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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1956.
FILMS S
that
I am glad to see "Invitation To The Dance" la carrying on for a second week-end. It was thought first of all that the absence of dialogue, coupled with the disinclination of most Hong- kong cinemaguers to anything that scratches be- neath the super cial, wouhl have kept the attendance down, forcing the manage- ments of the two theatres to cut the picture's run.,
BOJ
It's true that the Box Offic receipts haven't been phimo- to monal, but that was hardly be expected.
Current & Coming
BY JANE ROBERTS
This Week's Films
In Pictures.
From left to right, Donald O'Canner, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeauniaire and Bing Crosby in a accue from "Anything Goer".
Rusty suspicion that married a nil-wit
To the
PESCUE Comes
he has tortures for him when he was inevitably caught, Fer generating such an intensity of hate as felt for the creature I award the muters of Satari" a few good marks.
Lucy
The picture following it int the Hoover and Liberty is a new Lalelika Ball, Dost Amaz comedy that I und funny in patches,
isn't particularly The plot lever, but it in put over with a slicknews that does a lot to cover The fact thin patches, up the
and Guaritian Angel whom only the that dizzy Mrs Arnaz ал
can sen Many times it is on the her boywh looking husband
their
ber first tip of her porque to tell are
her has
that
Guardian flush
been bu tand youth
the
Angel looks Itk with treated
Jame sympathy by ་ ་་
too and the overal! Max
bul fles
Aug cameraman.
will Impression is that the return to Mys the screen of two familiar and her in whatever guise her inner creates what husband television sel iloved American
hars
would want to be told that his characters Cushlondi and
wife is seeing a film star while thal white
she tu gazing at hun with starry oyes he thánlơi art meant for hins alone?
D
been cared for their
performance higher than them will not lift the peak of their TV popularity It will not offend, upset or scarv any of their devoted fans
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James Mason enters into estimate atmosphere of the ture by playing turned an
towards Klancing often
the camera as though to include the empena aurifence in the story which cad skittishly hallucination
the
with
Perfect Marriage
415
Lucille
Bl
Luy known to thousands of Amerean television OWNCTE, and husband Desi have what lenic The 6 perfect marriage. the only trouble with it is that the fun has
their worn oil. Idiosyncrasies have personal
tregun to detach thenæulves. from the rosy background of the fert few years of westded blis sho is bored and not interested in his job and he begins to have
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The
"Invitation
Three balicia Dance":
Gene with dancing by Kelly.
Toumanova, Belita, Igor Youskevitch. KINGT und PRINCESS: "Anything Goes": Must- cal, Bing Crosby, Donald
Jcarumaire,
O'Connor, Mitzi Gaynor. NEW YORK and GREAT WORLD: "The Killer Is se": Vengeance from Loose": An creaped criminal. Wendell Corey,__Joseph Collen, Rhonda, Fleming. QUEEN's and ALHAM- DHA: "Safari": Adv* ture in Mau Mau
Victor
Mature, Janet Leigh Romina Calver, Jolus Justin. ROXY and BROADWAY:
The Man Grey Flannel Suit": A man and his twn foves.
Jennifer Gregory Peck, Jones, Marina Pavan.
COMING
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HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Forever Darling": Comedy. Lucille Ball, Derl Armas, James MIKON 19th to 25th July (Inclusive). Seven M-G-M hits of recent KING's and PRINCESS:
nity Day's &
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GREAT WORLD: "CIT Venge ance Hunt the killer. Mark
Stevens, Markha Пуст.
"Great Day In The Morning Ameri- can Civil War period Mayo,
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in Japan.
The A
made 'Lono Hanrer":
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with
IN
Is
The appear
However, he
R kind Guardian Angel A heart and
gives wea'y witry # few tips how to re-introduce pep into her marriage-which after many false starts romp home to win.
A Meaty Film?
in
directing his own pictures order to cut costs mid satisfy an urge to give the orders. He has wisely chosen an action picture that requires less experience in than the ilm producing field does the type that depends for In interest on the interplay of characters.
Bing Again
Why is it that such a talented star and happy personality as Bing Cronby ilway gets stuck with such Vacuous stories. Look at "White Christmas”.
I went to "Anything Goes with high hopes that the Old Gruaner might have learned Jusson from that one and I'm
ad to say he hasn't.
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An Indian Picture
and not
It's a nice enough picture →→ Blog wings and clowns with his warmth Mizi usual friendly
dance und Jeanunnire Gaynor with vervo and precision quite as light on his feet as he Donald O'Connor, though
used to be, is still tops mona the tappers.
But outside of the dancing and the
there's clowning
The Man In The Gray nothing--and you can't hold an Flannel Suit" is scheduled to audience's silention for an hour thoco two In with just 80 run for two weeks,
variation in There's urless will
detailed put off ¿L
them. And that's another thing. oriticism of it until next. The choreography, by the wall- Saturday's column.
known arcanger Roland Pettit, Barkody, it t init a young is to say the cust, uninspired.
Bowever,
the Jet's look on that busine smon who.. now the wor, in which he served so bitter sk. "Anything Goey" 1.6 Bing in it and I'd rather gallantly, is over, finds that he has developed at Fort of peace. see him in a bad plelure than It could also be, many other stars in a good one. Then too It Introduce: Jean- maire those
to us for. I think, the Prst time. Although,
for me, ungympathetic his she projects ou
an is too per onafity
for comfort,
one who cannot she salt; and
me fatigue.
Back
than he
is n was in
life
littic
The
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of course. that he older comparatively carefree day
civilian +11 vitality reerus to have left him and his wife, Jennifer Jones, takes him 10 task for this While murlog on the gap that in What a pity it is that es to be widening between through her part like a tigress. we shum't be seeing any
troubles. It is unnecesary to state that
Que of my favourite cynics, Louis Callern, is Lucy's father and his dry delivery of some of his more punchy lines convuls-
of me.
more
His
them, un
and
of the August Moon" was i rea? tragedy for the screen.
The Mau Mau
in Italy
his money
Ignored
A Thriller
1hc
of this lovable character.
on hi Inertia, hi- mind she ka very competent danew. The best number in the show recent death in Japan while goes heek to his warline years
at the end when worlding on "The Teahouse
11. remembers with acetion principal at! chorus join in Blow, Gabriel Blow" It The Ja
Italian girl, Marisa Pavan, where undemanding makes happy Sale.
for him even surmounted The knowledge that she was to Juve bis chilet and that he could. "Safari" is an East Afri. not marry her.
Fredele March comes into the Mau
hard headed poli- picture call western that hus
instead of Beton who nevertheless has his Mau terrorists Red Indians, a titled Big own troubles and I see from Game Hunter instead of the the cast list that those two ex- cellent character actors. Loe J. renegade white man and
a Cobb and Keenan Wyn also paid safari leader in place have parts.
white- of the traditional
It sounds a meaty film, but I too much scout-who-talks-with red- do hope there's not
dewy-eyed self-sacrifice in it.
skins.
usual
Thrown In with the disregard for her unsuitability
in rough placos cast or west- is a brassy little blonde who is constantly getting in everyone's way.
The start I'm heartily
isn't
Wired
S
0s a
Action Picture
Inisely imprisoned forfeited his job
**The
Killer Is Loose"
is # fairly predictable thriller as far as the plot
goes. what retrieves it is the clever direction by Budd Boetticher,
over
In scenes where conversation action, takes precedence he sees that they do not become dull and static. There is always movement going on and unlike o stage production, small part players are encouraged to move bout naturally and distract the attendion fractionally the main characters,
tor a secre
from
the
14
Recently we saw an embittered Alim Ladd being released from going prison and
grimly to
Watch to track down the bad-though work
of being gangster who had lost him his Polley Station where detective sickened time after tume in job in the Police force and got Jeph Cotten is interrogating some employees of a bank in recent films by wanton cruelty, him five years in prison on
a trumped-up manslaughter which a robbery has just taken mental or physical, to children
The subsequent mun-
place. There are many realis- charge. and a plausible reason is given
le Botticher touches here. took Victor Mature,
In San place safari bunt the
Rhonda Fleming is. Joseph leader, for his vicious
dotesta. Francisco.
Cotten's wife in this picture and tion of
of the Mau Mau in general Now we have another film on
her that 11 is
barak upon and one of their leaders in par- ino same lines. "Cry Vengeance"
falls when Me robber's vengeance Hcular.
has Mark Stevens In the Alan
his own
wn wife is accidentally Ladd role and his revenge has shot dead by the police. But if the burning of his
even mor
more bitter Source Following his conviction and of hla house and the idling
Than Ladd's Not only has
the sentence for the robbery, family is an
been adequate reason he
sent to prison, bat escapes. From for his one men pursuit of the
and
there on Rhonda Fleming is in murderers,
Victor it's not
a detective, but enemies have
rlangor-doubly so, for she is Mature who demonstrates it to Also involvert his wife and not allowed to be warned
His expressions are limited baby in a fatal accident and left her precarious position as the to straight glares from beneath him a badly scarred neurotic
15 expecting a baby and it 19- his bushy eyebrows varied with His search carries him further it that the worry might upeet a few wiggles of his wrinkled afield than
predecessor her. his forcheod and ឆក occasional however. It's not until he has
However sympathetic one may toothpasty smile. Granted made the journey to the chilly be there is alwayɛ a feeling of Janet Leigh is a most infuriat- north and prodded around for revulsion produced by the men- dumb blonde with chorus clues in Alaska that his ary for tally abnormal and it is only accent to girl
match and
loolts he vengeance
like being possible to feel sorry for the must have wanted several actisfied.
killer, Wandell Corey, in An times to pick her up by the In case the troubles of scruff of the neck and dump her poor fellow begin to make among the Big Game she and audiences feel uncomfortable, past, for Joseph Cotton is not. her fiance have paid him to Martha Hyer is thrown in to allowed to be much more than Bush for them, but this doesn't
lot. When he w routine Improve his
cop, while Rhonda absolve him from the absence arrives in Alaska, there she is Fleming is cossolted with all of interest in. the
ples with a mindly saloon and an the attention dus an expectant ture he seems to evince trom oven warmer smile with which mother and has not much more the moment they enter it.
us.
•
Some Good Marks
way
of
the absplie, of this, his is the plurn
to defrost him and remind him to do than fooie suitably swest that mental pain has a time and grateful for the care hosped
mit
Mark Stevens is another actor
The flance of the bouncy Miss Who has taken to acting in and
Leigh, who takes the kind of wardrobe on a safiri that would be more appropriate to a cruise of a luxury liner is, improbably, Roland Culver. Há is the best chamoter in the picture although as the wealthy, titled English aristocrat he is meant to be, is impossibly overdrawn.
He and John Justin, as the bullled young hanger-on, at least pay p service to the old fashioned idea that an actor should pet. Bul, for the rest, even, the allegedly", ferocious lion tooked as though he was rather bored with the whole thing, and couldn't wait until he got back to this cosy, cage at the zoo.
I must plead guilty to one Blood
„perwormt ⠀ uveniley however, "I found traBLE (MEA solutely fouthing the Mau Mau general, who was being hunted and devling the most fendlati
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