KING'S ★ PRINCESS
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Audrey Hepburn Autaire
When Audroy Rocke Everybody
Rollol
Funny Face
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EXTRA MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW KING'S at 11.05 a.m. PRINCESS at 11.00 a.m.
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1957.
FILMS
Silk Stockings:
"Silk Stockings" is still running at the Hoover and Liberty Theatres. Try and got a laugh' out of that. If you can't, there is still an opportunity to squirm with mirth as that ludicrous trio
forward step
to sing "Siberia." It is not often I go to see a picture twice, but the second time I con- centrated on Peter Lorro. Just watch his expression,
He can do more with a flick of his hands, or the flutter of on eyelid than most actors can with four pages of dialogue,
not Then is
Cyd Charisse charming in that sophisticated halict number пя she dances
round the suite uncovering all thoce pretty termining delights forbidden by the puritan code of Moscow?
TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS Moccow
VARIETY PROGRAMME
Admission: $1.00, $1.50
PRINCESS
SPECIAL MATINEE
TO-MORROW at 12.30 p.m.
Edward C. Robinson & George Raft in a Kill-or-be-killed Adventure in Violence →→
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- MONDAY at 12.30 p.m. "BLACkboard junGLE"
KING'S
air - Conditioned ·
TO-MORROW AT 12.10 P.M.
MINERVA Movietone presents an Indian Picture SOHRAB MODI in
“RAJ HATH”
Also Starring Madhubala, Pradeep Kumar,
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ROXY & BROADWAY
GRAND OPENING TO-DAY
Please note chango of times: AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M. Tremendous Applause Won! Venice International Film Festival TOP PRIZE
Critics Hailed As Strong Candidate
The Motion Picture That Crosses A New Boundary
In Screen Entertainment!.
20th Century Fox presents
A HATFUL OF RAIN
ROXY:
CINEMASCOPE
EVA MARIE SAINT
DON MURRAY
ANTHONY FRANCIOSA
LLOYD NOLAN
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TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
CURRENT & COMING by
ANTHONY FULLER
Fred Astaire aprays the Iron Curtain represented by Cud Charisse in "Silk Stockings", tohich is now showing at
based upon
by
Hoover and Liberty.
and'
pink linings; pink gloves, pink pumps: pink handbags; cosmetics galore.
Reading rough what I've written, neo I've made a thing of shreds and patches. Well, that's what this im l. It's n happy-go-lucky plot stringing together all these gay dances and enchanting secnes, with some pretty good neting thrown in.
I'ct beller mention Kay Thompson before I clone. She makes an I-bomb entrance into ms. Tired of coaching others for their parts, she rebelled, be- came overnight an entertainer, authoress, and business woman. She shows Hollywood that any- thing they can do, she can
better.
do
about
I haven't said much Astaire, for there isn't anything I can add to all I've said before. Ife is his own superb self in this musical, .whose enchanting romantle theme glamorous fashions, hounting melodies,
to be told that it is an authentle wooed to the latest Alm tech- and rollicking frolles will send factual nique because the City of you out into the street lighting social Paris forma a gigantic backdrop your cigarette on a star. untrue, for the Alm. Both well known old and tekiom scen locales play a which role, and going along with it aro
Classical
And what about having un- other look at the apartment in creation
where the carefree evidence gleaned spontaneous burst of high workers, I hope that is
The especially when I spirits is interrupted by bouse fuchrer; the Polen represents the situation allence which salutes his passage exists in thousand of US homes, some of the George and tra il Met By Moonlight:
"I Met by Moonlight" theme hos in- Gershwin songs. Dope as from one room to another, ac-
I think I'd better, mention a now showing at the Queen's companied by the dry drone of crested us for ten decades, and
gospel has spawned among the pages special effect that might set a and Alhambra, might well reading from the
De Quincey new pattern in film technique. according to Lenin; the flare up of literature since directly his back is turned. opened it up to us in his cun- This is a striking unorthodox open in classical tradition:
In the midst of the dark sea And then there is Fred Astaire., fersions. Sherlock Holmes used flashing of the screen from one
com- is a land called Crete, and fair to retire after a strenuous case, colour to another as the
the optically and fertile surrounded by The rhythm
Thus the with wavey,"
a
Inhumanity
Men In War:
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA 14:50 0.15;7.20 & 9.10 p.m. 4.30, 5.30, 7.56 & 930 pm.
SHOWING TO-DAY
One of the War's most dashing feats- they kidnapped a General under the nosa of bla aray
THE KÁRI ORGANjazidi bennem
A POKRAJI POVSTA & EVER PREIMMOBLE PRODOČTION
DIRK BOGARDE
ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT
From the Deshan Diet By Pisonligh" by W. Staley Mom
MARIUS GORING · DAVID OXLEY
VISTAVISION CYRIL CUSACK
SUNDAY MORNING SHOWS QUEEN'S:-EXTRA PERFORMANCE AT 11.30 A.M. "ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT" ALHAMBRA: AT 11.00 A.M.
20th Century-Fox prosents Marilyn MONROE
Robert MITCHUM in "RIVER OF NO RETURN" CinemaScope -Technicolor
for
10 in mare, the
મ
Everything Pink
to the soothing puncture of a plementary uos are
Odyssey, needle. But there was a touch removed. of decadent romance - about all which the screen changes colour Book XIX. I don't quite know Alm that that. Not so "A Haiful of also helps to set the pace for how to set about a main".
certain sequences in the Paris- relates an incident of the war in the Aegean Sea that might well have found itself in
admit Odyssey. I had better
about that I don't read books the War, and I are films about only when I have to.
the
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you literary exploration from struggle to shout yourself out
I am not qualified to discuss terpsichorean fantastic flomer through to Shake of, only to find yourself in an-
wa Ed- other, ten times as horrible. It the spare, and Tolstoy to
is as authentie as a madman's gyrations which in their
But this is different. It tells muxl Blunden. 11. has
dream; it is the imagination of interpret the mood of the film,
of "mad' dog likert were of a true lodestone proved no less a
Allan Poe but two dances a depraved Edzar
Hepburn Englishman" escapade that sent But to the film writers and rendered a hundred times more rendition by Audrey
the Cretan morale soarlag. directors. Don't moralise horrible, because, they say, it is of a romantic ballad, and
mad behop dance which marks you've probably read the book her evolution from blue of the same title by W. Stanley about this because it is you,
stocking to wo: famed model, Moss Personally. I think the box office client who
I've been fol always leave title singularly npt, for pays to keep this kind
conception is to blame.
out the engross details of the whole thing in its film in production.
Perhaps one day we shall have weird and wonderful creations and execution was a stroke of the the women wear in these kind Midsummer madness; yet one of But then I remember my a picture symbolising all
must admit I those
that els You ex- of films, Again
things generation flocked to see such decent chaps who
head in air" and masterpieces as "What Price perienced that horror and then am at a loss. Sometimes I think Johnny
Quiet Glory?", "All
decent chaps. these bits are just put in to give pretty bucked to be a member on the come back slili
has Don the men a laugh.
of the mad race of Englishinen, Western Front" while the very "A fatful of 'Rain"
After a job, Best Armistice Day had fallen Murrny without
However, I do know the name
Effective only some ten years behind or serving in Korea, where he of Edith Hend because
picked
the up
delights of seems to have been designing
been The year 1944 wos one we This current release, "aten in
morphine while undergoing costumes as long as I've
for, after War" takes us to Koren to deal treatment.
Koing to the movies. I do not shall all remember, with the latest of man's or- His wife who is expecting a know the name of de Givenchy. being cornered on the ropes, we
on feminine ppet a punch, and began ganised inhumanity to man, and baby is unable to understand his but I am it is showing at the Metropole hellish mood which take him authority I cannot dispute, that dish Ji out for a change.
dress same, year, the island or Cretc and Star Theatres.
out into the night, a hag-racked he is a famous Parisian
one who designer. During this part of saw one of the most daring and
exploits The overworked adjectives of recluse. The only
took SUNDAY 13 Murray's the film, the screen overflows effective this picture and "realistic" and does understand "Authentic". Realistic it 1, Jonathan-like brother (Anthony with pink; pink rainconts with place durlug the war.
During, because German who backs his with the added thrill that none Francioza)
general was kidnapped prae- tically in his own backyard, as we say. And only a handful of men went after him, It was effective bermuse the incident, with
casual fls air of master-stroke, did so much heighten morale in Crete,
50.
of the stuff thrown about on the savings on Murray's dope-shot
will touch you. How promise to reform.
authentic it in, I cannot say, but
You will have lo admit that
it is not improbable that a this Aim has strength. It
mak
the
the fuses to compremise with sergeant should, to quote
sentiment that can caption, hate the guis of the nauding
has Lieutenant. But to me it shows ruin such a theme. It something fundamentally wrong Tennessee Williams touch, in about the whole system of that it plays tragedy with all disasier of a discipline.
Cat-spitting
Robert
Ryon
the inevitable Greck drama.
Lho
part
Murray portrays the well because he refuses to over- portrays part of Lieutenant Denson, and play; that is where it gets you; superiority of Aldo Ray fills the role of Stair that perverted Sergeant Montana. The theme living in a drug ridden world Is a cat-spitting hatred mutually where only the initiates form a two circle closed to those who refuse reciprocated
Initiation ceremony of the
heroes on the
in
of
by these
battlefelds Korea. A thing for which ordeal by needle, sniff, or taste, Eva Marie Saint who seems will give this pleture credit that it discards the cilches of lo rising to fame on the wings these refought battles repro- duced at Hollywood.
of violence and horror gives a compassionate performance as a who will neecpt the woman There is no sadistic sergeant who inflicts physical and mental worst rather than hope in un- torture on a sensitive conscript. certainty. There is no wise-cracking kid
So, as I have said, the Alm
At 12.00 Noon BROADWAY: At 12.15 p.m. who jokes while his platoon is ends only in that the
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reel 19
being blasted to bits. There is finished. The next reel is never no let me like a hero fall" shown as the drug disintegrates Type; no officer sacriacing his this thing that was once a man.
platoon on the altar of pro- Great Musical
mation; and
по best of all, Hollywood Florence Nightingale stepping straight from
beauty Funny Face:
parlour onto a blood drenchet They used to say that all Dattlefield.
So if you like war from the good Americans go to Paris comfort of an upholstered scat, when they die, but Fred this is your picture. should Astaire seems to be making advise all real soldiers not to go certain; Funny Face, now berserk
seca Benson
when he
huri a cascade of Silver Stars to showing at the King's and the herale defenders. It might Princess is another great scem unusual to see an officer musical largely filmed in going about with a pocket full Paris.
Old timers will remember the of decorations to distribute ud
bitum, but other days, other show that stopped the London
SHOWING TO-DAY DYS
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30
9.30 P.M.
DEEP INTO THE AFRICAN JUNGLES...
Actually Shed
In the
CORNEL WHEL
to: BLID
140 GENN
BEYOND MOMBASA
BEAST” AMAZON
JOAN BROMFIED BEVERLY GARLAND
TO-MORROW
Tony Curtis & Martha Hyer
in
"MR. CORY"
in Technicolor.
Unfinished
traffic, but this film has little In common, save the same tie. Audrey Hepburn steps into the role originally played by Adole Astaire, but the story is different.
The title role has eith Audrey Hepburn portraying a Green- wich Village blue-looking who
very
A Hatful Of Rain:
"A Hatful of Rain" now showing at the Roxy and Broadway Theatres is unfinished symphony of is transformed into a world- dope, and if the last move famed model by glamour photo
written in it grapher Fred Astaire. I think ment was
when you see it, you will ogroo would be a dismal theme that this part had to come
Hepburn's written in a minor key. 1 Audrey
way. Her mean that. I think if we carly ballet training and Lon- could see the end of the don musical stage background
road, wo should have an
American version of one
foreshadowed the part
Technique Wooed
of those old Russian stories
"Funny Face" is so spectacu- that used to fade out with larly produced and uniquely
TOMORROW SPECIAL, SHOW the whole family looking photographed that it is hard to
Ai: 12:30 pm
Brigitte Bardot
OMADEMOISELLE FIGALLE”
know where to begin telling you forward to a lifetime of about it. it is aimed in Vista- misery and despair.
It is a hopeless and depressing theme, and I am rather shocked
Viaton techniques and a bold now use of Technicolour. You might say it in stage technique
told
she
New Films -At- A Glance
SHOWING
KING'S and PRINCESS: "Funny Face". Ameri- Fred Paris. cans in Astaire and Audrey Hepburn.
STAR and METROPOLE: "Men in Way'. A pri- vato fend in a pobile
Robert Ryan
war.
Aldo Ray,
and
that
A
ON THE Bio ScreEN!
M-0-ld prosta AN ARTHUR FREED PRODUCTION ring
FRED ASTAIRE CYD CHARISSE Silk Stockings
JANIS PAIGE PETER LORRE
ChasmaScope. METROCOLOR
to The
39
10
we
You'll see the film open after all the business of putting the plan over is inished, and cune in as Captain "Bill" Moss (David Oxley) sails from Lybia escorted by a group of partisans, to join his friend Major "Paddy" Leigh-Fermor (Dirk Bogartie), Specfal Service Oncer, on. enemy occupled
Crete.
of
Paddy, a debonair blent poet and soldier, has already become something of a legend
where on the island,
hu is popularly known as "Philldem". (I think you'd translate that "the friend".
QUEEN'S and ALHAM- You'll Laugh
BRA:
by A daring Moonlight",
'44. Creic escapade In Dirk Bogarde, Marius David
Met "Ill
and
Goring. Cusack.
HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Silk Blocklogs". Songs and danoc, both sides of Fred Die Iron Curtain, Astaire Charlane.
and Cyd
ROXY and BROADWAY:
A Hatful of Rain". grim episode of dope.
and Don Murray
Eva
Marle Saint
COMING
KING'S and PRINCESS: "Navy Wife". The riot- ous life of a Navy wife in the land of Gelahs riris. Joan Bennet and Gary Merrill. STAR and METROPOLE: "True as a Turile". Pine- wood's hilarious comedy of life on a vintage yacht. Keith Michell and Elvi Hale, QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "The Prince and the Show Girl". A tale of merry not so old Eng- land. Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monron, HOOVER and LIBERTY:"
“Dan Glory". A Western In 1ho "Shane" olun. Stewart Grainger and Rhonda Fleming,
ROXY and BROADWAY:
A
to Bentmber". soniimentál Journby with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr.
1
You see some heart-in-mouth landing scenes, and then meeting with the local partisans. And, if you know the lype, and the desert was full of them. you'll laugh when Paddy turny up elaborately dressed Cretan Chleftain.
as a
Another scene which
is as historical as it is hysterical, is when Paddy
Into Kots seek the
CO- Herakleion to operation of another partisan, a ritatist of that town. "Caught In the surgery. Paddy tries to bluff his way out, but doesn't succeed. Then follows that grim humour ns the German soldiers have to be quietened by
a quite unorthodox anaesthetic.
The German Commanding Officer, General Karl Krelpo
REDUCED ADMISSION SPECIAL MATINEE: LIBERTY THEATRE AT 12.00 NOON Errol Flynn in "THE DARK AVENGER"
AIR CONDITIONED
STAR THEATRE METROPOLE
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THE PART OF THE MILITARY MACHINE THAT BLEEDS!
ROBERT RYAN..
The LIEUTENANT
who'd tand
Als men
anywhere
ALDO RAY.
The SERGEANT
who'd fallow his
Rel
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lo grieven
MENNAR
Released the United Artists
STAR: 5 Shows To-morrow & an Mon., Sept. 9th
METROPOLE: 5.Shows To-morrow Extra Performance of "MEN IN WAR" At 12.30 p.m.
Star:
TO-MORROW SPECIAL MORNING SHOW
At 11.00 mm1.. METROPOLE: At 11.00-a.m, M.G.M. TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS At Reduced Prices
ORIENTAL MAJESTIC
CA 152
CONDITIONED
(Marius Goring) is captured, SHOWING TO-DAY SIMULTANEOUSLY
TO-DAY AT 2,30,- 5.80 7.30 and 9.30. P.M.
nerve- and then begins th racking trek to get him out.
A typically English bit is the following. The operation, now all successfully accomplished, that remains to do is to top out the morse signül. They've got the set all right, but no one knows how to use. It. Watch the General's face as he ex- presses exasperation at being caught by a crowd of botching blunderers,
где
The general uses his wits, but he finds these amateurs are not such amateurs as he suUPPOSÉS,
You don't need
to tell for you that the part is made Marius Goring, nor that Dirk Bogare Just laps it up. Zahari (Adeeb Assaly) and George (Wolto Morris) team up well as the partisans.
All I want to add is, I wish the Rank Organization had paid the extra money, and let us oce thls in colour.
WIFE
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