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EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW AT 11.00 A.M.
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PRINCESS
20th Century-Fox presents
ALL TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
Reduced Admission — $1.00 & $1.50
PRINCESS
TO-MORROW
AT 12.10 P.M.
PRIZE WINNER AT CANNES FESTIVAL "DO BIGHA ZAMIN”
(Two Acres of Land)
Starring Nirupa Roy, Balraj Sahani & Ratan Kumar An Indian Picture with English Sub-titles The Film has a wonderful Beauty and Simplicity!
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ROXY & BROADWAY
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Meet the girls and guys who make the offico such a wandortul place to love in!
20 CENTURY-FPX presenta
Spencer Katharine TRACY HEPBURN
Desk Set
CINEMASCOPE
VIA COLOR BY DE LUXE
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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
ROXY: At 12.00 Noon
Tony Curtis in "BEACHHEAD" Color by Technicolor Released thru United Artists
BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m. FOX TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
BROADWAY: At 12.30 p.m. In CinemaScope & Color Betty Davis in
"THE VIRGIN QUEEN"
At Reduced Pricos
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STAR THEATRE METROPOLE
FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
16 LATARIATE (12 EUR preventa
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JACK PALANCE IDA LUPINO SHELLEY WINTERS ATRAST
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW STAR: At 11.00 a.m. Walt Disney's Feature-Length Technicolor Cartoon "PINOCCHIO"
STAR: A 12.30 p.m. Silvana Mangano In "ULYSSES"
Color by Technicolor
'} METROPOLE: At 11.00 a.m.
RKO Radio TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
METROPOLE: At 12.30 p.m. In CinemaScope & Color Marilyn Monroe In [“THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH”
At Reduced Prices
★ OPENS TO-MORROW, ★
New
TONY
MARTIN
Klante
The Borgen
FRONTIER Scout
COLOR ME ZIJNI
Released thea lilled Atlafa
BOOK EARLYT
Dame:
I never ceuse to marvel at the magnificence of the Lollobrigida figure and 1 know that many males shuro my admiration.
She doesn't have to do much micro than exhibit I to s fullest advantage An “ገዥር Hunchback of Noire Dane" but who's complaining?
In addition, there's the con- trast afforded by the deformed and half mad hunchback, play- ed by Anthony Quinn and further complication in the shape of an outwardly monkish bur inwardly lecherous alchemist and a Bellywoodian hero-the captain of the quartt.
With so many in being token from tried und tested | best sellers and novels that have already found favour with the public, it is easy to fall into the trap of condemning pleture because 1 beard no resemblanc 10 the original steny from which it was taken.
A picture should stand or fall on te own merits, however, and the ultimate test should be whether it is good einumu—or if the phrase offends you, whether 11 makes you forge that you've been sitting down wasting an hour or so wher you've so many other things that should have been done,
Scrappy Direction
"The
Hunchback of Notre Doine" because of its meaty story is an absorbing picture, but the talents of both Anthony Quinn and Gina Lollobrigida are wasted in it. Quinn, a tre actor, bas concentrated 100 muet on the physient ability and outward appearance of Quasimodo fhnu on the mental torture that Victor Hugo's hero- villain suffered when the object of his adoration gave him pity in return for his worship and reserved her passion for the pretty soldier.
Some of the disturbance caused by the gypsy is reflected in the acting of the scholar ind
New Films -At- A Glance
SHOWING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Tex Thousand Bed- TODINS": A nilionaire hotel
proprietor has difficulty In choosing a wife
amang O fanity of four lovelles. Dean Mardin, Eva Bartok. Poul Heureid,
מות
Dewey Martin. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Beyond A Reasonabic Doubt": Dana Andrews makes a ruine sig of himself by planting clues to suggest that he is # murderer, With Joan Fontaine and Sidney Blackmer. METROPOLE and STAR: "The Elg Knife": The Clifford Odots *tory about the Insincerity of Hollywood, Jack Palunce. Shelley Winters, fila Lupino, Rnd Stelger. QUEEN's not ALITÄMBRA: "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"; A now version of the oft tolik tale by Victor Hugo, Gina Lollobrigida, Anthony Quinn ROXY and BROADWAY: "Desk Sel": What happens when the boss Introduces
robot machine into bis office. Katherine Hepburn, Spenotr Tracy. Gig Young, Joan Blondell, COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY: Summer "Hot
Night": A newspaper man honeys moons in the Ozarks and
into runs
heap of trouble. Leslie Nielx011; Callcen Miller, James Best, KING's
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and PRINCESS: "Christopher Columbus"; A To-Insu of the Froderie Marcḥ pietate. METROPOLE and STAM "Frontier Scout": A western. Tony Marun, Porzio Cato. QUEEN's and ALHAMBRA: "The Private Place"; A general's infatuation onuses him to rive' aWKY military scorejs. Kirk Dougian, Boman Haywarfa ROXY and BROADWAY: "The Magnificent · Data- dor"; Mertly Abone bullighting.
Anthony quino, Mureen O'BIE,
Current & Coming
BY JANE ROBERTS
Katherine Hepburn is the executive type in "Deal Set".
Esmeralda admirez the strength of Quasimodo in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame'. Gina Lollobrigida is the gipau and Anthony Quinn the dwarf, with the Cathedral as the background.
of all the characters in the alm it is he for whem it is the casiest to feel sorry. The fight between the good and evil in himself is' almost tangible at times and it was clever of the director to have chosen an actor whose serenily face Colt- trasted so well with the inner conflict he was able to indicate at the same time,
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whole
If your taste is light comedy this should suit you,
Electric Shock
Beyond A Reasonable
Doubt:
accom-
The publicity The direction ALS though
and panying this picture stresses Was scrappy althoug The CinemaScope the surprise ending and treatment hides a multitude of adds the usual plea that sins, I found myself pining for audiences should not give a background of more than #
Icw feet of street and the away the secret to their frontage of a house.
And in friends. The final reel is
mient dealh possibility of a miscarriage of justice.
is wrong and that the sentence allows for the
Dank Andrews goes through the film with a grim face and a look of determined righteous- 110,
oh
are
but
In onder to prove his point-Le. that conviellons circumstantial ovidence wrong, he plouts false incriminating evidengo leading to his conviction as murderer.
the
The plan goes awry here, as only other person who knows that he Innocent suddenly diet and the hero faces the threat of execution,
It's a neat plot and Jonn Fontaine looks as lovely as ever as the girl friend, but It would make the pleturn more enter- tuning It Dana Andrew, would relax 11 bit and smilo occasionally,
Barbara Nichol is a strip tenso artist and shows off her charms with a lack of inhlullion that makes Joan Fontaine appear frosty by comparison.
New Role For More
Kenneth More is to star in Pinewood's A Night To Remem- ber, film version of Walter Lord's best selling book of the Tilanie disaster,
More will play C.H. Lightoll- er who was Second Officer In Wie Titanie, and the men in charge of ilfeboats on the port side on the night in 1912 that the glant line struck an leeberg. and sank in miš-Allantle. -
Eric Ambler has written the ccripl. from Lord's book, and the film will be produced by Wil- Jiam MacQuilty and directed by. Roy Baker, Production start in October,
w/l!
Lightoljer died three
years ago with the rank of Command- er. He salled a small boat across the Channci at the evacuation of Dunkirk and took 100
off the benches,
EMPIRE
FINAL TO-DAY -
men
At 2.30. 0.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.
LAURENCE
JENNIFER
Olivier-Jones
WILLIAM WYLER'S
PRODUCTION OF
Carrie
SMIRIAM HOPKINS - EDDIE ALBERT
replay by BUTH AUGUSTUS GOETZ
Produced and Diceded by WILLIAM WYLER
From the Abeka sic SISTER CARRIE, THEDOORE OREISEN Actors
the carnival scene early nin unusual and climaxes · the picture the amateurish dialogue and sparse crowd could fairly gripping thriller. very easily have given place to
Shocks begin in the opening vociferous but indistinct crowd noises plus an enormous medley Pequence an eyewitness scene
would of an electrie chair execution, of extras whose pay
This is prelude to the Sophia probably not have amounted to moro than the
capital punila- cost of two argument that lunches for the director,
Martin Lost
Ten Thousand Bedrooms;
It seems strange to sea Dean Martin without Jerry Lowls and in spite of being as debonair as ever he ap pcars slightly lost.
It's as though he needs the elowning of Lewis to act as a smoother background for his charm and even four pretty girls pursuing him fail to make him appear the all conquering male,
a
In this
ho is picture millionaire hotel proprieter whe goda to Italy to add another Building to his chain of hotel The Mortolt family complicaty Ho matters for him however, fall in love with the youngest daughter of the family, but cannot marry her und hor
older throd
sisters find Husbands Most of the picture is then up with his efforts to got the three giria married off to his friends and the plot gods
who is
a bit long drown out after
has become obvious going to marry each daughter.
The four pretty daughters are Anna Maria Aberybetti, EVE Bartok, Lita Gaye and Monteli with Walter Slezak' as their bewildered father, Paul Henreld who scenis, to to getting a littlo old for romanilo volen, la cust as an impoverish- ed mulptor in love with Evd
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ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN ROMANTIC ROME! This is the story of the rich and Handwoma young hotel rycbon-his-sings too - and the four sisters who would give anything to marry him!
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A CHEMASCOPE 100 METROLOLOR
DEAN MARTIN
Térbolq' barzon Brad'sket ́sulting the
TEN THOUSAND BEDROOMS
EVA BARTOK
- ANNA MARIA ALBERGHETTI DEWEY MARTIN - WALTER SLEZAK - PAUL HENREIÐ
5 SHOWS ON SUNDAY
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QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
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2.30, 5,30, 4.7/56,30-pan),
SHOWING TO-DAY
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THE BANK ORGANISATION presents ROBERT AND RAYMOND HARIN PRODUCTION
GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA
ANTHONY QUINN
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
CINEMASCOPE Technicolor
Directed by
JEAN DELANNOY
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