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KING'S • PRINCESS
DR. MINS A SO MAN,
SHOWING TO-DAY
THE HOTTEST HIT IN THE FRENCH FILM INDUSTRY!
DAARDDED
THE MOST DARING FRENCH FILM !
Unusual. Spicy...
PARIS MODELS
STARRING
BEAUTIFUL
AGNES LAURENT
DORA DOLL
With Fresh Seater
Founded by USOID FREMRA TEM LIB.
WEEK-END MORNING AND MATINEE SHOWS
KING'S
To-morrow at 11.00 a.m. "20TH CENTURY-FOX COLOR CARTOONS" At Reduced Pricos
To-morrow at 12.15 p.m.
"PARIS MODEL" At Reguar Prices
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To-morrow at 12.30 pim "'HERCULES" in CinamaScope & Color At Reduced Prices
ROXY & BROADWAY
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★ AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M
CURO JURGENS
MICHELE STROGOFF
CINEMASCOPE
EASTMANCOLOR
GENEVIEVE PAGE
SILVIA KOSCINA
DIRECTED' BY
CARMINE GALLONE
A SAGA
OF
COURAGE
AND
LOVE!!
An Emile Natan Production
·A CATHAY ORGANIZATION RELEASE
BROADWAY: 5 Shows To-morrow, Extra Performance of "MICHELE STROCOFF" At 12.15 p.m.
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT REDUCED PRICES
ROXY: AF 12.00 Noon
RKO Radio presents
In CinemaScopee & Color
"THE BRAVE ONE” Starring: Michel Ray
BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m.
BRAND NEW WARNER BROTHERS TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
ROXY: EASTER HOLIDAYS, MARCH 27, 28, 29 & 30 SPECIAL PERFORMANCES At 12.00 Noon Daily "LOYOLA, THE SOLDIER SAINT"
At Rogular Pricos
Special Prices for Students: Logo $2.40, Bock Stall $1.50 PLEASE BOOK EARLY!
ORIENTAL MAJESTIC
CONDITIONEC
To-day 2.30-5.30-7.30 & 0.30___|___SHOWING TO-DAY-
An exciting story with a Tren- At 2.30, 5,20, 7.30 9.30 p.m.
suro to Steal... A Woman to
Wi... A Past to Forget!
ADD-BORGNINE
THE HUND...
THE LAWLESS `
THE CA
BADLANDERS
■ Kare Jurado - Clare Keur p
Gary Cooper in
You can image
MORE MANSFIELD
KHÈJPY POLL- MUTE ZABIŤ, KENKE SOUNE
To-morrow Morning Show
Morning Show To-morrow 12.30
"BLOWING WILL
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1959.
FILMS
IN recommending "Stage. 2033 But the wonderful thẳng Struck," showing at about the film le, It shows what the Loo and Astor, I theatrical people are. really like.
Impulsive? Gonemus to am the more confident be faull? Yes and yes, but with cause it contains, all the them all it is "Not that do not elements that go to making love you, but that love the theatre better.. I do not think good entertainment.
Firet it on a good script, the plot is "Morning Glory" which some 1m-goers will remember from the thirties, the dim that placed Katherine Hepburn on
the screen,
Second, it has a first rate cast, Henry Fonda; Susan Strasberg; Junn Greenwood; Herbert Marshall; und Christopher Flummer, Third, the direction by Bidney Lumet is both skilled and ortistic; and the fourth reason is the magnificent photo graphy and seta.
The
I
there is need to say more. The spellbound through its considerable length.
film held
mo
Joan Greenwood, as the Broad I must mention, however, way star whose temperamental Strasberg histrionics let Susan right in.
CURRENT & COMING by
ANTHONY FULLER
me
W most about Michele
3 should sum up by saying it - 17HAT · interested is a film that no Intelligent fim- goer can afford to miss, other- wise hois right out of "the Strogoff" (Roxy & Broad- reckoning when intelligent films way) пя to find the are discussed.
abiquitouts Curt ‹ Jurgens in the title role. In fact I wondered about it so much that I forgot about the Alm.
11 is an intriguing fim from the word go.
:
"Parls Models" is like, O you want to know what
(King's and Princess). I did, as it is an off the sche Miss Greenwood from dule Alm.
I entered the Chelsen, London, is yet one more of a beautifully balanced styglan gloom of the King'a Theatre on Wednesday afternoon, just as the show was about to begin.
cast.
Filmed. In Technicolor, of vista proportions, it is a Am I can see over and over again.
Discount from this that I rently love the theatre and all that appertains thereto, and is sull a great fim. Honestly!
★
667THE Quiet American,"
Actually "Paris Models" is an excellently
made film. The sophisticated music score is just perfect.
The character parts, especial- y the provincial family are well English sub-ilties are 8 nent, continuous, Synali and
*showing at the Star
and
cast.
The
rate.
and CinemaScope. It is A
It lo made In EnsimanColor French Italian / Yugoslavian effort. It is dubbed in English, and is the third attempt to pul this hoary old Jules Verne clasle on the screen. Wo say, third time lucky, I don't know.
You probably know the story, and on that account the film cân be an interesting period piece, because it shows an age that is lost forever.
The story necessitates showing the gaudy
apartments of the encurip-
Czar, garish Terlar Carmine mente; and director
Gallone, master of spectasie, re- COYCTS now and again to switch on one of his vist vistan mjung crowda and cerrict ranks of sellers
20
Enck of all, there is a training for sentiment ол novelette romance, with humour coming from the French var correspondents.
Metropole, ig romantic-cum-political melo- clear. drama, taken from Graham I was most surprised to find Greene's novel of the same that a film will u pler-machine Be should turn out so first name.
Rouders of that novel will
In the programme is,a new instantly be awore that comle made fri old-time fashion. considerable liberties have been The kind that fils every man taken with the plot, but on the with delight and has the women whole, Joseph Mankiewicz clucking impatiently. In fact, makes a smooth, inclsive, and I'd say it is n 100 per cent male them in that way. But this Art
colourful film of the book.
programme, so if the ladier ob- is not his best performance by ject, go on your own.
story is as old as the sláky, The call is the same that sot young Will Shakespeare running London - wards; the riage, with its gaudy parapher- ballo; ite artificial glamour: is choirs and boes; its overnight miracles and tragedies. It is n wild call, a mud call, and there are some who cannot resist t.
Such
one Is Susan Strasberg. I, for one, admire the performance she gives in this sensitivo role. As the daughter of the director of the Actors Studio, she has seen many of the kind she portrays in "Stage Struck” arriving with oyes lul! (of Stur duit.
Those who
familiar with the serpt of "Mom ing Glory," will rol the whole plot pivots on the stage-struck lri, who Raving been existing on short commons for weeks, is invited to the first night party of the production in which she failed to gain a part. Under the infuerfer of Cham- pagne, she mounts a stairense, and gives part of the Balcony Seenu from "Romes and Juliet." Myself tried to span the score and more years since I heard La Hepburn do the scene, and my youthful self reckoned Hep- burn did it better,
No matter, Susan Stratberg ja going to be a force to be reckon- ed with. She is, first and fore- most, an actress, and that is something that our stars of pre- sent einema rarely are.
So, come to that, is Henry Fondo, another who made his way to films via email amateur companies. He used to act op poslio Marlon Brando's mother in the Omaha Playhouse days,
This nim gives him a very sympathelle role as the senslülvé theatrical executive, who la`not as lough as wishes to be. Herbert Marshall plays the part he is. A gine actor. Christopher Plummer is the playwright,
I mention these men because one way and another, they are used by the stage-zruck Siras- berg as stepping stones to suc
The film has more words than cleeds, but the dialogue, ex- pertly delivered in the case of Michael Redgrave, is intelligent, and together with an authentic background, Armly buttresses an Dusual tale."
The picture. which hinges on
struggle between the
tie Government and the subversive forces In Saigon, leads to the discussion of a third force.
This, Bithough. provocative, somewhat; helds up the action for popular sentiment, which is rever strong about the Internal affairs of a foreign country, is In the polymant interested
concerning triangular romance War correspondent Michael tedgrave; Eurasian girl, Glorga Moll; and Audie Murphy, quiet sensitive American.
Audie Murphy is not alto- gethor happy as the quiet American, but Michael Rød- grave te superb as the hate- obsessed Englishman who loses his mistress to the American,
Glorga Moll is very winsome Phuong, the Eurasian girl, While Claude Dauphin never pilases a trick as the investigat=
ng Vigot of the Surete.
The story has Д dennite American slant, a conecasion to the American audiences, but if fumulates and contains pro found drama.
HOOVER THEATRE
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★ AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THE TRAP OF A LOVE-KILLERI
Only a tortured, loveerciled mind could have plotted the whème that drove his beautiful wile into the arms of another man!
MONTGOMERY BERGMAN
RAGE HEAVEN
GEORGE SANDERS LUCILE WATSON OSCAR HONDIKA
BY THE AUTHOR OF "GOODBYE MR. CHIPT! James Hillon, author of "La Horace” and "Gopilys, Mr. Chipw* has written die third suzana Telanght Differenti Jasting!
Lee
& Astor
★ SHOWING TO-DAY
4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.90 @ 9.30 P.M.
TEN THOT AGIRES DREA HER DREAM
This is the viney at opú
formats headlong buto
the most fabulous wake.
of all«»Breadory!
FONDA STRASBERG
*** REXPERT
GREENWOOD-MARSHALL CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER
RKO-SCOPE
MORNING SHOW TO-MORROW—AT REDUCED PRICES
LEE THEATRE
At 11.00a.m. MICHTY MOUSE
Curt Jurgens is top box office at the moment, and he takes over the role of Strogoft, so I should imagine he will pullTECHNICOLOR CARTOONS
any means.
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
LEE
SHOWING
ABTOR: "Stage BOXY Struck." In which Susan Strasberg plays the starry- eyed stage-struck girl. First known to us as "Morning Glory," this film, has all the old charm of the original
the plus
advantages of KKO-Booрo and Technicolor. Also starring are Henry Fonda. Herbert Marshall, Jean Greenwood, and Chris- topher Flummer,
KING'S & FRINCESS: "Paris Models". Unusually good film, with good story back- ground Beautifully made and fine muslo scare of Dght
All French music. about a French provincial mouse who hit the decadent Latin Quariler. Agnes Laurent and Dora Doll.
BROADWAY:
"Dichele Sirogoff." Curt Jurgens in a Cinemascope and EastmanColor /version of Jules Vèque's fast ven. tury classic, Glyeď Inah pic ture of the last days of the Cears, HOOVER: Recalling, “Håge in Heaven", while waiting for the Gala to open up, A "perfect crime" film, written by James Jülton. Robert Montgomery and Ingrid Bersian, with George Sanders
STAR & METROPOLE: "The Graham Quiet American."
Greene's novel made Into a fina intelligent Sim, ક્રમ outstanding performance by Michael Redgrave, Audio Murphy
the quiet American, and Giorga Moll as Eurasian girl.
COMING
LEE & ASTOR: "The Naked and the Dead," Exposes the Fuhrer princiyle existing in such democraile institutions as the U.§. Army, incarnated in the will-to-power general and the primitive wageant. Raymond Massey, and Aldo Ray.
KING'S & PRINCESS: "Beli. Book, and Candle." A story of modern witchcraft. A real witches brow of cham- pagne and, beauty, set in the never-never-land of modern Manhaltan, James Blowart; Kim Novak; * Hermione Gingold; Eles Lanchester; and Jack Lemmon,
ROXY & BROADWAT: "The
Bound and the Fury."
A
scene
all the excellence of ."Payton Place," Yul Brynner (with hair) and Joanne Woodward. HOOVER & GALA: "Gigi," The greatest musical ever made for the Alma, Colour- ful; Hyely; rich in and action, Bet in fin de #ledlo Paris. Boulevardier Maurice Chevaller; Lesilo Caron; Louis Jourdan; Ier- mione Gingold. STAR & METROPOLE: "The Big Country." A new look in Westerns in which Peck, an Eastern dude, fights and fouds wilh Talsed-in-the-saddie Charl- ton Hesion for the love of inconstant Carrol Baker and
Grezory
=== trurgick=ustów-of-a-deemden boardependablef Gun-Rims&A
family in this deep South.
rank it top three with Acted and
. "High Noon," and "Shane."
produced with
STATE
To-day at 2.50, 5.15, 7.20 à 930 pm
Swers it is f
BARDOTS
FIRST
BIG
PICTURE
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Another Hilarious Comedy from the Author of the Riotous "DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE" Series)
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PEGGY CUMMINS ›.
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