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KING'S PRINCESS
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At 230+ 330-7.30 & 9.30 351.
SHOWING TO-DAY
IT COULD ONLY HAPPEN IN TEXABI
Paramount
JANE
WYMAN
...The fabulou
story of the most amazing people In America today!
CHARLTON
HESTON.
LUCY GALLANT
CLAIRE
TREVOR
VISTAVISION
THELMA RITTER
WILLIAM DEMAREST · WALLACE PORG - TOM MELMORE
WILLIAM H. PISE WILLIAM C. THOMAR
ROGERT PARKIS19 - qcompagno JOHN LEE MANIN 1 WINSTON MILLEA
DOLOR MY TECHNICOLOR
EXTRA MORning show TO-MORROW
King's at 11.30 a.m.
Abbot & Costello
LOST IN ALASKA
Admission:
A
CHINA
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1958.
FILMS CT
t-
and
the
For songs, settings and sheer good humour I haven't seen a film for ages to com- pare with "Guys and Dolls",
The four principals are as ferent from each ofier in per- Fonailty and styles of acting as it's possible to be and DVCTY sequence springs a fresh entrancingly new surprise. a good thing that It a musical numbers are all so well ktown. With an ordinary popular song, the fact that it had been heard on and off for four would have killed успев от
But not it stone dead by now. so the numbers in "Guys and The tunes and lyrics, Dolis" though familiar, are more like well-loved triends whose pet stories take on a new delightful. ness every time they are heard.
50
mcs
The beat tune of the ilin is heard least. It comes early and sets the mood. It is a trio by Three characters with the delightfu
of Nicely- Nicely Johnson
this (duo to Inevitable reply to uries after his well-being Велпу Southstreet and Rusly Charte Beiting and gambling form the background of "Guys and Dolls" and the tila sing of the merits of the respective horse each one favours.
A
New Films
At
A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBENTY: "Guys and Dolls". Ex- Marlon cellent musical. Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine.
KING'S
and PRINCESS: "Lucy Gallanf”. Lifo of a career ziel. Jane Wyman, Charlton Hesson.
NEW YORK and GREAT
WORLD: The Lady-
hiffers".
Thriller with
humour, Ales Guinness, Cecil Parker. Katle John-
son.
QUEEN'S and
ALHAM-
BRA: "Hot Blood". Love among the gypsies, Jane Russell, Cornell Wilde. ROXY and BROADWAY: "1 am a Camera". A comedy, Jullo Harris, Laurence Harvey,
COMING
After this curtain raiser we are introduced to the four prin- cipal
HOOVER 'There's characters. Nathan Delt it played by Frank
worried
man is Nathan. As the
As the operator of the established oldent Princess at 11.00 a.m.
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CARENRY BEL TEL 19729
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It's The Funniest Crime Story Ever!
PLANE
KATSINA
PENAL COM
ALEC GUINNESS CECIL PARKER HERBERT LOM PETER SELLERS DANNY GREEN
and
43
Ladykillors
JACK WARNER
FRANKIE HOWERD
KATIE JOHNSON
COLOUR & TECHNICOLOR
MADE OF LALING, STUDIO
Ovaried
BERANDAI MACKENOREF
SETH HOLT
WILLIAM NOSE
SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M.
NEW YORK:
Fox Colour Cartoons
GREAT WORLD: 3 Stooges Comedy & Cartoons
CAPITOL RITZ
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30
& 9.30 P.M.
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ENTERTAINMENT
ACTUAL
CASAMAICA
TASABLANCA
lag Showr
DEATH KUW
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30.& 9.40 p.m.
Katha Kast, Wood & Was, Will The Tunde Kror Host Then The Kanan That Has Novel The World Over Hill & Century 27
Madame
Butterfly
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Is
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he is embarrassed--his prestige stake all is nearly lost. The reason is Lt. Brenaljan of the New York police,
Brando Sings!
He tells Nathan that the heni is on and that all the regular hideouts
where
Nathan
operates his legal games are being watched. The scene in a the barber's shop where all
them
and
customers
of (inst Nathan's clientele)
rise salute him in song is hilarious, throre 13 Nathan's Vivian
< Then
bern
Blaine Who hay
id
LIBERTY:
"The Swan". A princes
Graco and a commoner. Kelly, Alec Guinness KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Second Greatest Sex". Romance. Jeanne Cratn, George Nader. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Night of the Hunter" Murder and swapense.
Robert MIL-
chum and Shelley Win- ters. QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "Lawless Street". western. Randolph
A
Scolt
BOXY and BROADWAY: "The Conqueror". Speo- facle, John Wayne and Susan Hayward,
BY JANE ROBERTS
obviously she must breathe her Jane Bursel. are two ... gypsies fast before doing so.
from Chicago who make their Tho ghoulish way in which, living by the beauty of Jane. like the ten little niggers, the It's all quite innocent really five are made to disappear, one and even involves marriage. by one, la extremely cleverly Janu's photograph to shown to a thought out and executed. I family of gyp les who have on particularly lived the upitaph of eligible ron, a down payment is Peters Sellers; his made by the son's family, and The sply, mortal remains are tipped over the wedding is arranged. the bridge of a railway to the strains of the jazz to which was so patently addicted.
There are many small touches of this sort that tickle the senses of the observant and K Alce Guinness does, for ones, overact just the tiniest bit, there's
splendid perform always the ance of the irritating old lady to watch. Her name is Katie Johnson.
he At the ceremony Jane (look- ing more buxom and healthy than ever before) becomes ill. Her sorrowing father leads her away, young brother has the car engine running outside and before anyone can say "Gitano", eft go the three of them with the morrlage
money and potential brido for whom to con- tract a marriage in yet shother American towp.
isn't Father
Fuch good business man ofter all though. He hasn't taken into corsidera-
A Woman's Film
on the possiblity that his daughter might tall seriously in love with one of the candidates,
Those of you who think that only oil and cowboys come from Texas should pay a visit to "Lucy Gallant” and have your eyes opened. It Ruritanian in quality, but it's a appears that one of Ameri- lot of fun. ca's top fashion houses
"Hot Blood" may be slightly
started there and the climax No Resemblance
of the picture is a dress show featuring some startling de- signs by Edith Head.
19 a This
woman's picture, casily have The story could
Jonti Crawford vehicle been exdopt that Lucy Gullent her- self is not
ruthless quite enough for the Crawford brand of histrionies.
In all other respects however It could have been a Crawford picture.
Lucy Gallent descends on the
at the
her
I have read Christopher Isherwood's book on which the picture, "I am a Camera" is based, and had I not been told in the publicity notes that the film owed its origin to the book I would not have detected the slightest resemblance.
The
book was personal cominent
تونه
highly
an
intelligent student on ilte in the days when Hitler Was climbing step by step to power, Am relegales Isherwood himself to an ineffectual clown of
weak fellow,
a
same time obnoxious 10 Cut Men Out Of Her Elle For Ever!
troussicau
yooming all town of Now City with an expensive and fashion- able troussSCUB. There's only one thing wrong-no husband. It seems that he has jilted rad Miss Wyman's obstlaste as she little
sets tightly jaw
her mind to Show hypochondriac who allows the makes up
Daily Bowies to Them and
treat him as a door mat. It is her flim entirely and never for a second does she let you for- She starts off by selling her
at
a fantastic proft get !!. It is necessary to stop some→
Bowies is played by Sally 10 "going steady" with him where when singing the praises
the fashion-hungry women
Julie Harris. There is a lot of is eternally
of the towWEL. for 14 years and
of this picture-a fit conclusion
She gives a pantomimte per- trying to juduce him to give up
would be to say that it lives up surplus cash floating about and
the inspired formance
by her. his gambling and marry
of a ex in the nicest possible way Lucy conventionel conception in the to every promise She played this part In the
travagant ballyhod preceding it decides to get her shire.
1020 flapper-holsy, flamboyant, Charlton in both England and that it is an excellent plc-
Heston is stage version and America.
ture in every way.
Wyman's romantic partner in exhibitionistic, obsessed by the
desire to Gallont",
be thought shocking Lucy
though they the picture at and therefore emancipated and as pleasant have Oggerheads with each other (it's about
Bround 18 a young viper. that sort of film).
I have
scen rarely
апусто There's not a great deal for
of the What a varied bunch are those two excellent character work so hard in front
steals and
camera-she completely Ritter whose netresses, Thelma of "The Ladykillers"
the
show
freen Laurence nefarious deeds cause all the Claire Trevor to do and Charl-
1on Heston Isn't called upon for Harvey, and as for poor Shelley have put trouble in this film.
and ness Winters-her than ruggedness wooden delivery of them and a suggestion of a swagger wo
Marlon Brando is a big time
gambler who is reputed to have Guinness Returns sprut most of
refused penicillin when be was il, as he had taken a bot that bo could force his temperature up to 104 degrets.
He will bei
As the leader and the brains of the concern there is Alco Guinness. 1 have always had
for th the greatest respect actor because of the way which no absorbs himself in
on anything and has some of the best dialogue in the picture His singing will
will not
but it is any fear into Sinatra, and pleasant voice
he and Jean Simmons, (as the mission Bry ass who falls in love with him) sing sone pleasing duets. Comedy the keynote of "Guys and Dolls," but many of the love scenes between this unlikely pair have dalicacy p that a romantic in д most unHollywoodian way,
MIGHTY
IN ACTION
never-before has a
picture breathed such
DRAMA!
POWER!
FIRE!
HOWARD HUGHES
JOHN SUSAN WAYNE HAYWARD
THE
CONQUEROR
Cinque annỀ
TECHNICOLORE
in
very new part. With the ex-
epos of the half moon mile that he can never quite craze, he might be a new person with every new role he attempts.
int
Bore,
Јало
Le
lincs
WAL atvor advance her acting career. the outdoor scenes. In addition I can't belleve that There are good performances Selal as landlady and anyone as pleasant, kind and by charming as Jane Wyman could by the ebullient American on time, have built up from nothing, whom Sally preys for a
but end single-handed too, the Isherwood himself might largest fashion store in Texas, have had more life if he had The clothica are Interesting been played by someone though.
than Laurence Harvey.
A Lot Of Fun
In "The Ladykillers" his superficial politeners and plau- sible confidence trickster tactics are doubly menacing when it My favourite grouse, 19 revealed that be is quite with regular readers of this out heart. After the foolproof column may recall is that rubbery that he has planned and in conjunction gang has carried out, it becomes evident that the tile old lady in whose house they meet......... outersible to practise quintets
with
this
in the way ond must be liquidated.
The gentle "professor" which
is is nickname in the under-
world has no compunction whatever in planning her doom, but the other four toughs oud- denly develop consciences.
Soft-hearted
American film titles in the main are misleading and sometimes in bad taste, while British films, though titled more appropriately for the type of film they re- present are often wordy and without popular appeal.
I must confess that I went to "Hot Blood" with a strong pre- judice against it-the title alone was almost enough dissuasion, the advertisement pictures near- ly completed the job.
It's
happy
I am to report that This is a great surprise after the picture
Trish in its their feree talk and appearance.
Herbert Lom, in spite of his a
trom performance camco sinister looks, his handling of an Luther
Adler as a
very sophisti inoffensive violin care as though cated New York style
KYDAY sub-machine gun and king, and Jane Roll and
it were
general.
lap-happy Chainces, thero's |
his avowed dislike of old ladies Cornell Wilde are ↳ couple of
proves squeamish of you
when faced with the job of
posing of her. Coell Parker.
though more kindly than
wha would enliven any
had the silver. ware incured against theft and
rest and known as "the Major" the glass again;t wanton break-
The story is slight. Joteph
is no minor in the field of crime, o.gc. yot he too, when faced with her |ingenuous philosophy finds him- self unable to carry out the Kang's sentence.
The remaining two-big, burly, brairless Danny Green, and the Palais-de-dance
Petor type. Solleds, ore equally intimidated by her bird-like twitterings ori the_subient of right and wrong,
The old lady knows loo much, she has discovered thele crime
which they have managed to impliente her, she is determined go to the police. Quito
Coming Very Soon and in spite of the clear way in
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