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KING'S PRINCESS
NOW SHOWING
At 2.30, 6.15, 7.20 & 9.30 pm || At 2.30, 6.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
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A bottle of Coca Cola Froo to all
patrons at 2.30 p.m. performance today.
RKO RAINO PICTURES
"THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957.
FILMS
BY JANE ROBERTS
THREE GIRLS IN TOWN
This Week's Films
In Pictures
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
SHOWING TO-DAY
18 OF THESE SURVIVORS MUST
OVERBOARD!
GO
WHICH WOULD YOURSÄVI
Full of Funi
EDDIE
THEIR
FIRST MOVIE TOGETHERI
Full of Laughs! Full of Songs!
DEBBIE
FISHER REYNOLDS BUNDLE OF JOY
ADOLPHE MENJOU
TOMMY NOONAN
PITA TALBOT • LITTA MERKELSE
MELVILLE COOPLA DILL GOODWIN HOWARD MINEAR
by AND EACH THEY A
Seven day by RAAN KEASAA, ADMETERSON ARTİZMAN · Bury my POŻIE JACKSON
BORGULA TAUROS
Medal Membery and Dances Papa or MCK CETTE
MACORDON » Me by JOLÍF, APRON
TECHNICOLOR
Valmiminikamkantenatalak
RKO.SCOPE
--EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW
KING'S at 11.15 a.m.
BUD & LOU in
"LOST IN HAREM"
An M-G-M Picture
PRINCESS at 11,00 a.m. 20th Century-Fox
· MIGHTY MOUSE TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
At Reduced Admission $1.00 & $1.50
PRINCESS
TO-MORROW
SOPHIA
Loren in "Boy On A Dolphin" The girl on a dolphin is assisted in her aquatic por- suits by Ladd and Webb.
Stereotyped
at 12.10 p.m.
Run For The Sun:
MINERVA Movietone, presents an Indian Film
SOHRAB MOD1 in
“RAJ HATH”
Also starring Madhubala. Pradeep Kumar, Ulhas, Kammo,
Murad and other
Produced & Directed by SOHRAB MODI
At Regular. Prices Book Early!
-
HOOVER LIBERTY
CAUSEWAY BAY (TEL-72571/
*
KOWLOON: TEL #014K 80249
SHOWING TO-DAY
13.
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
No. 1 pilot was killed, No. 2 was wounded! What would you do if you were the hostess?
M-G-M'S MASTERPIECE OF SUSPENSE!
DORIS DAY LOUIS JOURDAN BARRY SULLIVAN FRANK LOVEJOY
IN
JULIE
An ARWIN Production
AN MIG-M Moignée"
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SUNDAY MATINEE AT 12:00 REDUCED ADMISSION
HOOVER THEATRE
Gary Cooper Burt Lancaster in
"VERA CRUZ"
LIBERTY THEATRE Ava Gardner Humphrey Bogart in "THE BAREFOOT CONTESSA"
AIR - CONDITIONED
STAR METROPOLE
SHOWING TO.
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
RKHARD
TREVOR
WIDMARK HOWARD .GREER
JANE
RUN FOR
SUPERSCOPE
Fruă be TCCHIOLO
INTS!
THE SUN
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STAR & METROPOLE, 5 SHOWS, TO-MORROW, Extra Performance of "RON FOR THE SUN"
At-12.30 p.mes
TO-MORROW SPECIAL Morning show STARBAI 13,00/2.021 || METROPOLE: At 11.00 .rt. THREE STOOGES COMEDY FOX TECHNICOLOR TECHNICOLOR CARTOONSİ
and
CARTOONS
- "At Rednous Prices»m
الذي المرة
DEBBIE Reynolds in "Bundle Of Joy"
She has a baby, and nobody believes her story that she's
as innocent as she looks..
DORIS
Day in "julio"
Julie is on the run and Louis Jourdan's after her. The snug is that he's her -usband.
whe no
11 Ability to faint with the published record that field. The inevitable happens eyes and
doesn't maller 2 Marilyn was with Fox, was re- and the couple Juckily coast gracefully
and afterwards was He is adamant, I've said before that ' down in the middle of the jungle great deal in a film of this sort, lensed
the fact that the brought back. with nothing more lethal than nor does
made however, that there tired of seeing getting
a disheveled hair-style for the picture must have been
blunder about her dismitsai, ro pretty girls with little act- girl and a becoming gash out on a very low budget.
I happened to like It-perhaps panie to retrieve her. ing ability, vacant expres the forehead for the man. sions and tom shirts being rever Howard, older than the had a
Enter now our two vikalns, the mood in which I went along "She was under contract when
little to do with my
don't we had a stock company of some lugged through swamps and here I believe I forgot to men- enjoyment-and carried half fainting through tion that his name is Richard expect an epic, the colour and thirty or forty your people." Jungles in order to prove Widmark has so much more even pace will compensate for his version begins, "She couldn't
churn then the so-called author the stereotyped story. that the hero is a he-man,
if you
that when he meets is demise
Not so Peter Little To Be Said
1001-
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I seem to remember having I was quite sorry. beon equally rude about serven Van Eyck. As a German
eer in "Allack" he was suit- Englishmen who go about call ably convincing, but as a con-
"oid boy" and ing strangers
offirmed Nazi, hiding away in the Abandon Ship:..
It would be nice to be able Germans, who la this year of jungle until the day of libera 1957 persist in being unsubtle on his performance is, to be to say something good about about the glory of coming from kind, mediocre.
do a thing then. And she didn't ket an opportunity to do any
ng except a few walk-cas.
"There was nothing remark- able about hor-nothing to make me think any more of her than some of the other girls I had.
"When there was on economy
wave, we let her go along with company. She went to cnother most of the others in the stock studio, which didn't use her.
pure Aryan stock. An added bete And so to Jane Greer, Hers "Abandon Ship but with ruir is the simple peasant who is a new type of attraction and out risking the possibility is browbeaten by the aristocratie the coolness, lack of the more of a sit-down strike from That shows how unremarkable Englishmen and the serogant obvious, comettet curves and my al too patient type- the girl was. German yel is wooed into swet general air of restraint was re-writer there is little to be playing a small role h The reasonableness by an American freshing. whose only form
That her acting is
"A year or so later I saw her
Asphalt Jungle. I was looking communica limited to a widening of the said for it.
for a girl for a part in All About Tyrone Power, as the man in tion with hun is an air of help-
charge of en over-filed lifeboat Eve. I liked her work. It was an oll repeated
crammed with grond hotel flashy, but for what it was I characters whose dialogue is as thought she was perfect, hackneyed as their reactions,
lessness and
"Grnelas".
In spite of all this there is something about "Run For The Sun" that makes it an entertain. ing Blm. The plot is about as subtle as a sledgehammer and the stock characters incntioned
their above need never oper mouths if originality of dialogue is what you're after, yet suk- prisingly though you and your- self caring what happens to the
hero and heroine.
Literary Slumming
For
eminent writer, Richard Widmark's colloquial college Americanese, is ulerary slumming of the first order and Even Jane Greer's suggestion that he should talk as good as he wrlles, falls on deaf ears,
He's suppose to be a serious minded author who has sudden- ly stopped writing because of pereanul worries and problems. I seem to remember having read somewhere that, these identicul
troubles acted us a spur to the Imaginative "class who make. their living by the typewriter- however, Mr Widmark is mould- cd from different clay and from being a 'secker after truth" be has descended to being a Wider. from reality
This is where the girl comes in.
the
Shele the, representative of a magazine opecializing in And- Ing out the truth-if the sub- ject has been so dull af-to-bb unsordid-about» personalities and events in the news. Natural- ly she can't tell the object of her investigations that he is Just another headline so romanes has to creep it. If you haven't guessed by now this by pure accident these two find that they have a lot in common and tlint the Netion of, love develops Into the fact of affection, then you must be either very young, o never have' attended an American produced movie' be- fore.
Young Lovers
Of Into the blue fy our young lovers in pain ald . two monter that the "Auftraff Con sroller "af" Kal Taqwould pi bibly haver allow" on tile air-
New Films -At-
A Glance
a
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Julle"; Doris Day is the Istest screen wife to be on the run from a jealous husband. With Louls Jourdan, Barry Sullivan, Frank Lovejoy, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Bundle of Joy": Debbie has baby and its alt good clean fun. With Zadle: Fisher, L. METROPOLE and STAR: "Kun For the Sun": Richard Wismark and Jane Grear stumble-en a mystery in»«ther jungle and have to 'slosh through an awful lot of water before the happy ending. QUEEN'S and ALHAMBRA: "Abandon-Shipi')----★ British tale of shipwreck with Tyrone Power 25 the "Gallant Captain". ROXY and BROADWAY: *Boy On A Dolphin: Bophia Loren, and Alan Ladd ve low in the water with Clifton Webb looking on.
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY:
"I'
Dog's Life""; Romance wrd, a...-dag. Jeff Richards, Jazma Lewis, Edmund : Gwont, -Dean Jagger and “win- fre":
KING'S and -PRINCESS: "H¢llywood or Bud”, A
·REATtin and Lowie comes. 2 JAMALKAN QUEEN'S and - ALHAM-
BRA: The
Wrong Max Henry Fonda Bi angeln talu s about vàn Innocenti maiASE Włomn setio make him look guilty, kg dCA, MARK ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Way To The Gold": Adventure etc. With --Follrey-Hunterr
looks as though he were acilag
in a nightmare Alm designed for
dancers and execuled by a Greek chorus.
'I Gambled'
"I gambled, re-signed her un- Poer Marie Lohr, whose pre- der long-term contract. I put vious work 1 have always ad- her on the real road to stardom.” The written word here glves an inired, must have shuddered mere realistically than in A Impression of an outsize Zanuck Town Like Alice" at her ap- So. That his ego is certainly
big not even he could deny. pearance and dialogue.
Idea Good
He talks as readily of his olar gambles that falled as he does of his riumphs. "I've had a con-
The idea was good, but it's viction a number of times that certain personnities would come only too obvious that it was
through as stars and they vehicle with which to build up didn't," he confesses.
tho British blue-eyed boy,
One such personality Is Ed- Stephen Boyd, and to emphasise mund Purdom, "Purdom?" he the appeal of Linda Christian's echoes sharply. "I took him out ex-husband-Tyrone Power.
of desperation. I had to have The problems of the castaways somebody when Brando walked of the Bicboat never come
10 out of The Eryptian"
to
life and even that,veleron actor All the same; he is still not James Hayter brings little con- viction to his part.
Mal Zete sure he was competely wrong there, "He was pushed way over terling would have done better his head," he says and you can have Buck to refugee understand what he means. "I but characterisations if the black still thinle he has talent, and while camera is going to be hasn't found himself yet. He ຕ arkin to her t least muy still become one of the big she'd get some sympathy that ones."
way, and as for Lloyd Nolan
Well!
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SUNDAY MORNING SHOWS
AT 11.30 A.M.
QUEEN'S
ALHAMBRA Columbia Pictures Present..
"A SONG TO REMEMBER" "THE THREE STOOGES".
Starring
and
J
Cornel Wilde • Morlo Obaron!! VARIETY PROGRAMME
AT REDUCED PRICES!
ROXY & BROADWAY
SHOWING TO-DAY ★ Please noto thango of times:
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
"ALAN
CLIFTON SOPHIA LADD WEBB LOREN
BOY ON A DOLPHIN
GÓLON BY, “chilambing " CINEMASCOPE BELUM ADS SORSTES + «FORGE MESTRALIA
ROXY. &. BROADWAY: 5 Shows To-morrow, Extra Performance of "BOY ON A DOLPHIN" ROXY: At 12.00 Noon || BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m.
BROADWAY: To-morrow Special Morning Show At 11.00 am. M-G-M TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS At Reduced Prices
ORIENTAL MAJESTIC
TO-DAY
CONDITIONED
AT 2.30, 5.30. 7.30 & 1,30 P.M. The Most realitaklog Adventure That Even Tore Mountain & Huy
20th CENTURY-FOX
presents
HYD
MILLAND-QUINN, PASET
THE RIVER'S
EDGE CINEMASCOPE
COLD!
LOK
Morning Show To-Morrow 12.30 "DARK AVENGER"
SHOWING TO-DAY: AŁ 2.80, 8,20, 7:30 a 9.30.5.0 The.Greatest Show On Earth!
TID DE CONTAROTNE
PRIZES JEANKARTES
Folies Bergere
HADA GRAY
(English Sub-Titles). Distributed by PATHE OVERSEAS LTD.
Sunday Morning iShow 12.30 "JUNGLE GODDESSTM
Monroe Will Never EMPIRE CAPITOL RITZ
Touch Grable
"Monroe will never touch the heights of Betty Grable, even if she keeps going for tem years." Darryla E Zanuck, the biggest movie gambler Hollywood... his known minkes this state- mont emphatically. He takes production credit for all tho Grable pictures at Twentieth Century-Fox, except for a couple made before ho moved in there.
In
stard,
comparing these Zanuck is talking in terms not; of talent bul in profite and Josses di-the gaming table of thà box" olles. The money sho tractel" The exclaims--of Groble
No many years the
• WEN “Number One in the
Podle. Her spletures. grossed mord thaa'any other star, I think, including Shirley Temiolati ****That lows, DOW sofia th Monroe clair,
Zanuck
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THE
VAGABOND KING
ECHNICOLOR
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SHOWING TO DAY
At 2.30, 520, (1.30 a 9.30 p.m..
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