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KING'S ⋆ PRINCESS
AINT
TO-DAY
A HILARIOUS
NEW LOOK
AT LIFE!
TECHNICOLOR
MISBEHAVIN
STARRING
RORY CALHOUN⚫ PIPER LAURIE JACK CARSON MAMIE Van DOREN
REGINALD GARDINER - BARBARA DRITION · A UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER - 19, 1955.
FILMS
I will be dealing with "Moon- flect" lj more detail next week, as it is scheduled to run for two week-ends. Briefly, it is the story of a young boy, played by Jon Whiteley who travels to the little town of Moonfleet on the south coast of Englane, with a a certain Jererny incasage for Fox. Ha dying mother, once in love with Fox, has entrusted the boy to his care,
Jeremy Fox turns out to be the leader of a gang of smug- glers the main occupation of all good south constein in the 1700', if we are to belleve tha story books-but this Cact doesn't prevent the youngster from indulging in a large piced
EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW [of hero-worship.
KING'S at 11.30 a.m.
PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m. A Varioty Programme of United Artists Technicolor Cartoons
Admission:
PRINCESS
$1.50, $1.00
TO-MORROW
Extra Show at 12.10 p.m.
An Indian Production of Mystery and Susponse DEV ANAND, KALPANA KARTIK, K, N. SINGH
in "HOUSE No. 44"
Produced by
Dov Anand
Directed by
M. K. Barman
With English Subtitles
剑
Music by Jaideo Verma At Regular Prices
NEW YORK GREAT WORLD
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**DAY,
SHOWING
Stewart Granger Lickes tho part of Fox, and must have enjoyed his role Immensely, in spite of the long face he wears most of the time, as he is allow- ed a "housekeeper Viveen Lindfors kypsy dateer who looks as though her hair could do with a' good comb, and the wife of his protector, (George Sanders) who is none other than the throaly-voiced Joan Greenwood,
In spite of the uttentions of the three ludes fair, fie finds
time for quite a lot of goud natured villainy and ends up with his better nature triumph- ing.
The picture is based on the book by J. Meade Falkner,
Cheerful Enough
HOMECOM. TEL33500
"Ain't Misbehavin' Rory Calhoun in.
of
has all
TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
An Underworld King Brought To His
Kacos By A Two-Bit Punk!
IT HAPPENED ON
THE NAKED STREET
WH
Releed the Halted Ar
Starring:
Farley GRANGER • Anthony QUINN • Anno BANCROFT
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THREE BEAUTIES. HUNGERED FOR HIMI
The hangmon..
him!
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MOONFLEET”
ESTIVALRY
LLS DE
CINEMASCOPE
JWTH PRISPOSTA STETTONICHIE LOUNG
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FIRST MATINEE 'LIBERT at 12.30
HOOVER at 12.00
LEG
TO-NIGHT AT 8.00 P.M.
Canter
western
BY JANE ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
KING'S and PRINCESS:
SHOWING
́ÜÖÖVÉR ÞÁÀ LIBERTY: “Moonfleet”, Smuggling and piracy along the English Channel count In the 18th century. Slewart Granger, Viveca Lindfors and Jonn Greenwood.
"Ain't Misbehavin' “. A musical romande About » choru» girl and a millionaire Bory, Calhoun, Piper Laurie, Jack Carsöŭ and Mamló Vän Dorest NEW YORK and great world: "Thể Naked Bĺreet", A thriller concerning a gangster whose devotion to his sluter is, hit saving grace. Anthony Quinn, Farley Granger and Ann Bancroft.
"Land of the Pharaoha".
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA :
Mostly, spectacle, thousands of extras chipping away at one of the pyramids and Joati Collins dréssoð là as little as the censor would allow. Jack Hawkins and Dewey Martin.
ROXY and BROADWÂY: "Left Hand of God".
A pilot,
shol down over China, makes his escape disguised as a priest and is caught up in the web of his good ipten- Llorts. Humphrey Bogart and Gene Tierney,
COMING
EMPIRE: September Affair". A sentimental romance with undertones of sadness. Joan Fontaine and Joseph Colten. HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Recoil", A thriller, British style. Kieron Moore, Elizabeth Bellars and Edward Underdown. and PRINCESS: "Abbott and Costello Meet the KING'S
Mummy"
Fun and games around the tombs of ancient Egypt. With Marle Windsor and Peggy King. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Doctor at Bea". A hilarious successor to "Doctor in the House" and more amusing than
fla predecessor. Dirk Bogarde, James Robertson Justice, Brenda de Banalo, Michael Medwin and Brigitte Bardot. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
"The
Dam Busters". A moving and well acted film showing the difficulties that were overcome in the development of the bomb that smashed the Moehne and Eder dams and climaxing with the raidinolf. Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave. ROXY and BROADWAY: "Seven Cities of Gold",
Two soldiers and
a priest head an expedition to claim the Serritory of California for Spain. Anthony Quinn, Richard Eran and Michael Kennie, with Rita Moreno.
Arc
True For Once
things. A musical. We've seen him as a moody gaucho, as a gambler, and ។ I1
reaching graduation straight
cowboy, cide, as
day, de- truny actors but so far, never RS the doing, to give up the unequal millionaire head of a legiti struggle and become a direc- mate business company.
"Land pily [3
of the Pharaohs" though, for the screen le very was made on a very grand short of good actors
tor. Il would be
manded by the pharaoh to build the pyramid, appeared mighly It might havo uncomfortable.
he
Un-
been the nasal twang of hlá adopted son, Dewey
Martin, that caused him to wince from time to time, or it might have been a spism of pain at not being able to bellows his lines in his best Henry VIII manner, Whatever the cause, he gave a a man very good Imitation of wearing mental.corsets.
As for Jack Hawkins, in some
hia ceremonial robes radiated magnificence. fortunately, when a flavg or a inifister had to be berated, he deliverat the reprimand in the Manner of
drill sergeant taking to task a new recruit,
If Jack Hawkins and James Robertson Justice looked out of water however, the same could for Joan Collins. not be sai She rolled her eyes, wiggled her hips,
and awayed on her wicked way As though this was he most Important role of her career. Which brings us back to the visual aspect of "Land of the Pharaohs”.
THE BEST SCENE
it
the tomb,
The scene I found most effec- live was at the very end. The Pharaoh has been killed Nellifer, hia second wife, having disposed of his Arst wife (
with part Played
simple dignity
the with contrastlag
Is rest of the cast, by Kerima) burying him with all ceremony his pyranild. While she is preening herself in Imagining ail the delights Uni will be hers now that she is Queen
the of Ecrypt, pleated mechanisin walling up the pyramid is set in motion and ne by one the immense blocks stone thunder down their gloping tunnels sealing her in. This was worth the whole of the rest of the film put together.
com-
Truly Hilarious
했다. one
to
"Doctor At Sea" scale indeed and I'm afraid
a gangster, but a racketeer of I read all the ballyhoo atten-
finish.
There are middle of dant on these super colossal
the new school-a the road fellow who is elther
To bear out the old saying that Belds are always greener round the corner, he
In "The Naked Street he is that my first reaction when long howl from start spurns someone from his own social circle and
marrles chorus
a girl. Piper Laurie is the lucky girl to become Mrs Calhoun in the picture
and spends mo
most of the rest of it regretting it!
Sho and her two chorus Ann
24
Bancroft. For her he
320
can
so many hilarious situations that it is difficult to is to grit my know where to start
on a c-
cap-
whally good nor wholly bad productions
His Achilles Heel in "The teeth and try to be polite to seription of some of the more Naked Street" is his sister, those well meaning chat- humorous ones.
ne terers who prattle away James Robertson Justice is in friends, Mamie Van Doren und
would do anything and when
his element, of course, As the her boy friend--my bele noir, about "what fun it must be frascible Merchant Navy Dan Croyne are made to feel
himself to be a film reviewer who inin who thinks women are very mu
much out of their sphere Farley Granger-gets by the
into a spot of trouble with the spends socialite,
all day at the "unseamanlike and unnecessary" spurned Barbara Britton, and like law. Quin arranges his release
cinema"
rally, when he is rear- and naturally, from prison so that they
head off at the mis- silly girl, Piper Laurie dashes
My pet aversions are these ing his
fortune of a пишту.
In away to get herself "made over
costumed pseudo
rival captain eples that
the Chairman -completely disregarding the
of the As
batter the eyes and ears
with having fact that it was beenuse she
Line's frivolous and autocratic harsh colour and car splitting was different from his former
a passenger, we music, you leave even the most daughter as loves that her husband
exposed brain cell unassaulted, just know that she is going to fallen for her.
To be fair, Farley Granger is My compulsory visit to such be transferred to his ship.
But the central character le Although his affairs can be compared to டி Boy meets girl,.boy pursues better than usual.
call on the
the dentist.
the young doctor whom we first much 03 girl, boy loses girl, boy regains sulky pol
However, music of several evidence as ever, he makes a girl to the
that is just per- met in "Doctor in the House"
Dirk Bogarde,
He has
been songs and dance numbers and in genuine attempt to get into the sozial taste and spite of not having done so be- role of the amblulous, ungrateful grip on the fact that a critic's Performing two rather arduous a film fairly years as a G.P. when his land- fore, Piper Laurie sings her own little hoodlum who turns on his job is to review
and criticise constructively, he is her soul mate and pursues
indy's lu
lumpy daughter decides at "Land of the him to his midnight couch,
Bongs.
Rory Calhoun looks a
d
trific
Getting Better
ofiten happens, his Interference brings nothing but misery and more violence and
the end is Inevitable.
benefactor.
gangster-like fata
In
let's
with
a firm
2.
It is Anthony Quinn's picture lot's look Pharaohs," silly, but all in, this is a however, and I fell quité sorry As it is meant to be specta- Father perforce arrives on cheerful little film, with Jack to sce him meet a typical cular, does it succeed? I think for the worst, and to escape the the scenic, suspects and hopes Carson providing his usual
does. The press book tella altar Dirk Begarde signs on as brand of humour and Reginald
The Empire have given them-
me that 11,500 people of 10 Gardiner being slightly more
Selves over to a stage show this different
nationalities were subtle,
week-end, but are coming back involved in the production, and into the picture held with the
1 I must admit that although Joseph Cotten, Joan Fontaine personally became bored romance "September Affair".
watching thousands of fellaheen After that I will be an Indian chipping, hauling and
groaning "Aladdin and His over a period of 30 years, th Anthony Quinn is slowly picture
I'm afraid I can't tell as one British comedian used but steadily advancing along Lamp".
anything about "Aladdin you
to say, "makes you think!” the road to becoming a com- except that allowing for India's petent actor.
rather late start in the motion It's taken him a long time picture race, it is supposed to bo and he will probably, before one of the better ones.
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"SOLITA"
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EGYPTIAN SECRET
Needless to say, neither the wicket Nellifer (played by Jonp Collins) nor the Great Pharaoh |(Jack Hawkins) looked as though they wore even 30 days older than at the beginning of the story.
However, pertinps among the many little secrets that the ancient Egyptirns
that possessed,
of looking permanently youthful merely routine.
Poor James Robertson Justice, as the prisoner-architect com-
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TUSSELL CRA
TO-MORKOW MORNING
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
NEFESTIVALS
twinkle
doctor in the Merchant Navy. Rich and varied are the characters aboard the "Lotus" -one of my favourites was a Medwin, Michael bearded
wicked the word Wag mentioned and close runner-up.
Colouris, George with a Newcastle
twang and the nicest case of D.T.'s to bo witnessed for some time.
whenever WAX
"woman"
However the best of the lot was Bogardo's assistant, cum orderly, answering to the nume of "Easter". Never at a loss, for
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
2nd BIG WEEK!
BY THE ĽAPANİN Y -SABATTING BADEN- BYEN WENT ARREAR
Hotmon Mint HOWARD HANKS LAND OF THE PHARAOHS
JACKHAWKINS-JOAN COLLINS DEWEY MARTINE ALKUS Lots
TO-MORROW AT 11.30 A.M. ONLY •
QUEEN'S
UA Technicolor.... "The Barefoot Contessa"
Ava Gardner -
Humphrey Bogart
ALHAMBRA
RKO's Technicolor...
"Hans Christian
Anderson"
with Danny Kayo
AT REDUCED PRICES
EMPIRE
MI
ON THE STAGE
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LA FOLUES DE SWAN
MAGNIFICENT DANCING SHOW IN 6 DIFFERENT STORIES AND MISCELLANEOUS PERFORMANCES
PLAYED BY LOCAL LEADING SINGERS, DANCERS & ARTISTS.
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TO-MORROW SUNDAY MATINEE AT 11.00 A.M.
"DALLA S”.
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ROXY & BROADWAY
SHOWING
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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THE INCREDIBLE DRAMA AND THE MIRACLE THAT HAPPENED IN CHINA!
2016 CENTURY 181 prevents
HUMPHREY
BOGART
GENE
TIERNEY
alin starring
LEE J. COBB
EGMÉS AVIQDENSATI
THE
LEFT HAND OF GOD CINEMASCOPE®
COLOR BY DELUXE
IN STEREOPHORIC SCUNG
(Continued on Page 3 COL: 1) ADDED ATTRACTION! CinamaScope Short Subject
You wore fascinated by Larry Parks in "THE JOLSON STORY" You will be thrilled to see him in action holding "THE TIGER BY THE TAIL" with Constance Smith
LARRY ÞARKS CONSTANCE SMITH
TIGERBY THE TAIL
DANTELY
"STAMPEDE CITY" Color by De Luxe
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