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KING'S:

... taking on

a posse

led by hla

*

own father!

COLMUR PICTURtā pevaanda

VAN HEFLIN TAB HUNTER

GUNMAN'S WALK

KING'S: ADDED ATTRACTION

On the Stage - In Person

The Famous Swedish Dancer

JENNY KNIGHT

and

The Famous Vocalist

MISS LINDA

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1958.

FILMS

OMEONE

ence sald, ficut fury masked by a benign SON

watching the current countenance.

Whore ni this kind of thing in modes in fiction, that the going to load to I don't know. next popular novel would be There comes a time when the written by a doctor about a, Hormon market, Wed' by other dog. Something like this market, reaches saturation point, must have occurred to 20th and you will find that it is im-

possible to shock any one Century Fox, because in more. ""The

This film in dn exemplo Fiend Who Walked the West," they have com- Herror for Hornor's cake. bined the two most popular onto the market open end unashamed as a Horror film. 1 current trends In one film; has no other motif than to shock Horror and the Western, the customere. You are invited a jolly good and have now un show at the Roxy scream, and

to go

no one will mint! and the Broadway.

because they will be screaming

The film takes 0 opening as a group

Western of crude

Oné is not sʊ

too,

worry

of

I

CURRENT & COMING by ANTHONY FULLER

WII you enjoy '17 Of Joanne Gilbert und Vim curso you wil,

because Backus. "Where the film is the Western has О vast

following in the Colony, and likely to appeal is in the this one is very well made; siltations which might be made by, two tợp TV_men in anyone's, and probably are,

Coe, fact, Producer Fred and And where the film scores Director Arthur Pan

80 exact Full of shooting, bodies galore, 18, Joss Forter's rough riding, and, wo mus, os portrayal of any mad with sume a nice clean death on the a lot on hils mind, nagged by purple age as a grand finale. So, to boot, saddic, me, and fear he keeps to himself,

and interpreting every bit way!

of evidence that comes his 66 ATHY O," Showing that he is going to get the way 18 a significant sign at the Star and Metropole is one

of these suck. flms that Hollywood turns it out about itself. What

The morning almost childish

the grouse, snapping at

1 that seems to have played

characters rei a bank, and tryALLING all Western does is to tell in its own unfair; the touch of self plty:

Clans, Great news. Billy

for the getaway.

fortunate, Hugh O'Brian, who is the Kid rides again at the inimitable manner, a story

arnested and sent to priSON.

Enter the Horror element. As a cell companion, O'Brian has Robert Evans, a man of refined external appearance, but of fiena Ish proportions inondly. It way you could say that the pro- durer has played about with the Jekyll and Hyde theme.

This Evans soon shows his fiendish qualities, learns of the bank robbery from O'Brian, and by the way of some gloulish mmanders, is soon on easy street. As if this were not enough, we sec a little sadistle aldeplay with Dolores Michacks to the object of this perverted creatures tenidors.

Later, O'Brian who is shocked to. the skle of law and order by the demoniacal murders of this malevolent monster, becomes the object of Evan's sadistic Anki vengeful purposes. O'Bein ho a wife, Linda Crik 11, and a child, ho is doubly vulnerable.

and

es

-

world

Patty McCormack is a pigtail ce brac of temperamental movie ster. Dan Duryea is her press agent, and the emotional los pecur when these two are brought into conflict.

Lee and Aster. This time of a clash of temperaments the hoodlum from the back against the movie

who background. alleys of New York graduated to become

the Wild most dreaded of the West killers, smiles out from the screen through the face of handsome Paul Newman,

Add to this Jan Sterling es a in the film, "The Left Hand-high voltage magazino wriler who is always on the lookout ed Gunman,"

Thus thrc, Billy the Kid, who for the sensational expose story: becomes more like Robin Hood phes Mary Ficket, Datryca's cur and less re Billy the Kid, with son wife who is a friend of Jum and you have mora every succeeding picture, seems Sterling,

the present

to have equity, if not justice, on complications than his elde.

political altuia. that

This Aim has the urgic

The trouble stoets when Patty Billy was under some form of McCormack refuses to play bail compulsion. His klilings are not with the studio, and will have denied, in fact they are there: to nothing to do with a Hollywood

the flagellant moods he inflicts in his ready acceptance that to upon himself almost delighting is for the boot....Comedy it might be, but. I saw it an a comedy, only in the archate acceptance of the word. In fact, "The High Cost of Loving," is really a Comedy of Errors.

For

As usual, with Jose Forter in b fum, there is only Jose Ferrer. In fact, this ability to dominate every picture he makes is causing it to become Increasingly dificult for him to And the medium by which he can bring his considerable talents to the screen,

This film Personally, I rate very high; and so I think will other imaginative people.

time, quite without who is thero who has not felt

thal reason,

people Were at some

them; slighting Against all this sophisticated deliberately business is a great deal of centi- reading undeserved promotion mental stuff to show that under for a colleague in the glance of the brittle shell of Hollywood the hass; seeing one's

are still passed over because one laclis sophistication hearte

the ability

the boss's 10 Iss tender and truc,

about Woll, this film is all soems to be because Hollywood kab, such

a high respect for that, and one

спестя almost

to not permit when Jose Christmas, and will

Ferrer decides an unkind word to be eald until tell the boss what he can do the early hours of Boxing Day with his job.

be seen with all fast gunwork Christmas parade, thrown in, but when I say com}~ pulsion, it seems that Billy just has to see justice done. He is "The Four Just Men," of Edgar So much for plot, but the Wallace, the "Avenger and

So all ends well. One reason band? MORNING SHOWS Horror impact of the story is the Robin Hood thrown in for good

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22 THE

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KING'S & PRINCESS: "Gub- man's Walk.” Good version of the paychological type of Western. Good theme, Duw

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the second seems to bo That On the other hand, Jose is fims of this kind muLE T always inclined to take it out of his show that flimist cannot atter wife, not deliberately, but by the true honest hearts of the the way. And what wife is executives, no matter how they there who has not suffered the Through appear to outriders.

However, accept these convert this? Reading

script, I find I might have boon tions, and you have a very good a trio less than just to the fin, based on

Saturday

1 do

got Evening Pust story, "Memo au tupporting players.

mean that they do not play mean is, Kathy O'Rourke."

what I It is made in CinemaScope and their parts, Fastaran Colour, bus o efce theme Ferter is so accomplished that song. Kathy Q Rourke," in by the very nature of the short, all the ingredients of the script, he sels the mood for modern sophisticate-sentimental every scene. Hollywood Une on the world.

Quite good entertainment end ratou high for its difference from the present trend in films,

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W Hollywood, and us erstwhile fan of the type of Western that was heralded by "High Noon," and "Shane," I feel the time has come to say the emotional impact of the introvert quick trigger gunman Is played out.

I

Where we go from here, I do not know. What new variations on the Westerns air or two pistols, can be thought up, have no idea. But this vanity, of the quick draw and nimble bol- lot is as played out as a record an a Juke Box. Not that "Gun- man's Walk," now at the King's and Princess, is not a good alf- tion of that theme, but that we faro rather wearled of the whole

business.

We Western fans are ten bucks shead of the game, We know

we the

whọt is going to happen,

now who la going to get best of it, and we know who is going to get the girl.

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However, unti someone thinks up something new, here we have all the elements of the."Share" classic, A theme song. "I'm Runaway," o tough rough enn of a gun, Van Hellin; Tab Hunter | the Tatherlike son: James Dar- ren, the gentle passive cor. The Eve in this gun slingers paradise Kathryn Grant, 30 HORE French, halt Skoux, maiden 3 expected Micky Shaughnessy to gat goltag after his exquisite per formance of o semi-illiterate tough seaman in "Don't Go near the Wator," but he tms up-in this film as an ex-pugilist dele. gated to keep an eye on juvenile delinquant, Tab Hunter.

A good aim of its type, made moet appropriately in Chema-

aral Technicolor, Scope

It

shows us a picturesque episode at the begoniasy old West.

*

667 THE High Cost Of Lov

ing," due' next week at the Hoover and Para mount.la a more than good domestic comedy, star

to

There is not a home in the Colony, where a man holds a minor executive position, who has not experienced at some

time, or has seen it come pass, the episode this film so delightfully portrays. Which all goes to prove that we go quite a bdt of 'Hic, through worrying about situations that don't exist. In this case, the lm I mean, it all begins with a clerical crror. And then weeks of poor Ferrer starts worrying Which only goes to

doesn't 117 show

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