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KING'S PRINCESS
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Aş 2.30, 5.15. 7.20 & 0.30 p.m.`j] At 2,80, B,30, 7,30 & 9.30 p.m. GRAND OPENING TO-DAY
OPECTACULAR IN
CINEMASCOPE
BLACK SHIELD
STARRING
OF FALWORTH Technopter
TONY CURTIS JANET LEIGH
DAVID FARRAR BARBARA RUSH
HERBERT MARSHALL for Thatcher
A Universal International Picture
Presented at the KING'S Complete Effects with
4-TRACK MAGNETIC HIGH-FIDELITY DIRECTIONAL-STEREOPHONIC SOUND
Complimentary Tickets Are Not Valid
SPECIAL HOLIDAY MATINEES
KING'S
TO-MORROW & SUNDAY
S SHOWS
"BLACK SHIELD OF FALWORTH'
EXTRA SHOW AT 11.30 a.m. Regular Prices
PRINCESS
Shyama ⚫
PRINCESS SUNDAY, JANUARY 2 At 11.00 4.m.
"PETER PAN" in
CINEMASCOPE At 12.20 p.m. Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara 'Against All Flags"
Both at Roduced Prices
TO-MORROW at 11.30 a.m. Indian Super Film
Manbar Desai
• Anwar in
"SALTANAT”
Rich Costume
16 Roels
Regular Admission
CAPITOL
VOL. 7431A, VILE HOME OR 110
LIBERTY
THE POLAR
4 SHOWS DAILY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
M-G-M'S SUMPTUOUS SONG-AND-SABRE MUSICALLY
THE
STUDENT
PRINCE
IN COLOR!
CINEMASCOPE
ANN BLYTH EDMUND PUROOM MARIO LANZA
WITH PERSPECTA STEREOPHONIC SOUND!
HOLIDAYS Morning shOWS To-morrow Jan., 1, 1955, at 12.00 noon CAPITOL
LIBERTY
M-G-M Technicolor Productions
"YOUNG BESS"
"SOMBRERO"
with
Pier Angeli
Ricardo Montalban
Cyd Charisso
with
Joan Simmons Stewart Granger Deborah Korr
Jap. 2. Sunday at 12.00 noon M-G-M Triumphs
"Young Bess"
with Stewart Granger Joan Simmons Deborah Kerr
in Tochnicolor
•
“The Great Waltz"
with Louise Rainer Fermand Gravot
AT REDUCED PRICES
RITZ
SHOWING TO DAY
Bob's Hilarious As The Men
Of Venice!
CASANOVA'S BIO NIGHT
Solar by TECHNIO
BOB HOPE JOAN FONTAINE BASIL RATHBONE AUDREY DALTON HUGH MARLOWE
66
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1954.
JANE ROBERTS PICKS THE
YEAR'S TEN
"J
Her choice:
JULIUS CAESAR
NIGHT PEOPLE
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE KNOCK ON WOOD GENEVIEVE
EXECUTIVE SUITE
THE CAINE MUTINY ROMAN HOLIDAY
ACT OF LOVE ROMEO AND JULIET
-and
why
was
BEST
FILMS
In the MGM Aim of "Jul'as Caesar." Louis Cabernae Caesar, Marlon Brando as Mark Antony and Greer Garson as Calpurnia,
Current
instead of the usuni ile-up between
Hongkong and Kow loon side theatres there are two changes this weekend,
The LEE only is showing the Franco-Italjan production "Queen Marzo! while the GREAT WORLD is showing the some picture at the HOOVER – "Apache."
Films
customary
Instead of the sweeping statements and high sounding cliches, some attempt is made to explain why American Indians and, in parti- the calor, the Apaches, were reluctant to be
herded reservations, when on the sur- into
face it would
that mean
all their troubles were over, currend
"Apache" begins with the
A Chinese comedy with Man- darin dialogue is the EMPIRE's There's of Geronimo in 1888. New Year feature. "Spring Is in the Air and silence, when the Army is wait- Its litle is played in very effective scene, almost complete
has already proved popular with Malayan audiences.
ing for the representatives
All
The KING'S and PRINCESS the Apache tribe to walk have "The Black Shield of Fal- worth";
brave
knights, ladies and black-hearted line.
At
fair
of
the
to the place of surrender. Boring If it had been allowed vil-ght amount of suspense, on too long, it has just the sadness of the moment as these proud people down their arms for ever comes over very well.
And
and
tho QUEEN'S ALHAMBRA there's the must ca! "Young at Heart" and "De- sired" and "The Budent Prince"
throw
continue at the ROXY and Ugly and british as he very BROADWAY for the former, often appears in this pleture, and CAPITOL, and LIBERTY there's something compelling for the latter.
about Burt Lancaster's perform-
long. "Queen Margot” la
trek back to his chiefly ance His remarkable for the performance the reservation looks like
owif country after escaping from the
the enormous feat of endurance it Hers is not a bullying technique, meant to be instead of a five-minute session on the studio conxing. however; she gels her way by treadmill. cajoling and playing off the various factions ono against the
other,
of Franculse Rosay Bendish Catherine de Medici.
sons and
way,
WIN
ULIUS CAESAR" doubt about its humour, and was shown early in the four principal characters January of 1954, were delightful.
fear when caught up in the. His bewilderment and animal yet its dramatic impact is
"Executive Suite" as fresh in the mind now as typically American
It's her complete coldness and crowded streets of the city is as dlack of feeling for anyone, her portrayal of claus- when it was first released. "Genevievo" was English.
good a trophobia as I've seen.
Quilte The whole cast worked us u war smooth, hard boiled In ita that is so frightening.
included, daughter
effective as Ray Milland's in team, each member appre attitude to the business world in a melodramatie
Flayed "The Thier". and slightly dowy-eyed
about
This ciating his function in the
part would
have been pure good job, of the Indian girl's Then too Jean Peters made a The home plot and the result was an
of the "nice" farce. Played as
is, Catherine role. It seemed quite logical It couple.
glided along as de Medici extremely polished produc- though on
the clever emerges as ball bearings, with woman she must have been.
that she should follow the man. tion.
never a dull moment In spite of A fault with this picture is was hers, in spite of his rejec
It had always been understood the restriction implied by the that it goes on too long. At the tion of her devotion. The con- "Night People" had pace title.
end of two and a half hours one ventional white is feeling
renegade is and suspense combined with
little battered by overdone, "The Calne Mutiny" punchy dialogue. It would good picture, and
however, and intro- was the plots, counter plots, sword duces a note of discord into moves into fights and bedroom scenes. be difficult to think of any the outstanding class by virtue
what Is otherwise quite u It's nevertheless yery chter- one who could have fitted of the courtroom scene. Jose taining
thoughtful actire picture. of Its type and bringe à IGNOBLE KNIGHT the leading role as well as Ferrer proved once more what lot
more imagination and did Gregory Peck,
"The Black Shield of · Fal- understanding actor
he is, subtlety
to the swashbuckler worth" presents a picture of and Humphrey Bogart that the than we usually and "How
England in the time of Henry to Marry a
Queen Margot herself is a joy IV beset with feudal Mil. cun in sympathy even when
barcas playing lionairo"
a accomplished the
weak character.
to look at the men were a little beating each other to death, "Roman difficult job of successfully taken second one might have too well hidden behind their noblemen and women- dis place it had various moustaches and beards gulsed as peasants and as much. introducing real humour into been less sentimental, Audrey to be able to tell if they were faw and order as you'd find In a picture starring three Hepburn gave one of the most handsome or not, but they all a badly behaved jungle tribe, girls whose principal claim on the
refreshing performances seen behaved as to fame is their glamorous and
screen In recent, yegis,
photography appearance. Full marks to sharp and interesting. the producer for both dia- logue and looks.
*
In
the
Was Bug
on
ps an
Tony Curtia har the time learning the more
Its margarien Margus Aiban while Herbert Marshall'
wonderful is based, starts with the portant points of behaviour is a prelude to St. Bartholmew's Eve knight-at-arms; these consist when all the Protestants were almost entirely of being the first "Act of Love"
to Parks intencely serious film, compella reconciliation between them- it appear an act of defence and by the promise of to draw his sword while making
"Knock on Wood" wasn't of
ing continuous attention in sols selves and the Catholics. This being on hand to make a pretty an almost entire lack of was to be brought about by the speech every time Janet Leigh merely funny, it was witty, compensating lightness.
of their leader, Henry appears. sentimental without being strength lay in the sincerity. at
David Forrar forsakes acting to Cathering do slushy, and is probably the Dany
with which Kirk Douglas and Medici's daughter, best fim Danny Kaye hus principal parts.
for action as the evil Duke of Robin played
Valols
loveless marriage, was a loveless
takes a scat rather far back as but in spite of“ her
Catholic
the good Earl of Mackworth. "Romeo and Juliet was sympathies, it was felt that. "Genevieve" would have visually the most beautiful Margaret was not sufficiently.
WANTS SHAKING been even higher on this list picture of the year.
Doris Day is once again the That biased to agree to the wedding professional ray of sunshine in if the plot had been a little wasn't Shakespeare is on of celebrations being used ad halt The Young At Heartand
the charges that have
Mill the Protestants into the makes
her Usual clist this way a gingera of i
good job
in batist Sho's boen given" botter spngs, Prejude to a more; interesting settings and no
preparations background, cast more suitable
over made.
been
more important. There is no tevelled at it, but in my opica thinking on
H. K. S. P. C.
this isn't important. good cinema.
IN ADDITION
· MUZIKE.
massacre went ahead, but she was
"of the "plot to the Hat for her to work with than· In, I would ko to mention The actor who took the part On the other hand, you may "Broken Lanto sophisticate of Catherine's son, Charles IX, not like Frank Sinatra in his ed Western for which Spencer bears a striking resemblance to role of the pugnacious, all-the- be congratulatod.
|Needs nanolal support for 35 Tracy and Robert Wagner should the pictures of Italians of that worldi-agáidst-mg (-wall. His
enke of poor children:
Please tlona Boolity
addrehs Beeri
self pity) even though it's in tentionally laid-on thickly ta theatrical ibugh" for one sto
period and his waspisit sadism "The Moon is Blue" a good frightening as his mother American light comedy: Title This is picturs to appeal to tw
cold-blooded cruelty. Boy Lost for the sympathiele adult-minded lovers of vigen, What approach of crooner Crosby, and Buckling NÓN
The Glenn Miller Blory" for sbeer human warthy Ch
The collection of three stories that came to the acreen ng LA Plaisir," though not to every önel taste, had colour, humour DIEL,yes (hort, sed pathol..
mo three reasons. I would
though, Jost), Hons. his
QUEEN'S
5 SHOWS
TO-MORROW
Jan. 1st
SUNDAY
Jan. 2nd
"Young At Heart". EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
4.30. 5.1%, 120 & 9,30 DIPL.
230, 5.26, 1.36 & 2.30 p 01.
SHOWING TO-DAY
DORIS:
DAY
AND
FRANK SINATRA
Young Heart
brings them together and puta a song
In your heart!
WARNER BROS. present in us WARNERCOLOR
GIG YOUNG - ETHEL BARRYMORE DOROTHY MALONE
***** ALHAMBRA ****
TECHNICO.OR
MORNING SHOWS AT 11.30 A.M. TO-MORROW-Jan. 1st
Walt Disney'a 61′′
Nowton
Technicolor “TREASURE ISLAND" Robert SUNDAY-Jan. 2nd
+
3 Stooges
|
+Columbia's VARIETY PROGRAM Color Cartoons.
ATECHI
REDUCED PRICES: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Ch.
HOOVER To-day 3 Shows Only
72371
2.30, 5.30 7.30 P.M.
"A Must for Every Lover of Thrills" "CRIMES of PARIS" Starring Raymond Souplex, Jean Debucourt
Nicola Caxannes • Dora Doll THIS IS A TRUE STORY: An actual criminal investigation based on a case which shocked the entire Paris!
ADDED ATTRACTION BIOGRAPHY OF THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH
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TO-MORROW 5 PERFORMANCES
HOOVER THEATRE
Saturday, January 1.
At 12.00, 2.30; 5.30,
7.30 and 9.30 p.m.
GREAT WORLD
Sat. & Sun., Jan. 1. &
At 12.30, 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 and 9.30 p.m.
BURT LANCASTER
APACHE
JEAN PETERS
- COLONY "
TECHNICOLOR
Rotonand, then United Arthuis
Morning Show on Sunday, Jan. 2: Reduced HOOVER THEATRE
At 12.00 noon Errol Flynn in
AGAINST ALL FLAGS"
DRIC
GREAT WORLD
11.00 am. Walt Dishay's COLOR CARTOONS
TAL
Final Sho
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