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KING'S ⋆ PRINCESS
715-4 24 AM 300 IM, A53 1 1730 & 9:00 PM. -
SHOWING TO-DAY
THE UNEXPECTED
FROM
HITCHCOCK!
PARAMOUNT PREZENIS
ALFRED
HITCHCOCK'S
THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY
Color by TECHNICOLOR
KOMUND GWENN JOHN FORSYTHE
SHIRLEY MacLAINE
Directed b
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
JOHN MOCHAKE. MA TER
Sunawat by
| JACH TREVEN STORI
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1956,
FILMS
This is a bumper week for cinema goers. What- ever your taste there is a first-run picture showing that in a worthy represonta- tive of its class, be it romun- tie drama, cynical fun, a glossy musical, A picture with a social message or 21 romance with touch of sadness.
The two new ones are "The Trouble With Harry" and "Sum- mer Madness",
Obstinate Harry
**The
Trouble With Harry" is that although he's dead, he won't lie down or rather, he's not allow- ed to.
Current & Comin
BY JANE ROBERTS
ADDED:
This a
VISTAVISION
rynically funny comedy nude by Alfred Hitch- four delightful abrut
with people who have trouble a body.
Jane Russell and Cornell Wilde as gypsies in "Hot Blood".
Latest Paramount News:
Academy Award Presentations
EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW
King's at 11.30 a.m.
Martin & Lewis in "AT WAR WITH THE
ARMY'
Admission:
PRINCESS
Princess at 11.00 a.m. Disney Techni, Cartoon "SNOW WHITE & THE SEVEN DWARFS"
$1.00, $1.50
TO-MORROW at 12.10 p.m. SPECIAL MATINEE
G. P. Sippy prosents a super Indian Production
"SHAHENSHAH”
in CEVACOLOR
Starring Kamini Kaushali Ronjan
K. N, Singh
Agha
Directed by Amiya Charrabarty - Music był 5. D. Burmaxi
with English Subtitles At Rogular Pricos
NEW YORK GREAT WORLD
Causeway Bay, Tet. 28721
*
Kowloon, Vol. 53590
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. Hepburn as you've never seen her! Venice as you've never seen it!
She came to Venice a Tourist...
She went home
a Woman!
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KATHARINE HEPBURN and HOSSANO BRAZZA
ummernadress
Fileved in Extiman Cater Print by Tachnieslar
Produced by ILYA LOPER? • Directas by DAVID LEAN Screenplay by GAVID LEAN and H. E. RATES DISTRIBUTED BY INDEPENDENT FILM DISTRIBUTORS ADDED ATTRACTION AT NEW YORK THEATRE THE GRAND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE OF 19561 British-Caumount News
SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M. NEW YORK: Warner Bros. Colour Cartoons GREAT WORLD: "PINOCCHIO"
CAPITOL RITZ
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30
& 9.30' P.M.
A PREHNA MAYORN ARAÇ YON -
JACK HAWKINS
TOUCH
MARGARET JOHNSTON
AND GO
SHOWING TO-DAY
'At 2.80, 1.90, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
OVISTAVISION
HOSTVEN
ן יזיז
FORM
body is that of The Barry Word. character
H
0112
whe.
of
il transpires, wag un obnoxious
land creature when in the the Hving and is just as much it nokance of n
now that, seems, he has been helped out of it.
given for more scope and as a "Summer Mudness" is about a pleasantly excentrle artist who romance that grows, flourishes has to supply the common sense for a while, and then dies like a flower in the summer-in the when his three friends look ke Rettig themselves into trouble heart of a lonely women. with the law, he
performs with case and chuim. A very likable
person
She is meant, in the script, to be a piala epinster will at the inhibitions and prudery that the But has played tight-lipped word implies. Edamutad Gwenn countless vitluing and lovuble played by the awkwardly grace- old gentlemen in his time. He ful, elegantly gawkish Katherine thus become well known for his Hepburn she could
set for herwise than fascinating facial expressions one etch type and in "The Trouble eighteen or eighty.
Luckily the point of the im With Harry" the latter set are employed to advantage, though
Vermont In anuma serhe of the crime and it is worth going to se: The Trou- ble With Harry for the colour photography alone.
have
The benuttful autumn tints been cleverly used to convey the mellow, lazy end-of- summer warmness that induces prople to spent most of the lime out of doors.
It's a mildly crazy season
voices corry when
for in the still air and eccentric behaviour seems natural.
Suddenly,
disturbing his pleture of peace, 1 body
found.
there's
hint of his "Sweeny
Todd" role about them.
This is an unusual Hitchcock ploture and well worth a visit.
Hepburn Again
we
never
be
not depend on her belag ugly, it merely requires her to be repressed; and this she sug- Krists subtly, making it seem almost a virtue instead of the encumbrance
to are led belleve it to be in free loving Venice.
She is seen Arst excitedly taking moving pictures as the "Summer Madness" is an train draws into Venice. She is a thousand tourists rolled the like aptly chosen label for
Into ene-challering like a contents of the package to magpie to anyone who will listen which it is tied.
to her, clutching her hat, her and The subject could not be called bags, her precious camera
the picture under it all, having sufficient in- accurately describes a sequence telligence to realise that she is of events that while of trivial making a bit of a fool of herself. Importance even in the lives of the persons to whom they occur, are nevertheless very moving and heart-rending at the time.
Four of the iccals have had a deep one, but a reason for killing Harry and two of them are sure they are responsible for his inccavenient desth.
con-
Edmund Gwenn Jus ferred upon himself h reafaring past and is now living quietly In the filtle community, potting rabbits for pleasure and recely ing sideleng glances from the local spinster.
son
He is convinced. when the
of a young widow ап nounces the finding of a body in the woods, that he must have
shot him by accident.
SECRET BURIAL
The spinster herself (played by Mildred Natwick, the witch in Dammy Kaye's The Court Jester") belleves she is impil- cated, * does the attractive young widow. The suspect is t charmingly self-absorbed artist
John Forsythe,
Having tried, in the begi- Imagined ning, to keep their secrets to themselves, these four are irresistibly drawn together and as cach tries to protect the other, Harry is secretly buried. dug
reburied art hidden In a cupboard while his ultimate disposal is
is heatedly debated by the conspirators.
Shirley MacLaine is the now- comer to the screen whose elan charm won the hearts of tough New Yorkers when she
of the
for the star in The
Game. She is Hepburn-Leslie Cafon type, but possesses a style all her own
and
provided she is always given unusual roles, such as she has "The Trouble With
in Harry" she will and a perma- rent niche in the screen world. John Forsythe also came to Alms from the stogo, but his previous routine parts have not given him a chance to show his capabilities.
This time he is
P
Portrait Of
A Pioneer
Mr Goldwyn
Her self-consciousness dors not deter her however, and the refreshingly innocent way in which "she gulps down-great Jungfully of atmosphere as she revels in, her Arst glimpses of the generous city, she has al- ways wanted to sec brings n lump to one's throat.
For air of frshness, combined with a slightly little girl quality attracts the attention of a good looking Italian-Rossano Brazzi -and though at first the panica at the thought of becoming at all emotionally involved with a man, her fears are slowly over-
come.
HER SMOOTH LOVER
Hte growing feelings towards him advance and retreat go glowingly and shyly that one feels utmost protective towards
Rossuno Brazzi though
too smooth, charming, Is
top plausible in his exhortations to her to take life by the hair and wrest what she wants from it. AT 15
obvious that there is a canker at the heart of the rose,
The awakening, comes, and every them of the women's dis- Illusionment
felt. The
It
of her lover is no treachery less cruel because it was un- ・ | thinking and
devold of quite malice. She cannot see that it was. occasioned by his way of life being completely inexplic- able to her and hera to him.
The end Is Inevitable and, like a swift, hat, flamboyani summer the summer, fades without bliter-
Into
moro mellow, con- templative tones of autumn. It is quite clear that picture must have started fe As a play. The situation has the compactness of a subject treated expressly for the theatre. But It has emerged successfully its a film too.
this
Sam Goldwyn Visiting Hongkong
Tomorrow, there arrives in thê, whleti outstanding screen- colony, in connection with plays are built and he never the showing of his picture "Guys and Dolls" an Inter Hia nationally well-known figure
the sim
Industry Mr. Samuel Goldwyn.
in
During http
Hi
ond dis- tinguished career?
Mr Goldwyn has received; just about every Alm inckistry honour possible,
pletures
have been named.
hesitates to buy the best.
production, "Guys and Dolls" is a chee in point. His purchase price for the screen rights $1,000,000 - set a Hollywood record for story prices, He had to, walt' for
Toresa Wright, Joan Evans, and, Farley Granger are a few of the famous personalities ho
It does not depend for its wider atmosphere on the use of extraneous characters and over- long contemplation of the Venetian background, but rather on a subtly conveyed Iden of the difference in environment and outlook of the two principai characters.
Without going into their lives before their meeting we stil catch the scent of Qeir two widely separated worlds,
By the behaviour of these two people we can see the two dif ferent ways of life from which they have been drawn, and this alves the picture the depth that mere photographed play would have lacked.
Now-Naturama!
of
To the over-growing list 'Scopes and 'Amas a new name has been added: that of "Na- turama". It is a new process adopted by Republle Pictures
has and
iroen developed to bring into clearer vision the distant background detall Herbert Yates pictures,
of
I saw some shots from two new films being made in the process, "Maverick
Queen," starring Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan and "Lisbon" in which Ray Milland and Maureen O'Hara cagage in a battle wits against a background of political intriguo and-Lisbon. Both the lovely scenary in the western and the dignified
buildings of the Portuguese
were brought more sharply into focus by Naturama and it is to be hoped that Re- public will match the improved camera technique with worth- while stories.
New Films -At- A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Little Women": Romance Jons Allyson. Peter Lawford, Margaret
O'Brien
KING's and
PRINCESS: "The Trouble With Harry": Ghoulish comedy. John Forsythe, Edmund Gwenn, Shirley Mac- Laine, Mildred Natwick,
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Summer Mad- New". Bittersweet romance,- Katherino Hop- burn and Rosenno Brazil,
QUEEN'. and ALHAM- BRA: "Rebel Without A Cause': Juvenile delin- quency. James Dean, ROXY and BROADWÁY: "Oasis"; North African golf smuggling. Misbale Morgan, Cornell Borchers and Pierre Brasṛcur.
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Gilys and Dolls': Ex- Hoellent imasica), Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian
Blaine,
KING's anà PRINCESS: "Lucy. Gallant”: Life of fashion-house owner, Jane Wyman, Charlton Непод.
NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Ladykill- m: Thriller with humour. Ajco GuinzeKA, Cecti Parker,
Among
QUEEN', 'and ALHAM- BRA: Hot Blood”, Love the sypije. Cornell Wide and Jane Rustoll.
MAJESTIC
has introduced on the screen, SHOWING TO-DAY
From the ranks of the world
renowned Goldwyn Girls have charged such, stare de Betty Grable, Paulette 4; Goddard, Lucille Ball, Virginia. Bruce,
Ausb:fore he could ̃us,' and Virginia Mayorrabló
semble the cast he wanted.
The project, budgeted at $5,500,-
000 is
the most costly and sme Marion Brando, Jean Simmons Frank Sinatra and
in every election sinco the bisous ho has ever made.
beginning of the Academy Starring Ma Awards. Twenty-woven of them have
"Osenta" in one entegory another and he won the covbotod galā ptátuntik him- wolf iri 1947 for his produc tion of "The Beat Yours of our Lives."
That same year
awarded
Thalber
Writing is a subject dags ja
Blaine and writion and
Among the many
Goldwyn • prbductions
that
have become big Box office attractions ansiella Dallas,"
Darkt Angel AZTOW-
These Three
"DDAŬ End"
odsworth is
by treenh Ly Man-Wuthering Height The
"Guys and Dolls in
being released by MGM at the Hoover, and Liberty. etnomus next week and will have a
› Gals Premlaze bis Wodranday... was Mr. Goldwyn is probably most
de the Kundation : upon
Pride of The The Little Foxc
I
Bout
of our Lives" and "Hane - Christian - Andersen,” ne well as the Eddie Cantor comedies of the past and, Lachnis sajcair intiriesite starsing Diling
AT 2.30. 5.20, '7.30
9.30 P.M.
JOHN GREGSON & DIANA Dogs SUSAN STEPHEN »DERIK EARR
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LICENT ESESSION"
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
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Louls Rainer
Fernand Gravet
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