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TO-DAY
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WINNER OF 7 ACADEMY AWARDS
BEST PICTURE OF 1957
JACK
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BRITAIN'S GREATEST: MOTION PICTURE ACHIEVEMENT
COLUMRIA PICTURES peasant A MORIZON BAITIEV PRODUCTION
WILLIAM HOLDEN
JACK HAWKINS ALEC QUINNESS
The Bridge on the River Kwai.
*** TISSUE HAYAKAWA-JANET DIRALD. Ata mattbermone" halt Bever Feros Marbers - Maryla Sondon - Ken Bears and redes CLOFFALY MORNI
Westberry Bagie kope
Predovniky LaM SPITTEL D: PAISA
CININASCOPE
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(This picture will not be shown again in H.K. in 1958),
Please note Special Admission Prices: Logo & Dross Circle: $4.70, Back Stalls: $3.50, Front Stalls: $2.40
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TO-MORROW
and MONDAY
4 SHOWS
"THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI" Extra Morning Show At 11.15 a.m.
PRINCESS
TO-MORROW Special Matinces
At 11.00 a.m. M-G-M prosent a Programme of "Tom & Jerry” & Technicolor Cartoons
At 12.30 p.m. M-G-M present
Robert Taylor & Kay Kendalln "QUENTIN DURWARD" In Colour & CinemaScope Admission: $1.00, $1.50
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The Captain preferred the merry maids on land to the mermaids at sea!
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Alec
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"all at sea"
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SPECIAL SUNDAY MATINEE AT REDUCED ADMISSION
HOOVER at 12.00 noon
Ava Gardner
Stewart Granger in
"BHOWANI JUNCTION"
Color & CinemaScopo
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Gregory Peck Richard Basehart in "MOBY DICK" Technicolor
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SHOWING SIMULTANEOUSLY TO-DAY Owing to length of film, plasta nota the times!
3 Shows: 2.30. 5.40, 0.15
4 Shows: '11.20, 9,30, 5.40, 9.15 Nominated as one of the boat 10 pictures'in 1957
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1958,
FILMS
"The Wind
It will be interesting to sev how the two films compare and develop a theme winller only in that there is a love affair. cannot Road," you will recali
CURRENT & COMING by
ANTHONY FULLER
and you know he was Esigland's greatest milor ever.
WONDER if the film lon are making
Guinness gags, he deer the and
ex. Cannot Read." distributors
rock 'n' roll, he sings his Then the humour is the hommock, he holde Captain's hibitors of Hongkong think
cacaciation of Horatio a present Orders but oh dear! What a they nre clever business
day Naval officer commanding wuste of Guinness! people? We go for weeks
Plenty of people will get o only a pier, and weeks looking at a lot
Guinness, who commands his thoroughly enjoy it. But in all The fun is all centred around laugh out of it; many will of boring stuff, then sud that while it is less dramatic pler, and fights of the enemy honesty, I am forced to say that denly, we get four good than "Sayonara," It le written with all the haughty audacity of the part is absolutely unworthy Alma served out at the same with a keener perception of Nebon at Trafalgar.
of Britain's finest film netor, beauty, and la more sensitive
If you have read, "The Wind
time. Apart from con: ond
Jess dzhibitionist than sideration of the public, "Sayonara," It's not good business, in fact, it is downright had business.
Most
►
THERE is a saying in
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
twisted J character,
entertainment.
SHOWING
London, "After the Imagine that Lord Mayor's Show comes people Hongkong 1 A sort of Tom some cart or wither." Alee |・ STAR & METROPOLE! “Man
of A Tiddler's ground, where, if you Guinness in "The Bridge on
Thousand Facts. Can't pick up gold and silver, you the River Kwai" and Alec
James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, and Jane Greer in can rake in endless rolls of $500
$10 life The fact of the mailer Guinness in "All at Sen,"
and loves of Lon notes.
Chancy, is, you cannot, and you never are two different Guin
Romantio, bizarre, I am not going to say nesses. However, a Guinness could,
płot and there is no money about, there in any form is good for you.
good nostalgic not 1y-but
much that business can afford to behave in a downright stupid manner.
It is nice to see the circle of the cinema full up. but the film clrcle class cannot make pay. The circle can afford to go to the cinema four times in three weeks,
but the average wage earner in Hongkong can rot do so. And unless the front and back stalls of the einema are full up, the film does not pay what i "khould.
Now, the film people staggered the showing of thero Auns over the year, without
would exception, they grossed more in every case.
I have tried again and again to point out there ls such a thing as saturation point in any market, bus seemingly without avail.
Now the trouble with the English is is. They have a particular kind of home grown humour, as have, of course, other nations. But whereas other people realize that only they enn laugh al their own Jokes, the Engilsh think that their home- grown humour is for export, and get very hurt when other people
cannot see the joke.
fo
Some humour is international. I quite realize that, but some is best kept nallonal. What doce a "fun ple" mean to, pay, the middle-west of the Stalea? And
millions have
of others! potential audience that have never seen a pler? The dignity and prestige of a Naval man is as evident to
English mysterious audience as it is as to a foreign audience,
Why don't English script writers get a bit further beyond their precious cocktail parties in London W. 17
I hud n inok at the figures for ***The Bridge
Ilver 6742 the Kwai" and rather than a failing eff, there is a slight rise in the takings.
This
is now ilm the record figure for nearing!
unless there Hongkong. and should be a falling off, it will establish a record going along at the pace it is setting now.
I shall go and see. It again before it comes off, and when i go and see a film a second tine, it must be good.
an
De-
In "A at Sou," a Michael Bicon-Ealing production. leased by MGM, you have William Guinness as Captain
Now that Horatio Ambrose. very name will get an English especially audienca chuckling. when all the gallant Captain can rise to is skippering a pler.
For the Chinese tenders, I I went to see "Sayonara" a will go into Unt a bit. It is second time, this time at the typically English humour, and Astor. The house was full. the joke is the juxtaposition oi People who like the theme of the name and the association. that will be interested to you probably the m know that the Rank Organisa-, Nelson's first name wes Horatio,
know
Lee & Astor
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WINNER OF ACADEMY AWARDSI
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* NIST SUPPORTING ACTRESS –NIYOSHI UMEKI BATEKINN ★ BEST SOUND RECORDING★BEST ART DIRECTION
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The Naked Truth
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A MARIO ZAMPS PRODUCTION
MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW
LEE THEATRE
Ar 12.00 Noon
HARRY BELAFONTE”
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"CARMEN JONES CinemaScope-Color
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de Blon LEE & ASTOR: "Rayonara." A very romantic love story Late with tenderness and beauty. Good characterisa- tlon, magnificent colour,
emotional, bold plat,
deltent entertainment. KING'S & PRINCESS: "The
Bridge on the River Kwal,"
STAR
Great story, great eling. great photography. great arcellon, which adds up to the greatest Alm tills generation.
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HOOVER & LIBERTY: "All
Michael Balco at Sea." Exling Frodueilan in local comedy. great fun for all who have been lo Little Slump on the Samil; and Alec Guinness to play the leading role. QUEEN'S
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LEE & ASTOR: Return engagement of the film of the Bolshoi Ballet. The
A ALHAMBRA: "Beware of Fickpockets." A very good modern Chinese conwedy, up to date situa- Hon. Very well produced,-| and execently directed. Very easy to follow; Engilla captions Exellent with Thro attention to idioma. Humour subtle to Видуу entertainment. Lin Peter Chen Ito. Wan Lan, and the top Chines comedian, Llang Hsin Po.
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Tatti,
greatest thing that has been dono in bringing the real balls to the serven. Galing Ulanova. Russia's greatest ballerina in her grratosi performance an Giselle, KING'S & PRINCESS; "High Fught." Ray Milland and the Royal Air Force in about the finext flim ever made of
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AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.39 1.51||" "2.30, 8.45, 7.45 & DAS PM;
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手小防提
A Hilarious Comedy starring
LIN TSUI
Peter Chen Ho Wan Lan
and Hongkong's top comedian
Liang Hain. Po, With Superimposed English Sub-titles
The funniest plcture in town
• QUEEN'S SUNDAY MORNING SHOW AT 11.30 A.M.
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AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30.0 9.40 P.M.
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LAST 3 SHOWS TO-DAY Please note special times: AT 2.30, 6.00 & 9.00 p.m.
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OPENING TO-MORROW
An Unwod Mother
Dares To Roveal Hor Intimato Truo
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Starring ETCHIKA CHOUREAU LISE BOURDIN JOELLE BERNARD JEAN-CLAUDE PASCAL
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