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Powerful. Ingenious, Sparkling with
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1958.
FILMS
ONDON
the
CURRENT & COMING
by
ANTHONY FULLER ANTHON
which
peasant
of
Calling Cart Jurgens portrays in the instruments of torture the of the advertising_copy "L North Pole," a
alm.
*Gestapo.mind could think up. accompanies the bn. "I du not know where the But the biggest plum h The Intellectual foreigner well produced and strongly auther got his documents from, gave the Nazis was the Arabem asited to accept Ah Q 43 R
of directed Italian flm, made But, while I grant that to the plan. King Kong met Colonel synthetie type
Abwehr at altitude. Itis mind and attitude in CinemaScope and colour. is intense and highly dramatic, Kieswetter of the
ortives It
1 deny as many times as you Driebergen on September 16, have frustrated China in hier without any le that It is true. On one 1044, two days before the endeavours to 'risis to her form.
o leader heights un bby publicity, so I am unable to point,
" remarkable landings were made, He did But er Identify the supporting coincidence, I happened across au mention Arnhem, perhaps he eivilisation. Clearly, the Chinese of patience players. However, Curt Jur incident which the lm portrays, did not now, but he said that intellectual is out
Mr Gosites user ono the British Airborne Troops would with his stupid little brother. gens plays the noble Nazi, hends at the Dutch
I saw That is not the way Resistance be landed "north of Eindhoven."
'the and Miss Dawn Addams of in his book made into this flan. One glance at the map would it, nor 1 think, the wor
Ha fell the
audience saw Thie Germans
rest. capacity Chinese
the "The King in New York" He calls him the Gorilla,
are three Important it. True, we laughed at the British secret agent of was really known as King Kong. There
The Alm shows him as a man bridges al drave, Nijmegen, grandiose dreams of Ah Q. wo an extremely naive set up, who
breaits down under und Arnhem,
chuckled at his folly, we were real cause of astounded by his outrageous which kept in touch with emotional
That is the strain when his
the failure at Arnhem, it was proposal to Amah Wu, but for shot by the Dutch resistance move. brather is about to be
by betrayed
the treacherous it that, take him as he is, ha the Nazis.
better mana, than the ment.
Dutch Resistance leader, King is o Kong. to end. who used the
What worries me is, the film .yet it is claims to be true; " all true, true from begining to { end..."
We are told that the British
Wrong. King Kong traktor from beginning an criminal Dutch Underground |: llegal activRles.
Was
to pursue
There would be little point in saying all this if the mini did nol pretend be perfectly
The flo shows the Gorilta true. shot down by hig patriot Intelligence Service was fooled the Wrung ogain King nicht
from beginning la end by. Colonel Bernes, commander of the German counter-explonge in Holland,
Curt Jurgens takes over this role. He shown as an slule but nuble feeman, tie never descends to the practices
con-
doned by the Nazis He spares the lives of the agents he arrests, and In the end is ruined by the very Furces he served so ably
All this, we are told, is based upon the book by J
H Geske and the book is compiled from certain documents made avail. able to the huthor.
1 am prepared to accept the fect that serving along with the Nazis, there
Kong
hou brother and
mistress who were both released for favours granted the Nazis, King Kong is alive today for ull know
Imitation foreigner who struts
and crying revolution"!
"If you squeeze me, who ar to squeeze?" asks An Q. And there you have it, my friends,
repson It is a good fim in the tech- the whole
the for 8lse, but the super failure of the 1911 Revolution, Corrupt officials who squeezed imposed English titles are par
that as transistions, and wirked in right down the line until they ti grammatical sense.
As a story, which stuws the "able-minded Colonel, unitnown and a humane enemy to me,
stupid British capionage, it succeeds in every thing but the truth. And the
for word, truth is
Now cumes the real point the Aha falls to make. The Gorilla wasting the or King Kong as he was really known, was the leak; I was at the ingenuity of the German counter-espionage.
word
I have stated above.
11.
You can see, "London Call-
At the time of the incident shown in the film, King Kong's ing North Pole," at the Hoover mistress and brother had been and the Paramount.
plared in uruid made
عودة
the Gestapo in February, 1944.
To obtain their release, he betrayed not only several the Dutch resistance groups
*
THERE
reasons
came to AB Q. so poor there is none below him squceze, Mortified, humiliated, he turns to the next below . The And who or what is 17
dog. the outcast vilinge which, as Ali Q, Hven on what I can gel. And what it can get is very little, So Ah Q gives it a savage kick, At least I pro- nounces his dignity as a humon
being.
cur
btunת
of Ah Q is the inte Chins. The man who has seen his land pilinged and his smail are many
holding taken, and the reward labour répaid the or his physical why community by beatings and humiliation. Yet, as the little people every- They were flung Into Schevenin should go to the Star where, he is of cheerful coun
but a British group which European
noble cluded women were some
men, although I doubt whether they occupied such a position as
well as men.
safeguard in
the
gen Prison, which contained all and Metropole to see the tenance, his very ignorance
film, "The True Story Of Ah Q."
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PARAMOUNT: Addama and Dawn
Curt CinemaScope Jurgens in a and colour
drama. BDy "Londou
North Calling Pole." Film claims to be true.
Shows German oc; cupation forces in Holland only in that stupid esplomat forom them to be so. Gari Jurgens
noble plays
Nazi
with dignity. Dawn Addams is a prelly Hitle British mouse played with by Jurgens Film
whitewashes Dutch Derudo resistance leader. called Gorilla film. For facts, read review. Good Ilm all the but sub-titles literate. ROXY
BROADWAY: Jerry Wald's epic "In Love And War," off on a second- work run. Great produc- tion with fine camera work. Sort of an American, “All Qudot on the Western Front." 20th Century-Fox. young stars take the along at a great pace with
&
samc.
two extremely scusitive from Brad- Dulman and France
performanEES
which the best actor
trouble.
same
char-
of
the cared
Chinese him tho granted
by
Lee & Astor
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To-morrow At 11.30 p.m. PARAMOUNT'S
TECHNICOlor cartoONS
or day
Of Kwan Shor, all I can say of us one who imows Little Taking the reasons In the Chinn's sorrow, is that he puts
The ascending order of meril, all the wistful aspirations of the into his par- first is. The True Story of Ah Chinese peasant Q" is a good film in its own formance. And at the right The second 15. the time, it is of extreme Impor- photography is magnificent, tance that his Oriental Third, the magnificent portrayal acterisation
man. of the charactor, Ah Q, giveu kituo
Kwan by Mr
Shan, a per- supremo award formance
bim Occidental judges. carned
the award at
It is more than a m, it is International an experience. Superbly direct- Film Festival, Fourth, the film ed by Yuen Yang-an, based on will help the average Intelligent the Novel by La Heun, the film with has that race power of reaching foreigner to understand,
of intellcc- sympathy I think, the impact of beyond the reason
of revolu- tual or dum-cluck. the dynamic forces
live in the will Ah Q tion on the simple peasant
his memory of many. He is that whose main worry is not Mark 11
of the zarile of
the political world, lack of comprehension
of bewildering theories re who is greater than be thinks, volution, but where his next who is the very awkwardest of the awkward squad. Who never bowl of rice is coming from.
"change the command, Strangely enough, the char- hears acter of Ah Q is not presented step, until he is arranged be- sympathetically by the writers fore the firing party,
ford Nuyen. STAR & METROPOLE: "Truc Story of Aħ q” Wonderful Alm. Chinese subtitles in English. Best actor #ward at Lorcano. Superh_sharao- ter study by Kwan Bhan, Of tremendous Importance and interest to local foreign community. Background pre- 1911 rayolation. down as a “kupst," KING'S & PRINCES8: "From
Here to Eternity." Reissuo of this star-studded right academy awards film. Book and am too well known to receive
here. Ac- voleo claimed by popular
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one of the outstanding flims of all times. Burt Lancaster: Montgommery 014; Deborah Kerr: Frank Sinatra; and Donna Reed. LEE & ASTON: Cary Graus 201 Ingrid Bergman In "Indiscreet" Film not pre- viewed for critics.
COMING
Hor-
HOOVER & PARAMOUNT: The now ВЕРЕСА musical romance In colour by the composers of HNY Fair Lady." Light-hearted: romantle Paris ketting; good plot; bright sequenots; old favourites and welcome newcomers. Leslie Caron; Maarle Chevaller: mione Gingold: Eva Gabor: and Jacques Bergerac, ROXY & BROADWAY: "OM Yeller." Technicolour canno comedy melodrama centring on a mongrel which wins the affection family. Talo refreshing; young players; sentimens warm; animal arides engag Ing; highlights moving, and поспеху
Durphy super Mojulre; Fess Parker; and Tommy Kirk. STAR & METROPOLE: "The Quiet American.” Audle Murphy; Michael Redgrave; and Glorgla Moll; in a romantle cum - boliilcal melodrama. Adapted freely from Graham Greene's
frontier
novel of the BATHO Litle. Describes An Earllahınso and American as rivals for Eurasian the charms of a Kiri In seething Salgon, Michael Redgrave, first class;
than co-stars more adequate. Dialogue good and atmosphere colourful, KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Key," Fine performanGS from three stars: Trevor Howard; Sophia Leren: and Willam Holden. Brilliant script by Cari (High Noon) Foreman, and directed by Carol (Third Man) ' Roed. Sombre telp of war time Plymouth, deals with 'off- daty moments of tough and voyrarenfis men. They have the key. Miss Loren is walior suitably unattired. LEE & ARTOE: "Sea Fury"
Bank him wade in Spain. and at Finewood. Has Stan- fey Baker, old-timer Victor McLarion, and Falewal
AN
the migx. Enjerjainiņu, zood dramado incidents. Touch ships and tougher mej.
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The Big War They Fought! The Big Loves They Found!
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JERRY WALD'Ser if
IN LOVE AND WAR.
COLOR by DE LUXE CINEMASCOPE
Starring
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Dana
WYNTER
Bradford DILLMAN
Sheroe NORTH
Jeffrey HUNTER
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"The most important evont of our Festival."
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LU HSUN'S IMMORTAL NOVEL
WITH ENGLISH
SUBTITLES
THE TRUE STORY OF AHL O"
Starring
KWAN SHAN—BEST ACTOR AWARD
Xith Locarno International Film Festival SELECTED FOR PRESENTATION at the
XIIth Edinburgh International Film Festival
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