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KING'S • PRINCESS
TO-DAY
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WINNER and many
OF
7 OSCARS other coveted awards
"KWAI" WINS ACADEMY AWARD
FOR BEST PICTURE!
BEST
Picture
Actor
Director Яcreenplay Photog'y
Music Score
Film Editing
'COLUMBIA PICTURES prosasta. Á KAMI SPJEŠTI, PRODUCTION
WILLIAM HOLDEN
ALEC GUINNESS - JACK HAWKINS "THE BRIDGE ON THE
RIVER KWAI" TECHNICOLOR
CINEMASCOPE
WIEN BESSUM MAYAKAWA «GAMES BOGALO • ANH KEARS and Introducing GEOFFREY MORNE + Alructed by DAVID LEAN Screenplay by PIERRE BOULLE Staed on His Novel
Your Best Picture for the Easter Holidays WATCH FOR THE GALA PREMIERE
EXTRA MORNING SHOWS TO-MORROW KING'S at 11 am. || PRINCESS at 11 a.m. TERRYTOON TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS PROGRAMME
by 20th Century-Fox Admission: $1,00, $1.50
KING'S at 12.10 p.m.
Grace Kelly
Alec Gulriness in
PRINCESS at 12.30 p.m. James Cagney in
"TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN"
CinemaScope & Technicolor
$1.00, $1.50
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THE CHINA ✨ MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1958.
FILMS
CURRENT & COMING by
ANTHONY FULLER
The
There the Yanks take over the place as a sort of base for their -Packie Islands operations.
film is very trapk, no attempt is made to hide the fact that men away from home drop all senso sense there is going to be trouble at decency, This is no special when Piper Laurie marries prerogative of the American loathsome, sensuous Shiner, for Forces, it is true of all troops, no beller reason Then he and where this film scores E happens to be the one thing left putting Mickey Shaughnessy op
posed to Paul Newman as types.
THIS has been a and week, this wide-screen eple, you for while there is no similarity. In the film industry. will have to hle yourself in the incidents, there is every Mike Todd, died in his plane along to the Roxy and the similarity in the theme. while solving the difficulty Broadway, and are Joel λ Alimpse of the,, lonely, of dodging local time-tables. McCrea put on more bull women is given, and you can He was a showman rather than the bulls. than artist in the sense of cinema. Nevertheless he gave the industry the shot in the arm it needed when TV was handing out such à licking to the 'sliver "screen in the States.
As long as the film business lasts. he will be remembered for hla "Round the World in Eighty Days," and rendera OL this column will remember; that I wrote up Epecial feature of the fim giving the vital statistles concerned with its production and showing.
Al the me I said ti W typical of Todd that he would bring along, a projector that generated so much heat that the film had to run through a re- Unfortunately, even frigerator. when it does arrive in Hong- kong, we shall not see it the Todd way,
The show business needs the Todd types, for after all, where does all the ballyhoo originate? The old carnivals with plod ding elephants, the bogus kings and queens, the fake monsters la which none believed, and the clash of the cymbals and the roll of the drums, all these gave, a thrill to the messen who found averyday life just a bit 100 "grey.
Now he is gone, and we scribes will las those hand-outs that used to clutter up the denk every Monday morning.. He had the personit touch, the common
touch. He wrote to every dim scribe in a way that made everyone feel he was having the personal attention of Mike Todd. That is the secret of his success,
and wiss
The set-up is now becoming familiar. 1n, à, lawless country, mau make their own law on the
old premise of the
saying. "Anders keepings," But the. much who wish 10 find wide grazing grounds for the cattle empires dispute this rule, and the consequence is 20th Century Fox's "Catilo Empire,”
Joel McCrea turns in a good performance as the widest trai driver in the widest State of there United States Gloria Talbott
A
of
very
boks lovely and as fresh on a horse as another girl would fry a beauty parlour; for interpreta- tion of a part, I should hand the laurel to Don Haggerty, while Phylla Coates us In streamlined det of a flawless beauty in rough surroundings.
number Built up on elmaxes, that is, one to sequence, the picture holds your interest. A terrifying lynching scene; the lonely, drink in lonely bar; the indefinite quick match for the gun; the cattle drive across parched ́ country; the frenzy at hot whisky on a hot day; the foal pay-off with the duct for guns; all this plus come and campera work make an exciting outdoor Sim.
the
Flimed in CinemaScope with De Luxe Colour, you have one of those restful evenings leoning back watching the
wooting it out.
MIXED fare
at
cowboys
the
M' Cinema this week,
In trousers.
FINAL 6 DAYS +
THIS REVUE WILL NOT PERFORM IN KOWLOON
QUEEN'S
TO-DAY
AT. 2.30, 7.20 & 9:30 PM. ENTIRELY NEW PROGRAMME COMBINING ALL THE BEST. NUMBERS PLUS MANY NEW AND EXCITING ONES!
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCED
SHOWING
„KING'S & PRINCESS: "It STAR
Happened In Rome." Big- Bereen. Technicolour, lovely scenery, lovely zisit, light- hearted plot and plenty of. situations, make up Hank's colourful carnival of fun.. Juno Laverick. Isabelic' Carey, Inga Saborner. 1100VER & LIBERTY: ¡ "Until They SKIL" Wartime drama; set in Now Zealand, emotional tangle produces dreadful consequences which the air partly disentangles. Jean Blumens, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie. ROXY
BROADWAY: "Caule- Empire." Cloems- Scope, De Luxe Colour, Stereophonic sound, lynch- Ing, galloping herds, and fast gun play. Joel Metres and Gloria Talbott,
Anila
METROPOLE: "Valerie A "but-he-den:- her-wrong drama. Ekberg, Sterling Hayden, and Anthony Biček. ALHAMBRA: "Bepriel Doll." A film that will. Introduce the new look in Chinese films to European audiences. Claus of the war lords shủ the flander of... caravANS, One wong of enchanting beauty. Beautiful shots of colourful landscape,, plenty of action; English sub-ifiles, Lin Dai, Wang Yin, Chang Yang. QUEEN'S: ¡Te Shochiku
Revue, Complete change of third programine for the week, Blick chorus, colour- ful numbers, beautifully costumed, the lovellest girls from Japan,
COMING
KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Bridgo Over the Eliver Kwat" Academy Award winner: Superb Ateo Guin- ness, terrilla Jack Hawkins, splendid William Holden, Columbia
10XY
BROADWAT: "Farewell to Arms." Ernest. Hemingway's
First Worla War suoses remade, Hock Kudson, Jennifer and Vittorio De Sica.
A
In
Jones,
METROPOLE
the Afternoon.”:
THE WORLD-FAMOUS
SHOCHIKU
REVUE
dood casting, apley comedy, SHOWING ALHAMBRA
STAR Pictures present
"Love Aim of Bowicas carling, an eple of the film world. an authentic plot making up the Award winning eple of British production,
Starting off with.............“Untii] They Sall," made by MGM
HOOVER is the business man and showing at the Hoover and Liberty. Starring Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, and Piper Laurie, with Charles Drake and Sandra Dee. In Cinema. Scope.
to
who would learn ihis lesson,
We offer our sympathy Elizabeth Taylor and his family, and trust they will carry on the great Todd tradition.
This story of four sisters in wartime New Zealand is a very
compassionate
AFTER a very successton vivid and
ONE.
run with "Peyton and made into a film, tells of Place," and a alce showing things that did happen and will always happen, when men orc for the British espionage, called away to war, and the "Count Five and Dle,” 20th women are left behind lonely.
'In fact, when I'caw the flin, 1 ]* Century Fox have gone into the cattle business with, moving of all war time stories, Was reminded of that 10st "Cattle Empire." Taste "The Lonely," by Paul Gallico,
HOOVER LIBERTY
CAUSEWAY PAVE TIKSLITE
"KOWLOON* TEUNBORNE, B0248
NOW PLAYING
2.30. 5.30, 7,30 and 9.30 p.m.
JAMES A MICHENER'S STORY OF LONELINESS AND LOVE!
& LIBERTY: "Merry, Andrew." Danny Kaye goes to Britain,, finds a new decent, singu some of the catchiest songs, of "My Fair Lady" style. A heart warming comedy which takes him from school- master lo' cireps.
"
Kay and romantic, a know-
16-all, ace-it-all Maurice Chevailer Joins Audrey Hepburn and . Ghry: Cooper in this cinens frolle; ALHAMBRA "Scarlet Doll
laat week, and reviowed reported to brief in "how- to ing" box above; seems be off to a long run, QUEEN'S: ' SUTI playing the
Bhochiku Revue,
AIR CONDITIONED
STAR
GRANA
METROPOLE
OPENING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
SHE'S TOO MUCH WOMAN 113 ONE MAN TO HANDLE....
100 MUCH TROUBLE FOR DAY TOWN TO Koto...
A9
Valerie
(AIP = CONDITIONI DI
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIMES AT 230, 5.45, 7.45 & 9.45 P.M.
TO-DAY
A MILLION DOLLAR PRODUCTION!
**
ENTIRELY FILMED
IN
JAPAN
紅
Scarlet Doll
A
Storting
LIN DAI
(Winner of the Best Actress Award?
WANG YIN + CHANG YANG EastmancolorWide Screen
"THE SWAN"
Admission:
Lee & Astor
72436
(Booking Olticu)!
TO-NIGHT AT 8.00 P.M.
CANTONESE OPERA
"THE LEGEND OF
MADAME WHITE SNAKE"
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Presented by
SUN YIM YOUNG PLAYERS
JEAN SIMMONS
UNTL
with
JOAN FONTAINE
THEY
STERKING*
ANITA
ANTH BIRT
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PAUL NEWMAN PIPER LAURIE
SAIL
HAYDEN EKBERG STEEL
Englikh Subtitles
fron ̧ M-G÷18 in CINEMASCOPE)
"THE FAIRY FROM THE 9TH HEAVEN"
+ A SPECIAL SUNDAY MATINEE AT REDUCED ADMISSION
Presented by
SIEN FUNG MING PLAYERS
★ NEXT CHANGE ★
4 ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS
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Best Supporting Actor ---- RED BUTTONS
Best Supporting Actress — MIYOSHI UMEKI Best Sound Recording & Best Art & Sat Direction
MARLON BRANDO
AND AN EXQUISITE NEW
JAPANESE STAR IN
SAYONARA.
· HOOVER at 12.00 noon \{
Kay Francis
Walter Huston in "ALWAYS IN MY HEART"
LIBERTY at 12.30 p.m. Danny Kayo
Cane Tiomay in "ON THE RIVIERA”
ORIENTAL MAJESTIC
AIR
FINAL TO-DAY
CONDITIONED
AT 2.30, 5.30,, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
“106 Cammy for prostate
THE
TO-DAY
A+ 2,20, 629, 130 à 130 140. 20th Century Fox
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MÉTROPOLE: At 11.00 a.m. UNIVERSAL TECHNICOLOR
BUY CARTOONS
At Reduced Prices
METROPOLE: TO-morrow Special Morning Show
At 12,30 p.m
“SUPERMAN AND THE JUNGLE DEVIL”
At Roduced Prices,
A Fox Ficture
CAPITOL RIT
SHOWING TO-DAY
ÁT, 230, 6,70, 730 | 9.30 FSC,
BEAST HORDOW MOUNTAIN
OPENS TO-DAY
AT. 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 1o.M.-
MAN AGAINST TIGER SHARK!
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HOWING TO HAY
4:16, 3:1071118 5:9:18 PAM . ARS OF THE RAHEH. KINGS: WHO, BUIL AN EMPIRE A THOUSAND MILES DEYOND THE.CXV
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