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WILLIAM CAMPBELL KAREN SHARPE
ANITA EKBERG
BERKY KROEGER - PAUL FI
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SPECIAL MATINEE
A Super Musical Comedy With Lots of Laughs
Kardar Productions Ltd. prosent "BAAP-RE-BAAP"
Starring KISHORE & CHAND USMANI
Directed by A R. Kardar
Music by O. P. Nayyar Songs by Jan Nisar Akhtar
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Gilbert ROLAND
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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 and 9.30 P.M.
DARING! TRUE!
BOLD!
The Threes Faces Of
Eve
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EVERY ADULT MUST SEE IT!
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1957.
FILMS
The Three Faces Of Eve
1
Now, what kind of film is "The Three Faces of Eve"? If you ask re, I should answer: "It is a documen- tary on psychiatry." should go on to qualify that by saying it includes the mbre sordid scenes of this woman's "other life," lend contrast to the contra- dictory characters assumed to dwell within this woman, Eve.
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"The Three Faces of Eve," now showing at the Roxy and the Broadway, is Introduced by Mr Allustair Cools, who ap- pears on the screen to tell us that the case history of "Eve" the woman possessed, is per- fectly true.
Well, what can you say to that? You either accept it or
New Films -At- A Glance
KING'S
SHOWING
*
PRINCESS:
"Man in tho Vani
Thrills,
CURRENT & COMING by
ANTHONY FULLER
Hazel Court throws a lie light on the Monster, in Warner Bros. "The Carse of Frankenstein" now showing at the Queen's and Alhambra,
the
You don't.
After seeing
The thrili department comes this film in which a dowdy little up with its big stuff which housewife changes in accords Campbell finds himself tryped before your eyes into a cheap in
voult while making Ittle tart, I came the con- duplicate keys to the safety de- clusion that a group of psy- posit box. chiatrists, given the same case Ligbon history, would arrive at differ- ent conclusions.
is "true," I found I suspense, and Ekberg. William Camp- bell and Karen Sharpe.
HOOVER and LIBERTY: The Vintaga starring Mel Ferrer and Pier
Angell.
ROXY
& BROADWAY: "The Three Facts of Eva" claimed to be the true story of a woman possessed of three strange permotilities. Joanne Woodward, David Wayne, and Lee J. Cobb.
STAR & METROPOLE:
"The Killing”—Fury and violence with thuggery
the race-track. Sterling Hayden, Colven Gray,
and Vince Edwards.
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "The Curse of Franken- stein". The Management asks you "Please Try Not To Faint" Feter Cushing,
Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, and Robert Urquhart,
COMING
KING'S and PRINCESS: "The Burglar" A good suspense firm, original, reallatio and daring.
MOST ∙SHOCKING
EXPERIENCE | (N.
LOVE!
Dan Duryea, Укупо Mansfield, and Martha Vickers.
DAVID WAYNE
LEE J. COBB
HOOVER 匙 LIBERTY:
"Lisbon" City
of
CinemaSCOPE
JOANNE WOODWARD
HUNNALEY JOHNSON Century-Pukin
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STAR THEATRE METROPOLE
SHOWING, TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
starring Sterling
HAYDEN
Like No Other Picture Since “SCARFACE" and
“LITTLE CAESAR”!
"THE:
KILLING
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STAR: At 11.00 a.mk.. METROPOLE: At 11.00 a.m.
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STAR: At 12.30 ph MÉTROPOLE: At 12.30 p.m.
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presents
"AIDA"
In Glorious Color Starring: Sophia LOREN
Los MAXWELL
20th Century-Fox">
presents
In CinemaScope & Color "PRINCE VALIANT” Starring: Robert WAGNER
Debra FACET
- Af Reduced Pricos
intrigue, murder, excitement, Ray Milland,
Maureen O'Hara, Cinude Kains. and Yvonne Farneaux.
ROXY & BROADWAY:
Tho
tion to Al Capone's private massacre, which was te corded in Chiengo during the
twenties na the St Valentine's Day Massacre.
Or that otension, some kill- ers trapped a rivaj gang in e garage, and sprayed them with machine-gun bullets. Such was the press then, and might
now for all I know, that pic- tures of the killing appeared in the "yellow press.”
"The Killing has a different mældent, racecourse thuggery,
the not booze, but
essential wiping out is pretty much tho sume,
Violence
I don't even try to criticise like
such pletures, If you violence, if you like seeing bloodstained bodies piled up, here is your plature.
Sterling Hayden Playa tho role of the master-mind
*make-a-pile-quielcly”
fri a
Fang.
The Eangsters are Jay C. Flip- pea, as ex-alcoholle book-keep- er who finances the operation: Elisha Cook, a race-track cash- le who has
a wife always gooding him en to go after tho big money. And true to the Al Capono tradition, Ted dc Corso, a policeman who has been gambling.
All the muck associated with crooked face-tracks, ali the cowardly violence of amail. time punks, is poured into this masterpiece of violence. My verdict: A Teddy-boy's Opera.
"Lisbon," coming to the The Curse of Frankenstein
Trusting to memory, the Personally, because the story Hoover and Liberty is a
more thriller dealing with inter- circumstances were as fol- horrifying than the advertised national smuggling. The lowa, Mary Shelley, and horror nums,
film is actually taken in Lis Byron were on holiday in In that, I am paying an un- suspected compliment to the bon, and as it is in colour, Switzerland. During a bad spell of weather, they had a star, Joanne Woodward. You ia quite spectacular. sce her In
psychiatrist's
The story gets off to a swift wager to see who could consulting room tearfully tell- pace, and revolves around a write the best 'shocker.' ing her symptoms, she sinks her millionaire tycdon who has Mary Shelley won with head on her breast, and then been held incommunicado by Frankenstein," whose when she looks up again, the the Reds for two years.
HE
the
Eve Black...
is no longer Eve White, brut wife, Maureen O'Hara, younger brother is now on anxious to have him murdered show at the Queen's and Cheap And Gaudy so that she may realise his for- Alhambra. You will notice tune. That is the basis of the I follow the convention of after
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For the purposes of telling the story, Eve White
Is the plot, housewife,
The master-mind behind the Taming the monster Eve Black is tho murder scheme Claude his creator, Frankenstein. cheap, Ruudy gallivant,
The boys back home went to Rains, who enlists the services You can be sure that It
this im, but if you Twentieth Century Fox handle of a competitor smuggler, Ray town on a film, It is well made. It is. Milland, a Boston sea captain, are making a horror film, I do
His
is two-fold. purpose
He, not see any reason for going It is terrifyingly authentic. Lee will not only eliminate Milland, half-way. This film spares you. J. Cobb as the psychiatrist Is
pair of who is trespassing
hi nothing. You see on good, and every bit
but will human hands wrapped and Decal os he should be smuggling grounds,
You see the murder gory before you, and as I still am.
plans for a substantial part charnel-house robbed of a pair Larl of nil you see the of the millionaire's fortune, in of eyes. association with Maureen synthetic being, a compound of all the local gibbets, mortuaries, Milland, who also directed and graveyards, disfigured and "Lisbon," uses all the suspenso flendish, breathe its first breath tricks to bring the story to a of artileially acquired life. terrine climax. Sta chases, Weak Stomach? desperate flights through ihe
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The other star in the film is David Wayne, 11 rough, Un- imaginative husband, altogether too uncouth for Eve.
also accomplish
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Now although I have said 1 don't believe the story, I must admit that the plot resolves on absolutely orthodox inca, Once the emotional charge to re-
narrow streets of Lisbon, and
It is no film to see if your leased from the subconscious of
is weak. And your the usual triangle
time stomach Eve's mind, she cured, it
Milland at
the last shot of the film is the guil-
the would xem to ine that she had adjusted to
grim been reading Freud in her apex, and Misses Olara and lotine rising in
shadows to punish the author spare time, and pulling one Fumeaux at the basis,
By that I mean marked for of this horror. over the psychiatrists,
Вяза Raine, but Baron Frankenstels, not the renson? To escape from awful husband without break in a climax he turns the tables producer. hog e convention of Hmali 03 town ethics.
Millard Her fier sassination
to
Peter Ching, who came this sadistic rival and
via 1034. 起 Baron thwarts the plan for murder- fame
un
ing the millionaire. Instead Frankenstein, and he brings all Once she is free of Eve Black he rescues the prisoner and in the Inspired madness or and Eve White, she assumes a third personality, a nice quiet able to supply evidence which obsessed scientist to the part. erl, Jane. A perfect example brings Rains to Justice. At Christopher Lee is the Monster, time the romantic but most of the credit should go the same of Marxim ethics, thesis,
to to the malce-up mari, Robert angle is bent out of shape antithesis, synthesis.
of Urquhart is the Baron's tutor, to give the story on clement
but I left the cinema quite un- monordict: You have a star coat, satisfied that justice had been you finve good supporting done in allowing Frankenstein to in suffer Urquhart, I felt, had players, the film is shot colour anal a new wide screen pulled a fast one.
but Hozel Court is the
glamour process called Naturama, somehow, it never quite comes in this otherwise sanguinary
This picture Sun Also Rises"
is bound Ernest Hemingway's enuse a lot of falk
but seeing Thoughtful people, is not necessarily believing. Man In The Vault
Hollywood plays an "at home" match, in "The Man
sophistleated drama of the "Exit" or Ameri- OGIES in Europe in the twenties. Tyrone Power, Ara Gardner, Mel Ferrer, Errol Flynn, and Eddie Albert, STAR
METROPOLE: "Nightmare" A. thriller, chilling, Suspenseful, goose-pimply screenplay. Edward G. Robinson, with Kevin McCarthy, and Chante Russoli, QUEEN'S, & ALHAMBRA:
Walt Disney's
double feature, "Davy Crockett and tho River Pirates" and "Man In Space" a science-factant featurette,
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in the Vault, now showing off. The climax is never quite sequence. Naturally, there in
and Hazol are left
at the King's and Princess, so sensational as the work up the terrifying scene when the
to the climax promises.. A good monster for the film is shot against average plot, but better fimes alone in the Baronfal Castle. the background of present- and directed than most.
day Hollywood.
angle has The Killing
a young
The Suspense William Campbell,
I am always giving you locksmith, trapped between the my uninvited opinion, 30 law and a ring of brutal kil- here I come again to tell you era, when he forced to make #set of keys for a safety de- that I think "The Killing" $200,000 now showing at the Star and Metropole, owes its inspira-
posit box containing
in cash.
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A Love Story That Will Live For Everyone!
Winner of S Academy Awards
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