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SILVANA MANGANO ANTHONY PERKINS RICHARD CONTE JO VAN FLEET
THIS ANGRY AGE.
MEKEMIAN PERSON'S - YVONNE SAMSONALIDA VALLI
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KING S
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To-morrow at 11.00 a.m.
ain - Conditioned B Special Morning Show
20th Century-Fox's Variety Programme of Terrytoon Technicolor Cartoons
In CinemaScope
Admission: $1.00, $1.50
PRINCESS
WEEK-END HOLIDAY
SPECIAL MATINEES
To-day at 12.30 p.m. Paramount presents
Martin-Lewis & Donna Reed in "CADDY" To-morrow at 11.00 am. M-G-M's Programme of
TOM & JERRY TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS To-morrow at 12.30 p.m. Otto Prominger proiants Frank Sinatra Eleanor Parker Kim Novak in "THE MAN With the GOLDEN ARM”
•
Monday at 12.30 p.m. M-G-M presents
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Stewart Granger Grace Kelly Paul Douglas in 'GREEN FIRE"
in CinomaScope and Colour
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AIR
"CONDITIONED
STAR METROPOLE
* SHOWING TO-DAY ✯
-AT-2,30,–5.30,–7,30-G.9.30. P.M. BOX-OFFICE CHAMPION FOR MAY, 1958! THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST MEN run riot in the world's wildest city!
HOPE
FERNANDEL
EKBERG
Paris Holiday
TECKHIRUMAL TECHMCOLOR" Reuses are UE Boxed Actisla
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW ● AT REDUCED PRICES
STAR: At 11.00a.m.
METROPOLE: At 11.00 am, M. G. M. FOX
LATEST TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS PROGRAMME
+44|~||~||~|~|| METROPOLE: To-morrow Special Morning Show At 12.30 p.m. In CinemaScope & Color "PICNIC" Starring: Kim MOVAK ́• Wm. HOLDEN
HOOVER LIBERTY
CAUSEWAY BAYA TES.728T1
KOWLOON“ TEL. SOLAR, MORAR
NOW PLAYING
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
M-G-M' MASTERPIECE OF EXCITEMENT FROM THE MASTER OF TERROR ANDREW L. STONE
AN EXPERIENCE IN — SUSPENSER
CRY TERROR!
M-G-M
presents
JAMES MASON
ROD STEIGER INGER STEVENS
A Shock Drama of Mounting Tention & Chilling Suspenso!
It'll Keep You On the Edge of Your Seat!
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1958.
FILMS Current and Coming
on
by Lucy Downing
HIS week the accent is THIS
Paris. The alar. spangled "Paris Holiday" at the Metropole and Star should attract film-goers seeking casy relaxation at the hands of the
*
десом.
Meanwhile Hope
at- has a mesage to tempted to send the American Embarry but his feathered friend turned out to be a "tool" pigeon,
The helicopter stasion is so
"Incredible that by this time the comedy has become pure' plished comedians, Bob force and we are all left dang- Hope and Fernandel and ding so for as the plot is curtain rye-filling feminine interest concerned when in the shape of Anita Ekberg and Martha Hyer.
tali,
the
At the Lee and Astor the film fare to "Paris by Night," This music hall review is in Agia- Colour which is always a joy to
CHARLES Laughton, one U of
Di
The sloty is said to have the east until the last day been written up by a 60-year-old shooling. The last ten pages of worum while he was in her the script had been held back bith eating apples, and to have to preserve the element of sur- been sold for the highest price prise. So go and see for your- ever paid by a Blm company self who was telling the truth for a mystery melodrama. and who wasn't and how it all
The authoress
certs, Was Agatha
Here is a clue. The fallifut Christle and the price just un- do: US$500,000, 'Then the and fussy
(Elca lttle 131175 world's most glamorous grand Lanchester) who tries so hard mother
plays the part of io. gel her patient and her Christine Volc-Helm with In real-ilfo husband (Charles scrutable venom, while Tyronr Laughton) Power plays the Ilkable pointment,
Leonard Volo nocused of mur- dering a woman French.
Mirs friend,
is in for u disap-
*
are
CULKS and sultry nights, that Christine It evolven the most dis-
disasters for the spectacular married Leonard. Vols behold, but this Thanos m tinguished and articulate purpose of getting to England and Silvarta Mangano are ali relles upon visual entertainment
actors of the century, from Germany before her first This
in
Angry only.
Age" creates a powerful charac matringe had been annulled and "Park Holiday" which
was ter in the role of Sir Wil. she is therefore able to testify showing at the King's and Immediately preceded by "Parls fred Robarts, a querulous band is being fried,
her bus Princess this weekend. in the case in which Follies of 1856" at the Skur and
Anthony Perkins, Richard Metropole, Is woven upon a but superb barrister in sierder thread of a story abou! "Witness For The Prosecuters everyone and most
Her damaging testimony shat- Conte and Jo Van Fleet
of all the started players with Mins criminal counterfeiters, Ameri, tion."
D magnificen! Vole who pleads his innocence Van Fleet as caji Embassy employees and
with passion amounting to matriarch to be remembered. Bob Hope and Fernandel us
His performance alone
The Technicolour shota istenzy. He appears doomed, but flm star and French comedian
cities and Or Thailand's exotic worth a visit to the United Sir Wilfred saves the day. respeolively. What could be Ariisis film showing at the does he?
tiger country, the sampans On oas fer?
Hoover and Liberty, which also
the mal-edged sen, the Bang kok bazaar and dyked rice stars Marine Dietrich,
to plantations are very lovely. Power and Elsa Lanchester.
intrigued You may bo
by Anthony Perkins' songs, dances and romantic sessions and by Silvana's pre-limbed rock 'n' roll typifying all the restless rhythm of this teenage genern- tion.
The audience will enjoy the ud-libbing. The two stars did not USC scripts in certain sequences. They qulpped at each other quite spontaneously. This humpens often enough on "live shows" but never before has j Happened on Alms, Once Jol Hope. spent hours dangling from the rope ladder of a helicopte: dunked and being deliberately
into a nice wet swimming pool from time to time. Expecting some comeback about being "allj heard the wet," his colleagues soaked Hoo multer Talk about proling your talents.“
Some of the scenes in the Ahn} are based upon natual incidents In Rob Hope's career and both he and Feruandel enjoyed -fan Ing characters based so closely upkin themselves and they ex- periences. This is evident.
Paris has been captured with: the Technirama - Technicolou. are beautiful cameris. There shots of the Eiffel Tower, Mont- martre, the Left Bank. the
Elysees Champs
Maxim's
dr Place de la Concorde, Arc
the Tuileries Triomphe and Gardens.....Ouce more Hope Quips, "You can sce Parig -without being-Vaccinated."
TALKING about the
French sympathy to- wards lovers, Bob Hope re- marks, "That's what I like about the French. No won. der there are fifty million Then handing a of them." dollar bill to a bellboy he assures him, "These are good in Hongkong.”
Tyrone The unexpected and bafing
ending was not even known
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
SHOWING
This KING'S & PRINCESS:
Angry Ago." Anthony Perkins and Silvano Man- cano teamed as brother and sister on the monsoon Hoodot Thailand coast Technirums and Techil- colour. From Marguerite -Duras" novel - "Sea Wail" a
brilliant story arucl.
of misery, indolence And exlamity on the Indo-China coast, enlivened with the wicked
of the delights Bangkok bazaars,
Excellent performance by Jo van Fleet, willing to suffer indefinitely for her amblilon. alt consuming
Alida Valli sa Claude and Richard Conte as Michael provide passionate... Inter- Indes for the angry brother" and sister who leave the fand for life in the big city. METROPOLE & STAR: "Paris Holiday." Spangled with starsBob Hope, Fernande). Anita Ekberg, Martha Hyer and Irene Tung. How to sen Paris without Ovulated Eiffel Tower, Montmartre, Maxim's, the Tullersen and the Left Bank with hilarious Hope, funny Fernandel and Winsome women
belog 10-
io Technicolour
A riotous romp centred on minister espionage not-up with Hope and Fernandel The dialogues literally bristles with quips uf Hope's usual ad-libbing for the first time
standard. histh
Fernande). on film. United Artists re- French
lease also practically speaking throught the Alm, gets by and Technirama. with Itis facial expressions which are priceless.
HOOVER & LIBERTY: "WIL. ness for the Prosecution." An expensive mystery melodrama brought to the through United Artists. An Arthur Hornblow production starring Charles
of
strand
story
ju The stretched too far when Hope is! interned in an asylum, yet the Juniest altuations in the pic- ture arise in that environment,
Fernande! is the mosi im- fernale felchingly funny.
scen personator 3 have ever When he cavorts through the wards with a well-turned ankle showing to best advantage and the most engaging expression, the midience positively hooted with mirth.
Hope His attempt to rescue fulled at the last moment, Fernandel returns to the fray as a soberly clad parish priest,
expression keeps, whose pious slipping.
British Legion
MAKE
PLANS TO RENDEVOUS
at the -
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Cyd CHARISSE
Fred ASTAIRE in "SILK_STOCKINGS"
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Laughton, Tyrone Power and Marlene Dietrich, with Elsa Lanchester and John Williams.
Agatha Christio received Dearly half a million dollars in Unked States currency for the sensational story, adapt- ed for the screen by Billy Wilder, and as a stage plas it was famous for His uneR- pected and bailling ending. With Charles Laughton, gistinguished and articulate
Over,
brilliant barrister; Tyrone Power na the likable accused husband wizo of Marlene Dietrich
testimony gives damaging against him. Elsa Lanchester ztver an inimitable perform- ance as the barrister's pti- "Vale Bures who would-ikke- to tie him to her Eproo strings.
10
FU
A
ROXY & BROADWAY: “The
Fly." An electronic horror
It is a Dino
of
De Laurentiis production based upon Mar- guerite Duras" novel "Šea Wail" and wap directed by Rene Cle- ment.
Po
RESTAURANT A
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✦TONIGHT♦
THE BIGGEST HIT IN TOWN!
THE FABULOUS
nge Al
RUDAS DANCERS
film, marring Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, and Herbert Marshall, Based 01 science-fiction' thriller by George Langelaan, in which a young selenlist invents a Bo-enlied miracle machine and experimente upon him- welf. Unfortunately a house - fly is inadvertently involved and the scientist emerges with the grotesque · giant head and feelers of a Dy, Twentieth Century Fox's production claimed to be the tops in sheer shock value. LEE & ASTOR; "Paris by Night," Arta-colour music hall parade in the eny city. Featuring the Golden Goddess danos and described as sensual and exciting. Thanos Alm.
COMING
KING'S & PRINCE98: "World Football Championship of 1958," Excellent document. ary of 35 football games Including the Final between Brazil and Sweden played on June 20 in Stockholm. Takes the spectator out on to the field. Excling black and white sequences in the 9,800 foot flim which takes nearly two hours to watch. Ufa Alm Company, Ger.
madr.
HOOVER & LIBERTY: “The Law and Jake Wade," Red Indiana scalp-hunting, des- perato men treasure-hunting anci tovely girl held caplive. These are some of the exciting ingredients of the fbm Barring Hobert Taylor, Richard Widmark and Patricia Owebs (of Bayonara) In Cinemases po and Metrocolour.
Produced by William Hawks and based on a gold › modal novel by Marvin H. Alberk,
this
BEX-TUD history reunites former höld up partner with blood- curdling vozíkoqnerves. 'Set ·· in the weeping grandeur of the High Sierras. A Westerni with muslained muspense and dramatic climax.
METROPOLE & STAR: "The
Kid."
Ons of Charite Chaplin's early masterpleota
A
haviour to be a tough and lovable youngster able to outwit the police and the street. Etilly. Melodrama, pathos and entertainment at genius level, all evident despite the outmoded technique of the cinemato- graph art.
ROXY & BROADWAY: "A That Nice Lite Bank Should Be Robbed."
Tom Ewell,
Mickey Rooney and Micke Shangbussy D horse-mad men în'a good- bumoured farco oerning vitamin pills, training racO horses and bank robberies of an hilarious nature.
Tom Ewell (of "The Seven-Year Itch" fame) Is better than over a natured Max Hulgens who' can be persuaded to enter any erfinal, undertaking (with a certain amount of innocence) by bombastio Gas Ila ines <Mickey Rooney), Mickey Shaugh- newsy as the accomplished tout in the lhigi of the un- boly trio who dually end up In gol. The viewer has many pills to swallow. Ther pare so well-costridi -in pink 'sugar thak, a happy and ¬relaxed2 frame of mind k
involtably reached' by the time the film ends.
which brought fame to 1). LEB ...ASTON: { "Viešeni very young Jackie Coogan, Playground.". A 1. Arthur
* Deliahtful story of a slum. }{ Rank" produétion, pharting
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Aisne
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AWARD WINNER ON THE BIENNALE IN VENICE AND THE FILM FESTIVAL AT CANNES IN 1956 Produced by Joop Geesink of Dollywood Studio. by order of Philips Industries Ltd., Holland. MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW LEE THEATRE
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THE MONSTER CREATED BY ATOMS CONE WILD!
The Fly
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Marilyn MONROE in "BUS STOP"
BROADWAY: To-morrow Special Morning Show At 11.00 am. M-G-M TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
CAPITOL RITZ
HELD OVER TODAY || SHOWING TODAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
Jerry's A Walking Booby Trap!!.
CAPITOL
-- TO-MORBOW —
LEO GENN
in
́"STEEL BAYONET"
JERRY LEWIS
THE SAD SACK
DAVID WAYNE
RITZ
— NEXT CHANGE AL ANTHONY QUINN- KATY JURADO in “MAN FROM DEL RIO?
ORIENTAL MAJESTIC
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KARAMAIOV
YUL BRYN
MARIA SCHELL
CLADE BLOOM.
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