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KING'S AT 9.30 P.M. MONDAY, 16th SEPT. 1957 YI-KWEI SZE (Bass-Baritone) ON THE STAGE Admission: $3.50, $6.00, $12.80 tax inclusivo.
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SAMUEL FULLER'S CINEMASCOPE®
The taming of the Arizona Territoryl
---BARBARA STANWYCK
GUNS
BARRY SULLIVAN
DEAN JAGGER JOHN ERICSON GENE BARRY Wellten, Produced and Directed by SAMUEL FULLER
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1957.
FILMS
Forty Guns:
CURRENT & COMING by
ANTHONY FULLER
the despondent Anne, France June- Thorburn, and Cecil
it's I am very sorry but "An bas compensations, Jane Parker are uaring to famo
visit the Casino Affair to Remember" seems and Tony
with that kind of picture that where Valerie 'gambles heavily, expresses British humour, It to be getting an affair to and Anne makes considerable is foolish to say that the Bri- forget. For weeks we have progress with the mysterious fish cannot make
imagine a prescher would be have when his village is threa tened. Ho sincerely believes that prayer and good common sense will atop the bad men. comedy, His mortification when ho finds What is really meant is the that evil con be slopped only British rely on the dialogue by a taste of its own medicine more than the Hollywood pro- is really good.
NeverthelesS, +TUD
A 24
been promised it, this week though fascinating Harry. was certain, and now at the But the worst form is yet to last minute I have been come. A French, official ex-
plaina that the Casino had ductions. informed that the second changed its style of gambling print of the film has not yet counters two years before. In
more of this kind of picture, arrived. So the Roxy and chilly tones he adds that 00.00 Turtle is leading the way for worlit ot cbsolete and is gradually paving the the Broadway have had to renes
appreciation advance "Torty Guns" which ounters were passed the night way for a wider
before. He also suggests was to have followed "An Partridge Plastics could
dhat of that underplay of force that have is no typically British. "True Affair to Remember".
forged them,
as a Turtle" is ably directed by Gun" released "Forty
The gulity person confesses Wendy Toyu, she is responsible. Valerie, in order to keep the extent of her gambling from her husband, had secreted old counters on previous trips.
by
a
This is quickly followed by another startling Harry is discovered to be
Revivalist
Gun Glory:
Now I've seen and hurd everything. Here's revelation.
Holly wood breaking into the revivalist business.
They
( 'Twentieth-Century Fox is
explosive Western drama srt agnirant the hackground of the
law Arizona Territory in the less days of the 1880s: starring Barbara Stanwyck and Barry Sullivan, Mr Fuller (no reis tion) who has produced, dirve ted and written the screenplay Casino spy, and is ordered of for the CinemaScope produc- the ship by the furious Dud- tlon, hna Denn
Jagger, John ley. Anne dellantly announces Ericsen and Gene Barry in co that she wants marty the Earring
roles, Tho yorsatte sleuth Harry. motion picture maker In addition to his most
recent bren
effort, "China Gate" has responsible for such matiun pictures as "The Steel Helmet”
Attorney-General,
Humiliation
comes the
dio-
IL
I haven't said much about the feminine role. It's there,
But we Western fans go to nee the big stuff, and get constier- bly annoyed when the women, try to stop the flight. And when their silliness almost couses our hero's death. But she's there. Rhonda Fleming. But how the keeps her hair so tidy, her nails so manicured, her facial 60 perfect, is beyond my ken,
It's a good illm, a very good Alin; they don't come better, and Gregory as Grinsell is the best baddest man I've seen in
nes of celluloid.
The Zenith
n
now [跬
have lifted The Ninety and Nine" right out of the The Prince And The Show
Girl: evangelical hymn book. As
"The Prince and the Show the credit titles flash upon the screen while Stewart Girl" Warner Bros Techni- Granger rides in the back colour comedy starring So in the mkist of this ground, Burl Ives lilta this Marilyn Monroe and Lau and "Hell nud. High Water." domestic storm, the Turtle sets lachrymose little number. rence Olivier, is
Griff Bunnell (Barry Sull for home. At sea the emotional Not us Sankey sang it, full show at the Queen's and van). an ex-unslinger now climate is matched by working for the United States weather. Down comes the fox that last century's sinners reaches the zenith of her career
Alhambra. the of power and passion, so I think Marilyn just about driving and that is the moment the Els two brothers, Wes (Gene Turtle chooses to break
down came weeping to the in this production, I think Barry) and Chico (Robert Dix) completely. With her engines penitents' bench. Oh no It also that it proves that in spite to the lawless town of Tomb- out of action and her antiquated comes over us a kind of hill- of all the ballyhoo that accom- stone, run with an iron hand pumps stopped, the crew have billy number.
plcture, when you Drummond (Bar-
I panies by Jesulen
o alternative but to fre
Now,
wont real acting you have lo bara Stanwyck), and her Terly tres rockets.
thought, sort that one out.
go to the British singe for it. hired gunmen.
Then
wasn't hard. Stewart crownin
Without for one momcat Was humiliation of all. Sir Harold Granger
the last sheep wishing 10 detract from Brazier, Sir Dudley's business finding his own way home. Tie Marilyn's performance, you can ninety and nine were safe below see for yourself what I mean, sociate and seafaring rival,
in the fold, Western fans will Alongside Sybil Thorndike, fatt, Sir Harolds the owner
find a great deal of similarity Miss Monroe is merely a Holly- of the Liberty, a proud plush, showing of
between "Gua Glory" 'Dow wood star in the presence of a the Hoover and great netress. "The Prince and extravagantly equipped yachi.
As the tog closes
Liberty, and "The Lonely Man" the Show Girf" is the title in,
recently shown here.
given to Terence off the Turtle's
Rattigan's But apart from plot, the London crew, including Harry who
hit, "The Biceplug tho shooting. overpowers now a stowaway. But before drama is superior in every way. enger
MGM's latest outdoor Brockie, and whicels him off to Jone and Tony can leave,
action Prince," and the movie has un chorus giri (Marilyn) gool
the It is better acted, it is Almed in mixed up in Turtle drifts into the fog. On CinemaStepe,
a Ruritanlan It is only a matter of their own,
it is in colour, Intrigue. But for the purposts minutes before Jessica Drum- pre reconelled and Jane finds a
the honeymooners and is far more spectacular. of the plot, the Prince has got mond, Brockle's sister and latent seamanship. She steers
For those who fead" Westerns' to be in London. So what bet- forty hired gunmen ride into with new-found skill
as well as see them, the story ter than to bring him there for on-the-spot inas himself a successful
Tony is taken from Philip Yordan's the Coronation of King George
*on of the West." gineer, so off they sail.
the Fifth in 1911? For, alas, Then
Liberty Not all her new equipment can help
Forty Gunmen The trio is not in town long
meels
before Griff, upon requeMÉ the helpless townsfolk, up with a young tough named Brockie (John Ericson) who, in a drunken rage, has shot the
Comey to the
town marshal. Griff avenges Liberty lakes
on
lown to hold an
tria) and free Brockle "disturbing the peace" charge.
It works around Twist, Wes accepts the tion of town marshui, and his wedding day
this trouble. to
posl- fangled
the
rescue. Worse
the
17~
13
in
on her as she drifts helplessly,
A and ultimately drifts is given
Now Sir Harold is humiliated aground.
as he Ands he has run into
present of a bullet in the back, by Brockie.
|murder,
when he makes
#
Is it a good Dim?
It is. It's Ruritania ceased to exist soon the best Western I've seen since after that year when the First "Shane."
Now
Hay-Makera
what do the fans ex-
World War blasted the Balkons
of the map, with all its petty spiteful kingdoms.
His Grand Dural Highness Charles (Olivier), who is caught
Brockle is sent to prison and 13 set to be hanged for Wes' reached harbour.
All right, here it is. business, is eager for a bli of So he has Marilyn around And of course, romance 1
for Granger was tutored by Cari fun. dramatic gani break using the newlyweds is truc,
Fit, Hollywood trick shot ex- at his country's embassy. Jessien as a shield. Now you as a Turile," If we saw more. it came to the camera
"Truc pert for this business. When However, Marilyn is a bit of are all set for the fancy shool- British
work, a spoil-sport, but not so dumb pictures here, Ing. Well it's not so good be should see that John Gregson, camera-man said the shot would his political game. This is no
we Granger drew so fast that the
that she does not sen through cause Griff shoots Jessica, but fortunately wounds her only slightly. He gives the remain- ing ve bullets to Brockle.
rock peol while the Turtle has lay
pret? First of all, fast gun up in all this plot-counter-plot
Of course, these All-up pic- lures don't call for analysis or criticism, they entertain some of the people all the time. What I do say is this: If you ke Western, make it in co. or leave it alone,
The Turtle
True As A Turtle:
The British seafaring tradition that blazed ocean routes across the world and made immortal such names as Drake, Forbisher, Ra- leigh, and and Cook, has not perished.
*True Turlie". the J. Arthur Rank Production, film- ed in Eastman Colour, and now showing nt the Star und sur-
SINATRA Metropute, shows
AS
JOHNNY CNCho
vives in the most unexpected places.
For instance, it lives on in the veins of a plasties manu- facturer, Dudley Partridge, and KEENAH WYN WILLIAM CONRAD-FIMYLUS KIRK young newly-wed Tony Hud-
Released thru United Arials.
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* BASINS AREAL OF A MAN.......MORE
RICHARD WIDMARK
JANE CREER
FREYOR HOWARD
in-
son, whose lives are completely wrapped up in Dudley's vacht, Turtle, which was probably launched in time to help tercept the Spanish Armada.
When Tony (John Gregson) is asked to join the Turtle's crew for a trip to Dinard, ho accepts Joyfully. He targets that ho has promised his pretty bride Jané (June Thor- burn) a honeymoon In, Italy. Anne (Elvi Hale), a cousin of Dudley's wife Valeric, (Avicu Landono) also comes pectation of a miniature Mediterranean cruise, This illusion is soon shattered.
German Measles
cx-
And to Jone, Tonyla nautical Instructions are not the en- dearments young bilde ex- peets to hear on her honey-
To cap it all, an
of German
moon
break
aboard necessitates
Juno
tut measles and
Tony occupying separate cabins! But the girls and something to talk about. They see Harry furtively
scorching through
Dudley's
Iugzogc. That la enough. They decide he is an international crook.
More by luck than judgment, the Turtle arrives at Dinard.
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to rest. The crew and the ship Doods painting.
Jor Iharaad honeymoon couple and
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HOOVER and LIBERTY: "Gun Glory". A Shane class Western starring Stewart Granger, KING'S and PRINCESS: "Funny Free", A song and dance and colour- ful Paris. Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn. STAR and METROPOLE:
""True
Turtle" Hilarious
adventures aboard a yacht starring John Gregson,
June Thorburn,
Cecil Parker. QUEEN'S and ALHAM- BRA: "The Prince and the Showgirl. Ruritania comes to London Town for the Coronation. Sir Laurence Olivier, Dame Bybit Thorndike, End Marilyn Monroe,
And
ROXY and BROADWAY:
"Forty Guns".
Yel an- o her. Western. Barbara and Barry
Blanwyck
Sullivan.
COMING
HOOVER and LIBERTY:
"The Man in the Sky". The story of a trat pilot. An MGM English pro- duction starring Jack Hawking and Elizabeth Sollars. KING'S and PRINCESS: "Cyclopa". Homer vi Hollywood: James Craig, STAR and METROPOLE:
14 Tammy
and the Bachelor". All about a 11:tle islasippi river. bosi gal and a sophis ileated bachelor,
QUEEN'S and ALHAM- HRA: "A:tlia”. An Italian emper production.
Tho
Flune ride kordas Europe.
Anthony Qulun
and
Sonbia. Loren. BOXY and BROADWAY: *MAn Affair to Remember”.
A romanilo
with
escapado
Cary Grant and Deborah KeT.
Que
Thorn-
come out as a blurr. Granger Jess thon to stop a popular grew more slowly, but still too rising to set his own son upon fast for the camera. They took the throne of Carpathia,
The good acting I mentioned n third camera shot, even more
when the slowly. Granger asked, "What occurs Die you gong to call this am? Dowager,. (Dame Sybil "The slowest gun alive?" So the dike) takes over. She is by no camera took it at Grainger's means as senile as she pretends spoed. It is the fastest shot to be, and soon sees what is I've ever seen of the draw. going on. At the same time, Is there a fight? There is. Or she takes a liking to the Show- rather
Stewart giri and even takes her along Granger and Arch Johnson put to the Coronation. up a real corner-ender.
a brawl.
MGM spent two days putting this shot
in
Forthright
with her
the can, and I am told
Of course, Marilyn captures by MGM's representative who everyone's hearts was at the Alm preview that forthright manner which shows neither Granger nor Johnson up so well against all their mistad all the hay-makers that intrigue.
were telegraphed their way.
Tho estranged son
are even
Now don't go dismissing the and father are reconciled and the pocket-size kingdom goes Western as merely a hack-plot,
ali democratie, You This one isn't. It takes itself led to suspect that Miss Monroe very seriously. It presents the will become Olivier's conseort problem that millions of me have had to
consider and once things have settled down.
Now plays of this kind were answer according to their con- sciences. Is there a time when showing at every other London
a man must fight?
Theatre from about 1900 to The community 10
and Dame Sybil knows Which 1014,
the geography of Ruritania. Granger belonged is shown 85
Such n plat demands all un one of those tight little Puritan
self-satisfied actor can give to save it from sects; completüly
And it gets all with their own interpretation of sheer farco all euidcal problems. I thought Dame Sybil and Sir Laurence the performance of the crippled Olivier have. The consequence Sam Wainscott,
by Is a right rattling good show. played
In spite of all that, I like the Aubuchon, particularly Ane. He puts in all the sell-righteous way Miss Monrue fits in with intolerance that these people the regal pair of the show can assume, and shows all the business. She gives a spirited hatred they can show and mask and
performanco called for high
with words of love.
vivacious which has
are
It seems that every critic Is Lotices. Especially from those
who critica praising
Inspired by the performance of
patriotic rather than "histrionie Steve Rowland, Granger's son, who also
values. hates his misunder-
rolo he created on the London
Laurence, as the stuffy stood father. If you want my Prince, brings to the screen a opinion, here it is. He gave mo a pain in the neck. He looket to me like a Teddy-boy stage oppoalle his wito Vivien who has just "acon the light," Leigh,
The varying mogus ០០៩ characterisations of the
The Stampede Prince's rejuvenation from u
stuffy, over political, under- loved monarch, to a giddy, The great spectacle is the love happy, champagne silly caltle stampede. It is simply Prince is an acting four-de- marvellous. This is the greatest, forco, Ha theatrical perfor I am told, that has ever been mances could fill a book, and Almed.
It i certainly the the praises heaped upon him greatest and most authentic I from both sides of the Ailantle have ever seen. You had bet- could casily spoil leas
The and
Its
ter have a look at it because balanced artist. you won't see ono again unleas Olivier bringa all that crit Hollywood buys up a two thou- to this flimuy pleco of nonsente, sand herd of is own,
what is better, the film cattle men are paid, of course, shows good taste oven in for the use of the herd, but the upproach to things we are very going is getting too rough as the icuchy about. Aims move closer to reality. This is due to Sir Laurence. Before I close, I want to tell 1 think you will enjoy the Jou about another
Ала the part I Coronation scents, enjoyed.
preacher ls Coronation dance, And above taken by Chili Wills. Its a all, those scones batween the lovely performance because he stary... Prinos and the salva plays the part as a man likea-to (chorus girl,
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