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THEY'RE BACK... AND THEIR MUMMYS GOT 'EM!
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BUD
ABBOTT and COSTELLO
MEET
The Mummy
MARIE WINDSOR - MICHAEL ANSARA and PEGGY KING
A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
EXTRA MOrning shOW TO-MORROW
KING'S A 11.30 a.m.
PRINCESS At 11.00 a.m.
20th Century-Fox prosents A Variety Programme of
NEW TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
At Roduced Prices: $1.00. $1.50
PRINCESS
TO-MORROW
Extra Show at 12.10 p.m.
Talwar Films presents an Indian Production Meena Kumari and Kishore in
“RUKHSANA
Dance sequences in GEVACOLOR Produced & Directed by R. C. Tolwor With English Subtitles
At Regular Pricos
HOOVER LIBERTY
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FILMS
George Sanders makes a Amooth villain in "Moon- fleet", Stewart Granger employs the familiar swag- ger he reserves for swash- bucklers and young Jon Whiteley is less precocious than most juveniles `appear on the screen.
However, I found the whole too disjointed and lacking in attention to detail,
It is quile unashamedly melodrama and therefore can- criticised from the not be
which of vlow, acting point
falls means that it stands or by its action. of that, there
don't was not enough. I
incan
R
that there should have been swordplay-i And re extremely tedious anyway—or that there were too few last- Just It was minute rescues. that the whole cast appeared to be t little bored with the story. Its outcome, and each other.
Greenwood is When Joan
actress her behaving
such un accomplished
it is sad to see
In such an obvious way, as the
femme fatale.
She is the
Ashley--played
蠱
wife of Lori George by Sanders--and is called upon to vamp Stewart Granger into
with partnership smuggling her husband. This sills Gran- ger. Sander
and
Miss Green- wood and it's a race to see who
to look more going ing about the other's motives. However, she is so sure of her charms
rms and so autocratic in her
that in demand for attention
2321- andi
splio of her beauty
doubled
know-
fascination, she be
comes irritating,
exotic
Lindors Viveca make-up looked as out of place conservative little south
in
LL
coast town of Moonflee as bikini at a Bali, and in spite of the fact that she was sup-
to have
from come posed
forcin parts" 1 would have
been more logical
if Stewart
to Oranger had been allowed advise her to dress less specta- cularly.
KOWLOON
TEL 50393
2.30, 5.30, 7.30
& 9.30 P.M.
makes
Jon Whiteley, though a trifle the most of pricious,
LAST 2 DAYS
THREE BEAUTIES...
A THOUSAND THRILLS...
AND A MAN OF MYSTERY!
MOONELEE
PRESENTEN A+ M-Chas a Starring
CINEMASCOPE
AND COLONI
STEWART GRANGER GEORGE SANDERS · JOAN GREENWOOD VIVECA LINDFORS
ALSO: M-C-M COLOR CARTOON in CINEMASCOPE
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SUNDAY MORNING MATINEE: REDUCED ADMISSION
Hoover at 12.00 Noon
"7 BRIDES FOR 7
BROTHERS"
with Jane Powell
and Howard Keel
Liberty at 12.30 p.m. "BRIGADOON"
with Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisso
STARTING MONDAY
OPEN WAR BLAZED
KIERON ELIZABETH MOORE SELLARS
IN THE UNDERWORLD!
EDWARD UNDERDOWN
RECOIL
JOHN HORILITY
ETHEL ORILA - MARTHE REVODIE - MICHAEL KELEY
`A TEMPEAN STEMS
PRODUCTION
CAPITOL RITZ
At 2.30, 6.80 7.30, & 9.20 D.M.
VISTAVISION
JOHD
PAYNE
MARY
MURPHY
HELL'S ISLAND
OPENS TO-DAY A
At 2.30, 5.10, 7.80 & 9.45 p.m.
20,000 Leagues
UNDER THE
DOUGLAS
Sear
and his devotion
to
BY JANE ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
EMPIRE: "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp". An Indian
version of the age-old story.
HOOVER and LIBERTY;
"Moonflect". Smargling and pirney along the English Channel coat in the 18th century. Stewart Granger, Viveca Lindfors, Joan Green- weed, Jon Whiteley and Georgo Sanders, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy". Fun and games around the tombs of ancient Egypt. With Marle Windsor and Perry King.
"Doctor at Bea". A NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD:
hilarious successor to "Doctor in the louse" and more Dirk Bogardė, James amusing than its predecessor. Robertson Justice, Brenda do Banzle, Michael Medwin and Brigitte Bardot. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
"Land
the Pharaohs". Mostly spectacle, thousands of extran chipping away at one of the pyramids, and Joan Collin dressed in as Jack Hawkins and little as the censor would allow. Dewey Martin,
ROXY
One of Marilyn "Niagara". and BROADWAY: Monroe's early pictures in which her particular brand of With Joseph Colten glamour is exploited to the full. and Jean Peters.
COMING
EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS: The Bob Maikias Story“. Some of the events in the life of America's popular athlete. Bob and Melba Mathias, with Ward Bond. HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Recoll". A thriller, British style.
Kleron Moore, Elizabeth Sellars and Edward Underdown
Forrest and Ann Baxter "Bedevilled".
Steve
romantically leamed.
"The Cobweb", The problems of both the patients and staff of a mental home. A fine performance from Richard Widmark. Others Involved are Charles Boyer. Lauren Bacall, Gloria Grahame, Adele Jergens and Lillian Gish.
NEW YORK and GREAT WOULD: "The Woman For Joo". An unusual story of a circus midget who falls in love with an ordinary girl. Well presented, it is nevertheless a little too bizarre to be credible. Plane Cilento, George Baker and Jimmy Karoubi,
"The Road to Denver". Lee J. Cobb and Mona Freeman, QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
A
John Payne, A western.
Dam Busters". "The moving and well acted flm showing the difficulties that were overcome in the developmeni of the bomb that smashed the Mochne and Eder dams, and climaxing with the raid itacis. Etchard Todd and Michael Redgrave,
Two "Seven Cles of Gold". ROXY and BROADWAY:
woldiers and a priest head an expedition to claim the territory of California for Spain. Anthony Quinn, Richard Faun and Michael Rennie, with Rita Moreno.
accent--who hero-worships In "Land of the Pharaohs" she
older man, part as the young orphan, is a scheming little hussy which
whose intentions ns bonourable s Stewart coil for hardly anything in the aren't quite Granger is almost as touching way of acting ability, but which hers. us the producer intended it to shows off the Collins form with us much frankness as the censor will allow.
be
Some Peeps Into
The Future
She provided the love in- terest in "The Virgin Queen” which with
Davis Bette
the tomisating the screen as
ucen, could hardly have been peeled
lo produce inuch in Her Recently we were treated the way of a plum part. to a series of trailers by the dustles were to look urch, coy, Roxy, giving
us & glimpse Port yet sympathetic: all of qualities without of what we can expect from which no starlet could even get them during the next few into a producer's office.
which
are
months.
Some of the scenes were from
A Little Nobody
Alms that came here to accompaniment of
the
蠲
vast
In The Chorus
amount of publicity and either
Ilved up to it, appearing for as long as three weeks, sometimes, a puff of dis or vanished in appointed public opinion.
But the majority were peeps Into the future.
clation, two fuctors, besides their esential difference of temperament, being instrumental in providing the discord.
One is Gable's trigger-happy younger brother, played by Dane Clark. A truculent youth (though I should have said that Done Clark was getting a little old to be referred to as a kid brother") who is constantly bailing the worldly, dondified Ryan
and
his eder causing brother to defend him.
Clark Gable As
A Lone Wolf
The other is, Jane Russell. It's the usual triangle; Robert Ryün likes Jane Kussch who likes Clark Gable, who is a lone-wolf in- with no type of character
4
clination to add woman to his
responsibilities,
From the shots of this picture,
colour looked good, Jane Russell harder than usual, and both Robert Ryan and Clark Gable, not to speak of the aforementioned "kld brother", older than they would probably like to be thought.
of Jane
Wo saw Bone shots Russell and Clark Gable lying
under a covered Waggon, blazing away (both of them) at a band of altacking redskins. Others of Jane Powell taking a bath and Perference for singing of her "Tall Men" (strictly bath-tub singing this!)
It's hard to say how this ont will look when seen full length, but from the extracts, it appears to be
western, a glamourised retrieved by the CinemaScope photography.
"Seven Cities of Gold" will follow "Niagara," into the Roxy and Broadway next week and the shots from this intrigued me more than those from "The Tall Men".
again,
picture.
it's an outdoor but the locale this time
Is California,
over.
Not having seen it in its en- the tirety I can't say whether promlɛe shown by Michael nie in the extracts sustained throughout the film. But the few an scenes
shown
promote hopes that his tailor's dummy days are He shows feeling, under- standing of his role as a priest, It's a strange part for Ray and dominates all the sequences Milland, this philanderer, whose In which he appears. main enemy to his
Richard own rest-
Egan, on the other hand, seems to have retreated in thus feld, though the acting is possibly an unfair observation to make without having seen the complete picture.
less heart. He loves his wife, but can't resist the youth, high of the spirits and adoration young chorus girl.
There's not much room in a role of this sort for the kind of charm that Ray Milland usually spite of the fact to appear a exudes. In that he is made man at war with himself, it's not a sympathetic role and the frankly
akly middle-aged part seems 10 weigh heavily on him.
Meeting With
A Mummy
As of all films based on
Joan Collins appears to have the mannerisms of a pair of Improved since her carlier comedians, there is little to roles, in spite of her pseudo-
American
Granger
In a
his
un- depart from
accent,
but Farley say about the new Abbott whose
discontented and Costello picture “Abbott Costello Meet the face and brooding manner have and
to me, doesn't Mummy" except that if you In "The Girl In The Red never appealed Velvet Swing" she La given seem to have departed from
flamboyant
of like them, this is for you. style
afford to Comedians cannot more scope however, and it will usual
unpleasant probably establish her as one of acting. A rather
their practised rather
audiences would If she allows young man coming stars, the herself to be managed properly, pleasant part
He is called tricks, and
Collins, probably set up a great howl if Ray Milland, Joan Collins and upon to pursue Miss
atten-wever, in case, even though
did. she is tions on her when Century Fox company, so it was Farley Granger feature in this forcing his unwelcome
piece--Edwardian, Inevitable that
period many of their
stage unashamedly contract players appear several think about showgirls, times
roles. door johnnies, champagne par- married man. was interesting to notice how. des for the entire cast, and a some are falling viciims to this cause celebre in the history dreadful disease of type-casting, the New York stage.
All the pictures shown at the Roxy and Broadway theatres are from the studios of the 20th
different in
It
of
the chorus-the kind of part
and others are being developd It concerns a little nobody In to show oft as many sides of their personalities as possible.
Our own Joan Collins is an
treat example of
Incal
the
batter
in love
with
Not Our Cup
Of Tea
that Jean Simmons takes 60
Later, when her association well, a female spider equipped with the trappings of an osten; with the older man is at an end
she is turning sible innocence and a suburban and
**** | Fatley Granger, he
ROXY & BROADWAY
OPENS TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
20 Century Fox presents
...a thundering impact of taut excitentent!
MARILYN MONROE JOSEPH COTTEN: JEAN PETERS
CHARLES BRACKETT • HENRY HATHAWAY - CHARLES BRACKETT, WALTER REISCH-RICHARD BREEN
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AN12.00 Noon
ROXY Walt Disney's Full-leng
chnicolor
BROADWAY
Walt Disneyla",
towards is uh-
bald need enough to shoot het
a you are an A & C fan, you get with watching little bored their anies around the Egyptian
a
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
12, 720 & 9,30 pm.
3RD WEEK THE 16TH DAY
FILMED IN EGYPT WITH THOUSANDS IN THE CAST! Haron Baca HOWARD HAWKS LAND OF
THE PHARAOHS ·
* CINEMASCOPE
JACK HAWKINS JOAN COLLIRY
• TO-MORROW MORNING shows ́
QUEEN'S
5 SHOWS
"Land of the Pharaohs"
AT 11.30 A.M.
ALHAMBRA
At 11.30 a.m. Only MGM's Technicolor "PAGAN LOVE
SONG"
Esther Williams AT REDUCED PRICES!
EMPIRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
The True Story
of
AND THE
ALADDIN WONDERFUL
LAMP
Produced & Directed
by HOMI WADIA
Magic Runs Riot Oriental Art at its Best I
See it to Believe it!
Exotic Beauties, Fantastic Dances!
Be Sure To Take Your Children to See it
With English Sub-titles
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT 11.00 A.M. “WITH A SONG IN MY HEART"
•
in Tochnicolor
RORY CALHOUN Starring: SUSAN HAYWARD
Reduced Prices At 40 Ct., 70 Ch. & $1,00 Only
ORIENTAL
AIR CONDITIONCO
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5:30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. UN
tombs, there are Marie Windsor CinemaScope with Stereophonic Sound --- Wide Scroon!
and Poggy King thrown in for good measure.
'Pharaohs' Still
Popular
With the success of "Land
former lover-theatrically doing of the Pharaohs" at the it in the middle of a
of a cabaret show, No! Granger is not my cup of tea at all-his looks out- weigh his
Queen's and Alhambra con- tinuing, it'll be next week be fore "The Dam Busters" ap- performance good
Be the pears. · from Glinda Farrell, mother of the chorus girl, and
There's intelligence.
r
Let me assure you that
one line from her I especially weit is well worth while. liked. In the flush of her in-
the
For the rest, with a reversal
fatuation for Ray Milland, Joan of the serial writer's injunction Collins is secking reassurance see last week!
from her mother that she is
priliy
pretty"
"Sure you're replies her mother, "But I've down a secry more tears roll
Proky Tace than down a plain
Another coming picturo is "The Till Men which is a western.
It's set in 1885 and has Clark Gable and Robert Ryan as two Uncury partners in a venture that involves driving an enorm ous herd of cattle across the gran lands of North America.. Mr Gable and Mr Ryan are not at all happy in their 1350---
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OPENS TO-DAY
at 2.20 5.20 1.50 à 9.30 p.m.
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