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KING'S PRINCESS
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DESTRY
ORPHY
D
***Technicolor ESTRY
BLANT BARE
LYLE BETTGER LORI NELSON
THOMAS MITCHELL, Edgar Buchan
Wallace Ford Mary Wickes
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ASHA MATHUR •
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BEHRAM"
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MAHIPAL
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EMPIRE
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ON THE STACEY
"THE PROMINENT. LADY”
A Chinose Play in Mandarin,
★ COMMENCING MONDAY ★
THE
NAKED JUNGLE
Самир TECHNICOLOR
Chitrring ELEANOR PARKER CHARLTON HESTON
• Kimic and be WYROK GAMETH
Bustyʻky PSÍLIE VORDAN
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A FARANDANE PICTURE:
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1955.
FILMS
Several people have asked me how It is that Singapore has stolen a march on us in the showing of "A -Many Splendoured Thing". The ex- planation is merely a matter of climate. Singapore, being hot all the year round, has no summer or winter season for pictures, whereas cinema attendance in Hongkong up- parently rises as the tem- perature drops and the sum- mer migrants return to the nest,
Tho distributors here feel that they woulch not be doing justice to the pleture by show ing It before the autumn, and so its showing has been de- Inyed until September.
A Baby-faced Destry
With "Soldier of Fortune" and "Beau Brummell" still drawing audiences, there are only three new pictures showing at the first-run theatres since last week- end.
"Destry" is one of those westerns in which the here vanquishes the villains and wing the women by turning the other check
BY JANE ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Beau Brummell". The rise and fall of the Prince of Wales' favourite. Blewart Granger, Foter Ustinov, Robert Morley and Elizabeth Taylor. KING'S and PRINCESS: "DeŃtry". A western' in which the hero tries to reform the worst town in the west without the help of a nub. Audie Murphy, Marl Blanchard and Titomas Mitchell.
NEW
YORK and
and GREAT WORLD: "Tonight's the Night". What happens to an Irish village when the now owner turns out to be a cad of an Englishman, Dayld Niven, Yvonne de Carlo and Barry Fitzgerald.
"Marly". QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
The story of two plain and ordinary people who fall in love. Ernest Borgnine, and Betsy Blair,
ROXY
and BROADWAY: "80täler of Fortano". The wife of a thrill-loving photographer comes to Hongkong to trace him and runs into a present-day soldier of fortune. Clarke Gable, Susan Hayward and Michael Bennie,
COMING
EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Paleface". One of Bob Hope's better camedics returns. In it hơs way out west with Jane Russell, HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Juplier's Darling". Two armies walt while a singing Hannibal dallies with a maiden under the wails of Rome. Light-hearted fun, lovely colouring and rainbow tinted elephanta.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Up to his Neck". A British comedy with the British Navy as background. Ronald Shiner and Laya Raki, ....
“Gato of Hell". "A Japanese tragedy remarkable for both photography and story. QUEEN'S and ALAMERA: "Down Three Dark Strecis”, Three crime stories are interlocked to make a drama of F.D., Rotivities. Broderick Crawford and Ruth Komun, ROXY and BROADWAY; "Dark Avenger”. Another name
for the Black Prince. Errol Flynn and Joanne Dru.
By no stretch of imagination can Audie Murphy be com- version too, but It needs pared with the original Destry Marlene's are to put the kind of James Stewart, but he has a life into it that only Audle baby-faced charm that fits this Murphy's bucket of water could watered-down version of
quench. original quite well, hari
the
Blanchard to Raising The Ire
a
darr
to call herself second Dietrich, but if her saloon girl lacks that extra something
Of The Irish that the celebrated grandmother has always had, it's an average of the species without
"Tonight's the Night" no western seems
com is full of Irish blarney, but plete. She puts over her songs capably noisy Can-Can num- is saved from the usual re- her Blunt is
smartly called for sulting eloying sentiment by by the old reprobate of a mayor, the element of detached Edgar Buchanan, to distract the savagery introduced by the Bight, and another called "Emply incensed peasantry. Arms that must have sneaked
attention of the patrons from a
past the Censorship Board in Hollywood.
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cause most of it is of such high standard that the banal parts are noticeablo by contrast, In any ordinary picture theso moments would probably pam as honest sentiment.
The scenes between Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair are made more moving by their re- straint and their contrast with Heentiousness of the other
the
couples.
Shiner Comes
A Cropper
It is not enough to take a well-known comedian and throw him into a story that amusing may be long on situations but short on gag lines. Bob Hope tried to carry on too song on his personality alone and finally came up with that monumen. tally unfunny picture in which he played Don Juan, and I'm afraid the thing has happened with Ronald Shiner in "Up To His Neck".
same
Theoretically it should be a howl. Shiner, as a Royal Navy rating, has been marooned on a desert island for ten years. The natives are more than friendly and as their king his slightest wish is carried out almost before he has time to express it. Along comes a naval landing party who seize the island without knowing he is there, and proceed, much time is sox, and although he does against his wili.
to carry him not look the dance hall pick-ups back to civilisation, over with the sonic air of
Opinions on the ship
vary farmer inspecting cattle at a
about Shiner. The ship's com- market ne do
look upon him hist slightly superlor
scrimshanker who has had a πρι does
prevent cushy time while the rest of from seeing nothing the
the Navy have been fighting a In their
war, while the captain-a cruelly lic wants a wife, clever caricature of a pukka they want a good time, that is Naval officer by Colin Gordon- the
only superficial difference thinks of na u poor un- between them.
fortunate sallor who has been doing his duty by looking after uninhabited naval stores on an desert island, cating nothing but
ularly revolting
the in any
It is this wife-hunting that is the theme of the picture. Every one, from his customers to his mother nags, cajoles and advisen him to get married until he is ready to go crazy with frustra- tion. Anyone would think he didn't want to, he is finally goaded into shouting. Hasn't he gone week after week to the dance halls to see the smile of their acting on a girl's face freeze
ring o
accept 15, turning round to whoover has shyly asked her to
!! dance, she scos a fat little man,
They have been made angry by the tactics of the new squire who has come in with a new She also seems quite at home broom to sweep away playing poker with the town's ancient privileges of poaching, doctor, and winning from him owing money to the squire and his wife's new hat. Her air of generally doing as they like. nssurance in her own little world They decide, quite dispassionnte and her lack of inhibition are ly, to kill him. founded on sand however, and The various methods they It's rather sad to hear her fall employ, provide the fun. Yvonne for that old routine from Ausle de Carlo, as a very sophisticated
colleen,
the Murphy-Wipe that paint off Irish
provides your face and see how beautiful glamour, and David Niven the you are underneath" especially English charm that fails to cup- when we know that the good tivate the Irish. George Cole and giri is going to get him in the Barry Fitzgerald provide most end.
of the laughs." This good girl is played with
If you happen to have arrived her usual lack of animation by Lor! Nelson. She has a pretty recently from England and seem to find something familiar in face anxi Bgure, but in the many the story, but can't reconcile it varied roles she has played in recent films, not one has been with the title, let me set your mind at rest. It was released remarkable for anything but
year ago In England uniformly duil performance. In about a
the title "Happy Ever "Destry" it's true that she's not under
After", called upci to do anything more
gruelling than wait around for A High-minded
the young deputy sherlift to discover that he's in love with be but it would hardly her.
look more possible for her to disinterested,
A Town Miscalled Restful
Thomas Mitchell.
Butcher
In saying that "Marty" is a very good picture I do not mean that it is a picture
looking more than his 34 years and quite obviously prepared to treat her far more respectfully than she wants?
His
Find Yourself
A Nice Girl'
leaves and berries.
ns a
The funniest part is Shiner's performance in n submarine,
but even then, in spite of being tired of those grimaces being very pro-Shiner, I was a little very Alimsy accompanied by dialogue.
There's a sequence in a very pseudo-Chinese restaurant tha sails a little close to the rocks of I only hope I'm being ultra bad taste in Hongkong anyway. sensitive about audience reaction
here.
It would be a great pity f Ronald Shiner were to die out as a screen personality, but withi more performances of this type it would seem that his doom 13 sealed,
If You Like Whodunnits.
With Broderick Crawford
mother, all her other pals the children married off.
the rent of the old and of her good, kind son whe pays fashioned delapidated house in which they live and begs him to go out once again and try to
nice girl.
in a picture one is nearly find himself
She doesn't mean to be a
always sure of not being scheming old woman, but when
bored. His western days Marty's meeting with plain
lonely girl coincides with being over, he can be said counter-accusations
from
her to have "arrived" and even sister and her sister's daughter the stereotyped roles he in-law,
she begins to realise
sometimes draws are usually how neglected
and
bitter a widow can feel who is forced invested with a little extra wh
her live with: daughter-in-law. There's
seldom seen in subtlety
in this
10
films,
nice,
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
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COYSTER
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→ HECHT-LANCASTER presents
MARTY
Starring
ERNEST BORGNINE and BETSY BLAIR
Released the UNITED ARTISTS
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• TO-MORROW MORNING SHOWS
QUEEN'S
5 SHOWS
"Marty"
AT 11.30 A.M.
ALHAMBRA
AT 11,30 A.M, ONLY Columbia's
VARIETY PROGRAM (3 Stooges - Color Cartoons); REDUCED PRICES!
NEW YORK GREAT WORLD
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AT 2.30, 5.30. 7,30 & 9.30 P.M.
it's KILLINGLY FUNNY!
The cad who inherited a hot fortuno, a wild widow and 7 merry murderors! ·
ALLIED ARTISTS presents DAVID
YVONNE
NIVEN. DE CARLO
BARRY FITZGERALD "
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT
-This one'!!
SLAY
yout
COLOR TECHNICOLOR
· de numia GEORGE COLE - ROBERT URQUIART
A MARE ZAMPS Production - Produced and Grictsé by MX300 EMPE- Drigiad Shary not Strampday by MICK REYES 206 BRICKSEL PERTWEE
ROX Y & BROADWAY
and something that the others NOW SHOWING THE 9th DAY!
haven't'got,
"Down Threo Dark Sirenia"
that everyone will enjoy, or American
part of the Alm especially. is a crime picture. Crawford
that it will send all who see it away with a nice warm feeling because two lonely people have found happiness together.
He turns the tables on them Marty himself is butcher, a girl,
#
the
the mother
over three outstanding she has gone to see her sister, Lakes I was a little disappointed in
firmly on the daughter's side cases when a colleague in the ally, FB.I. is murderod. The key to His role is
She returns, her sister's that of the local drunk in the
and made aware by her sister the murder lies in one of the of the potential danger to her carer and itif provides misnamed town of Restful. The
comfort and happiness. of fourth problem. One of the sus- mayor is in the pay of the villain
There are far too many selfish, giri Marty should marry, Sub- poots
Day
the three original of the plece, Lyle Boliger, and thoughtlessly cruel and stupid consciously certain of Marty's crime a killing, car thieving the picture opens with Mitchell characters supporting the prin confirmed bachelorhood, the end kidnapping has committed bring sworn in as sherif to the cipals to make it a comfortable fear which is struggling with the murder and it's Broderick disgust of the honest citizens
experience and the emptiness of this certainty is suddenly ex- Crawford's headache to find out and the delight of the law their lives is a dreary thing to posed when siro Anda Marty In who did it. breakers.
contemplate.
Ruth Roman is he house, telking happily with
whose small doughter is in all by tossing aside the bottle which he describes as "not, an The mother fights for her son danger of belog kidnapped. and taking his job seriously. His elegant profession-about.
with
Ageless feminine threats, first action is to send for young lowest in the social scale." He suggestions and persuasions. His Destry whom he hasn't seen for is a fish out of water in the friends and at Marty's girl as (the term apparently some time, but whose father had company he keeps. The eldest a been a great fighting man in the of family of six children, he conferred on any sork who is not west.
has been forced to take to a On first appeararices Destry butchery, giving up his dreams # "doll" — "dol" is 'attrac-|
tive, a
is the reversa) his tallan until he is ready to forget the appears to be a weak youngster, of
when collego with an antipathy for guns and emigrant father dies, in order peace and freedom he has found in talking to her snt give in to strong drink. Naturally he 10 support the rest. cleans up the town before the His friends are a salacious hie environment.
loungers At times this plature lapses | End of the picture and all is crowd of young bar well. But to get back to whose solq Idee in their leisure into the obvious, but it is be- Mitchell: there was a
to oth
when time
his
the cart was name among the guarantee of an unAPIENĮ alant on stock characters and something very much out of the ordinary if the part roles, seem called for ft. Nowadays
got the same treatment, He's boon type-cast into a sleazy: often drunkon figure, sometimas with a heart of gold, sometimes of stone, Who reposts his charaç- teristic gestures the back of the hand ES
shambling galt,
átt, parved .until we know exactly what is, coming. To confound me han probably adme up with an Academy Awară performance smet month hopo no
The famous fight Between, the
a
tho
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JOURNEY"
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Clark Gable Susan Hayward
SOLDIER
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