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Was He à Noxi Spy or on American Soldier?
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Miller's final act of fury!
VAN JOHNSON the last Butzkrieg
Kerwin MATHEWS Dick YORK DÄR EN LISTE JACKSON
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THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1959.
FILMS
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CURRENT & COMING by
ANTHONY FULLER
would be a
puperficial thinker if you did not see thái the film sponsors a causé.
Variety Halls
THIS is another good dreadful Chicago murder. of for its own sako as a spectaclo du Lido who have appeared on weekend at the Cinc 1924, when two rich University and a fine story, with immense the screen in Hongkong in a man. The Star and Metro students murdered for the thrill touches of humour, I think you previous aim of the French
of the thing. pole are carrying on with "The Vikings, while the Lee and Astor are screening Perfect Furlough," for a second weekend.
"The
a
I have tried to particularise the following reviews so that you can plek a film according to your taste. At sny, rate, we have variety, to you should find something you like
In the pivotal role, Trevor Howard is civiously intended, to be the idealist in any cause who comes to realise that there is a time to take positive and even militant action.
The film also corries a peace mesange, ណយ the point
is
The outstanding qualities of "Tabarin" are;
A good script from Jean Ferry, author of numerous successful French scenarios. Production by Richard Fottler, and music by Franents Lopez
There are superb music hall acts and ballet mumbers created by
Company, under
.the Lido
Sherman.
of the brilliant the direction American Choreographer, Let A colourful, gay, and enter
num, and something talning entirely new.
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SHOWING TO-DAY
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If you, cannot get 187 LAUGHS from "THE PERFECT FURLOUGH" You might get a LOVE from LINDA CRISTAL
TRIYORDA/RESONATIONl posts
TONY CURTIS JANET LEIGH **Perfect Furlough ̈`
COLOR!
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KEENAN WYNN - ELAINE STRITCH ALL A
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Both are very good Alms in their way; "The Vikings," with TOW I do not want you
Nto be too not want you message, ended. its bold colourful action' is crowd puller; "The Perfect Furlough,"
Either man must stop killing, what I have to say about or he subtlo with its
must
face inevitable humour Opealing to quite a "The Roots of Heaven," destruction himself. different type of audience. opening at the Roxy and Photographed in CinemaScope Broadway today, but if like and De Luxe colour, the film is brilliant and interesting always Tho Roots of Heaven," me, you enjoy a well innde
Take the points I have men- which opens at the Roxy and film on a novel theme, the tioned, and decide whether it is kind way tony 11. ferent chances are you will enjoy your kind of film, and if youNCE again Hollywood PARAMOUNT'S CARTOONS
of fim again. It has it very much.
region it is, you will find it action, plenty of it: It has
very good Indeed.
A
The film also has as its sub- colour and superb photography;"
against for instance, the stampede of ject a sort of crusade the elephant herd taken through have any convictions at all 667A BARIN,"
cruelty and avariciousness; und lens is something they are addressed to prevent- telescopie wonderful. But where the dhm ing cruelty to animals, differs is, it can hold on audience un story and action alone, while heneath the surface of the film
Greco.
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now
girds its loins and goes to war. This time on no sleepy lagoon or sunbathed Pacific shore, but rather familiar ter- onto more
Having seen Errol Flynn clean up Burma on his own, the ckles and occans the world swept the clear of all enemy, I have often wondered what I (least of sil) and a couple of
alber million chaps of British heritage, were doing wasting our time between the pears 1939 and 1040.
showing al the ritory, (as far as I am con- Hoover and Paramount, is
cerned) that which led to the tum lead you to think you a In case the posters advertising
wonderful, colourful,
the river Rhine, and the are going to see another animal sophisticated fairy tale of time is 1944. is a wonderful message.
"The Roots of leaven," has picture taken in Africa, I want the Music-Hall World,
io inform you that "The Roola humour iso, and splendid per- of Heaven"
It sets out to tell the story of deals with the formances from Errol Flynn, obsession
a man completely lost in the of an Englebenen, make-bellevo and Trevor Howard,
world of Juliette Trevor Howard, who leads n
Music Hall, whose only reality ono-man crusade against the
of limelights is the illusion Film producers are turning herds.
slaughtering of wild elephant
and scenery.
Alf his life he dreams of a more and more to the Western It is a mighty good flim, and
chow which will out Front of World War II for incidentally there are some ane wonder
stage shows, stories, The Last Blitzkrieg." animal scenes, but the major rival all former is one. Quite good of its type, part of the fkn deals with the and how after many setbacks, based upon actual situations obsession I have mentioned, twists, and complications, there during the Way, and spoilt only Also a right good performance is the fairy tale ending. by a touch of whimsy at the
Of course, such a film sele ecmes from Errol Flynn as a end.
drunken Englishman who is "out to show off the people of ultracted to the hero's cause. the Parisian Theatre World, If you don't enjoy watching and this It does, to the fullest The Hoover and Paramoun!
in Miss advantage via big screen and' with elephants, then there "Gay Paree" go all
Tabarin" a Music-Hall setting Greco in the film as a stunning Eastmancolor,
It brings
La to the screen to put the top Poris Revac exotic barmaid.
Cancan du Moulin numbers inta a film, Made in Excellent though the flim Is, French Eastmancolor, this romantic and it can certainly be enjoyed Rouge, olho Les Blue-Bell Girls sophisticated fatty tale is told
with sub-titles, but the film is
to good thal anyone who likes
a kond revue can enjoy it, Fur- ther to that, the plot is very good,
Films to note in your diary are, "The Old Man and the Sen," Hemingway's masterpiece produced as a film, and if you unjoy a good Jaugh together with a superbly photographed
The Violent Age Of...oduction, "Bell, Book, and
VIKINGS
KIRK DOUGLAS TONY CURTIS ERNEST BORGNINE-JANET LEIGH....
The Vikings
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Candle.".
Also on the way are some string fly, "Cat On A Hot Tin
Elizabeth with Roof," Taylor and Paul Newinan, leads the field in this kind ei almı
The factual Aims to coma ure Want te Live! which apart from a great performance given by Susan Hayward, campaigns against capital punishment, and "Computalon," which recalls the
HARRY
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THEY TORE "THE ROOTS OF HEAVEN" FROM THE VERY EAPTH ITSELF!
FLYNN - GRECO
HOWARD - ALBERT
VELLES
GASITI F. ZANICK'S
THE ROOTS OF HEAVEN
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NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
SHOWING
KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Last Blitzkrieg," Deals with Illiler'a shock troops who posed as U.S. Gri be hind American lines during German break through fri the Ardennes, winter 1044. Van Johnson, Kerwin Mathews, and Dick York,
ROXY & BROADWAY: "The
Roots
Ex- of HeaveL.* ceptionally good flim which deals with an Englishman's obsession Lo stop the wholesale slaughter of wild elephant berds. Trevor Howard; Errol Flynn; and Jullette Greco, CinemaScope and colour by De Luxe. STAR & METROPOLE: "The Viking." Technima ra Technicolor film eplo of Ernest Borgnine leadlox the Sea Kings on an arap- expedition, log we will go
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and the colourful sequences thereof. Brilliant, bold, and terrifically excit
it in drawing full Ing.
week. houses in Ita third Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, and, Janet Leleh. HOOVER & PARAMOUNT:
**Tabarin." A gay, éalourful. Parisian Music-Hall Olen, Dig with a good story. Screen and Eastman Colour, It has good acia
and brilliant choreographer Lee Sberman desiguing the ballet. Starring Sylvia Lopez; Boala Zloman; Annls Cordy; and Mischa Auer, LEE & ASTOR: "The Perfect Furlough." Tony Curtis and perfect Janet Leish in a
comedy concerning a GI let Co-starring loose in Paris, Keenan Wynn and Linds Cristal. CinemaScope, anıdı Eastman Colour.
COMING
KING'S & PRINCESS: “King Creole." Elvis Presley in a VisiaVision epio concerning a mixed-up kid in shady New Orleans, who finds hin true
true self love and plus a gultar. Also Dolores Hart and Carolyn Jones. ROXY & BROADWAY:
No "Next
Time." Uproariously Funny comedy" concerning a goofy slimston on the Atlantio liner Queen Elizabeth............Kenneth „Mate STANIES BAKEMMA) 4 185 18 Love, Big Screen and EM- wan Colour.
STAR & METROPOLE: “The Deflant Onem” Bold, simple, and straightforward talo of two convlots caught up in racial haired, White
Johnnie (Tony Curtis) and coloured ZZAZI Cullen, (81dney Polter). HOOVER & RITZ: “TË: vid Man and the Bea." Ernest Hemingway's opla of s
RITZ CINEMA
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★
AT 2:30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
JERRY LEWIS
The Mother of The Year.......In ]
ROCKA-BY
BABY
AFTECHNICOLOR
MARILYN MAXWELL REGINALD GARDINER. BACCALOS
fisherman, - Cuban
made into a fine film. Deals with olt the incidenis of the man fighting a giant fish, alier
days. 84 catchless
Felipe Spencer Tracy and
Pazos.
LEE
&
ASTOR: "Stage Struck." The perfect film of a. stage-struck girl. and the New York Theatre:-- Grest casting with Henry Fonda,
Marshall, Herbert
Joan „Girkenwood, um and sonipsen. #Ffranberg-Big-Screen Ald
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"THE INVISIBLE BOY”.
FANCY!!
At last I have the answer, Hollywood changed sides some- time during December 1914, tnd here wo have Van Johnson mopping up the Yanks on his well, that's a bit of own; exaggeration, he has Kerwin Mathews to help him.
The Alm Le *The Last and it deals with Butzkrieg," that bit of frightfulness Hitler went the American Forces'some- where just before Christmas, 1944.
Showing at the Kings and Princess, It tells of the force Hitler created from dedicated Nazis who dressed in American uniforms .and spread havoc during Von Rundstedt's advance.
Not a bad film at all, and what is shown did more or less take place as for as the war was concerned.
But the particular incident of n dying man's change of heart after he has turned on his own men was a bit too much for me. I can't say more than that with- out revealing the plot.
War scones preity good; plenty of action; with the good old Hollywood sentiment served out in large chunks. In the closing moments.
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