred

fance, he's not

Lands. her. Fernando meet Johnson in "THE SIEGE owner of trading post up the

to take ber river, agrees to passenger on his small boat to the village where bath he and

Banee are living-and

sort of girl that Anne Baxter her shrewishness is confined to

casting up her from here the trouble starts.

суса and portrays. A tough and vicious adven- While still under Cochran's shrugging her shoulders.

All in all though, she сод at the LEE and the GREAT Turer, played by Brian Rep. influence. Anne Baxter marrles

complicates the situation by high diver Lyle Bottger, thereby trusts well with the much less WORLD

week-end, being Interested both the

the providing the excuse for shots ladylike Ann Miller. Ann, who think 15 onc of the best elusive treasure and then, with possibly

of a dive from a 110-foot lower

dancers

of her type Ou the change in between, "CAR- wees the latter and Fernando

Fleming and the tensentas be- into a six-foot tank of water.

There's still n third man in screen, is so full of energy and It made me feel NIVAL STORY".

Lamas is more subtly conveyed Per fan American magazine bounce that thon is customary in Jungle

photographer, played by George exhausted just to watch her. adventure.

Nader. Not bad going for

Her number, "Too darn hot" girl looking for a way of escape in which she auditions for Cole Porter and Fred Graham, is the belleve Anne Baxter almost tastest bit of shimmying and succeeds In making her

tapping I've seen for years. sympathotle character.

this

one

IT1

Rhonda

HITCHCOCK'S LATEST

Chicago's gangsters rule at the HOOVER and will give way to the "MAGNET- IC MONSTER". Further nows of this comfortable

Alfred Hitchcork's "DIAL M theatre's programme is the FOR MURDER" has London as "GUN BELT” and a Chinese film will come after that.

its

the screen.

from her native

Germany.

green-

There are many other ex- reilent songs in Le show-one of the loveliest being the duct background. The "M" is

JUST A "SOURCE" by the two stars, “So in love". the first letter of the Maida

Keenan Wynn has shown that Vale telephone exchange-the

he can play almost any part, Kelly

There's very little che cub Shakespeare up to date district in which Grace

selence-cation there's

though he excels in comedy and the CAPITOL and and Ray Milland (as husband say about these

a most amusing scene in and wife) ilve.

ms without giving the whole LIBERTY'S bill

"KISS ME KATE" in which he after

"MAG- It's based on a succestui stage show away. The latest

and James Whitmore sing "KNIGHTS OF THE play, which indicates that the NETIC MONSTER" is at least

"Brush up your Shakespeare". TABLE", which interest

not a giant ant or a ROUND

concentrated

but As an example of the type of should tell you that it's the dialogue and detall rather thats garbed, bulb-eyed horror,

humour, here's a couple from film of that very successful on the broader lines of a pro- a "source."

party written specifically, for Being completely uninterest- 13-

ed in fence the fact that

"If your blonde won't respond play "KISS ME KATE”.

MAGNETIC when you flatter 'er Hitchcock has made the "Although "THE

MONSTER" Is

Tell a flctional yarn

her what You may remember that camera play its full part in this

Tony told some weeks ago I mentioned thriller though-focusing it on with the stress be suspense, its Cleopaterer"

background

scrupulously When

saw "KISS ME that "HELL'S HALF the door key which is such an acker

.leaves me some- KATE" I was rather Adgoted Important abject in Ray authenti ACRE" was due at the

bat uzumoved what

by the long waits that are part Mliland's plan for

murdering HOOVER, starring Wen- his wife; on the scissors which But as the press book as and parcel of most pictures in dell Corey. Those of you play a big part in trapping the surco me that. "The huge 3D, but I was assured by the distributor's representative that who admire this sensitive killer and on the vital telephone laboratory featured many of

the film's scenes is thoroughly these pauses would

be very notor may have been dis- which gives the film its name.

Music can either make up to date, and contains all of considerably reduced when the appointed that the film mar a aptae chiller in this him the remarkable gadgets that film was shown to the public, a wasn't shown well here's It was

and the bave in the last few years be point I was very glad to note. composed

is conducted by good news for you. He'll be orchestra

Tiomkin Dimitt

who here at the end of the month written

50 many buckground at the HOOVER in a Bri- themes for the

Ecreen. tish film with Margaret sounds safe to me, 13 do the Lockwood called "LAUGH. names of the stars (the two already mentioned plus Robert

has

This

ING ANNE". I saw the Cummings) and the director;

film in England last year but not having seen the picture, and enjoyed it I'll give I can only say that it possesses you more details about it all the ingredients for being a

gripping thriller. nearer its playing date.

"RED GARTERS" is billed sa on unusual musical and Il'i

"Only one man could turn the certainly that. It's presented in tide at Red River" says one of the manner of o stage produ: the captions in the trailer of tion with theatrical acti in "THE SIEGE AT RED RIVER"

stead of the conventional live and presumably, She's the

backgrounds and it's surprising stor, that man is our how effective this is.

ford Van Jo

His

A satirical musical- comedy

is Joanne seems qulio a complicated

poking fun at the "Code of the story of the Civil War in the West" and the poleer faced Slates with cowboys of "straight" western Union

people posing as sympathisers when

"RED GARTERS has in they're really true blue Con- Rheemary Clooney, Jack

egh, Guy Mitchell and

Car-

Pat federates and vice versa. Chief Yellow Hawk of the Shawnees

Crowicy.

Rosemary Clooney has

Triest attractive

screen per-

Is thrown in for good measure

l your heart's

this and one you can hiss at

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