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"SHIVRATRI"
A Super Indian Production Starting
NIRUPA ROY - TRILOK KAPOOR - MANHAR DESA! & NIRANJAN SHARMA
8 Song Hits
At Regular Prices
BOOKINGS NOW OPEN!
EMPIRE
FINAL TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
He left a trail of
conquest across
the West!
Allied Artists
SON Of Belle Starr
OF
KET LARSEN
TO-MORROW
PEGGIE CASTLE COLO
16 FATHOMS
DEEP
TO-MORROW.
SUNDAY MATINEE AT 11.00 A.M.
·JOAN CRAWFORD in
"JOHNNY GUITAR” Reduced Price: $1,00, 70 Ct. & 40 Cts.
RIENTAL
AIR CONDITIANCO
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30; 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1955.
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FILMS Current
For the first time in her
career Greer Garson has forsaken
the city back-
Coming
By Jane Roberts
grounds against which she The New Films At A Glance
has appeared so often and taken to the great out- doors.
Many drawing room actresses have done it before, but Miss Garson has held out against it so far. Now she is to be seen in a westem-"Strange Lady in
Town",
Why the title I don't know. There's nothing particularly odd about her wish to journey from Beston to Santa Fe in the ad- venturous days of the late 19th Kentury, especially as her brother is there, and later it transpires, her father too. However, as recollect having mentioned be- fore, there's no rhyme or reason in Hollywood's choice of fin tities.
Her romantic partner is Dann Andrews rather a cold Ash I've always thought however the reputation of Miss Garson must be preserved, and it would never do to team her with any-
one
as raffish-looking as, say, Tony Curtis!
Young Cameron Mitchell, her brother, unfortunately doesn't share the true-blue dependable qualities of his sister, the doc-
tor, and
and although the band ba- tween them is quite strong, she is righteously Indignant to dis cover that her attractive Living quartets have been. furnishe from moricy won at that game of the devil "Cards.".
Dana Andrews is also a doctor and naturally before the course of true love can run as am:othly as fiction tells us it does, there are several clashes between the
the two principal part in this
There's a
for the scared Hille bar- film maid see briefly in "East of Eden." In this she is the daughter of Dana Andrews and a rather ripa 16 years of age.
David Farrar-
A Falling Star?
When a well-known actor takes a small part in a film it either has to be a plum, or his name has to appear under the credit titles as a guest. star.
SHOWING
EMPIRE: "Son of Belle Starr"". · A western in which 'a s00
of a pioneer tries to prove he's a peaceful chap. Keith Larsen and Perrie Castle.
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Battle Circus". The American
* Medical Corps in action during the Korean war. Hom
phrey Bogart, June Allyson and Keenan Wran
KING'S
&
and PRINCESS. "Revenge of the Creature". The fill-man from the Black Lagoon is lured into the net by a tiri. John Arar, Lori Nelsen and John Bromfeld. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: “Chin Ping Mel"". A
Chinese picture in Mandarin.
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: “Strange Lady. In Town". A
wistern in which Mrs Miniver still manages to stay a lady. Greer Garson, Daria Andrews, and Cameron Mitchell.
ROXY and BROADWAY: "Escape to Buema”.
Adventure
in the jungle with Stanwyck back in riding breeches. Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan and David Farrar.
COMING
EMPIRE: 16 Fathoms Deep". Rival sponge fishers fighting above and below the water-line. Arthur Lake and Lón Chaney.
"It's a Pleasure". Queen of the Ice Rink. HOOVER and LIBERTY:
Something to remind you of the Sonja Henie and Michael O'Shea "Rogue Cop". Gangsters bribe a policeman, but get more than they bargained for. Robert Taylor, George Haft and Janet Leigh. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Six Bridges to Cross'." A good looking youngster's progress from juvenile delinquency big-scale crime, Tony Curtis. George Nader and Julie Adams.
LEE: ***The Young Caruso”.
QUEEN'S and ALHAMERA: › "The Man from Larimie”: A western James Stewart, Arthur Kennedy' and Donald Crisp.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "A Shield for Murder".
A thriller.
ROXY and BROADWAY: "Yolanda”.
,
Mare Lawrence and May Briti
swashbuckler.
"That Lady", One of the stories about Philip II of Spain that is making a name for Paul Scofield. Olivia de Havillami. Gilbert Boland and Paul Scofield.
Lisa. Montell ส
If he takes a secondary role that carries little dialogue and even that of slight importance, it harms his reputation as star and causes the film-going public to assume he is on the down-grade.
who playsTM Barbara Stanwyck's winsome Burmese maid in "Escape to Burma”,
concerned, but with the excuse that competing in a man's world entitles her to apply her own standards instead of the ac ..cepted ones.
wounded, succeeds in reaching the water and diving deep „down" thereby leaving room for yet another sequel to "The Creature from the Black Lagoon".
The Week-end
Choice
June
In "Battle Circus" Allyson is a nice clean liv. ing little Army nurse who though she has had many passes made at her, as she tells Humphrey Bogart, has never made a slip.
Which, in language we can understand, means that though the wolves have howled around her, and have chien came, in quite clare, she has managed to hold them off with a спесту smile, turning them into friend- by little gs ashamed of their rough ways.
From which you'll gather that It's the Allyson mixture as before-naive nice, and un- shakable in her faith in the cred that there's one man for every one woman waiting some- where. She has a hard time con- vincing that grizzled oich hunter Bagact that romance with her caly be found withis the charm
wedding circle of a but her resistance, plus
cân
ring. calmness in an emergency, final- iv fel him into thinking that they're indispensable to each other
and the fade-a leaves them gezing into the mists of a utopia magnifcent in its blind-: news to reality.
This romantic approach is luckily not extended to the part ot the Alm. almost impossible
action
IT'S
Keenan
for
Wyan to put a foot wrong in pictures and It's he, rather than Humphrey Bogart who becomes the forceful character in all but the love scents...
Dr Bogart Is
A Tippler
In "Battle Circus" he's a one time circus hand whose experience in striking and assembling a tented camp in the minimum cf time
of paramount importance in the job the "Battle Circus" people nra engaged on. Theirs is the dangerous one of getting in, on foot, and by helicopter, as close they can to the actual fighting, and evacuating the
wounded,
And in "The Son of Belle
When each objective can starr"showing at the moment change hands as often as three at the Empire-we find the or four times in as many days notorious lady's son doing his 's a very, tricky proposition, it does the best to bring the gold robbers carrying
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to justice in order to prove to probability of being caught in the world and Peggie Castle the gunfire of one's own side. inherited from The paradox of having become mama is her bravado,
almost indifferent to danger Dona Drake is the other girl through constant contact with
in this picture, but if you've it is well conveyed by all the
Once this happens then the uphill climb back to popularity (not to be confused, of course, with genuine acting ability) i an almost impossible one.
The workers on her teak Let's take a second or two to lament then the fall of David State are feudally devoted to Farrar. "Escape
her, but there is a hint of the that all he's to Burma would certainly never win an den day trend in their re- award for the wit of its dialogue, fusal to cbey her orders to the ingenuity of its plot or the into the jungle to help track
ever seen Peggie Castle in the cast. down a marauding tiger they dramatic talent of its cast,
many supporting roles she's had Bogart plays the part of an That may not be entirely the think is a ghost-animal.
over the last two years or so, Army doctor whose addiction to cast's fault perhaps, with no A few sharp words from the it won't be Dona you' be the bottle seems to depend better material to hand tacy supposed renegade, Robert Ryan, watching.
largely on hearsay he takes a were misguidedly led to believe put a stop to this insubordina-
drink from Ume to time in the that any appearance before the tion, and in spite of all the
film, but not enough to make public was better than a long evidence piling up against him,
him the not entirely dependable we begin to suspect that he's
character hinted at by bis However the harm done to the, not suite the bad hat every ne
sympathetic commanding officer reputations of Barbara Stanwyck thinks him. Farrar is tracking
In spite of its somewhat and Robert Ryan in the leading him downy,
Hollywoodian approach to what roles is as nothing compared. Reginald Denny, as the British with the effect it must have on Commissioner, looks more of the Creature" is, as is so Korean war, this would be my The trailer to Revenge must have been a very serious side of the down-to-earth often the case, misleading. choice it 1 could only see one long time ago he made a name the past ever in those foolish The "creature" is represent film over the week-end. for himsel Nobody would comedies for which he was ed as being human and able even then have called him a renowned--bit as the whole juvenile lead, but with hoary old thing is deviously meant to be of Lori Nelson, whereas, in warriors like Clark Gable still modem melodrama, he's not out able to pull feminine
de of place. audiences, his age was im-
absence
David Farrar,
In "Black Narcissus”—quite.
material, and his performance good
In several later alms he showed promise and as he has
Looks better
than the scknowledged names of the British screen, such as John Mills and Michael Redgrave, it appeared that his future was
assured.
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A Stereotyped Melodrama
ecmfortable than I can ever re- member him baving appeared in
More Junior
Westerns
to
Beauty And
The Beast
appreciate the charms
actual fact he is only chas- ing the bait the zoologists have put down for him.
The unfortunate gill-man for whom I felt a great deal of pity, even knowing that he was Just an ordinary man inside a We seem to have struck rather tearsome make-up job a series of junior westerns in been trapped inside an recently, the theme of aquarium and is being poked and which has to do with the and, tris assistant John Agar prodded by a young professor
handicaps attendant on and Lori Nelson respectively, being the peaceful son or Lori, incidentally, doesn't "daughter of a pioneer of intent to get herself labelled as the old west whose pro a blare-stocking because of her Unfortunately, he has lived tracted existence depended role in tas picture her sc up to pradictions and hopes, is on being quick on the draw, low-worker are delivered with
tific pronouncements performance in Escape to The new "Destry which we'll about as much conviction as a Burma" is flat, conventional and be seeing here soon is a pale textotaller enthuse over the ofter downright hammy. There imitation of his fire eating health-giving properties of a new Bre many players who have father and although he brings brand of whiskey p never been more than that, but law and order to a western town The wreature of course breaks It is doubly disillusionding to named "Restful” it's " by discover that what one had being sick of tongue rather loose ent pads about Florida In hoped would be a svaring rocket than quick on the trigger the wake of his tormentors and bas turned out,
• to be, a lame In “Jesse James va
The creates a great deal of havoc Daltonga pleture that has before finally being shot, For the rest, 1's what you already passed through the When I saw the picture might expect.
hero is only too glad to discover thought the gill-man had been OW AT 12.30 Barbara Stanwyck is her that he's not required ja live up consigned to a watery trave fo
Wamer, Color | usual self-good at busiriens, un to the belligerent character of ever, but my Prem Boole tells ape, his supposed: father,
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URDAY
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
2001, 5,13, 7.20 & D Maal
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Strange Lady
in Town-
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GREER GARSON- DANA ANDREWS
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William Holden-David Niven Maggie McNamara Released Thru United Artists
"ALHAMBRA
Columbia's Colour Adventure! 'THE MAGIC
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Lucille Bali - John Agar
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ROXY & BROADWAY
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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
LOVE...OR A HIDING PLACE? WHICH DID HE WANT?
BARBARA STANWYCK ROBERT RYAN DAVID FARRAR
ESCAPE BURMA
TO
TECHNICOLOR
SUPERSCOPE
JAMURVYN VIE » UISA MONTELL – ROBERT WARWICK • REGINALD DENNY
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CHUNG YEE DRAMA GROUP presents
Pah Jin's
All Star Cast
THE FAMILY”
■ Dialogue in Mand
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