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FILMS
"LEGEND of the othe feel it's worth getting out
CURRENT & COMING by
ANTHON
ANTHONY FULLER
ou letak problem The bee or
your easy-chair and going down
town to ect.
"Let's the Happy So although
not to be?" or in their case, "Let's be Happy" has quite a story theme, it is also a musical "to show or not to show?" In which Tony Martin sings Some of the films which bo- several appealing songs, and gan with the Chinese New Year Vera-Ellon dances with light- holidays are going to continuo heariod abandon, over the weekend, and were re- viewed In this column last week. For instance: "Don't Go Near the Water" the zany saga of the US Navy ashore, or as we call then in England, "dry-land
Showing at the Hoover
which opens at the Star and Metropole this afternoon, is the huge pro- duction that brought Johna Wayne hero last week. Henry Hathaway, who both 67THE Gift of Love" produces and directs this
which opena this flm makes no secret of the afternoon at the Roxy and fact that it is an attempt to Broadway is another senti- hit back at TV, and if you mental journey along the go to see it, you will realine tear dampened track which that he has put something Twentieth Century Fox Liberty, it is good value Into this film that TV can know so well. The last time anyone's money, and an never obtain until it has a they had us reaching for solte
staices! giant size screen in colour. our handkerchiefs, it was NEVILLE BRAND
****** BETSY PALMER-MICHEL RAY MENTIRE
Procword by Williams Preiberg and George Sebion - Directed by Anchong Mann › Screenplay by Dudley Nichols • Froto e Story by Tharney Elater and Joel Kane
Alan
• COMMENCING MONDAY ◊
a frolic in sensuality!"
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“and God
created
woman”.
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the
devil
invented
Brigitte
Bardot
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EXTRA MORNING SHOWS TO.MORROW KING'S & PRINCESS at 11:00 am. Universal-International prosent
"WOODY WOODPECKER" & TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
Admission: $1.00, $1.50
KING'S at 12.10 p.m. 11 PRINCESS at 12.30 p.m.
Sophia Loren in Ann Blyth & Edmund Purdom "WOMAN OF THE RIVER" || "THE STUDENT PRINCE" CinemaScope & Technicolor
in Technicolor
Admission: $1.00, $1.50
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Dirk BOGARDE Stanley BAKER Michael CRAIG Barbara MURRAY
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TECHNICOLOR,
TO-MORROW
Filmed in Eastman Colour ErsaN the suiting Flammond Innes novil, Dirk Begarda plays the stranger who post is. The Rockies in search of pencomand winds up
- licking some of the targhett men le
the world.
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Tom & Jerry Technicolor Cartoons
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TONY CURTIS • JANET LEICH "THE BLACK SHIELD OF FALWORTH"
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Dean Martin • Jarry Lewis Color by Technicolor "MONEY FROM HOME"
At Reduced Prices: 50 Ch., 70 Ch, & $1.20
MORNING SHOW
LEE THEATRE To-morrow at 12.00 Neon
WALT DISNEY'S
TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
At Reduced Pricek: 40 Cts., 70 Ch. & $1.00
"An Affair to Remember"
"Legend of the Lost" s
a with the ways of true love drama of adventure and TC- mance film on remote
never running smooth. This Iocation in the Sahara Desert. time, It is a young TV star, The picture stars John Wayne, Evelyn Rudie, who makes Sophin Loren, and Rossano claim for your heart. Brizzi, with Kuri KroszNET heading the list of featuri players.
Filmed in Teclinicolour
and
The film has Robert Stack as
a cold calculating scientist, the kind of man interested only in Technirama, the pleture is re- facts, his facts being things he can see and handle. Opposite him Is Lauren Bacall who plays the wife and also second Addio to his slide rule.
leased by United Artista.
The
only thing that could
John Wayne, who has proved himself a favourite with movie- goers in such films as "Stage "The Quiet Man, coach" and plays a rugged, relentless, and resolve this problem is a child, roguish guide
desert, co one is adopted. in UIC Sophia Loren, whose charms need no introduction to Hong- it is a lo slow in so doing, Once the Alm gels going, and kong's film fans, takes over the
the action begins to play havoc role of the girl for whose love,
with the ctnotions. It Wayne and Bruzzi contend,
is de finitely a woman's picture, and at moments has some very fine scenes as the man, obsessed by his job, is momentarily divert ed by the introduction child to his house.
Rosano Brazzi, considered by Тацу picture-goers to be the most exciting romantic actor of the decade, plays the strange fortune-hunter looking for lost treasure in the desert.
Sophia Loren distinguishes herself in the "Legend of the Last" by her display of courage in addition
beauty and inlent. It manifests Viself most noticeably, perhaps, in a scene
sailors,"
and
for Ab-
Produced by Marcel Hellman and directed by Henry Levin, this Associated British distri button is a cheery entertainment.
ATEST news from the
cert in the laughter they aro playing the
Whether they show it next week or later. book it down as
romantic and musical comedy "Let's be Happy," up to today at any rate, 46 ET'S be Happy" is a but are undecided whether Lsparkling romantic to follow up with "Camp- comedy on the Cinderella boll's Kingdom," the fine theme. In this case there is outdoor production set in Cinderella, with a washing the Canadian Rockies. machine salesman for a prince, and a packet of tea instead of a glass slipper.
Vera-Ellen and, Tony Martin are the stars of the film show- Ing at the Lea and Astor, Flim- ed in Technicolour and Cinema- Scope, lo a musical which tells the story of an American girl who inherits a tiny fortune to and goes on a mad spree Edinburgh where her ancestors a helpful American were born, meeting on the way gentleman who is Europe-bound with the idea of marketing a new wash- ing machine.
a flm that must be seen. It's a new departure in the theme of wide-open-spaces produciton,
and was produced by Betty Box, who received un honour in the Now Year list.
Starring Stanley Baker and the English box-office number one star, Dirk Bogarde, this is An unusual film.
HE King's and Princess
THE aro undecided whether
In Edinburgh, her salesman is sidetracked by ↓ glamorous French girl, and tho little to run "The Tin Star" over of a American girl meets an im the weekend, so should they poverished Scots lord who, im- change their minds, there agining her "fortune"
More cannot be said without revealing the plot, but U- doubtedly this film will have a wide appeal as it is the kind of film that goes down here, where satness runs laughter as a very close second.
to
be
the
larger than it is, sele out to will be no time to place a charm her, with a view to the review in this column. restoration of the Lamily
However, if you look in sinies!
With him as her escort, she box below, you can check up, be
all the ex- cause I have been promised sees Edinburgh in in which she is called upon to ment is too unrestrained
My own opinion is, the senti- citement of festival time, and is their decision just before
by the and captivated
Scottish great big wheels start turning permit herself several deadly your heart is
has dreamed in the printing department. attacked rather beauty spots she tarantulas to crawl over her than won over. "An Affair to And you can't take`realism fur- Remember was made with A ther than that.
lighter touch.
Kurt Kraszner, whose number The child, Evelyn Rudie, is of famous roles on stage and an accomplished little actress, screen are too numerous to but I should like to see her inention, Is cast as the French with, another
and a script Prefect, o conniving but fatuous different director before I join in the acclamations she has IT pompous prig.
To exploit the greatest con- ceived in the States.
Jean Negulesco directs, the tent from the awe-inspiring
which comes wild beauty of this strange land, picture
De Luxe Jack Cardiff,
CinemaScope cinematographer- extraordinary was engaged, He. Colour. If you are of the kind was responsible for the pictorial who enjoy a good cry, then take effecta in War and Peace" along plenty of haukles. You'll which enchanted Hongkong need them, audiences into giving it the Colony's second longest run of
1957.
Taking it all round, it has all THIS
the ingredients of a successful
*
HIS is one of the weeks that drives a film re-
picture in the local sense. It has vivewer mad. Up to press
all' the Hongkong audiences de time, some exhibitors are Inund before sending a flm
make
up
onto a local box-office record: still unable to colour, size, action, drama-in their minds on the Ham-
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GRAND OPENING TO-DAY ·
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THE BOX-Office CHAMPION OF DEC., 1957 & JAN., 1958!
WAYNE AT HIS MIGHTIEST!
ADVENTURE AT ITS BEST!
John Wayne Sophia Loren
Rossano Brazzi
Legend of the Lost
DRONGKARA” We THORACOLOR" BULATÚ ZON 503, ONGER MET
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LIBERTY: "Don't Go Near the Water." dry-land The US Navy publicity department gives you the laugh of your life. Glenn Ford, Gia Scala, Eart Holliman. ADD6 Francis, Kecman Wynn. Fred Clark, Eva Gabor, Rug Tamblyst, and Jeff Richards,
STAR & METROPOLE: "Legend of the Lost" John Wayne, Sophia Loren, and Rossano Brazzi in a desert drama made in Technirama and Technicolour, released through United Artists. LEE & ASTON; "Let's be
Happy." Tony Marin,
and
Robert
Vera-Ellen, Flemyng In * musical set In romance comedy Edinburgh at Festival time. QUEEN'S: "One Night at the Moulin Rouge.” A sparkling French musical starring Tilda Thamar and Nocl Roquevert. KING'S & PRINCESS:
"The
Tio Star." Houry Fonda and Anthony Perkina share acting honours in a new type of Western, ROXY ៩ BROADWAY: Lauren Bacall and Robert Stack in "The Gift of Love,"
· sentimental Journey which introduces a new child star, Evelyn Rudle.
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LEE & ASTOR: "Campbell'■
of
Kingdom." A great outdoor
drama
the Canadian Rocky Mountains, starring Irk Bogarde, Blanley Baker, Michael Craig, and Barbara Murray, with James Roberton Justice and Alliene Seyler na guest Klars.
QUEEN'S: "For Beller, for Worse." They thought the best things in life should be free, Including the rent. Dirk Bogarde, Busan Slephen, Cecil Parker, Dennis Price, and Eileen Hertle.
A British Kenwood production In Eastman- colour. KING'S & PRINCESS: "And God Created Woman” Says the New York Post, "00 minutes of uninhibited sox!" Brigitte Bardot and Curt
Jurrets.
ROXY
BROADWAY: Hollywood at its best in Mark Robson's direction of "Peyton Flaco,” a mighty sinnll-town drama, starring Lana Turner, Hope Lange, Leo Phillips, Lloyd Nolan, Diane Vars), Arthur Kennedy. Russ Tamblyn, and Terry Moore.
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Chinese Folklore - Ficture
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No woman can give more than the gift of love...
no picture will be closer to your heart!
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