KING'S PRINCESS
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SHOWING TO-DAY
2nd BIG WEEK!
HILARIOUS HAPPENINGS WILD ADVENTURES! THE KING-SIZED COMEDY OF THIS OR ANY YEAR!
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DANNY KAYE OURT JESTER
COLOR BY TECHNICOLOR
TO-DAY & TO-MORROW
GLYNIS JOHNS
BASIL RATHBONE ANGELA LANSBURY CECIL, PARKER
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10 PLOTE FINGE
4 SHOWS at 11.15 a.m.
12 noon, 12.45 & 1.30 p.m.
For the thousands who have missed Dr. Billy Graham at Caroline Hilf on Wednesday night, we proudly present
a film specially flown from England, featuring
BILLY GRAHAM
in
The Mighty +Fortress
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Be sure to tell rek of your friends about
"THE MIGHTY FORTRESS"
(Admission:
$1
All Seats)
HOOVER LIBERTY
CAUSEWAY DAY TEL.72371
KOWLOON
2.30, 5.30, 7.30
NOW PLAYING G 9.30 P.M.
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1955.
FILMS
It's almost the mixture as before, this week-end, with most of the Chinese New Year attractions still in full Awing, They're a varied let, and if one, didn't know that it's what goes into the cash box that is the mnin interest of all theatre mana-' gers (making it impractical to rad a comedy if tlie house neross the road is showing a better one) might be imagined that n thoughtful entertainment committee had ensured that each of the first run cinemas had been asked to provide a film different in Hubjert from the others.
"Quenly Durward" 19 ful) f derring-do, giren countenia Cen and fatty sentimetilmas heats a swishbtickter
It also has that box offer al- tracklon, Robert Taylo", and a Aboly a thint of character BMO A whom Reshert Morley is not ashamed to be
He!
seen
As for "ligion of Troy"--th reuld have been billed as “hase t 12 Homer's hand stlie The 11ad Hatory, legend, specta-
and
pret y people are torred into the put this time and the
cle
herkes
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that concocita colourful entertatummut that places nu strain on the men'al prvensses.
The picture that Culled to hal i oul over a ze out week-end was "The Kui rekinn"
TE
"Desert Sands"
has been
the Rowly
Current & Coming
BY JANE. ROBERTS
The New Films At A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY:
"Quentin Durward". A swash- buckler based O Str Walter Scoti'a classle. Robert Taylor, Kay Kental and Rebert Morley. KINO'S and PRINCESS: "The Court Sester". Danny Raye clowns his way through life in 12th century England. With Glyn's Jehus, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury, and Ceel Parker.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Desert Sands".
Foreign Lesion adventure. Ralph Merker. Maria English and J. Carrot Naish. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Helen of Troy". Spectacle. extern and Peteline, Jack Serucs, Rossana Podesta and Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
ROXY
And
BROADWAY:
"The Rains of Ranchipur“. A remake of the Myrna Loy-Tyrone Power picture, set this Ume areinst a background of modern Inda, Lana Furnes, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Michael Renate and Jean Caulfield.
COMING
100VER and LIBERTY: Madame Butterfly".
The oper
In Malan with some Japanese acters in the cast. KING'S and PRINCESS; "The Purple Mask". À new version of "The Berrlet Pimpernel with Tony Curtis as Die Purple Mask, yzculug the marked down for the alle. With Coleen Miive Geue Barry and Dan D'Herlihy, QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA:
An velleshell Hemes". Aurlo-American strike against the chemy during the 139-45 war, Trevor Howard and Jest Ferrer, NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Value For Money". British cuturdy. Diana Dors and John GregsOIL, ROXY and BROADWAY: "Good Morning Miss Dove".
smill town schoolteacher and her Influence on the com- ninally, past and present. Jennifer Jones and Robert
Black.
har been given a Freuch lines
fw puzzlings
with
to
and there's by replaced
old ththes bize
fellow and with resurrected feel- what I think was intended ing for the Foreign Legion that be: Scoth pretat (1 ga hered zeem to be inspiring Alm com-
this breau 4 his nickname was pore, recently, it would be as "Mac"!) who is aber conferso welling along and get your- to the crazy mixed-up kids In sel orientated.
the troops.
The Ingredients
main
This kind of thing is welcome change from westems and the petion is every bit as the best of them. good as
There's more than int of please the blood- savagery to thirsty, there's
suspense while
It's the kind of tale that has Is adherents nee the birth of 12 tilan Adustry, the bones being cosily recognisable,
Tate a lonely desert outpost, we bunch of characters looking W wait to sec what his forward to the arrival of the re- become of the gisting colum
(overtitle, for drum nd there's Jobily Carrading us two lovelies who quic
lef
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column
ti effecti á martinor (albeit the
the vill: in of the piece, as well
the as the
looking to Butler hearts of the feminino section of obviously wouldn't be seen the audience) in command, and dead in the desert without theli several references to the un-
connetic boxes or their seven of voils. Who state
could
for
easy;
trigger-happy
mind of one of the desert tribes, more? and there ly the
plot.
In the old days,
some
however,
25
Kaye At Court
they were content to show the marauding Arabs as a bunch of grubby suvuges photographed en 11 's+C with orders given by
Differing from the other anonymous leader who three as widely as they do was never neeordert The dis- from each other, "The Court tinetion of bebig plcked out by Jester" pokes a little mild the camera,
"isms" fun at swashbucklers,
Now, with a the
to
A BOL of
who clu
to
reach
A
A
than on the overall merit of tho picture.
In "The Rains of Ranchipur
have the three leading actors tumes that have become house- hold words.. Lana Turner, for my money, out-Monroe's Marilyn. the much publicised Fred MacMurray's lustre hasn't become tarnished with his
n years and Richard
"although
we haven't seen a great deal of him, has managed to get lileir ul- ciently
you and
talked about to rank with the equally
other two, Aud to these Michael Rennie, und und only
a slight alteration of the title of a novel that most people have read and you have
you fear something that will go to with hope emerge from with disillusion.
Unless you are particularly dificult to please, this is not the car with The Rains of Ran- chipur" I would not be fair to call it a
but it great alm, Ins the power of holding ones attention the wirules WAY
through, in spite of tedious dis- sertations from all the main characters on their reasons for being what they are.
Lana Turner-nuch slimaner
than have seen her for me
ww
the wile of Michael Rennie. He has a tille and no brrin. She has morry sad thirst for entertainment.
'Breathtaking'
Michael Rennie doesart have much to do and Richord Burton, considering his talent, Both have "ppeal how. jees. evr. and one feels hat Land Turner is a lucky girl to luve Uter
both competing for her-
in exprcially
patuital aroundings of the home of a Maharence.
Burton, with his compelling
eyes. ล
green
Wan enjoying the attention-Is the only survivor of a massacte. He is the hole to the throne of abit of England (the picture 19 cet in the Ume when everyone Yureting to bring the dear old Cecil Ta pau) und
Cee Purkey. who couldn't ho villain if they called him Sir more force on his side because Laurence, is the blackguard who
Beconalary interest lans bac
which the butchering done, I has to ased the child how- his love fale, but Remale s cat, und, like the Pharaoh, is not to be rulest out when one doing his best fo find out where 31 is hidden in order to have it destroyed for good.
Those Credits!
Intention
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takes precedence over
takes into consideration the
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wary look in Lona's tyes when he
suppests divorce. Fred
Js MacMurray, disillusioner architect and Joan Caufield ils
irritatingly
of
and the
daughter The child is being cared for forward by a band of outlaws whose missionary supply a secondary but the pleturi 14 te depose the love interest, super and Put the rightful stealer is the earthquake.
This bursts the dam bridging king-the baby on the throne.
Cecil Parker made me laugh the main river in the state of
Ranchipur
resulting with his line, "Get those bodies outta here"-suid bodies being scenes are everything that the mean when they those of his three trusty coun- publietty men
use the word "breathtaking." I sellors poizoned by Basil Rath. bone--and
could have done with a little Angela
Lansbury; less sund-it was loud enough looking like a waltress dressed
To make one feel na though up at a princess has fun in one scene as she sits imperturbably the rearing torrent was literally the sewing while
over a battle rages pouring
one-but effects of the water dashing round her.
"One or two other shots saved helds, people and palaces with- through villages. engulfing The in for me: "Danny Kaye Jeaping with what was meant to
out distinction
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA 5 SHOWS TOMORROW "HELEN OF TROY"
EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
-2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 11.113.
434, 510, 720 & 9.30 pm
2ND BIG WEEK!
HELEN OF TROY
FROM WARNER DROS in CINEMABCOPE and WARNERCOLOR
- AT USUAL ADMISSION PRICES
This pletura will NOT be shown at any Theatre in the Coloný for at least 6 months.
NEW YORK GREAT WORLD
CANSOWAY BAY, 111, 78720
KOWLOON. TEL53300
COMMENCING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.80, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THE WILDEST CHARGE"
THE SAHARA EVER KNEW
Desert
Sands
RALPH
HNICOLOR
MARLA J.CARROL
MEEKER ENGLISH-NAISH
RON
JOHN
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CARRADINE - RANDELL - SMITH-LARSEN
WIN UITA MILAN • PHILIP TONGE • OTTO WALDIS GREPCE NA GENERE - REDINGE F. SLASH... GANGST ÁRNCED
AUBREY SCHENCK - BOWELSH W. KOON - LESLET SELÄNGER
ATI LAKËR SHËN WUSTED ALISSTO
realistic
of
1s be alry grace on to a bed, to be enough to be quite terrifying.
Yes, I liked "The Rains Beinted with sonorous clang Ronchipur." from the springs; a quite comic Aght at the end of the pleture, ducked down inside his armour after his head had supposedly been struck off by an enormous swipe from his adversary.
fying through the air, it Is I'm afraid that I must di- the deatly ine myself up with the fashionable
::regate leader of the tribe, give him small rection of cinemagorrs dictator romplex,
Kaye funny. Let that be
not And Dderstood and the uretacle of Danny Kaye, warped Ideals, and while dress- TEL. 60148. 00240
him up file a musteal at the outset and arcording ing comedy hero, suggest that he your views you can either has been given an expensive skip the next paragraph. education at one of the best Its whimsy has been tipped schools.
before, his grimaces used in His
The comedian's capering in part in the picture is not everything he has appeared in, United to leading the charge his gift for mimicry has been
front of the credit ilties preeed- hia a small knot of wise- milket dry and
ing the Alm I found most dis- against
ability to There's ete tanguc-twisters i
tracting. Always gelung cracking herpes either.
supposing tribal so the "oh-not-again" sluge.
that these credit ütles are rea- much more to playing a tribal chlef these days, In
Why oh why, don't they let "Desert
It seemed ly necessary
quile Sands" it includes (besides the
pointless to have Danny Roye him retire for a year and return to 119 aforementioned
AS D semi-serious actor. singing and dancing around them sartorial ele- gance) striding about, letting using in good lovies, his charm distracting all attention away
from thems. and perfect sense of Uming in off speeches explaining his rea- the kind of romantle roles cons for hating the loathsome they give to far uglier actors. foreigner, taking his scantily His few
THIS WAS A TIME OF LOVE AND VIOLENCE!
MB-M Kunnen Sie Walter Scott's
Quentin
Alerting
Durward
ROBERT TAYLOR-KAY KENDALL
---- ROBERT MORLEY.
IN CINEMASCOPE AND IN COLOR
SUNDAY MORNING matinee: REDUCED ADMISSIÓN
Hoover at 12.00
Ann Blyth
Edmund Purdom
Liberty at 12.30
Robert Taylor Eleanor Parker
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almost serious
clad sister on ralds with himments near the beginning of the and generally making E suc picture when he establishes the cessful effort to steal the show fact that he is in love with from the real star--the com mander of the fort.
American English
Glynis Johns were as romantic as any actor who has been given the "Great Lover" pub-
Helly build-up.
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Terrifying Rain
And so to the last of the five first runs showing this week The Rains of Ranchipur".
COBES
do
AJESTIC
TO-DAY
At 2.30. 5.10, 7.30 & 9.40 p.m.
20th Comaryfas pristati
CLARK, JAKE ROBERT GABLE RUSSELL RYAN
THE TALL MEN
COLOR DE TAKE
CINEMASCOPE
To-morrow Morning Show At 12.30 p.m.
Only In a few However, back to "The Court several big star names in a cost The accents in this picture Jester."
The
plot
guarantee a good show. It docan't "THE STUDENT PRINCE" "MANY RIVERS TO CROSS, co befits something dealing matter verv much. The factually, means that the material
with the Foreig Legion, that
is weak and that the makers personal idjoxynerasy polyglot. English people
are relying on the attraction will generales à feeling of horror have
of the personalities of the stars hilarious
C time whenever a child in mencerd
to pull in the listening to an American actor (even when it le quite clear
patrons rather "I with a crew cut giving out with that nothing is going to happen what he imagines is an English to it,
Jn "The Court Decont ca our American friends Jester" put me off from the must have when we try to talk start. The baby-n dear Uttle Brooklynese, J. Carrol Nalsa fellow who looked as though he
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THE
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CINEMA SCOPE-TECHNICOLOR
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AUDIE MUREMY
·A UNGERSAL INTERNATIONA
Shows on Junday
MANCE
At Reduced Pricos MARRIED ADVENTURE”
RITZ'
SHOWING TO-DAY
AI 2.30, 5.30, 7.30′ & 9.30 p.m.
BRODERICK CRAWFORD
RUTH
ROMAN
To-morrow Special Show
At 12.30 p.m.. :/
tan 1344 677 James Mason in
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A BEL-AIR Production
SUPERSCOPE
SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M. NEW YORK: Walt Disney Tochnicolor Cartoons GREAT WORLD: Warner Bros. Colour Cartoons
ROXY & BROADWAY
2ND BIG WEEK
NOW SHOWING + THE 8TH DAY! Owing to length of picture please note chango of times: ÄT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
20th CENTURY-FOX presents
the Rains of Ranchipur
CINEMASCOPE®
COLOR by DE LLINA
Starring Lana Richard Fred
Joan Michae TURNER BURTON MacMURRAY CAULFIELD RENNIE
BROADWAY: To-morrow Morning Show At 12.00 Noon Fox & M.G.M. Technicolor Cartoons Programma In CINEMASCOPE Reduced Admission, $1,20 & 70 cf
TO-DAY
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