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BOGART JONES LOLLOBRIGIDA
JOHN
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FILMS -CURRENT AND
The LEE and GREAT WORLD are giving us ́an opportunity of seeing two Interesting pictures next woek, "Annapurna” and Walt Disney's "Prowlers of the Everglades". Over next week-end "Silver Løde" will bo on.and the current film is "War Arrow" which I told you about last week.
At the QUEEN'S and
there's ALHAMBRA
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French picture, "The Rebels of Lomanoch" and when it finishes they will be show- ing "Hamlet", with Laurence Olivier.
The KING'S, PRINCESS and EMPIRE have already "Beat The Devil" started and the next change at the KING'S And PRINCESS will be "The Kidnappers". This is a British picture and It will be followed by Danny Kaye's supremely funny "Knock on Wood".
If "Quo Vadis" continues ita success at the CAPITOL and LIBERTY we may not see the re-issue of "Green Dolphin Street" Ra management will go straight on with "Rose Marie".
DI
the
"The
By JANE ROBERTS
Gina Lollobrigida in “Beat The Devil."
tobels
COMING
the
The stars of The Kidnapporg" pparently ure two children aged 5 and 8,
I say "apparently" na I haven't yet seen the picture, but it received excellent notices from most of the London newspapers, chiefly for the acting of these two boys. They are the kid- nuppers of the title.
in
Sent to their stern grandfather Nova Bootla when their father illed in the Boer War, they tre denied any of tho normal pleasures of childhood, such as toys or a pet dog. Consequently live baby in when they' nad o the wood they decide to kidnap It and keep it an
as a pet,
Let me hasten to add, before bo WOITY about the you start
fate of the three children, that all ends happily, with the grand- father realising that It's his haritsa that's been to blame for
showing
overything, and signs of a much
more human attitude towards everyone.
Duncan Macrae is the old than, Adrienne Carr is his rebellious
granddaughter ond
the two
little boys are Jon Whitelty and Vincent Winter.
ELEPHANTS GALORE
India is
the background of "Sabaka" and from the pictures I've reen of it, it looken as colour- ful as the continent itack,
It Was filmed in southern Iralia
features 18-year-old Nino Marcel as Gunga Ram, á his young elephant trainer. His sister of Lomanoch" ventional Englishman and
tuve boen her husband
at the orders of the tells the and story of two lovers talkative wife and four double killed
villains. All Arc aftet leaders of a a religious
fire sect. caught in the web of the light- dyed
known
Sabaka, ភ្លេង
and Gunga ing between the republicans and urantum.
Enlarging the portraits how Ram has sworn vengeance,
that our KON
adven- ever, we
There are elephants galore In Sabaka resplendent with trap- turer-hero, far from being
(this in pings of red and gold fearless fellow we pleiure, is in really at the beck and call of
Another Technicolour produc- the four bad boys.
tion), wild animal fights, mushed 10 dancers and dazzling seems b the only word to describe it. the featured east I three names we all know-sea- soned players all-Boris Karloff, Victor Jory and Reginald Denny
This
writer producer, director
are one man-Franit Ferrin, an ex-radio comment- alor and this is his first excur- sun into Alm making.
Wek
whe
to
At the HOOVER, “Johnny Guitar" is doing well and when it finally completes its
aristocrats of France in 1799. ran, Sabaku" will be shown
She 15 Monique, younger "Make daughter
<>[ there, followed by
the Marquis of Lomanoch, one of the last islands Haste To Live”.
20th Century Fox Cinema- of resistance against the revolu- tionaries; he is Barnaud, a young the
"He's the contact man in the continues Scope
revolutionary general, renowned ROXY
shudy uranium deal the loca- and BROADWAY for his hardness.
!1 Urati e death of Latour. tion of the ore being somewhere with "Demetrius the Gladt-
in East Africa, tor" following "Garden of young refugee aristocrat
killed while rescuing His wife is the opposite all Evil".
Monique from the danger t
we imagine her ambition is to terribly English tells "Annapurna"
the capture by the enemy, she had be terribly, d by been a sweet young girl. Sud- (although she's never been there courageous expedition
grew Maurice Herzog in 1951 on the denly, overnight, she
she feels it's her spiritual home) and serve lea and erumpets in a womanhood and the war, which Himalayan pouk Annapurna
The print
is in Techniculour hadn't penetrated her young most genteel manner every day
to her friends. and the photographs were taken mind very deeply before, becure by one of the nine men who a very real thing.
01 the expediters.
Barnaud is actually the son of some Lachenal--reached the but had been dismissed summit.
time before the action of the A iner handful of
the earth's story begins. He'd been in love more than 8,000 with Montque's flirtatious elder metres (24,247 feet in height sister Henriette. Very bitter, he and in the spring of 1950 nose dreams of revenging himself on of them had been conquered the Lomanoch house and is given The French expedition led by command of the attack on this. Herzog attacked Annapure in the last stronghnid to hold out 1051 and although, as he tells m against the revolutionaries.
Meanwhile, Monique has gone his narration which accompanies the picture, it was successfut, it behind the enemy lines to try to their abotat information Kel plans, not knowing that a ser- vant in the Lomanoch household
Comprised
Uxec nine, only two--Herzog one of the Lomunoch servants,
nd
mountains are
was at the cost of several of his
which had fingers
10 be am-
WBO
with
Journey
descends from the
“Antapurna"
heights
of
her.
only
the Himalayns (ɑ the sea 41 To read the story of "Beat
grass and cypress known is the Everglades
The Devil" you'd think it was From the mainland of North the usual type of adventure America, the Florida peninsula film--perhaps & ittle more for stretches 400 miles south and at fetched than most but with all lle the the stock characters and situa- square miles tions,
Jennifer Jones, with a rather odd "English" accent. 1 not nearly as dull a girl as one would be. To start off take her to with, she says she's fey. This teyness allows her to tell the must awful whoppers about her- self with an air of complete con- viction.
She does this very well, in- cidentally-convincing you that she really believes the story of
without the moment
the coy glances stars usually give when they're fullowing this routine.
villains
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NEARER HOME
BDW
and
And now for some news of lm making a bit nearer home- right here in Hongkong in fact.
Shooting is going on just now all scenes for Ealing Studio's picture "The Night My Number Came Up".
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I film subject out of the ordinary, based on a true story more fantastic than anything in the realm of fiction.
Introducing A Lovely
New Discovery
DIANNE FOSTER
"DRIVE A CROOKED. ROAD"
To-morrow at the QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
220, 3.15, 7.30 & 939 p..
THE
220, 5.38, 7.36 a 9.00 19.06.
TO-DAY ONLY
REBELS OF
LOMANACH
coke y EASTMANCOLOR DANY ROBIN AMEDEO NAZZĂRI
WITH ENBLISH SUBTITLES Distributed by United Prênck Tilms Litd.
OPENING TO-MORROW QUEEN'S. 5 SHOWS
COLUMBA PIČJunts perikme
DRIVE A CROOKED
ROAD
Hig
Mickey ROONEY Dianne FOSTER
ALHAMBRA: 4 SHOWS
· He's a
little
Ruy
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all
heart!
#315******** ALHAMBRA »............................... TO-MORROW MORNING AT 11.30 A.M. Columbia's
VARIETY PROGRAM
3 Stooges Comedies. -- Color Cartoons! REDUCED PRICES: $1.50, $1.00 & 70c.
( rather unwieldy FIRST TIME SHOWING IN HONGKONG!
The Michael Bulcon produc- [lou, "The Night My Number Came Up" tille I think), is adapted from a Marshal story written by Air
Goddatd
rc- Victor Sir
VIL D markable experience he had in the Far East after the wor.
He describes how on the eve WRS of a fight to Tokyo ho warned by a naval officer of a series of events connected with the trip which the officer had con most vividly in a dream. but The warning was ignored
dotall predloted in the every dream came true; every detali that is, but one!
And then she throws herself at Humphrey Bogart in a most To be sure, unladylike manner. putated because of frostbile.
there has betrayed her to Barnaud. Lollobrigida falls for Jennifer's Although the
husband (Edward Underdown) sas dogged was
by minor troubles She is caught, but Barnaud now
of the native discovers that his thoughts of but not unul much later-and much as a strike
revenge against the elder sistor
only because he's so English-so porters,
nothing to the Journey back. it was during the have turned to feelings of love Jennifer basn't much excuse.
He, by the way, is the greatest return trip that Heran suffered for the younger, and he saves
fraud of the lot-but that's the dremitul frostbite.
The two lovers, however. As giving away too much. Showing
The group of in many French Blins, are not is another outdoor documentary allowed a long period of happi- terrthly funny-although perhaps better terrifying would be "Prowler of the Evergladen" is also in Technicolour, but ness and eventually are
adjective. While they're being united in death.
AFTER URANIUM ·
After the background material amusing they're also cold blooded Killers and the combination of has been collected here, further the two la most sinister, Robert location work will be carried out at an aerodrome in England Morley is especially effective
studio shooting com* his ebullience a perfect foil for before Peter Lorre's dreary possimism. mences towards the end of this
There's a lovely scene in month.
Hum- which Robert Morley,
Playing the leading role of tho phrey Bogart and a fierce tuxi
Air Marshal is the Bristol-bom has In case you've read the story driver take part. Bogart
for him, sulli- somewhere, let me at once dis- bought the taxi for the driver star Michael Redgrave. This is
promotion to shake all possess your mind of this idea. in the first place, but when, prom The Sea Shall Not Have elently to be able
the To the mysterious fascination
start with, there's the after a hilarious stop and start
Them" ho was only an Air name "Everglades" has for me, dialogue. Perhaps it's gone a ride the taxi disappears over the One
gots disillusioned about a triile overboard in some places cliff side, the driver demanis Commodore.
With him is Richard Atten- great many things, but the feet in order to appear clever and compensation from him.
borough as a Squadron Leader "Desi the Devil” is full but it's certainly ing of timelessness conveyed in significant,
like and Alexander Knox. situations treo frorn most Thurberesque that, unusual and from all I've read about these of the customary cliches. that and althoughs we're left borough needs no introduction,
but It Then there are the characters very much in the air at the end Alexander Knox to mind if i might help in calling gloomy swamplands, is na real
of the picture, it's quite con- in thla modern age as it was themselves.
The brief outline of the story alstent with the whimsical remind you that he played the centuries ago.
part of Président Wilm in the There arc no poople in merely gives you an adventurer quality of the film in general.
Much of the action takes dilm
of that name, some year "Prowlers of the Everglades". horo, (Bogart) his
back town on tho just birds, beasts, Ash and the sultry plece, played by Gina place in a lovely
mountainside in southern Italy everlasting Everglades.
Lollobrigida, a mysterious con
and the photography is wonders fal. John Huston directed.
its farthest
Everglades 3,000
of primitive swamp. I've never grown
the name is something
**wife'
ROXY & BROADWAY
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Gary COOPER Susan HAYWARD Richard WIDMARK CINEMARCOPE GARDEN OF EVIL
ADDED ATTRACTION: CinemaScope' Short Subject
"FAREWELL SYMPHONY” in Teshaies TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW At 12.00 Nooh
ROXY
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SELECTED PROGRAMME | A 'SPECIAL" PROGRAMME
OF TECHNICOLOR
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Morning Show LEE
To-morrow at the
AT 12.00 NOON,
“CLUE OF THE MISSING APE"
ALSO:enture, "MARDI AND THE MONKEY" (A Children's Film Foundation production) Released through J. Arthur Bank Organisation A film of great educational value. Recommended for all children by leading teachers in Britain. At Reduced Pricos: $1.50 & $1.00 Tax incl.
'LEE · GREAT WORLD'
DAILY AT 2:30, 5.30, 7.30 G..
9:30 P.M.
SHOWING TO-DAY
The Story of THE GREAT Atten-
KIOWA INDIAN REBELLION!
Also in the cast are Sheila Bim (seen here recently in West Of Zakibar) and Denholm Elliott.
FINAL TO-DAY AT 2.30; 5.80, 7:30 $9.50.P.M.
Olivier Jones
AVELIAM WILDES
Carrie
MIRIAM HOPKINS - EDDIE ALBERT Produced and. Chrcial by WILLIAM WYLER Sermanyder by BUSTY WANGUSTUS COETE From the American Chanale, SISTER CAMEL, by THEODORE DHEISEN „A Pannoni Fiche
COMMENCING TO-MORROW
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