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The Most Hilarious Star-Team in Yours.
In A Fun-Filled Western Whopper!
Paleface
Corby Technicolor
KHOPE RUSSELL
Jane
Baby ROBERT SMELON » Dimacy NORMAH ZATLADO
EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW
KING'S at 11.30 a.m.
Full-length Technicolor
Cartoon
"JOHNNY, THE GIANT
KILLER"
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A Japanese Picture with English Subtitles Color by Eastman Color
A Daici Production
"THE GATE OF HELL"
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 1954 International Film
Festival at Cannes
2 ACADEMY AWARDS
"Best Foreign Film" "Best color Costumo
Design"
Starring Kazuo Hasegawa ཏཱལཱཏྭཱཏྟཾཡསྶཙིཏྟཾརྡརྡིཏྟཾཙཏྟཱནཾ,ཏྠཾནྡྷཏྟཾ,ཨ4ཁ1}llt“lj},
Machiko Kyo
SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M.
NEW YORK: Universal Tochnicolor Cartoons GREAT WORLD: M-G-M Technicolor Cartoons
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SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. 20th Century-Fox Proudly presents
ERROL FLYNN JOANNE DRU PETER FINCH
The
Dark Avenger
CINEMASCOPE
in the wande, al MACHETIC STEREOPTIGHT SOUND
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ROXY & BROADWAY: 5 Shows To-morrow,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1955.
FILMS
"Jupiter's Darling" is a musical romp through the. pages of history. Here and there It throws in an e- tablished fact or so about the events 200 years BC, but only in the most light- hearted fashion
apologetically.
even
Hannibals shaking his fist whose at Rome, and Fabius, polley when fighting the Carthaginians, is to avold meet-
it possible, Ing them
has send a little
decoy out to distract Hannibal'n nitention from his unprepared dity.
decidet to
Is
The decoy is Esther Williams, his own betrothedwhich generous of him, to say the jcast. Now, 23 cveryone knows, Miss WUllams is a most delectable creature whether she is wearing the BC line or the luttest thing in modern swimsulis, and the trick works.
The res! of the historical detail is equally imaginative, but it gives Howard Keel, as a boisterous and very manly, uninhibited Hannibal some new songs, and allows Esther Williams to get in n little underwater work while escaping from the enemy.
The colouring is exceptionally lovely and the costumes appear to be fittingly expensive för at Cinema Scople romantic ex- travaganza. They might even be advertisements for durability too, judging by the manhandi- Ing Esther takes without falling out of them.
My favourite sequence is of Howard Keel wooing Esther in the Sony! Williams with middle of a ruined temple. It's n mest romantic scene and frem. their attitudes IL looks as though they are both enjoying to the full. They are rudely Interrupted by Roman soldier, and Hannibal, after flinging his Indy-love with spine-shattering fore: Into his chariot, manages to get away
just in time, but with the darkest suspicions forming
mind in his
about the innocence of his complaint partner.
"How could they have known I was
there?" he demands of her. "How could they have miss- ed you," she retorts with spirit, "singing your head aft Hke that".
Marge and Gower Champion dance their way through the ribery with equal Insouciance, though I found their arrange- ments a little disappointing and there's a lugubricus his Torlon pladding along in the wake of Hannibal exaggerating and whitewashing for posterity."
A New Japanese
Film
"Gate of Hell" is, like many of the Japanese pictures, about the distant past. With so many legends and stoties to call upon, 11's hardly any wonder that this mine, has been tapped frequently in preference to the
Extra Performance of "THE DARK AVENGER" at 12 Noon present and more recent past.
LEE Theatre
\TO-NIGHT_at 8.00 p.m.
GREAT WALL DRAMA GROUP presents
"THUNDERSTORM” ·
An all stars cast -- Mandarin Drama Admissions: $8.90;-$6., $4.70, $3.00 `&$1.70 tax incl.
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At 12.30 p.m. "MASSACRE RIVER"
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KIRIGHWINE KITRIVNO
西藏孩
во
Briefly it is the story of a faithful wife who chooses to die rather than submit to the too persistent attentions of a would- be lover.
In
Or to mention the styled
A
Current & Coming
BY JANE ROBERTS
ГГГГГГГИ
The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS
"The Paleface":
A
re-issue of a comedy western with Bob Hope as a timid prairie flower and Jane Itusaeli as his fearless protector. HOOVER and LIBERTY: Jupiler's Darling". Two armies wall while Hannibal dailles under the walls of homo with a Roman malden iloward Keel, Esther Williams and Marge and Gower Champion.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Gate of Hell". A
Japanese tragedy, beautifully photographed. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Down Three Dark Streets", An FBI man finds the common denominator in three different crime cases, #roderick Crawford, Ruth Romant and Marthin Hyer. ROXY and BROADWAY:
"The Dark Avenger". Errot Flynn, na Edward the Black Prince, Indulges in some sword-play In defence of Joanne Dru. Peter Finels meets the death reserved for actors who support welt-known stars.
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Marie Antoinette". A re-issue with Norma Shearer. Robert Morley and Tyrone Power that induces nostalgia for the days when shearer was Queen of the Screen,
A
KING'S, and PRINCESS: "The Man from Bitter Ridge".
western. Lex Barker, Mora Corday and Stephen McNally, "Casanova Brown", Gary Cooper and Teresa Wright romance together,
"Run For Cover". A sheriff with a past tries re- peatedly and profitlessly to reform a young range wastrel. James Cagney and John Derek
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: Up to his Neck".
Ronald Shiner against a Royal Navy background.
Many of the gags seem to have been lost at sea. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Duel in the Sun", A good son, a bad son and a half Indian girl in some love scones that have taken their inspiration from the desert sun- setr. Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, and Gregory Peck. ROXY and BROADWAY: Hansel and Gretel".
Esther Williams — the star of "Jupiter's Darling".
infatuation, he is shown as an I am not a campaigner against impulsive, only too human the rough, the sordid, or even being, his crime being that his the suggestive in Alms if they sensitivities have been blunted illustrate a point or help to build by the coarsening effect of a character-far more offensive being ♫ good, loyal and to me ate Jokes in bad taste and conscientious soldier, a gooey custard ple farces that are customed to the right of only amusing to somewhat sadis forcibly taking what he desires. tie juveniles.
Glamour For
Balance
storm
Els householt when he marries his fiancee, Mike Helen. Luke, hearing that the girl has been carried off by Jesse, draws his own conclusions and never, › in his arrogance, doubting that sliv has gone against her will, shoots Jesse for poaching on his pre- serves. Knowling thu in spite has of her love for itim, only affection in his mind for her tho her, girl sets off on rendezvous with one thought in her simple mind; to kill Luke before he can have a second shot at Jestie,
Things don't go according to plan and the lovers die in caci other's aring, covered with blood from the gunshot wounds they .other, have inflicted on each with the dust that contributed
the title it earned
1150lt among
the cinema-goliig pub- He, and with sweat from the struggle to crawl towards cach other gasping their lost words of love.
Flynn Swashes And Buckles
The publiefty for "The Dark. Avenger“ advertises the peren- nially acrobatle swashbuckler Errol os "the devil-may-care Flynn you've always admired". AL least it's honest. Run through the pictures that Flyon has made in the past, crystallise your feelings about them and you'll need no further advice from me as to the merits and demerits of *The
Dark Avenger".
Fer admirers of Peter Finch, however, the decision may be a little more difficult, As the
envaging crimtusi in "The Detective", bullying Elizabell Taylor in "Elephant Walk" or being the sympathetic priest in The Heart of the Masterin all these, he had, by screen andaras, fairly adult roles and he brought a durerent approach to them that stamped him as o
-with actor competent
who would unnusual chrem
a fin probably develop into star far above the ordinary. In "The Dark Avenger" ho too swashbuckle's.
an
The story purports to be a piece of history carved from the Hundred Years' War, with Errol Flynn left behint in France by his father, King Edward II to won rule Aquitaine, recently from the French,
In spite of a temporary truce between England and France, there are, very naturally, more a few people in Aquitaine who feel that far from being from
than
liboratore, their cousins across the sea are aggressors. One can hardly blame them - the two terms sometimes get a little mixed even today.
Peter Finch has been cast as the villain of the plece a nobleman who, rather French unfairly I feel, meets his doom in defence of his strategy of Inciting the English to break the truce,
The bait la Lady Joan Hol- The last scene in "Duel in the land, played by Joanne Dru. Sun" has often received adverse Her abduction is calculated to criticism and quite a
bring reprisals-which It does raged over it at the time the enabling Errol Flynn to dress Alm was first shown. To me it up in a suit of black armour and was quite a logical outcome of
About of cantor
the
French do swashing and buck- the stormy, hole-in-the-comer countrysido Broderick Canwford gives us love affair between an ignorant ling sub rosa, so to speak, his dependable, licable, but half-breed girl and the wild son disguise being so perfect that it hardly romantic cop in "Down of the ranch owner on whose fools the French guerillas info to their manly Three Dark Streets," and the land she had been brought up. taking him
hearts. refreshing. The exception
The controversial scene Is the In
almost played out against a barren
12 4
not
It is hardly necessary to refer to the loving care with which the glamour of the girls pleture has been photographed. picture seems to be
A picture, that can make ont Japanese picture this is wasted on a man whose mind desert background. Jennifer take sides and wish with venom-
Jones
is riding alone on a two- that the villain would cleave coming to be a matter of course, is so obviously on his job."
day journey to meet her lover the hero in twain (or whatever of Machiko Kyo who, although It's not a big, heavily publicised the scapegrace son of
the Olde Englisho is for quar- ugly to western eyes, has the picture, but it's one that sends Barrymore. Forced to hide away torp) has entertainment value,
bo Mexican border woman who you away with the comfortable across the assurance of
however,
historical knows exactly what her value fcing of entisfaction that once cause of having shot his more accuracy. i.. What is unusual is the ngin Broderiel Crawford has amount of movement
Feck has arrogantly It pos proved to be on SÉSSES,
actor who can be relied on to give a good performance, what girl that it, as the dialogue in- However much we may ad- even the role.
genuously has it, aho wants to mire Japanese films as priletic achievements, they arc, uke Tiro grly implicated in the kiss him goodbye, he will wait many maritorious accomplish three cases he had to solve are for her in a lonely place up In ments, often tedious to
Hyer, Ruth Roman watch. Martha The characters in "Gate of, and Marisa Pavon.
Hell" appear more expressive
experienced coful, law-abiding brother,
his hunger-on to tell to Watch The Ads
1
and
Although the King'a the hilly.
Princess are following their uzual polley of showing the What ho doesn't know is that some pletures, it will be as well during one of his long absences, to watch their advertisements
of human fouling than
than have
The How Peck Earned brother Jesse has come along during next week, as the Prin- those in its for whers. husband has a
wife's understanding of his and an difficulties that is summed up in his lament tvor her
dond
body.
Stardom
Ho grieves, not, so much for her death, but for the state of mind
“Duel in the. Bun” is a film that must have driven her to such a step. He is and that sho made some time ago by Jennifer did not come to him to help her. Jones, Gregory Peck and Joseph Ince the throats of his rival, Cotton before Peck really came but in her loneliness, Uinking into his own as a big hare on it the only solution, tricked her the screen and at a ume when attacker into killing her In Harry Carey and Lionot Barry. mistake for her husband... more were all klivo-dhla will give you some idea of it's age, The rival himself is not
te bome shown at a time painted as its entirely evil man.'; Throughout most of the picture, when we have hardly bad4 it is true, he is a manage to the chance to experience the eroot happiness of the quiet, scholarly of the new self-dictated Holly husband and his suitive wife, wood directive that less violence
וי
but at the NMAT when no must be shown in fina, ́Doji's |
in selformly
her from a brutality and, in places, wordid- mob, and at the end, when he nose, will come as no...)' great de overcome with SENSE TO MEOER, arter the Impna ur dun drondful resulta of hip, csókleme since it was made
and won her lifelong devotion cess will be showing Alms for by offering end her to three days while the King's have school, to teach her to be a lady a Chinese stage show, and the the dodnes this state as being arrangement will be reverseff able to dance and indulge in when the stage show has finish- amall talk!) and to take her into ed at the King's.
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