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2nd BIG WEEK?
DANNY KAYE
Mr. Fun
of his funniest!
And the picture...
the greptast
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KNOCK ON WOOD
MAI ZETTERLING
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SYLVIA FINE
NORMAN PANAMA — MELVIN FRANK
SONGS!
~KNOCK ON Wood
"ALL ABOUT YOU
On Wide Scroon at KING'S & PRINCESS
KING'S
MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M. M-G-M presents in TECHNICOLOR "LITTLE WOMEN" Starring Elisabeth Taylor, Juna Allyson & Janet Leigh
At Reduced Pricos:
$1.00 $1.50
PRINCESM
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1954,
FILMS CURRENT AND COMING
tho
In "Rose Marie" CAPITOL and LIBERTY seem to have a winner →→→
By JANE ROBERTS
..
hunting is a genuine tesirg' "to, soo him, the foöllah follow tries to stand on his manly dignity.
It'll be running over into show given would make grand- would have become obvious by there'll be plenty to hold your If you are at all air-minded," next week, and after that ma's hair curl. I confess to heat Avey, due to the absence attention in "Sabra Jet", an X they'll have “Ann”.
having been shaken a little my of outdoor shots. The few there gather that there are dog nights "Knock On Wood" will solt, once or twice.
were could easily have been in between MIOS and Sabre. Jeta also go on over the weekend
ch the take. without That sho's extremely
and numbrous, shots of all the frank the necessity of showing them aspects of air warfare from con- and there's a possibility is very much of. in under physically to the audience and it forence room to actual combat. after that of "Flame of statement, and with wide-eyed says a lot for the quality of this Calcutta being shown at the wind out of the sails of such at relying entirely
"The girl in the picture" is naivelė, she (combirtely takes pleture that it seconds" in spite Colon Gray, the KING'S and PRINCESS hardened
on dialogue cases 'os William for its interest, while the EMPIRE takes Holden and David Niven.
LISZT'S LOVE "Come Back Little Sheba”.
The green being essentially a . "P#r Ordre du Tsar" is Neither can bellove that a medium for visual expression a French picture based on and of The three mbine again girl (ttle more than a teen converted stage play can all the love affairs in the life of the next weekend with "It ager) who combines such ab very, very flat if it's been un- Hungarian planist - conposer Should Happen To You". surdities of expression as "real aktifully doctored and bad actings Franz Liszt,
Again there's a stayer at gong" and "acting like crazy" from any one of the principais A much travelled man, he met the ROXY and BROAD- about
with shattering home truths of "The Moon Le Blue", in spile the Princess Caroline Sayn
the facts WAY in "Demetrius" And possibly
of life can of the witty dialogue, would Wittgenstein when he was 41. innocent she have made it say lee a tired She was the wife of an elderly The Gladiators". it's ex- appears.
Yorkshire pudding
Russian landowner who had pected to go on for another
The dialogue, which in splło Even the lackadaisical souls married her for her money week and the next change of its outspokenness is refresh- who find it hard to concentrate when she was a girl of 10. hasn't yet been announced.
Although they appear to have from ingly free
double en anything more stimulating been very much
en-
in love, the "Ring Of Fear" continues tendre, is witty and very well than a musical or a western will
affair was doomed to failure at, the QUEEN'S
over by the principal actors like "The Moon Is Blue", 1 and
from the beginning. ALHAMBRA
Maggie MacNamara especially, think. The infectious gaiety of
The Prince of next who carries almost the entire the east communicates Itself to though he knew
Wittgenstein, weight of the picture on her the audience and Maggie Mac- would not consent to a divorce bony little shoulders will fairy Numara's chatter is energising (or rather, an annulment, as the of the film colony's awards for certainly be nominated for one rather than demoralising. her performance,
LATBALL
until
put
be the
CAREERIST CLASH
made to order.
David Niven hns A part In "The High And The
wench
Robert Stack was
alt about it,
week and for those of you who missed "Hamlet" for the second time there's good news. It'll probably be re- turning to give you your third chance in the middle of next week. Another ex- cellent old timer takes over then "King's Row".
"The Moon Is Blue" is the HOOVER's film, to be followed by "Sabre Jet" and "Scarlet Spear".
appears to The LEE and GREAT ve great fun in this, his first light comedy role for along WORLD are the only two time. But although his name is theatres to
billing. be showing a top of the French picture after the honours go to the rather plain
Moggle. spate of Continental flima we've
Perhaps to say this is a little "Par Ordre du Tsar
or and David Niven, because the to imagine that rather than oc- On the LEE and GREAT "Stronger Than Love” and whole nim is 50 well put cupying herself with something WORLD'S serection ext week then they'll show a Mickey together that the slightest trace she does well during his absence will be "I. The Jurf," the book Spillane thriller ", The
of over-acting or scene-stealing In Japan and Korea, she'd be of which made Mickey Spit- by them
from Maggie Mar-
better
name as nwriter of Jury",
while
she often rough brutal detective stories "Aan” was made in India of balance.
forgets to hehave like a woman If you saw "Ring Of Fear" and is the first full length w
It's her
pleture because it was at all.
you saw Spillane In person. written that way and she wis
#zine as himself, but n colour picture to be produced
The Jury" his central character there.
Mike Hammer (the detective in nearly all his whodunits) played by someone called Bift
marringe wnh опе of cori- venience only) in case Caroline's tho money escaped him, and consequent delay year after year He's the roue Mighty"
in their plans to marry, must father of Dawn Addams pilot. and now in "Sabre Jet" have given Liszt ample time to huseinus
who's been he taken to the air once again.
reflect on his chequered life. given the brush-off (the only
He already had three children lerm applicable) by a William This, however, 1s not the by a former liaison which had
olden tisinclined to take ad story of the various characters lasted nine
and after 14 years vantage of htt oft proferred in, the aircraft he dies, but years with Caroline, with ITO charms.
principally of the relationship prospect of her freedom oppar William Holden
cnlly between two people-Stack and
imminent.. he
decided to go into the Church. Ironically, his wife.
They re both careerists In Just as she became free to marry their way, his is flying and hers him. Liszt was ordained a priest is writing: but they don't seem to hit it off very well although that he spent the last years of both are masters of their craft
Insicud of having respect for
the acting
and it won as the Abbe Liszt
his life.
SPILLANE AGAIN had recently its unfair to both William Holden ench other's interests, he seems
"The
Flame or Calcutta" in Denise Durgel complote with French accent and flowing red found the plot a garments. I
tile confusing--it had some- thing to do with Calcutta, ob- viously, from the tide. Bui to my untutored grew the fort-
donned by Denise
EXTRA MORNING SHOWS TO-MORROW mentioned Rowing red garments
At 11.00 a.m.
TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Presented by Warner Bros.
At Reduced Pricos
At 12.20 p.m. Jubilee Pictures present
A Super Indian Production
“DAK - BABU”
Starring
Nadira, Talat Mahmud, Kuldip Kaur, Yashodhra Katju, Radha Kishan
With English Subtitles At Regular Prices
SUNDAY
SPECIAL MATINEE
AT 12.30 P.M.
"THE
EMPIRE
JAMES MASON
in
DESERT
FOX"
A FABULOUS ADVENTURE... A TRUE STORY!
At Reduced Prices: $1.00 & 70- Cts,
CECIL B. DeMILLE
in universally recognized as a producer. of only big pictures and his
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
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RITZ
PRIMITIVE LOVEI SAVAGE THRILLST
Lost Treasure of the Amazon
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FERHANDO
LAMAS FLEMING
RHONDA
whenever she wanted to disguise herself as the avenging righter of wrongs were distinctly Arabic in design. A small point, and one not really importani, 1 suppose. in a fim not meant to be taken
ly Denise's Cather French consul in Calgutta End another would-be "mishtër of wrongs-had fallen foul of the local ruler and been 10- sexsinated for hla meddling. A dight misuse of the hospitality of a country in which he was a puest, I thought.
Anyway.
his deatti daughter Denise decides to carry on the good work. Not as herself though. Being a woman, she of course has to add the right rouch of mystery to her philanthropic activities. And besides, she probably always she'd look rather
I think It's called. The East India Company and its rather shaky relations with the Prince of Calcutta come into the story 100--also Clive of India por
pops on to the tereen. Rather well done, this character, by Paul Cavanagh
VERY NICE GIRL
in a red cloak And
Maggie MacNamara is a very nice girl indeed in "The Moon 1 Blue", but some of the linea
Namara would throw the picture worryemployed sitting at home lone's
worrying:
big enough and a clever enough actress to seize the opportunity and rise to the heights demand- ed by the script.
If one didn't know that it had criginally been in stage play, I
Matters are brought to a head when she flies to Japan to get first hand material for an article on the feelings and behaviour of the fliers womenfolk.
Not considering that pos- Elliott who makes his Arst sibly behind her apparent news screen appearance in the role,
Maggie MacNamara, David Niven, Dawn Addams and William Holden in a scene
LEE GREAT WORLD'
DAILY AT. 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9:30 P.M.
SHOWING TO-DAY
ROMANCE OF FRANZ LISZT, THE HUNGARIAN COMPOSER AND PIANIST
UN HERKENLEUKOCHAME CHOUS UN SPECTACLE CRANDIOSE I
SIMON
MARCHAND
PAR OPDRE DU TSÅR. I..
WITH ENGLISH. Released through: PATI
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LEE THEATRE
MORROW GREAT WORLD
from "THE MOON IS BLUE"
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ROSE MARIE
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ANN BLYTH HOWARD KEEL FERNANDO LAMAS
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SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 12.30 P.M. M-G-M Musiçal Comedy
““TEXAS CARNIVAL” with Esther WILLIAMS • Red SKELTON in Technicolor
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