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MEN KNEW HIS FURY...BUT NOT HIS FACE!
WOMEN KNEW HIS LIPS...BUT NOT HIS HAME!
GENE BARRY
CINEMÄSCOPE
· 129UVEW:43 MISTER HALLOZIJI, Presen
TONY CURTIS COLLEEN MILLER
Purple Mask Technicolor
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DAN O'HERLIHY
ANGELA LANSBURYS
-GEORGE DOLENZ • JOHN LIGYT - MYRNA KAMSEH » PAUL CAVANAGH - ALLISON HAYES
EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW
KING'S at 11.30 0.m.
"THE PURPLE MASK"
At Regular Prices
PRINCESS
PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m.
Warner Bros. TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS At Reduced Prices
SPECIAL MATINEE TO-MORROW AT 12.10 P.M.
An Indian Picturo of Superb Quality presented by Time Films
Starring Nascom
BAGHI
Ranjan
---Shammi
Directed by A, Thakur
**
Anwar - Pran
Music by M. Mohan
At Regular Admission Prices
RDX V& BROADWAY
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THE BLUE RIBBON AWARD WINNING PICTURE
of December, 1955
"GOOD MORNING, MISS DOVE!"
Tho Academy Award
and Photoplay Gold Medal Award Star
MISS JENNIFER JONES
in
HER LATEST UNFORGETTABLE ROLE
Dth Century-Fist procents
JENNIFER JONES Good Morning, Miss Dove!
CINEMASCOPE®
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ROBERT STACK
SAMUEL G. DIGEL-MENRY KOSTER-ELEANORE GRIFFUI
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1956.
FILMS
The stars of "Cockleshell Heroes" are Jose Ferrer and
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Current & Coming
BY JANE ROBERTS
Trevor Howard, but the The New Films At A Glance
whole cast are consistently good and play their parts with an absence of mock heroics, making the whole thing believable, yot at the same time exciling.
wartimo Briely, shows a operation from start to finish, bringing in training, cimeuitică catised by conflicting personall- tea and the that exciting elimux
work put into to all the
61.eration,
the
Jose Ferrer is an American major posts! to a Royal Marine detachment over the head at an English captain with many years
than s
mure service
superior oflleer. They are two totally different types and take an instant dislike to each other. This is conveyed with a minimum of fuss but for his performance Trivor Howard, e.peclutty,
riservca tudi marks,
The American has had a plan Kanali accepted that evils for group of menien in all-who will silp quietly up the River Gironde to Bordeaux in conces and fix impel mines to the hulls of enemy shipping.
The training is gruelling but there are some hilarious scenes in pile of the seriousness of the problem in hand.
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY:
“Madame Butterfly", The opera in Italian with some Japanese actors In the cast. KING'H and PRINCESSit "The Purple Mask". A new ver- elon of the Scarlet Pimpernel with Tony Curtis In the Alto rule rescuing those marked down for the guillotine. With Colleen Milter. Gene Barry and Dan O'Herlihy, NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Value For Money A British comedy about a Yorkshireman who trades his brass for a brassy blonde. John Gregson, Diana Dorn and Susan Stephen. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Helen of Troy". Spectacle, colour and fighting. Jack Sernas, Rossana Podesta and Sir Cedrlo Hardwicke,
ROXY and BROADWAY; "Good Morning Miss Dove", A sentimental Journey with a small town schoolteacher as she reviews the past from her sick bed. Jennifer Jones, Robert Stack and Peggy Knudsen.
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "David Copperfiela". A re-issue of the pictura based on Dicken's novel, with Fredde Bartholomew in the title role,
KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Girl Rush", Rosalind Russell breezes through this musical, working hard and dragging Fernando Lamas and Eddie Albers with bor.
Gloria de Hlavra co-stars
A
An
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Simon and Laura".
sophisticated British comedy list pokes fun at television. Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Maurico Denham and Muriel Parlow. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Cockleshell Heroes'.
Anglo-American strike against the enemy during the
30-45 war. Trevor Howard and Jose Ferrer. ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Deep Blue Ses“, A Juder's wife leaves him for a test pilot, to find that there are still squalis ahead. Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More and Emlyn Williams.
The ITsult Is opera made palatable for those who love music, yel groan at the de fielencies of face, form and acting ability of many of opera'n most accomplished singers.
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QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
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136. 518, 720 & 9.30 p.425.
3rd RECORD WEEK
It Bas been beautifully THIS PICTURE WILL NOT BE SHOWN AT ANY photographed in
technicolour
by the well known French THEATRE IN THE COLONY FOR AT LEAST 6 MONTHS
Director of Photography,
Clauda Renoir, and Is a pollhed. moving production. Take your harudkerchief-you'll need for the tragic ending!
Sentiment And
Spinsters
There is no doubt that Jennifer Jones gives a re- in markable performance "Good Morning Miss Dove". However I did not share the affection accorded her by her past and present pupila. sho played, The character while being in every way exemplary, was overbear- ing, diductie and autocratic. She was just too good to be true. She reminded me of my headmistress.
that she
I suppose the fact did bear such a resemblance to Thut wise, cutting, awe-inspiring mentor of my youth is proof that she portrays the character so well. There is not a fuse and note in her performance well she deserves an award for
il,
The threat of the sergeant particularly tickled me. Fixing his men with an by glare he promised that if they gave any his master will be satisfied that generally making a nuisance of more trouble he would "read the answer is right and not himself. the
act
Janguage wean the delalls too closely, quaranteed to make a Bithop
Not that Gregson is unwilling kick a hole in a stalund glass Colleen Miller net Angela to be reminded of the value of window" In addition there is Lansbury are the two principal "brass". He has inherited his
This, though, doesn't make her one lovely fight that is
women In the cast matel Gene father's penny-pinching ways a sympathetic character and by authentic fooking as any brawl Barry (who came to Hong- takes delight In driving a the time we'd had flash-bocks kong to connection with the bord bargain. Susan Stephien, making of "Soldier of For- who for some reason la in love to the past of all the visitors to tune") hes the supporting role
with him, attempts to exert a her hospital room and seen tho In which she had of captain of Napoleon's guard. softening influence on him, but way
I've seen on the screen.
seem
ជន
con-
I could have done without the endless variations on "A life on the
that ocean wavo" stituted the background music- #t would
that Richard Adinsell is running out of ideas -but this cannot detract from the excellence of this picture.
Trevor Howard has a charm heavily scarred that grufinces, face and a stoop cannot dim and for me he stole the picture. It to Director Jose Ferrer's credit that he kept to his niche in the story and did not attempt to outshine his fellow star.
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This is without doubt a film not to be missed.
Pimpernel Turns
Purple
Pennywise And
Pin-ups
true
in the end it is a Dashy chorus influenced their lives I confess girl from London who does the I didn't really care whether she of her operation or trick.
camo out not.
If you like reality, the Mid- Like
tion
When
Claudette
the popula- of the small town of
Colbert In land town of Bargeld has been photographed in all its grimy "Texas Lady", her father has dreariness. I was wholeheartedly embezzled money. In order to
l
docs, the debt sho pay back with Dlann Dots when the gct off the train from London, saw not done thing and. takes a This a schoolmistress. I can't resist the tempta- the smoke, factory chimneys job as tion to fall into the easy and ghastly greyness of this blights her chances of romance trap of telling
and Miss Dove gradually turne you that industrial town and shuddered.
into a spinster-not a sour one, "Value For Money” lives up
In parts the comedy is over- but a worthy one. to its title.
done. John Gregson's old fashioned house with its antique Her Influence on However,
smoking it happens to be plumbing.
stove, Liberty Hill is entirely good, Diana Dors' gift for insecure hatstands, springless comedy may have been exag- ecia and waterless bath may be and insufferably smug. gerated by the people responsible true to type but the knockabout
the collapses (in her for selling her ns Britain's humour became too much when school, of course) the series of number one pin-up girl, but the stove, hatstand, sofa and flash-backs gets into its stride, reaches her there is no doubt about John collapsing bed performed their and when sho
como even hospital bed they 10 provoke obvious tricks one after the
and faster. The doctor, other. Tony Curtis makes a very
the nurse, the pretty girl wait- different Scarlet Pimpernel As the canny Yorkshire lad However, the Incongruity of ing for her baby to be born, 'Dors' chocolate box the callers-all are part of her from his elegant predeces. who inherits £42,000 when his Diana Bor, Leslie Howard. Several miserly father dies, and cele- prettiness in these surroundings pust.
brates by having the set lunch is emphasised by the mis- And we sit beside Misa Dove alterations have been made at the local cafe, he is priceless. behaviour of the furniture and
as one by one they parade The humour is homespun but Altings and the situations
are before
us to say thank take and although I easy to
the you'
and give her prefer the sophisticated comedy funny if you like slapstick,
opportunity of snapping another imperious platitude at them. which will follow it into the New York and Great World
Miss Dove could never be called ("Simon and Laura") this one
sentimental -- but tho flimm will probably appeal to a wider
could audience.
in the original story too and all in all I think it was wise of the makers to change the title from the retiring little wayside flower to the more flamboyant "Purple Mask".
As in all swachbucklers where disguise is an integral part of the plot, identities get confused and kcals misunderstood with Kay abandon. It's rather like an arithmetical
problem ECL rehuelboy. He's looked up the answer and is faced with the further puzzle of how to fill up
Gregson's ability laughter.
Puccini With
Tears
John Gregson has been under
thumb the
of his
money- conscious father throughout his boy youth and when the old adics, leaving him very comfort-
ably off, his influence extends been almost universally ac beyond the grave. We hear his claimed for the sensible idea
"Madame Butterfly" has
MAJESTIC
disembodied volec chiding his of its planners to use Japan- SHOWING TO-DAY
the page with as convincing con for every half-formed
ned ese actors and actresses and
ret of figures as he can muster thought involving the outlay of dub in the voices of the in order to arrive at the right money, advising him
Perhaps if he's lucky trivolity
and best Italian operatic singers.
answer.
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