Page
Page, 2
KING'S ★ PRINCESS
A1 2 34-1.3-1.30 & 934 P.M.
SHOWING TO-DAY
YETH, THEZ ME
They're cut to
SEZ YOU! BUST THE MAJOR
PRINT BY
Technicolor
PRIVATE WAR & MAJOR BENSON CHARLTON HESTON JULIE ADAMS
A HALLIAIA GEMATEST TIN GOREIDINE and TIM HOVEY
A UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
ADDED: Latest Paramount Nows
•
THE GREAT WEDDING IN MONACO
EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO MORROW
KING'S at 11.30 a.m.
Bob Hope in
"THE LEMONDROP KID"
PRINCESS at 11,00 a.m.
Warner Bros. present TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
Free Samples of FOUR COWS MILK)
by Paramouni
At Reduced Prices
TO-MORROW
PRINCESSE
EXTRA SHOW AT 12.10 p.m.
Film Show Productions of India present a Story of True Love and Clory of a Woman "MADHUR MILAN"
Mahipal Starring Nigar Sultana -
Roopmala Madan Puri
Proshicer Director K. G. Punwani
At Regular Prices
T
MUNIC
Bulo Rani
Free samples of FOUR COWS Condensed Milk to patrons of this show
NEW YORK GREAT WORLD
Causeway Bay, Tel. 70721 Kawloon, Tel. 53500
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30. 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
She heard him stumbling up
the stairs..
TONIGHT
HER
TERROR
WOULD
BEGIN!
CORNEL WILDE
JEAN WALLACES DAN DURYEA
Storm Fear"
aka sharing
TY MITU LIER A THUNDERBOLTS
LEE GRANT DAVID STOLLERY DENNIS WEAVER STEVEN HILL
Sorry by #CHLOX (COTE Bucal en than never"STORM FEAR, SAINTON SELLEY » Producat si directed by CORNEL MILDE
Blessed they UNITED ARTISTS
SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12.30 P.M.
NEW YORK: Walt Disney Technicolor Cartoons GREAT WORLD: Fox Color Cartoons.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1956.
FILMS
Mention the word "awan"
and the qualities of ele gance. dignity and grace spring to mind; describe something as swanlike and the subject immediately a Sames an ethereal simpli- eity. It seems almost lese majeste to mention that swan ca soap as savagely bad as a goose or hisg as Temperedly as a disturbed apake.
FA
T Alee Gumness who re- munds us the less endearing side of a swan's melure in Grace Kelly' latest picture "The Swan", showing HOW 01 the
Hoover and Liberty Theatres,
After a double decade of pre- paration for the role of Queen, Grace, as the lovely, enignatie Princess Alexandra, has at last been confronted by the Crown Prince marriage with whom will Throne. Jessie Ruyec
Jesam
| Landau, a her having and am- bitious mother has worried her rotang daughter into
a state of
serviles Immobility and the Worldly prinee, though mehed she beauty, is equally it at Pane With a girl so obviously gatiche by Bastionarie standards
He has not been granted our the girl, helent 38th Fre nusther.
faut showing flashes of quickly a
when with her dood tot young brothers or their attractive futur
Wło
Grace's Secret
1
Thus far I have not shared the almost universal admiration for has Grace Kelly, but this Blm gone a long way towards revend-
secret of Og to me the Charm It is struined up by r THIUK
if her vulce, style and
bearing
not as natural as they appear, then shudder to think of the anoint datudy that rutist have been re- ured to achieve such ease.
**
This
I
agend delightful thi392 For which every rider netays with impeccable good taste, and gra sty, the end, privalls over the mindane Historts of love and mutual attraction
Bebus Aherne makes a kindty, worldly toman Catholic priest and i particularly liked his dry comment on Jesse Royer Landis
་་་ ansition for her daughter. She has said that her whole life has be dedicated to regaining a throne for their family and ta that end has done everyting to bring her daugther, the Princess Alexandra,
her
Current & Camin
BY JANE ROBERTS
This Week's Films
In Pictures
Taken
that respectively order they .re Glenn Ford. Ernest Borgnine and Rod Stej-
KIT.
The hero stumbles Into the cous, picture jobless and hurt but is
Crown Prince Albert together. Turkaly found by the husband, If she could accomplish this the
who owns 10,000 acre cattle would willingly the next day
I would want you on these terms" sinile marks the priest with
romanti Louis Jourdan is us and charming
very much doubt if Heaven
a tutor as
raneh. He IN O rough
The Swan
Is the bail templing enough? Grace Kelly's family (above) look on hopefully as she is in- troduced to Crown
Prince Albert. A scene from "The Swan".
Jubal
Valerie French (left)
is an English girl ex- ported to Hollywood to star with Glenn Ford in "Jubal".
tion, for in it her dream boy
is nice to look a complete idiot. For
ព delivering
dressing down to his troops that would hair make Bessie Braddock's stand on end, he is banished to command what he is led to be- lieve is an O.T.C..
cating words have
re
been on the
subject or discipline and he demonstrates how badly he has
lesson ewn
learned Jis
thumping on his C.O.'s
and breaking his baton.
by
desk
These little outbursts of tem-
per are overlooked, however, on
the understanding that
nukes good in his new post,
To the Major
Bunsonsky
drinking
horror,
the
OT.C. turns out to be Д Roman Catholle
codeta, the
school for
okiest
young
of whom
(a colonel) can't be more than
เท
and the youngest allegedly
6. The only ray of light on his murky horizon is the school doctor.
for
Though self opinionated, shy is eu vetous enough to capture ists attention and the story ealls
to think she is pretty The film doesn't get out to appeal to the intellect and it unashamedly udvises lock up your heart in case you hee it to the six-year-old Tun Hover.
Without this invable
you
to
f
little enseal the #tim would 199 very
[ຄ! Indeed, in spite some ef its gently humorous
without a moments. He is
doubt
the star of the picture and has none of the contrivedly cute mannerisms of most screen children. I hope Mis Bove won't let Hollywood spot him
New 'Scope'
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
130. 3.15, 7.20 & 230 + 114
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★
''I'M GONNA KILL YOU, JUBAL ....”
FOR WHAT YOU DID TO MY WIFE!"
CINEMASCOPE
TECHNICONOL
ÇOS LAVERNA PACE UMIE
GLENN FORD
BORGNINE ROD STEIGER JUBAL
WEST
VALERIE FRENCH-FELICIA FARR
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
5 SHOWS TOMORROW
"JUBAL"
EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M.
ROXY & BROADWAY
2nd BIG
WEEK!
NOW SHOWING THE 11th "DAY! Owing to longth of picture please note change of timos: AT 2.30, 5.20. 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
MIGHTY IN SCOPE!
of
HOWARD HUGHES
A demonstration of the latest development by 20th
Fox Films Century CinemaScope "56" was hell by other during the week and a large As the audience was given a pr^- writer of the screenplay was view of sequences from two ain responsible
direction. Aims that have been photo- the blame secans to rest on his shoulders.
referred .. but are chargeless in the story.
for
graphed in the new system. Both pictures "Carousel" and de- "The King and "ably
Now A Producer strate the improvement in
made
"Storm Fear" was by an independent company headed by the star of the picture, Coruel Wilde. I is his first effort at starring. directing and producing and
technique. There is none of the smudginess at the sides or dis- tortion at the edges that has Hometimes been seen in the big screen products,
What is technically known as "audience participation" has also
incrca:cd
that the
but he has made a very credit or can record the detailed
kindly man and the hero, who has had an unhappy childhood,
aively says
that except his father, he is the only who has gone out of his to do anything for him.
tion he J
rould wish for and except for and slightly incomutariable scene ich he tells Aler Guinness in which
-the Crown Prince-wat wwless plece of sxiety he is- the im glides gracefully al itke a motor-driven yacht on a fat, calm,
im lake,
either as parsing entertainment or as something deeper and wil probably be shown over and over again during the next ten years,
This picture can be enjoyed
for
WAY
able job of it.
I particularly liked the musical score by Elmer Bernstein. never intrudes, but is used in- telligently to highlight the dramatic moments and serve as
the m background for whole.
AS
serious picture Wikhi plenty of suspense and Interplay of character. It opens on a gay note with a boy and a young laughing companionably together as they make their way buck neross the countryside to the house,
mun
In return for this considera- rejects the tempting advances of the rancher's wife who has Ignominiously ejected the villain, her lover, from his #tar of cfshonour, to make way for her new favourite. Mr Ferd, not a hit with the villain from the start, is now a very unpopular
DOY
indeed, Unfortunately much
the lot pinch of when: beeoines obvious that seen. Their laughter fades as
will be
punished and they enter the back door and Pho pure prevali. How there's a sharp contrast between “Jubal”” is a western that
ever there's an
interesting if their ease out of doors and the has been beautifully photo- overdone portrayal by Rod Stei- stram that immediately becomes
when the graphed
ger of the warped villain and the noliecable In a manner We have come to expect from good girl is a fresh little thing ing
Confusing
<vi
of the
IL'S lonely moun-
tainous part of the country and ได้ lost the house is the only one to be
boy's
mother speaks. who really does look as though She looks a drab, complaining
woman
the CinemaScope cameras she's speaking the truth when
who obviously cart and Technicolor tints, but she tells Glenn Ford that he's nothing about her appearance.
it remains, in spite of its the art man who has klased She could be pretty, but with colour, a black and white her.
only consumptive husband, the Λ small point that seems to farm labourer (the young man film.
Jinve been overlooked is the with
The bad girl looks particular ly attractive in the shade of red, that has been chosen for two of her outfits but she Pomains a conventional siren, boastful about her conquests, fickle in her fancles and disloyal to her husband.
So too with the hero, tho wronged husband and the villain
MAJESTIC
CAPITOL RITZ SHOWING TO-DAY
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30
4 230, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
9.30 P.M.
HOLDEN
plenie
Sunday Morning Show A 12.30 p.m. Kerol Flynn in "ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD" in Technicolor
CAT HER EVERYTHING BUT HIS BAR
LOLLOBRIGIDA
CAMS of
LOVE
Tomorrow Special Show
At 12.30 p.m. “ROB ROY" in TECHNICOLOR
AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 G 9.30 P.M.
2011 CENTURY FOX
TOM
EWELL
SHEREE
NORTH
THE LIEUTENANT
dark
RITA MORENO
WORE SKIRTS
COLOR GELE CINEMASCOPE
de the leader of SIDEDEVONO BANA.
Morning Show To-morrow At 12.30 p.m. Reduced Pricus Richard Widmark in "A PRIZE OF COLD" Color by Technicolór
similarity between the names whom the boy has been
worth the trouble.
laughing) and her soni for an of two of the cast. The rancher audience pho doen't feel it's is "Shep" and the father of the good girl "Shem" which makes for confusion in several scenes in which either are present,
More Stars Coming To Hongkong?
The family have come to this deserted part of the country order that the husband, who is a writer, can have solitude to his book and breathe the (nich healing tur of the mountains. It's not a happy home and the atmosphere is tense enough to generate a feeling of foreboding.
The sense of impending dis aster is realised with the arrival of threo visitors. One is the author's ne'er-do-well brother, Cornel Wilde and the other two an over made-up blonde and an underdeveloped gunman Naturnily enough respectively. they bring trouble and although the ending is somewhat con trived and melodramatic, the
arc
A rumour has reached my ears that Ava Gardner, Shelley Winters and Spen- cer Tracy are to make temporary stay in Hong-suspenso is well maintained and kong later in the summer in connection with yet another film to be made here.
Let's hope the director has read Joseph Nowman's fament about fim making in newly discovered Hongkong.
Mr Nowman was the director of Flight to Hongkong which brought Rory
Calhoun and
Dolores Donlan here" recently
the characters plausible.
Dan Duryca is the consump-
Uve writer and Jean Wallace, (Cornel Wilde's wife) is his screen wife in the picture. Good performances come from all the supporting actors.
Private War
Somebody toki me
the
On returning to Hollywood he other day that there is a
is quoted as saying that he had person in Hongkong so be- only one regret about aiming in sotted by the appearance of the Colony--that 20th Century Fox had got here first with Charlton Heston that she location units for "Soldier of Bees overy performance of Unless she Fortune" and "Love Is A Many his pictures. Splendoured Thing".
wants to be disillusioned. It the time he and his stars would be, ng well for her, to arrived the "naive workers Bal Just about doubled their normal approach "The Private. Wor wego demanda]“
Fof Major Benson" with cau»
expressions of: group of people without resorting to individual close-ups.
The 55" Incidentally refers to the millimetric size of the flim
sangaty as she regain
zkur ka montagnet), che
splace of ilu kortill
JOHN WAYNE SUSAN HAYWARD THE CONQUEROR
CinemAGCOPE
CHA CINA PEN
PEDRO ARMENDARIZ - Xökes uponentan » freMAR GOMILY - KHI MOYY • WILLIAM CONRAN-YED ON CORSA A DICK POWELL Presvetam › Wrouge ne OSCAR BELLARE 'Prolong vet dršcint te TRCE POWELL,
TO-MORROW ROXY: At 12.00 Noon Silvana MANGANO Victorio CASSMAN
in "ANNA"
A 20th Century-Fox Rofoaso
MORNING SHOW
館
|: BROADWAY: At 11.00 am.
ALL MIGHTY MOUSE COLOR CARTOONS PROGRAMME Presented by 20th Century-Fox
Reduced Admission -
and not to the year in which Roxy: $1.50, $1.00 & 70 Cts. Broadway: $1.20 & 70 Cts.
the new system was perfected.
New Films
-At- A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "The Swan": A princesa, a prince and commúnte. Grace Kelly, Aleg Guin- news, Louth Jourdan, KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Private War af Major Benson"; Comedy; Charlton Heston, Jalic Adanis. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Storm Fear": Drama accenting human Inter-relations, Cornel Wilde, Dan Durysa, QUEEN'S and ALIJAM- BRA: "Jubal. A west- ern. Glem Ford, Ernest, Borgnine, Rod Steiger, Valerio French, ROXY and BROADWAY: The Conqueror": Spec- tacle. Joluti Wayne, Susan Hayward, Pedro Armandariz.
COMING
A
HOOVER and · LIBERTY:
"The Tender Trap":
Frank Sinatra, musical, Debbie Reynolds, David Wayne, Celeste Hoba. KING'S and PRINCESS;
"La Tour de
Neble":
Exccnsen at Louis X's Court. Pierre Brasseur Silvana Pampanini. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "Tom Brown's Schooldays" The well known schoolboy' tale. Dinna Hobert Newton, Wynyard, John Howard Davies.
QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: **Intermezzo": A re-issue of the Leslie Howard, Lotrlð Bergman picture. "The Last Act'': Outstanding Mm al Hitler's tabt sen days. Albin Skoda,
Oskar
Warner,
BOXY **and BROADWAY: **The Man Who Never A Near story. Olfoss Webb,
· Gloris
HOOVER
CAUSEWAY BA'
72371
LIBERTY
"ROWLOON" "TEL. 60148, 68240 2.30, 5.30, 7.30
NOW SHOWING 9.30 pm.
The Love Story
of A Princess
M-G-M presents. in CINEMASCOPE and COLOR
GRACE KELLY · ALEC GUINNESS
LOUIS JOURDAN
"THE SWAN",
WITH PERSPERTA STIRCONIONIC EQUNA
AGNES MOOREHEAD. JESSIE ROYCE LANDIS BRIAN AHERNE - LEO G. CARROLL ESTELLE WINWOOD-VAN DYKE PARKS'
ALSO LATEST M-G-M NEWS
"Grace Kelly Now A Princess"
5 SHOWS TO-MORROW
Hoover at 12.00 FIRST MATINEE Liberty at
ORIENTAL
AIN CONDITIONED 2)
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7,30
& 9.30 PM.
4-TRACK, HI-FI. DIRECTIONAL STEROPHONIC SOUND!
TOM EWELL
THE.
LIEUTENANT WORE SKUT
~ SPECIAL MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 12.30 James Stewart in "THE MAN, FROM LARAMIE