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AT 2.30, 5.80, 7.80 and 9.30 p.m.
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Paramount presente. HUMPHREY
BOGART
VISTAVISION
Color by TECHNICOLOA
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ALDO
AT 2.30..5.80. 7.30 and 9.30 p.m.
PETER
RAY USTINOV
Witre No Angels
JOAN BENNETT BASIL RATHBONE LEQ G. CARROLL
MICHAEL CURTIZ
"AT DUGGAN - Sept ANALO MACDOUGALk; base on a pas by Albert hatten A
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"CROSS SWORD"
Starring Eroll Flynn
Gina Lollobrigida
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TO-MORROW
Extra Show At 12.10 p.m.
Danny Film presents An Unusually Funny Indian
Production
"MISS COCA COLA"
Starring
Goota Bali Kuldeep Kaur
Direction by Kedar Kapoor
With English Subtitles
Shammi Kapoor Kamal Kapoor
Music by O. P. Nayyar
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Sammy Hi
ROX Y & BROADWAYİ
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“IT SO HAPPENS
TO A WOMAN
Starring Hung Hsien-nu Ping Fan
A Great Wall Super-production In Mandarin Dialogue
TO-MORROW. MORNING SHOW AT 12.00 NOON
ROXY:
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BROADWAY:
Terrytoon Technicolor Cartoons Programme
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1955.
FILMS
in
mora
Richard Wildmark
is "The Cobweb" successfully sincero than I have seen him for long time. So ofton he seems to have been throwing himself heart and soul into a part that was not worthy of the atberetion
For given it. once his role is believable.
An old fashioned house has been turned into a psychiatric clinic and is being run on ad- lines The modern vanced
to patients are encouraged rehabilitate themselves by com- manity activities and are given as much freedom as it is safe for them to have.
day--
There are the suicidal cases, the mentally the frustrated, weak, the morbid, the cynical, the secret drinkers a collection of individua's who are some- times as outwardly normal people one meets every and who raise the sneaking thought that if it la poliite or necessary for them to be in an approved home, then many mora of one's neighbours might pro- A from a stay in the same type of institution.
Although this is an interesting And absorbing picture however, I can hardly be considered as a case in point. In spite of the Int that everyone's troubles
seem to be well on the way to being mended when "The End" Is Bashed on the screen, no mental home would surely have such as emotionally unbalanced staff us The Castle" is blessed width,
The Weak Point
In The Story
For
start £
there 18 the nominal head of the clinic. Charles Boyer takes this role, It is that of an unstable man, weak where women and alcotiol who has are concerned, but once been an intelligent doctor of good character and personal integrity.
For the sake of his pust re- mutation, Richard Widmark, as the new head of the institution does not publicise the fact that he is in full charge, and allows the staff and patients to think
nd his that he and predecessor allowed to stay
in on
BY JANE ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
EMPIRE, KING'S and PRINCESS: "We're No Angels". A comedy about three escaped convicts whose Bearta aro Peter Ustinov, nearer to the right place than they realise. Ilumphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Joan Bennett and Basil Rathbone. HOOVER and LIBERTY:
"The Cobweb". The problems of both the patients and staff of a mental home. A fine Others involved performance from Richard Widmark. Are Charles Boyer, Laurch Bacall, Gloria Grahame, Adelo Jergens and Lillian Gish. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Road to Denver", A western. John Payne, Lee J. Cobb and Mona Freeman. A French "Game of Love". QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRAI
picture about two girls äifferent personalities who of the Foreign Legion. Clande Pascal.
of identical appearance but confuse the life of a member fus Lollobrigida and Jean-
ROXY and BROADWAY "It So Happens To A Woman". A Chinese ploture in Mandarin with Hung Hsten-nm and Ping Fun
COMING
EMPIRE. KING'S and PRINCESS: "You're Never Too
Young"
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis In another of their crazy vomedies. KING'S and PRINCESS; "(following "Doctor In The House"
and preceding "You're Never
Too Young") "Lady Godiva". A romp through 11th century England that's fun enough if you den's expect too much historical fact. Maureen O'Hara, George Nader and Victor Maclagsen. HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The King's Thief", Another tilt at history, moving up to Charles II's reign this time. high grade swashbuckler. Ann Blyth, Edmund Purdom, David Niven and George Sanders,
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "A Bullet for Joey". Edward G. Robinson is on the side of the law and George Raft provides the graft in this gangster tale. Audrey Totter is the ball.
"Son of Sinbad". Scantily clad girls, a dashing hero and an Arabian Nights atmosphere is the casengo of this ploture. Vincent Price makes a convincing Omar the Tentmaker, Date Robertson tries hard to be the hero and Sally Forrest, Lill St. Cyr and Mart Blanchard wear hot weather clothing.
Died "The Ship That QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
Shame". A gallant Ittle wartime gunboat descends to peacetime shame by being bought up by some of her former crew and run as a muggling base. Richard Attenborough and George Baker.
of
ROXY and BROADWAY: "Fatal Affaire". A drama of love, misunderstanding, doom and death. In French, with English subtitles. Georges Marchal, Francoise Christophe and Nicole Courcel.
which takes the problem out of voice and delightful air of cool- the
Fut ordinary
dosachment cinema ness and
or
siluations.
A Triumph For Lillian Gish
Then there is the spider the hart of the petty intrigues the in the clinic-Miss Inch.
ut
Charles
advisory capacity are joint business manager. Devoted ia
been the cuusa
Boyer,
resentful
of
are
A
TENFON
poor view should have been taken of the fact that he has bashed his unclo's head In bes cause he refused to lend him money) is a tonic.
The air of dedication with which Peter Ustinov approachts the task of
of manipulating the lock of a cash box, brinking the of combination
saft, opening a locked door, Tfection in the dimeult art
or
of raiming. Indeed, most of the funniest altuations are done in dumb show, the success of them depending on Ustinov's expres sion
zro
Joan Bennett's part is a sup porting one, but she shows a graciousness and sweetness that How endearing. very charmingly this actress has aged. For once, Instead of seeing a preview of We're No Angles' I saw an overing show thd was uble
known, to get what is
"AU- somewhat technically, as dlenco reaction”. There was no doubt about the appreciation, to stifle my Instead of having howls of mirth in deference to the hearing of my neighbours, was able to let rip with the knowledge that I was being of by the noise drowned Inughter around me.
Definitely missed.
film not to be
Downfall Of A Gay Parisian
a
It seems to be fashion- able for French pictures to
Africa 48 have North background and the Foreign Legion as their subject re- cently.
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In "Game of Love", the young man with the spaniel-like eyea (Jean Claude Pascal) joins the Foreign Legion to escape scandal. He has been a barris- Lo much ter in Paris, spent
the lovely Lollo- mancy brigida and hps commilled
"breaches
etiquette."
on
of
professional
His glel-friend, deciding that discretion is the better part of
pleasant breath among the mixed up staff and valour, does not follow him to Algiera as she has promised, palients of "The Castle."
but the situation, cinem is complicated by the
An Unassuming
Trio
ance on the scene of a girl who is identical in looks with her, but of entirely different back- ground, character and habits.
Persian Ав
as his coarse aniour was refined, she so up- man's the poor young
low legionnaire over her.
There's a ghoulish touch sets that he kliis a fel.
"We're of to
No
Angels equilibrium Richard Widmark and clinging There's also humanity with The gyrationa of the plot
لله
to
sauce,
and unravel themselves alowly and
every vestige humour that bites instead, the end is traglo and Gailfc.
aggravato
had never seen
Dt she
one with
change.
This 1 think weak point in the story, but
with all an embittered spinster's out treacle Richard Widmark contrives lo
cont make st appear 26 4
feasible tenacity
Tuthority she can aquire, arrangement. Buyer is as good in his portrayal of the weaker although the charactors of the of smothering
sug others
the custard. It-19 kbaracter. He manages to main
sug- gest the stress that must have main cause of the bad feeling.
On the face of it, the thres V disclaimants of the decay, This part is taken by the movie
ОГС pretty poor Lillian and mingles the personal tar of the old days,
Humphrey Bogart is her specimens. magnetism that still commands Gish. 1 attention with
before but my impression that forger, Peter Ustinov is a safe- the pitifulness
actresses of the silent breaker and Aldo Ray a mur- into which he has deteriorated, all the
le derer whose pet 19 a deadly scrsen did not merit the was dispehod by her per- sale that he carries around with Gloria Grahame shows with
that farmanes. Every movement him in a cage. picture every successive
and volve Infection was cen- For their crimes they haye she is much more than a salty trolled
und the underlying been Incarcerated in glamour girl with a come-hither
fairness of the charecter she Island prison, from which they look and lisp to match.
was depicting was subtly con- escape with the un-angelic idea "The Cobweb" she is the bored
veyed. In spite of the apparent of robbing a store and Con- wife of Widmark, trying hard in
licuing' on her limited way to win back meanness of her cellons.
way. her husband and to prove that he *LS as flighty is not thinks, There is no question of unfaithfulness on either side,
bho
In
red
ORIENTAL
AIR CONDITIONCU
Lauren Bacall is decorative, and although her part is not as important as the others' to the story as a whole, her looks,
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unrepentant
Luckily for us, their better natures claim the
and day, inr(cad of robbing
the place, they stay to help the store ketper, who has got himself into financial difficutiles, and offer advice to the daughter, who is pretty enough to have got her- selt into romande dificulties,
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GAME LOVE
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A daring picture
because it enveals.
for the first time the
secrets, the lover and res
of those who
sock refage
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WIDMARK BACALL-BOYER GRAHAME GISH
the COBWEB
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Ann Blyth
Edmund Purdom in
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Jane Powell Howard Koelin "SEVEN BRIDES FOR
SEVEN
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Maurice Clare
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