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Monday Feb. 25th at 7.30 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 26th at 8.30 p.m.
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Prologue by Edrhund Blunaòn
Spatumes and settings designed by Douglas, Bland Music arranged and preschfed by S. M. Bard and Members of the Sino-British Orchestra.
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SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Dakota Incident": A western. Linda Darnell, Date Robertson, John Land, Ward Bond.
KING'S
"Red
and PRINCESS:
Sundown": A WEAVEN, tory Calhoun, Martia Hyer, Dean Jagger,
METROPOLE and STAR: ""Trapeze"; All the thrilis or the circus. Gita Lollobrigidas, Burt Lanenster, Tony Curtis,
QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA; "The Burning Bills': A
westernt. Tab Natalic
Wood,
Hunter.
Eduard
Franz. Frank Paglia.
ROXY and BROADWAY; **Three Brave Men": Communit witch hunt- ing in America. Ernest Borgnine, Ray Mlland, Dean Jagger.
COMING
ROOVER
and LIBERTY: "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: A re-issue of the Victorias melodrama. Spencer Tray, Lang Turner, Ingrid Bergman, KING'S
and PRINCESS; "IN Your Honeymoo
Necessary?": Really
Bedroom farce. Diana Dors, David Tomlinson,
and
drama
Bonar Colirano, "War Peace": Tolstoy's Russia. of old Henry Fonda. Audrey
Diel Hepburn,
Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman. METROPOLE and
The
Several actors can be seen нecond time within a short period at the moment.
in
A younger. Ingrid Bergman stars with
Spencer Tracy, "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" — the horror picture that is being re- vived at the Hoover and Liberty next weelt and it is interesting to compare her pr formance as the almple little barmaid who appeals to boscr Instincts of the doctor, with that of the Grand Duchess, Anastasia, in the film that has just finished at the Roxy and Broadway theatres.
the
Dean Jugger too presents two different faces, although both are fairly familiar. He appears almost as at home in the Stetsoa and
the leather jacket that is badge
performer in Western as he does in the star- studded uniform
sentor of a official of the American armed forces and can be seen wearing
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both this week. The former in
"Red Sundown" and the latter in
Tree Brave Men".
Then
there's
Skip Hoineler who ruely seems to rise above "heel" rules, AN nican 412105 sadisile ara Western villain van be in "The Burning " he also han
part In Linda Durne
pleture "Dakota kudden"
val at the Hoover Liberty,
Last but evrtainly not least Lollobrigida, who changes her spangles and tights in "Trapeze" for the more digauled creations of a great opera star in "The Woman in the Atos Beautifut World".
Witch-Hunting
Three Brave Men:
Ernest Borgnine is
once
BY JANE ROBERTS
This Week's Films
In Pictures
Rory Calhoun and Martha Hyer in "Red Sundown"",
While the letter is good as the puzzled, loyal citizen who can't believe what it is happening to him, it is Ray Milland who is most convincing ture.
in this
Disappointing
The Burning Hills:
pic-
supposed to be a “good” Indian
was continually expecting him to turn on his employers the Suttons and allow the young couple to get away,
conclu- Before the expected. slon, mines cave in, redskins and and ruffians bite the dust everyone gets their just deserts. Where the burning his come in
can't think,
I
to
The best thing about "The
They were uniformly greeny Burning Hills" is the pre- blue in colouring and the only sence in it of Natalie Wood. reason for the title seems She's a very pretty young- be the fact that the setting is It is popularly ster with startling black Mexico where eyes and although she over- supposed to be hot most of the does the fiery Mexican girl
she is supposed to be por
again vast as "the little man traying, she is far ahead of
the Tab Hunter,
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his
in the street" in this pic- the rest of the cast as far ture. He is
an ordinary as acting is concerned.
here, his fellow,
of proud daughter's success at school irritating almost beyond endur. ance. He has neither looks nor and of his son's chances of acting ability and seems to have
to the prominence getting to the Naval Aca- risen STAR:
studio has given him by virtue demy of Annapolis.
However, it's the time of the of a broad pair of shoulders.
Amerlen big purge of 1953 in when so many people are look- Ing askance at their neighbours Do the simplest statements can be misconstrued. The resulting clurge is that of being "Com- mist.
Unguarded Moment": A teacher
(female), 瑞 teenager with murder and asapit added. QUEEN'S ad ALHAMBRA: "The Fiends"; A French thriller with English subtitles. Simont Signoret, Vera Clouzot, Bleari- Directed by Georges Clouzot, ROXY
and BROADWAY: "The Extra Day"; Film actors recalled from their various pursuits for an extra
day's shooting.
Richard Baschart, Simone Simon, George Baker
ΤΟ his dismay, Ernest Horging Bnds he has come to be regarded with suspiclon and But Dean Jagger, as Assistant bas
the
Serotry to
Navy, ordered his dismissal from his job, Ife is a security risk.
Must of the picture is taken up with the preparation for the Court Case
which Roy In Milland Acts in Borgnine's defehee.
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To-Morrow Morning Show At 12.30 p.m. "THE GOOD DIE YOUNG" Laurence HARVEY Gloria GRAHAME
time.
Shepherd's Delight
"Red Sundown" is a modest
mule picture and Jays no claim to being an epic, but it is com- petently made and in addition to the two good-looking stars Calhoun and Martha Hyer, has
added attrocilon as an veteran character actor Jagger who is never disappoint- ing.
that Dean
I had expected quite a lot As with "The Birning IDs" from this picture and although, the title bears little relation to as one picturegoer remarked the plot, but the colour la good "Once you've seen one Westem and there is plenty of action. A you've seen them all" it has good saloon brawl can always been well enough publicised to be counted on to help out in a more than routine Western, and there's a beauty
in "Red Sundown".
aruuse
Interest.
That this interest is so little deserved is due mainly to the use of nearly every stock situa- tion in the Western boole. Tab Hunter start the flim oft by re- herating ad nauseam that he "wants ter sre Mist'r Sutton". When sufficient interest
dialogue aroused by this plece of
sample of the rest-Mist'r Sutton is discovered at his desk and Tab Hunter, with as much viclousness as the poor boy can muster, discloses that he suspects three of Sulton's men of murder- Ing his brother.
By this time we have gathered that in spite of his misleadingly mild manners, Mr Sutton is the Bad Cattle Baron of the district and about as trustworthy as a rattlesnake, Hunter explains that he has trailed the three killers to the Sutton establish- ment
he and when asked if could identify
the men Bays that one chain smokes cherools. Signal
for
Sutton--Skip
Fon Hometer to enter with cheront
in corner of mouth.
After a little more by-play Wood
and
proves
tions
gun-play, Natalie
that in
the best trad}-
of all outdoor heroines she can bandage a wounded man, and cause him to gaze coulfully into her eyes in spite of the pain,
The girl is an orphan her father naturally having been killed by the Sutton gang - and with what I imagine, to be a broken Maxican accent, spends a lot of the film berating her spineless brother and tequila drinking uncle for not being as brave as Paw.
There's not a bad performance from Eduard Franz as a half Indian tracker and as he was
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200, 5.30. 7.50 X 9.30 p 111.
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TAB HUNTER and Natalie Wood flaming with the fire of first love in The Burning HillsTM
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"LES DIMBOLIQUES"
SIMONE SIGNORET VERA CLOUZOT
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Matributed by United French Film Ltd.
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Passions@rone wild in an outlaw wilderness!
Dakota Incident
TRÚCOLOR by Consolidamnd Film Teslustsins
starring
Linda DARNELL Dale ROBERTSON John LUND Ward BOND with REGIS TOOMIT - LEIP HOMEKER - JOVING BACON · JOHN DOUCETTE - WIHT DISSELL Written by FREDERIC LOUIS FOR Associate Producer Michael Deird Directed by LEWIS R. FOSTER A REPUBLIC PRODUCTION
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Charlie Chaplin in
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"The Reluctant Débutante'
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