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KING'S PRINCESS EMPIRE'
AT 2.30, 5.30. AT 2.30, 5.30,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1955.
IZ FILMS ATAS
AT 2.30, 5.15, 17.20 and
9.30 p.m.
7.30 and
9.30 p.m.
TO-DAY
Dean and Jerry are cutting up on the campuét
Hear five
gral www
sneg hits!
MOURE NEVER
Color by TECHNICOLOR
TOO YOUNG
7.30 and
9.30 p.m.
VISTAVISION
DIANA LYNN NINA TOCH
RAYMOND BURK
t'aul Jones Norman Taurog Sidney Bhalon
Arthur Bahwalze Šumery Cahn
EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW
KING'S
At 11,30 a.m. Disney's Techn. Feature Cartoon "PETER PAN"
Admission:
PRINCESS
At 11.00 a.m. Techn. Cartoort "JOHNNY THE
GIANT KILLER" & Froo 4 Cows Milk $1.00, $1.50
PRINCESSE
EMPIRE
At 11.00 a.m. Paramount Techn.
Cartoons "POPEYE THE SAILOR" otc.
40c, 70c, $1.00
TO-MORROW AT
12.10 P.M.
Kwatra Art Production present an Indian film of dances, songs, mirth & fantasy
"TIS MAR KHAN"
Starring: Agha & Shyama, with Sunder, Roop Mata, Madan Puri, Gulnar
With English Subtitles - At Regular Prices
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ROXY & BROADWAY.
SHOWING TO-DAY
Owing to length of picture ploato note change of times: AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
The Tall Men stood tall.... fought tall....love tall.... and one man towered above them all!
10% OR MURYJOI present
CLARK JANE ROBERT
GABLE RUSSELL RYAN
with
CAMEROSI MITCHELL CinemaSCOPE
COLOR by
THE TALL MEN
ROXY & BROADWAY: 5 SHOWS TO-MORROW,
Extra Performarice
of "THE TALL MEN” Át 12.00 Noon
BROADWAY:
5 SHOWS ON MON., 26th & TUES., 27th
DEC.
Extra Performance of "THE TALL MEN" At 12.00 Noon
CAPITOL RITZ
Final at 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 &→ SHOWING TO-DAY
9.30 p.m.
CRIMEA MENILI posette
VAN HEFLIN
CINGASCOPE
TECHNICOLOR
AND
PRAY
Morning Shows 25th Dec. (Sunday) At 11.00 a.m. Walt Disney's TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
At 12.30 p.m. "VEILS OF BAGDAD"
To-morrow ---- "SEVEN LITTLE FOYS”:
ORIENTAL
AND TUNLE
4-TRACK, HIGH FIDELITY,
SPECIAL MOR
At 2:30, 8:30, 2.30 & 9:30 PAI
STOR CIMO BOMB'I
RICHARD FOOD MICHAEL REDGRAVE
* DA AP! - Mg si Pia Kat‹ med Elah - P
NÇA BAOS
Tomorrow speelal Show "THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE" In Technicolor darring: Errol Flynn Quiddi
Special Show At 12,30, F.M. On 20 & 27 December "COLT 45" in Technicolor starring: Randolph Scott
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 9.30 PM...⠀ STEREOPHONIC SOUND!
TEMENTER JONES
"The Son of Sinbad” is intended as a joke. Even that veteran exponent of the screen sneer - Vincent Price 18 allowed to doft his villain's garb and 88- sume the mantle of the gentle Omar Khyam, replac ing the sneer with a smile.
There is a certain horrid fascination in hearing the pearls
thlo of
philosopher being casually
the feet cast al harem beauties who look though they have just finished parking thetr chewing um behind the nearest property palm tree.
of
as
Don't mistake my meaning- without exception, all the girls are lovely and alt are delight- fully dressed (or perhaps, under dressed would be a truer way of putting it) but I doubt if a word of more than, ong syllable would even penetrate their cars, Jet alone their minds.
exhibits
Dale Robertson too his manly torso at every oppor- tunity and appears to be an in- telligent as the girls he pursues
"Son of Sinbad is a Howard Hughes presentation, however, and as Bir Hughes gifts to the world include Jean Harlow, Jane Russcil and Furth Domergue, it is obvious that he public must know what the wants
Spectacle, colour and some- thing to look at all the time, combined with the maximum number
of pretty girla the screen can take at one Super- scope view, clad in the minimum necessary to get by the censor, would appear to be the require- ments and they are all there in "Son of Sinbad".
David Niven Is
The Villain
IL IA
Д
“The King's Thief" is to be found at the Hoover and Liberty, and has a predo- It's minantly British cust. a tale of England in the reign of Charles II.
swashbuckling adventure-romance attributing a lol of actions to one Michael Dermott that history has pre viously credited tu Captain moustache,
plumed hat elegant mantiers, taken
by Edmund Purdom. His lady fair is Ann Blyth whose American accent seems a Uitle out of place among the more clipped ones of Purdom. Dayid Niven, George Sanders and others.
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Blarus Complete with beard.
and
is
BY JANE ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBĚITY: "The King's Thief”, „Another tilt it history, moving öp to Ctrips 119 réten this time. A High Frade swashbuckler. And miðill, Edmund Pürdom, David Niven and George Sanders,
KING'S. PRINCESS and EMFIRE: "You're Never Too Young", Dean Martin arid Jerry Lewis in another of their crazy comedies. NEW YORK nd GREAT World: “Šon of ŝinbad".
Scantily clad girls, a
a dashing hero and an Arabian Nights atmosphere is the extence of this picture. Dale Robert- son tries hard to be (lla, hero, Vincent Price makes a convincing Quiar, Khayyam and Luf St. Cyr, Mart Blanchard and Sally Forrest wear hot weather clothing. Moro QUEEN'S and ALHAJÍBRA; #Tiger in the Sky",
American jet aircraft, with the home front provided once again by Jone Allyson. The man for whóm she keeps the light to the window is Alan Ladd.
foxt and BROADWAY: **The Tall Men". A western
Jane Russell. Clark Gable, Robert Ryan and Cameron Mitchell.
COMING
EMPIRE. "Bad Boy". A "Blackboard Jungle" type of pletura about juvenile delinquency, starring Audie Murphy. HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Love Me or Leave Me".
stormy life of singer Ruth Etting and bullied ber Into poçoring, a, success. Cagney and Cameron Mitchell.
These two will be recognisable d's Clarte Gable and Cameron Mitchell. (Don't get too fond of Mitchell incidentally, becaise ho gets killed off before the end of the picture).
Things are made a bit difficult for the
the audience at the start by a departure from the sccepted rule that in westerns the hero
should be very very good, and the villain very very bad, Clark Gable and
brother Cameron
blot the by behaving They order
copy books
kidnap Robert Ryan in
to rob himi Anyone who saw "House of Bamboo", however, will realise that Mr Ryan is not let them get away with going to let
นาย thin one. He neatly turns tabics on them by coming up with д counter offer. An enormous herd of cattle is to be driven from Texas to Montana there's plenty of profit in it and the brave brothers are just the boys to handle the action chd of the deal for him,
bb They allow themselves to talked into the proposition and it's just about herë question of whether
BLY AN SMINGUTAS
CLASSY
NANA Technicolor
NEW YEAR AT THE QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
999, 5,15, 7,20 & 940 pm,
SHOWING TO-DAY
$
A HUMAN HEART-WARMING LOVE STORY.
PRET
WARNEM DADS ALAH
LADD
CINEMASCOPE
WARNERCOLOR
JUMES
ALLYSON
"Tiger in the Sky
Thá tring afory of America's first Tripla det Acôf ...........*;
The the gangster who Doris Day, James
that Gable Ryan is to be the hero raises | itself.
the OT
H
5
SHOWS TO-MORROW
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA Extra Performañeó At 11,30 8.th.
KING'S and PRINCESS: "To Hell and Back". Actor Audio Marphy was highly decorated during the war for his courage. This ploture tells of some of his exploits.
**Nana". QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
Emile Zola's famouM story, with Marline Carol an the lads, herself. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "A flag Alone”. Hay
Kiltar's first shot at directing a plétére til witch he also staro. A western.
"Not As A Stranger". A man's burning ambition to become a good doctor almost consumes his private life, Robert Millchum, Olivia de Havliland, Frank Sinatra and Gloria Grahame, ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Girl on The, Red Velvet
Swing
A melodrama based on this life incident, Ingredients: Л show girl, a married man, a jealotis sweetheart who later marries the girl and shoots her former lover. Joan Collins, Ray Milland and Farley Giranger.
And Our Critic's
Verdict
Jano Russell makes her ap-
pearance now she is described
by the bublety, department MONDAY MORNING AT 11.30 A.M. •
responsible for my information as a beautiful, scit-reliant pro- duct of the frontier". Opinions may differ about her beauty, but there's not much doubt about
her self-confidence. She sings a lille too, mostly while dress- ing, undressing or taking a bath
in a tub that is a shade too small for her long limbs.
She has a shot at romance
Pretty sister is that perennial I Juw extracts from this with cach of the three tall men service wife, June Allyson. She picture rome
time go
when of the title, but in spite of her inust have had so much ex- 20th Century Fox were parad- flouncings, drinking sessions and berlehce in saying hello with ing some of their forthcoming general flightiness, there's not wifely devotion and goodbye ettractions, and at the time I much doubt about the identity with bravery and unshed tears, remember thinking that it of the lucky winner of the that her own husband must
looked like being a westem on bundle of tough charm. have slight misgivings, when he
From the extracts I saw. Д grand scale with in obviously is being met or sped on hits
appeared way, that the emotion has been ageing Clark Gable and Robert colour (De Luxe)
the odd good, the action scenes mpres- fighting. 11 weren't sive, with the four pincipals well rehearsed. The lying seches in "Tiger in trying to outwit each other in coping with their parts as one
outweigh the the Sky easily ground action though anti there are plenty of the former, the film is worth while. The
too
05
new Sabrejet is the real hero of the plece and the photo- of this part
graphy, backed by the sound track havD accomplished the dimeult feat of bringing it with- in touching distance,
For onet, David Niven In "heavy", playing the villainous Duke of Brampton who has designe on throne of England.
the George Sanders, as Charles I
very high receive
wou'dn't
marks in psychology. He hasn't nough perception to realise that although
I have heard complaints that noise heightens the reality the the sound track too loud. The
thrill of the whoosh" of take- off and the roar as the aircraft climb into the sky is most ex-
citing. Far from decrying it, I could take much; more of it and much less of the love scenes be-
tween Alan Ladd und June Ally- son.
A likable fim, and one that one of his former could almost see again if the officers has turned highwayman and has made plans to steal the sentiment were removed. Crown Jewels, his loyalty should not be questioned, be cause it is only a roundabout method of gaining an audience
with himt
Don't take all too seriously and you won't be disappointed.
Private Life Of
An Air Ace
Ryon
moments when,
the callic busincs, for favoury of Jine Russell,
From the slogy of the film, it appears that there is a little more to the tale than this,
I ia board on a novel by someone called Clay Fisher, who in turn reached back into the pioneering days for his material and came up with the first big cattle drive from Texas to Montana in 1867.
Why They Were
Needed
4,000 cattle and 1,000 horses were used lis the stampede sectie, according to my Press Book, and the director, Raoul Walsh has naively gont op record with the following explination: The son needed so many was, of Course CinemaScope. We wanted to All the scroca with cattle
4,000 Cattle And W
Three Tall Men
.
we.
to
Once again, the Roxy and an impression of brate force and power, and after Broadway have found it not testy, we couldn't de it with possible to preview, their less." change of programme, so if
In spite of their, numerical the advertisements of "The superiority, however, the animals Tan Men" do not lure you to do hot steal the whole story. “Tiger in the Sky" has either of these theatres it starts just after the American been written around the life there is nothing I can do to Civil War (as so many westerns brothers ride into the Frontier town of Minerdi City, Montäriä.
story of an American air dissuade you from your in- do) when two trigger Happy ace, Joseph MeConnell, who h
tention. was killed while acting as d
test pilot in 1954.
If we are to believe to facts
as they are presented in the pleture ho rather an
by belg
young
man without respect for Army discipline, fouling it
It with such abandon that it is d wotider He rose to tile rank of cor- poral,
less captain.
ever mu traditional iden
Sull, as
of a
de
"eat,
pilot is that he is a
fellow with drink and ԻՆ merry.** philosophy s possible to stretch a bolt and accept it as a plech
dramatic Heence. After accepting in it's easy to take sides with this impisha young man al he, dudes tho MP's by baling but of
of the alr craft In which He is boirig instructed and roaring, de in a app rod" that
conveniently
to be asking
The buy driving this cakes. him home and thle 1 where Romance takes over.
And The Pretty
Sister Is
NEW YORK - GREAT WORLD
SHOWING ̈ TO=DAY®
AT 2.30, 5.30. (NEW YORK AT 5.15. P.M.)!' .
7:30 & 9.30 P.M.
LOVERI ROVER!
His pretty lathe, though NEW disapproving at frat, can't resist
Alan Lada. He calls; her "Butch" makes his entries and exits through the kitchen
dow and -ochindels
hardly taking
Jumably, időto "deosnia
HOWARD HUGHIN
SON
BALE
YORK Added Attraction at 2.30, 5.15 ở 9.30 p.m.
THE RIVAL WORLD" in EastmartöBIBE Fint Prize Winhl) 27/
Fitilval 1955.
would expect.
QUEEN'S
WB & Columb15*
VARIETY PROGRAM
ALHAMBRA Columbia's
VARIETY PROGRAM
Stooges-Color Cartoons 3 Stooges-Color Cartoons
AT REDUCED PRICES
ALHAMBRA
TUESDAY MORNING AT 1130 A.M.
the
Walt
Disney's
REDUCE
RKO Présents
In
"PETER PAN" Technicolor PRIĈES: $1.50, $1:00 & 70 Chi..
Sheum's Circus
OPENING TO-DAY
2 SHOWS
At 7.00 & 9.30 p.m. SPECIAL PERFORMANCE ON HOLIDAYS AT 2:30 P.M.
THE BIGGEST CIRCUS EVER IN HONGKONG
Come & See
Shoum's - Trámeð: „Horses, Tigers, pardi, Liöns, Elephants, Orang-után, Chimpanzee, etc, Breath-taking Acrobatic Acte.
Town Booking Office:
Wing Hong Firm,
(Old H.K. Hötel Bldg. H.K.) Winter Garden;
Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Thrilling! Wonderful!