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RITA HAYWORTH
FRANK SINATRA KIM NOVAK
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Pal Joey
SPECIAL MATINEE TO-MORROW
At 11.00 a.m.
"Tom & Jerry" Technicolor Cartoons
Programme presented by M-G-M
Admission: $1.00, $1.50
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condNZON
TO-MORROW AT 12.20 P.M.
SPECIAL MATINEE
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello & Gigi Perreau in UA' "DANCE WITH ME HENRY"
Admission: $1.00, $1.50
PRINCESS
TO-MORROW AT 12.30 P.M. SPECIAL MATINEE
M-G-M present Jane Powell & Howard Kool in "SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS"
A Musical in CinemaScope and Colour! Admission: $1.00, $1.50
AIR
CONDITIONED
STAR THEATRE METROPOLE
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9,30 P.M.
Forme PRST
SORREN
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PREKUPTOJO IS
11:RNARD SHOWS
SAINT JOAN
Starring: RICHARD WIDMARK RICHARD TODD ANTON WALBROOK • JOHN CIELGUD & JEAN SEBERG
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M.G.M. Presen's
"DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE"
Starring: Spencer TRACY Ingrid BERGMAN
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Morning Show: To-morrow 12.30 "SUPERMAN:IN EXILE"
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BLACK GANGS
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A SUPER ITALIAN PICTURE
IN ENGLISH VERSION
Sunday Morning Show At 12.30 RICHARD WIDMANK'Ir "BACKLAB)" (Technicolor)
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1958.
FILMS
gigantic
and
COMING
CURRENT &
by ANTHONY FULLER
lights of Broadway illumin- and he,
better. "Sant Joan," which of that theels.
Queen's and
can
the
THE fans will be flocking such
Пора Da make it, You, the pubile in to see "Pal Joey" at "CaoBar
Cleopatri" answer that one.
Now, here is the test of "Saint the King's and the Princess.. taught, and the fallure of Joan." How much of it is good There is nothing else for it "Major Barbara" to rise to dinema whlie Jean is off the plenty. stage? The answer is, because it is film that puts the anticipated heights.
should not be. The The latest to be taught this And that the show business right on
every minute the apot, and the bright costly lesson is Ollo Preminger, piny is Jenn's, hers alone, And
should have known the in denies comes to the Star and Metropole is his costly excursion which beached on the Show, make it a great
There is everything there to film. Stars Richard
Widmark, Sir John to let us have a look at "The Glaigud, Richard Todd, and True Glory," the record of Anton Walbrook. Top novelist, the progress of the Libera- Graham Greene to work on the tion Armies from D-Day to Money, £300,000 worth VE-Day. I think you had Otto Preminger cet out to better go along and have a surround his Joan with the best look at it for quite
eling cast he could lay his bar of reasons. First of all, hands on. He succeeded. They to show you where the true During the
ate not only the stars and socialites but the down-at- heel heels and the downest of the lot is Frank Sinatra, I was never an admirer of Frankle, and when he was writ ten off, it was just what I Then thought would happen. ruddenly he grabbed himself
A part in "From Here to Elorri
ty" and who could deny he was a great actor?
"Pal Joey" in its original for could have been sub-titled "A Pimp's Progress," but the cellu- fold version is cleaned up, oven so, some of the cracks left in ure pretty near the line.
Says Frank: "The only thing I'm superstitious about is 13 in
a bed."
So that is the film. Sinatra, full of his own Importance. wisecracks and heels his way from stage to bed, convinced he has the way to treat the dames. The sexy songs have been flung out of the Alm version, and we are left with such soured honey numbers as "Bewitched, Both ered and Bewildered," its
Even so the gutter has
after Franity philosophy, and
e
4
script
of it.
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Thambre have decided
num-
be forgotten, Not that we con- Chue in hatred, I am the last to wish for such a thing, but as an object lesson to the world to show the degradation to which
th
t
can nation
10- permit self to sink. It is of no use the pro- tending to associate in the polite world trying to carry on fiation that these things did not exist. It might be expedient, but personally, I detest that word,
Then there existe, and is still exists, the len that had only
British people in par leular, and the world in gen- erni, surrendered to Hitler 1940, all those terrible ruins you ce, in the latter stages of tho aim, need not have been. Shades of Bismark and Wilhem 11, does the leopard change its spots? This is a Ane "Lest We For Rot,"
✩
fr
overpower her. Widmark.
B-52" is the Dauphin, Richard Todd as glory belongs. Dubois, Walbrook as Sir past twelve years, I have "BOMBERS
Warner Bros entry Buxtop of Beauvais, and
much Sir heard John Gielgud as the Earl
argument, in the film arena of huge one would generally originating from screen, colourful action and Whether Warwick.
verbose politicians about modern planes. Showing at slated part is a matter of opin which country won the the Lee and Astor, It also
be better than another in any
lon. Look ni it any way like, it is hard to imagine
better cast.
you
Should you be a student of production, you will be forced to old Preminger admit that the
enlus is there, and the adap- tion of the play to the nim im- reuves movement considerably What, then, is wrong with It?
does not give her a chance, and as good an usher or
war.
tells a human story against a realistic background of furious flying.
They are supported, I admit, chietly by people who were not dots not lie. These camera chops Acallem ls again the keynote there. Well, we say the camera were right up
front, and al- of this picture of contemporary pictures are not American life, because to obtain 11ough their
as I pointed preity, at least they give the lie the flying scenes, to these creatures who have out a week or so ago, the film desecrated our dead, (I speak in nt went on location to an US. Well, Preminger has made an
the sense of the Allies), by Air Force base. has succeeded in feathering his
argument us to
who. The double theme of the ple- nest from feathered bed pro- elementary mistake, one I could windy
overlook in an amateur produc played the principal role on ture is cleverly woven together, vided by Rita Hayworth,
and works out most naturally as meets the girl, and his cynient tion, but one no self-respecting that dreadful battlefeld,
reviewer dare omit to point out
Secondly, because we forget so the most powerful bomber in the philosophy goes bang like
What he has done is to study easily, it is as well
to remind world, the B-52 Stratofortress, while pricked balloon.
return of Rita Hayworth the play, but he hasn't studled ourselves what total war means is put through its paces,
Show. Now Shaw knew the Ink I the power, I should show at the bare, the human actors is quite an event, and poor Kim Novak as the good girl is given theatre inside out. No, not just this dim once a week in UNO, are undergoing the added ten- I should suggest it does more slon of being at cross purposes. quite lesson in acting. Rita the stage. He could have made pay.box
good than all the windy argu- Natalie Wood who played op- posite Jame Dean in "Rebel ments. all Kim Novak's prettiness and attendant, scene-shifter, or any-
Third. It is a fine film. It is Without A Cause' is the beauti- undoubted charms fade ke last thing else. And when he wrote night's orchids before the talent "Saint Joan," he knew just what impossible for me to examine it ful young actress responsible for he was after. It was written not objectively, because it seems out the human tangle. Karl Malden of Hita.
in who has won fame during eldents, that is how it was past two years with come out. in Technicolour, allekest, moothest, sacharine mind, but it was written word There is nothing staged about standing screen portrayals, takes who give their over the role of her father. uncon- loaded song and dance show to for word, and comma for commit; the chaps
to Who camera-man Efrem Zimbalist is the hit this man's town for months with Sybil Thorndike in view, in and months, and Sinstra heel- although the press notlees from were not rehearsed. They said selous serpent in this ground-air taps his way to the best per the first performance with Wink what they thought at the mo- Eden, and this handsome
fred Lenihan in the title part at ment. Their reactions are inter- footer fits well into the peculiar formance of his career.
the Garrick Theatre, New York, eating to say the loast.
role he is called upon to play.
The climax is woll bullt up, persuade me that she put up a
Fourth, It finishes up in Ger«
you beautiful performance.
many, and once again that old and the end is just as Now what happened? Pre horror, Beisen Camp looms up. would like it. A romarce set in meent to,00. minger auditioned 18,000 girls, That, to me, is the most valu- modern times is the best des
fñolly able reason for showing the cription for this colourful piece 18-year-old Jean film. This evil thing must never of entertainment. to the screen it is an event. selected
Sebert. Her experience was From the time "Pygmalion" made film history and broke united to school plays and one box-office
Released by Columbia, filmed in the mood of creating an ab of place to say of certain
the stract Joan" a creature of the this is
WENEY BR comes HENEVER George
in
where, the big men the film industry have tried lessons to succes
and
stock play
permita KASY
season of summer
drama Great every. Ing. records
Fix and no short cuts
Now this poor giri is faced with one of to repeat that success. They the biggest, Bops of all time. She refused to learn the lessons might pick up, the might yet
Lee Astor
Tel. 72436
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Tel. 67777
SHOWING TO-DAY
4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
BOMBERS
STARRING
IN WARNERCOLOR
FROM WARNER BROS CINEMASCOPE
NATALIE WOOD KARL MALDEN
CO-STARING
SAD PROSENTyhet
MAPSHA HUNT-EFREM ZIMBALIST JR.
Say by 139ING WALLACE - Stary by SAM ROLFE- Produced by RICHARD WHORF - Descind a GORDEN DOUGLA"
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MORNING SHOW
LEE THEATRE TO-MORROW AT 12 NOON
WALT DISNEY'S "PINOCCHIO" TECHNICOLOR
IN
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MORNING SHOWS TO-MORROW
ASTOR THEATRE
AT 11.00 AM TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS FROM FOX
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Tyrone POWER ● Maureen O'HARA În
"THE LONG CLAY LINE”
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NEXT CHANGE
"SONGS AND DANCES OF A WILD SENSUALITY?"
... PATHE OVERSEAS LTD. BARBARA LAAGE RENATO BALDINI
Magana
WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
tho
BIZ-
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
SHOWING
weekend of this best picture from World War II showing the hunters hunted in a sub- marine VETHOS destroyer drama. Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens.
LEE
✩ ASTOR: "Botribers B-32." A colourful on, the ground romance while stank plants roar above. Natalie Wood, Kar! Malden, und Efrem Zimbalist,
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "Moa""" key on My Back:" A story of Barney Row, boxer, soliller, likn ürbt and and deper,
the drug habit. against Cameron Mitchell as Barry Ross, with Dianne Foster. KING'S & PRINCESS "Pal Joey." Frank Sinatra as a heel gives the performance of his Life in this first rate Techni- Rita colour
Also musical. Hayworth and Kim Novak. QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA: "The STAR & METROPOLE: "Saint Joan." George Bernard Shaw'S True Glory." A filmed on-the-
brought to the ruasterpiece spot record of the Allied in-
zeretn by Olto Preminger. vasion of Europe from D-Day
Richard Widmark. Richard to VE-day. A good "Lest We
Todd, Anton Walbrook, Str Forget" molive.
Jeant with John Gielgud, BROADWAY: "The ROKÝ &
The second Beberg as Joan, Earny Below."
COMING
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "The Shiralee." An outstanding Alm with
Australian back- ground, notable for the per- formance of Daba
an
bolourful
French musical
with les girls. ROXY & BROADWAY: "Tho
Great LocomotÏVD
Alsa "hien. Wilson,
child actress. Starring Poter Finch and Elizabeth Sellars. KING'S & PRINOE86: “Robbery Under Arms_"* The Kank Organisation presents an all action ploture of Australls in the rough thriving days of 1850s. In Elftman colour. Starring Peter Finch, Ronald Lewis Maureen David Swanson, McCullum.
the
QUEEN'S
and
ALHAMBRA: "Parla Music ITAL"
A
QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
OPENS TO-DAY
Written
BLOOD
AND
SWEAT
THE TRUE
GLORY
5 SHOWS TO-MORROW. EXTRA PERFORMANCE OF "THE TRUE GLORY"
QUEEN'S at 11.30 a.m.
ALHAMBRA at 11.00 a.m.
ROXY & BROADWAY
RADE MATAMATA MYLAN Kakanja termitışına
2nd TRIUMPHANT WEEK! NOW SHOWING THE 8th DAY! AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
. THE CHASE THE DUEL THAT TORE THE OCEAN APART!
THE MEN
ROXY:
ROBERT MITCHUM
CURT JURGENS
THE ENEMY.
BELOW
FOLOR OF DE LURE
CINEMASCOPË
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW
At 12.00 noon
● BROADWAY: At 12.30 pan.
20th Century ox presents
"BUPERMAN AND THE JUNGLE DEVIL"
Starring: George REEVES
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HOOVER
'CAUSEWAY BAY" TEL.7257! Chaso." Against the Arella Two Disney pradoo- tions, the latter of Academy merkt.
LEE & ASTOR: "The Story of Mankind." A Falling Star Studded Fantasy. Ronali Cotman, Peter Lorre, and sil of that wintage. STAE & METROPOLE: "The
Tatterod Dress."
excliing
courtroom
A tant
George Tobias, Edward Andrews, and Phillp Reed.
CAPITOL RITZ
SHOWING TO-DAY
At 3.30. 5.30, 7.30 ́9.10 DJEL THE FUNNIEST MAN AND MOVIE OF THEM ALLI
CHARLIE CHAPLIN MODERN TIMES
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A Daring Story! A Powerful Melodrama With The Battle of Guadalcanal no
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MONKEY Back
The Stary
Starring Cameron Wildkati and Manas Foster SPECIAL SUNDAY MATINEE 4. REDUCED ADMISSION HOOVER 1. 12,00 wean LIBERTY at 12.30 p.m.
Patricia Medina
John Sands 'in'
"ALADRIN AND HIS
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