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DRIVING FOR GLORY...
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JOHNNY DARK"
TONY CURTIS PIPER LAURIE · DON TAYLOR
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The story of the sport car drivers
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"GHAR BAAR"
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THE CHINA - MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1955.
FILMS-CURRENT AND COMING
Show. bualness asems to be getting quite a boost 're- cently in Hongkong. To add to our gathering collec- tion of musicals, the latest a Betty Grablo, Jack Lemmon starrer, with dancing Champions sharing Lop billing with them.
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the
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Betty Grable Ands herself in the embarrassing pollón Jowing
hvebi 13-Jack Lemmon and Gower Champion. It's happened in the way ' quite faible for much
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to oteur; Lemmon has boas ro- ported us killed
in the war, when I achant fact he's been m.roaned on a dtørt island.
However much in love with him she may have been, Betty Grabbe hally the lypa of person who would be likely to have remained skugle, and die's married again
Home capes tho rescued hus- band and the Courts docreo that both husbands ne legal. Bir! When a situation for any
to Ani herwolf in Naturally Betty makes the most of it and plays one off against the other În foue feminine, fashion, Beh
forve the hearts And flowerh Bush you'll see some brilliant doning, hear some amusing dralogue and be entertained by
my very nice people,
FORMULA STUFF
"Rails Into Laramie" ng the title suggests, features that welt kinown western
the Finndby, railway-sorry, rafirond.
As you must know if you've attended upwards of six west- From in your life, not every tioily favoured the horse's replace- ment.
The more timid of oppomenila contented the galves with
ut disapproving glances the railroad workers, while ot the other end of the scale were
The dynamiters, the killers and Die räbble musera.
Again, you'll consult your formula, you'll And that thoou- in favour of the railrond ате inevitably good and its oppot- Culo band. You've only got to And out early in the picture who for It ! who against it and the you i saved
trinable of listening to the dialogue and
up making
your OWT mind ohout the ultimate fate of the Characters.
Assent automatically registers good boy (or girl), ninely per ernt likely to cul up with their arm about a member of the op- driving ecstatically pusite sex. into the sunset, Opposition
means villain, most likely
By JANE ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
Capitol and Liberty: Showing "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers"." A musical. Howard. Reel and Powell
Jane
Empire:
Coming "Tennessee Champ". Pride.
fighting and its explollers. Shelley Winters, Hernan Wynn, Dewey Mariin. Coming-"Gypsy Colt". A little girl and her pet horse. Ward
Bond, Frances Deo, Douns Corcoran
Showing-"swatha". North Ameri-
King's and Princess:
Showing-Johnny
Hoover!
Car
can tribal warfare in pre- Columbus day). Vincent Edwards, Yvette Dugay.
Dark". racing. Tony Curtis, Piper Laurio, Don Taylor.
A Coming"Rails Into Laramie",
western. John Рауде, Daryon, Mari Dan Blanchard.
Showing--"This i ̈My Love".
A
romantic drama. Linda Darnell, Rick Jason, Dan Daryes, Faith Domergue, "Atomic Kid". A comedy. Mickey Rooney.
A Walt Coming-"Pinocchio".
Disney full length cartoon.
Coming
Coming--"Madame DuBarry". Historical romance. Mar- tine Carolo.
Smuggling
murder in Tangler,
New York and Great World:
Bhowing-"Malaga”
and
Mauroon
O'llars,
Mac-
donald Carey.
War.
time mission to Greece. Dirk Bogarde,
Coming-They Who Dare".
Queen's and Alhambra: Showing-The Violent Men".
western with some extra
drama.
Edward
Robinson,
Glenn Ford,
A
#
Barbara Stanwyck.
Coming-Three For A Show".
musical adapted from Mangham story. Betty Grable, Jack Lemmon, Marge and Gower Cham- plou.
preas". Alleged incidents In the life of Justinisuo Empress, Gianna Maria Canale, George Marshal.
Roxy and Broadway showing-"Theodora,
Slave
Em-
A3 sha doesn't give her the last war in Europe, blow up in Rhodes from VICWB on the railroad until two airfields
are hampering Mari which bombers later in the picture, Blanchard slows us up in the the Eighth Army's lines of com-
Justinian
renowned Emperor flounced and vacillated in the way that George Marchal makes him, it's a surprize to me that his name has survived his life.
Glanna Maria Canale does her fair share of flouncing too, but Aral her ot
after least, melodramatic cries of "revenge"
to being she settles down
wife with no doubts dovo husband's fidelity,
about
Husband Justinian,
on
01
other hand, is willing to forget, a hat, his wife's at the drop of a
ot
five years of wise counsel, love great length, in (declared
hard stone bench profile, on with deep blue backdrop), and friendship, and take the word of the rascally John of Cappadocia against hers.
This gentleman's conspira- torial airs are about as subtle as wouldn't a sledgehammer and
con-
evon fool
mission. He
will als
the wool over Justinian's eyes though,
and make the
man
the
appear 2 concelled playboy mouthing high-sounding phrases he doesn't understand.
Perhaps I'm being a little un-
because fair. however, fault may lie in the doubbing. Italian Beautiful French sentences have been known to come out as "Gee Babe, you'r
Well"
and It's possible
OT
that
"Theodors, Stave Empress"
is suffering from similar loose translations.
An
AN EXAMPLE example:
Belisarius is
shore of the
waiting on the
Byzantium
signal,
Bosphorus opposite
for Theodora's smoko
him to bring his munoning
sumunon
the
sobliers to the rescue of Emperor. The camera switches who hovo to the little group
been waiting for days for the first wisp of smoke "Look, signal", soys a soldier excitedly to Belisarius,
water to tho suddenly-seen
The camera moves across the several smoke
It'a signal.
fect hundreds of
and high must have been visible even to the fish for several hours!
Let's say the picture appears
and melodramalle
leave the adverse criticism there.
In its favour there's the in- dereribable beauty of Glunna Maria Canate, the richniss and the splendeur of the costumes, excellence of the Pathecolour of all the and the loveliness female extras.
And to that a moment well-timed contrust coming
of
at
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succeed to the next plot in the beginning by making us waste munication in the African desert, the end of the exciting charto CHILDREN HALF-PRICE TO STADIUM & DRESS CIRCLE.
graveyard.
Bearing all this
on his
Only two-1
won't tell you race. Theodoru representing
time wondering on whose side she is
which two get back to the sub- the plebeians against the patri-
ciana, has just besten Justi I'll leave
of marine that landed them. you that bit
Dressed in a gorgeous The two principal parts mental energy.
taken by Dirk Bogarde as
and Dep cager young officer,
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are
the
Jay mind, what are the odds on the run- ners in "tails into Laramie"? The favourite is John Payne. Tough, but with right
In "The Atomic Kid" Mickey holm Elliatt playing a scholarly side, he's a sergeant in the US. Rooney goes after tame the hard sergeant. Well known for his Army sent to clean up the town way. It getting blown up in an Middle European characterisa of Laramie and deal with the plomic experiment gains one tions, the idealistic Greek patelot unscrupulous characters slow tome, then personally I'd rather is played by Akim Tamiroff. ing up the building of the reli- be Mr Nobody's sister.
SURPRISING
sho's
of peacock green, her black
behint her, streaming strained and inshed and taken the audience with her round and round the dust-filled arena, al- most willing her horses to win. The wild excitement cumax-
Con
ed with her victory, the tension
roud.
is relaxed, the beaten contest- Not
After sur- so Rooney
ants fail back and she slows her His Journey to that sunset exit viving one blast, he and Elaine to be quite ready
went I
to 200 "Theodora, horpes down to canter slowly up in Helping them
Blave Empress" thinking that I to the dais to be crowned. It's a breathtaking moment, surpris- Lo be
chief this face la Robert Strauss (you might the
to see bo going
drima, but it the ing in its unexpectedness. Dan Duryca la so
it mute more dimcult for him Davis Boem by an ex-Civil War friend who for another. turns
But
slower-up.
used to roles of this type that my remember him as the rather historical
revolting "Animal" of "Stalog
quile 17").
ho drifts through happily, seemingly oblivious of
the "equal" sign in the formula. "They Who Dare" is about al that rules that he must end up task farve of six Englishmen very dead, or at best, in gaol, and four Grecks, who, during
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Theodora!..
Theodors!
Theodorn!
Theodora ...
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With the first day's shoot- film-making world the Colony from "A ing of "A Many Splendoured won't be getting any light-
treatment minded Thing" completed the day Many Splendoured Thing".
For Jennifer Jones this will before yesterday, Han Su Yin's book has begun to be the first flm she has made for two years. This has been fault of the film-makers in come to life.
Jones For those who have read it the
has general-Mas and fancy they see themselves happy life and only a really depleted in it, this has already good property would entice her happened, but for the masses back to the strains of Alm, work.
EVERS
the world of people all over the
William Holden, on other who will ace tho completed hand, has been consistently busy that for the past few years, every DEMAMA Without realising
of the ovents in it one of the films he's made to be a actually pcourred, the screen having turned out version will be the third dimen- sugross, not only from the Box slon giving a living quality to Office angle, but in
tho
opinions The figures they have arcated of unbiased Blm critics as well. from their imaginations while I watched the building up
background And nome reading the book.
at Deep nimosphere scents Water Bay on Thursday after- noon and was surprised by the
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ADVENTURES OF
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