KING'S PRINCESS
• TO-DAY
ALL HIGHLIGHTS OF 33 MATCHES Played by the Teams from 16 Countries WORLD FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
OF 1958
Two Full Huurs of Documentary
with English Commentary
Released by Pathie Overseas Limited
Complmentary Tickets Not Valid
KING S
TO-MORROW Morning Show
At 12.00 naon Extra Performance of
"WORLD FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
OF 1958"
Regular Admission Prices
Week-end
PRINCESS Special Matinees
To-day at 12.30 p.m. Paramount presents Danny Kaye Bing Crosby - Rosemary Clooney in "WHITE CHRISTMAS"
in Vista Vision & Technicalor
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To-morrow at 12.30 p.m. M-G M prosents Errol Flynn & Dean Stockwell in "KIM"
in Technicolor
Matineo Admission: 70 Ct., $1.00, $1.50
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5 ACADEMY AWARDS WINNER!
Franz Worfol's
THE SONG OF BERNADETTE
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JENNIFER JONES
Directed by HENRY KING
70.
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At 11,00 a.m.
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FILMS Current and Coming
THE lovely
by Lucy Downing
husky-voiced spy leaves me as
Who could be a more perfect
hoodwinks her
Devonshire The Hope/Fernandel combina- turned out to be incorrect used to the full in this powerful town of Sidmouth (call-on in the former film is a lolly because of a last-minute characterisation, od Frogmouth for film pur. good one. While Hope, living up hiatus between two theatres. foll to this colossus of the screen
to bis name, awaits audience poses) with its red cliffs, its appreciation of each wisecrack,
Although advice had been than his own talented wife, Elsa green cricket pitch on the Fenandel, naturally funny, given that "Wliness for the Lanchester? seafront and well-tended silently stealing the Hraciight Prosecution would be, showing In her interpretation of the faithful nurse with public gardens was chosen with his earnest interpretations at the Hover and Liberly on fussy,
BO like #1 well-trained Sejurday last, the latter theatre tinkling laugh. and gauche as the setting for the "Pre- chimpanzee, Forgive me, Fernie, did
to agr୯୦
the camaradie, she shows con- scription Murder", picture Anita Ekberg as the hefty and simultaneous showing and the summate sklit in handling a showing at the Roxy and cold as she did Bob Hope. Or so film until a Kowloon
Hoover had to hold over the man oulsize in build and tem- Broadway.
cinema perament. Even to letting him it appeared. While she was nur- muring "Je t'adore", he wildly could be found to show one of think that he glad of an excuse to look away, the finest mystery dramas to be completely. twisted towards the door and brought to the screen.
Tyrone Power does well with the How replied, "It's shut.”
Agatha Christie a complex character of a ilkable can be B005 at the man accused of murder. Start- Martha Hyer, normally attrac. thriller tive and well-cast as the Ameri. Hoover and the Ritz.
ing well in the witness box Cherics Loughton in out/
courteous and mile wish can Embassy employee, produces
the superb Sir manne RS
hola some champagne-dry witticisms standing
prodded to acting of her own and stands up well to Wired Robarts,
him to phastonite frenzy in proclaiming
Chocence the male comedians while Anita vehicle which carries
ofter evidence is drooping around..
new heights in his long and dis
given by his bigamous wife, tinguished career.
Christine Vole-Helm, His mobile dow-lapped face, and partly Churchillian stanco
sometimes circa venom,
some
Marius Goring stars as D Dysert,
highly-respected Reneral practitioner in a rather exclusive seaside resort where of means many releed people live gentle, uneventful lives, or hope to anyway.
Mary Merrall, one of Britain's Une character netresses, lends delightful comedy Imiches as Miss Bellyhill who resides in the private hotel and enjoys a little chitchat.
Rick Jasum, Hollywood star. T is regretted that in
I formation contained in
playing a young American Jethro who conducts a penetrating in- vestigation into the doctor's past, Ands that Dr Dysert's private Bfe is clouded with tragedy. He has married three times and coch pf his wives have met violent and sudden death. Now his pretty ceretary. Lisa Caston! as the lovely Kitty Mortlock, is mysteriously bedridden.
Jethro ploughs doggedly on sifting scraps of gossip and formation. He is particularly interested In details of the late Stella, formerly wife of the doctor. Stella is nicely played a Michlican by Sandu Scott, blonde rather like Kim Novak who is sure to attract wall whistles from the back stalls.
THERE are a number of Terre aombe
Dr
about to be shown in the Because of the Colony. Lourdes Centenary this year "The Song of Bernadette" starring Jennifer Jones her loveliest and best is due to commence at the Roxy and Broadway on Sunday sandwiched between "Pre- scription Murder" and
Bank Nice Little Should Be Robbed."
"A That
"Chase a Crooked Shadow" has returned to the Lee and Astor in response to requesta from many fans.
This is one
of the most exciting shadowy flms of complex character and tence situations recently seen. In fact, Anne Baxter's scream when confronted with a woman carrying a nightcap of worm mille to seothe her nerves echoed by half the audience in the crowded theatre,
"Living It Up" and "The Kid" are additional revivals, well- worth a visit.
AL
TAVIDENTLY Paris goes down in a big way with Hongkong cinema-goers. "Paris Holiday” is still the whooping it ap Metropole and Star; while "Paris by Night" continued to cast ita Afga-colour allure at the Lee and Astor, until today when it was replaced by "Chase в Crooked Shadow".
Capitol THEATRE
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
The Most Thrilling Story
of the Marines Ever Filmedi
CRIS LETY MOTY BEACHHEADE
TOMORROW MORNING SHOW
At 12.30 p.m.
JOHN WAYNE
SUBAN HAYWARD
·
In "THE CONQUEROR"
in Tochaiclop
Bayer's a TONIC
BA
articulation,
By
these columns last weekend times tricking with honey, are
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
SHOWING
KING'S & PRINCESS: "World
Championship of Football 1958. Excellent document- ary of 35 football guares including the Final between Brasil and Sweden played on June 20 in Stockholm, "Takes thö ̈ spectator out-on to the field. Exalting black and white sequences in the 9,800 foot film which takes nearly two hours to watch. film Company, Ger- Ufa many.
"Wizzess HOOVER & RITZ:
the Prosecution,” An expensive mystery melodrama brought to the
for
through United Artists. An Arthur Hornblow production starring Charles Laughton, Tyrelle Power and Marlene Dietrich, with Elsa Lanchester and John Villains,
Agatha Christie received nearly half a million dollars In United States currency for the sensalibusi siory, adapt. ed for the sofeen by Buly Wilder, and sa a atago play It was famous for its unex- pected and battling ending.
With Charles Laughton, distinguished and articulate
For,
A brilliant barrister; Tyrone Power as the kablo accused husband of Marlene Dietrich who rives damaging testimony against him. Elsa, Lanchester alves and fulmillable per- formance, at the barrister's would private nurse who Fike to tie him to her apron strings.
Daya) Anderson. Shadowy mystery story involving (Anno heroine lonely Baxter) recuperating from family bereavements, who Anda
ГОБИС 4 plausible (Richard Toild) in posses- sion of her Spanish villa, He claims to be her lost brother and hi as uncanny knowledge of her personai idyosyncracies; convinces (Alexander Knox) and police official (Horbit Lom)-almost any-
her
uncle
This rolo is spendidly played by the scrutable Mar- lents
Dietrich, glamorous as ever, who in her damaging testimony destroys Vote's claims that he had been home at the time of the murder. Further- more she states that Vole ad- mitted killing Mrs French, the victim played by Normin Varden. This flim is clearly made and well-directed by Billy Wilder and producer Arthur Hornblow. There is restraint and then a sudden unleashed and electrify- dialogtiu ing denouement, slick and torrents of eloquence, The
her think cinema-goer may knows most of the answers and then finds out
hod that he guessed wrong for once,
LARGE and enthusi. astic preview audlence attended the film of the World Cup soccer champlon- ships showing at the King's and Princess, entitled World Football Champion- ships of 1958," This la a Alne documentary film of 35 Paris without being In-football games played In dif-
way. METROPOLE & STAR: "Paris
Holiday," Spangled with stars-Bob Hope, Feruandel, Anila Ekberg, Martha Hyer
and Irene Tung. How to sec
oculated Elfel Tower, Montmartre, Maxim's, the Tullerfes and the Left Bank with hilarious Hope, funny Fernandel and Winsome
women
*
A riotous romy ocaired on a sinister explonage set-up with Hope and Fernandel ad-libbing for the first time on film. United Ariisia re- lease also in Technicolour and Technirama, ROXY & BROADWAY; “Tres- erlotion Murder." Templar production starring Marius Goring Rick JABOR, Lisa Gastoni and Mary Merrall. Based upon Joan Fleming's British bestseller about 3 road doctor whose wives died mysteriously. Exciting and east. Splendid entertainment for amateur detcallves who like their thrillery inter- 'spersed with comedy, To a revival of be followed by a "The Song of Bernadette." Jennifer Jones at her best in the lovely Lourdes story.
LEE & ASTOR: "Chase a Crooked Shadow." Richard Tood in a thrilling whodunit with Anne Baxter, Herbert Lom and Alexander Knox." Directed by Milchsel (Around the World in BQ
COMING
****
ROXY & BROADWAY: “A
Nice Little
That Bank Should Be Robbed,"
Tom, Ewell, Mickey Rooney and Mickey Shaughnessy 18 horse-mad men in a good- humoured farce concerning viläin 'pill,' Iraining race horses and bank robberies of an hilarious nature,
Tom Ewall fot "The Seven Year Itch" fame) in better than ever as soft- natured Max" Rulgary abo can be persuaded to enter
erminal any
undertaking
(with a certain amount of Innocence) by bombastic Gussines (Mickey Rooney). Mickey Shangh- nery as the accomplished tout in the third of the un- holy to who finally end up The viewer has In gapl
many pills to swallow. They are so well-coated In pink
flint BUKK
happy and relaxed frame of mind is investably reached by the time the flim ́euds, HOOVER: "The Law and Jake Wade,” Ród Indians scalp - hinilar. despersio INCI treasure hunting lovely. ziri 'beld caplive. These are some of the exciting Ingredients of the El Barring Robert Taylor. Richard (wideou and Faittoja
A
Owens
(of Sarouera) n' Clubmasoupe
* Mofrooolour,
Prods.cod br William Hawke'and based on a-guld midal novel
by Marvin II. `Albors, this
-
history routilen former hold- up Martiors' with blood- curdling coloquenos.
in the swerving grandeur of the High Elorras. A Western with 'sdafalnod mužpense and dramailo olimma METROPOLE & STAR: "THA Ops * Chartio Chaplin's Darly mariorpioces which, brought fillo "to" THE JARAK Jokie. Presnos
I
with good supporting
Delightful story of a slum- dweller who has a foundiing child thrust upon him, who brings him up with certain standards of hygiene and bo- haviour to be a tough and Jovable youngster · abjo to outwit the police and the street bully. Meledama pathos and entértaluiment a genius level, all evident dexpile the outmoded technique of the cinemato- graph art.
KING'S
& PRINCESS: "Living
it up.” Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in a musical comedy hooley. Described as a merry melange of intlado and mirth. Featuring Sherco North In her famous silter- bug routine, and Janet Leigh and Edward Arnold co-stars.
JLN
About one Homér Fiskg whose ambillon is to e New York, He jumpe freight car in Desert Holo, New Mexico and after un- foreseen Adventurey pronounced radio-active, A
him to Nów York for life's
The
newspaper decides to bring last Ding, and send an ap- propriate Bob-xhier. sob-sister is Janet Leigh, bosomy and not over-bright! Jerry Lews plays Houser and Dean Martin`ls his medical attend of.
ferent parts of the world during the last season.
It is in marked contrast to the film on the 1058 Asian Games.
The commentary' by Kenneth Wolstenholme is precise, formative and clear. All the highlights of the matches are shown and old excitements are re-lived by sports fans having a referee's eye view.
Spurts
experts
commented
during the showing upon the wizardry of Dick, Vava, Pelo and Garrincha of the Bazilian team
until the skilled performances
left them breathless.
played
bo flim takes nearly two hours to run and before the final between Brazil and Sweden last June, the viewer has the added atimations of a traveloguo highlighting the Swedish beauty spots, beach resorts and architectural gems in the cities.
Surely one of the greatest of football tournaments,
this documentary was worked on by nearly 30 German camerêmen of the Hans Schubert Alm com- pany, under the direction of Sammy Druschet. Full nike for editing of a high standard.
Instead of being elbowed and deafened by jostling fans the spectators, at case in the theatre watched with avid laterost the magnificent shooting power of the French star, Juste Fontaine; the ball control of Swedish wingers Skoglund and Kurt Henrin and the equally brilliani play of the West German winger Helmut Rahn. An amusing side- line was the cameramen's study of crowd reaction. In one shot there would be the excited Mexican spring with voluable asides, his tequila, then the calmn drinking coffee with Swede philosophic resignation,
Humour and pathos are
kil-
fully contrasted and thera is
good "entertainment for all, even
Lee & Astor
RETURN ENGAGEMENT
SHOWING TO-DAY
4 SHOWS. AT 2.30, 5.80, 7.30 9.30 P.M.
RICHARD TODD ANNE BAXTER HERBERT LOM
Douglas Fakbacks,
CHASE A CROOKED SHADOW
THE TENSEST TENSION OF ANY PICTURE IN TEN YEARS!
Ana Sang ALEXANDER KHDX · PARA MOCK » Tamenglay by DAVID CHLBORN and GHABLEBEINGLÅNE » Out by MICHAEL, AHOLISON sche Duetud "Armand The World in 80D+*
MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW
LEE THEATRE
at 12.00 Noon MIGHT MOUSE TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS from FOX
ASTOR THEATRE
at 11.00 A.M. COLOUR CARTOONS from U-1
at 12.30 P.M. "PICNIC"
HOOVER RITZ
*
TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
WINNER OF BLUE RIBBON AWARD
+
TYRONE POWER
MARLENE DIETRICH
CHARLES LAUGHTON
WITNESS FOR PROSECUTION
quisto takų El Alumits aRTISTS
SPECIAL SUNDAY MATINEE AT REDUCED ADMISSION
HOOVER at 12:00 noon
Gary Cooper
Dorothy McGuira in "FRIENDLY PERSUASION"
RITZ at 12:30 p.m.
Don Taylor
Howard Duff in "THE NAKED CITY”
SUMAR AIR - CONDITIONED
STAR METROPOLE:
2ND HILARIOUS WEEK! NOW SHOWING THE 9th DAY!
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
BOX-OFFICE CHAMBION FOR MAY, 1958! THE WORLD'S FUNNIEST MEN run riot in the world's wildest city!
HOPE
FERNANDE
AYER
Paria Holiday
TECHMERANA... TECHNICOLOR" Expand the
for the picture for only slightly TOMORROW MORNING SHOW • AT REDUCED BRICES
Interested in football;
Legion Gala Fremiere ON'T forget the British
of "Dunkirk" on Monday next at the Hoover Theatre to be shown in the presence of His Excellency the Gover- nor at 9.30 p.m.
Ching to the
rough. sens around our coasts at the time of going to press, the Bim
Co
LIE & ASTOR: "Violent Playground.” A pewntful 'and provocatiyo films fesize- Ing Stanley Baker, Poter|tainers have not yet been unloade Cushing, Anne Heywooded, so there has been no time to and David Metallms, A proview the Metro-Goldwyn
tough defcative in detailed tunger pls of the evacuation of betrious backstreet shijären trooper at Dumidirk.
and prevent them from tum-.
John Millä, Hichard Atten
ing to crime. His adventures borough and Bernard Lee are around the Iáverpoož sšřecte tho star and in the capable of producer Michael Balcon, the remitting entertain mens ja vaure to be of high irlanderdi.
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