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KING'S • PRINCESS
ANALG FUN.
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★
The Matchmaker sayı: "'Love Is nice to have around the house but there's really no substitute for money!"
The comedy
The Matchmaker
is a matchless mirthmaker!
Paramount presents
"PICTURE
JINE DON HARTMAN FRODUCTION OF
OF THE MONTH"
Broadway The Matchmaker
cheered
for
two
yenri!
SHIRLEY BOOTH ANTHONY PERKINS SHIRLEY MALAINE PAUL FORD
Bracted by Ukseph Anthony Produced by Cow Hartman-Scrmeplay baj Jokes Michael Kayat-Frm the Pay by Thanton Widar
PRINCESS
WEEK-END MORNING & MATINEE SHOWS
Charles
To-day. At 12.30 p.m. Ingrid Bergman •
Boyer • Joseph Cotton in "GASLIGHT"
To-morrow At 11.00
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 16, 1959.
FILMS
CURRENT & COMING
ANTH
by
ANTHONY FULLER
647THE MATCHMAKER,"
"THE
Thornton Wilder's mirth provoking romp comes to the King's and Princess this weekend.
The Alm is set in Manhattan of the 1880s, and the plot con- of cerns teelf with the wiles
financially embarrassed widow who gate a rich store merchant by saying sho can arrange a match for him with a young milliner of New York.
Paul Ford is the merchant, a Trankotlantic Lype of Scrooge who kicks his clerks around. They lake their revenge by wrecking a store and taking French leave for the day when (of course) they run into their boss and frustrate his plans somewhat.
The whole thing then becomes very stagey. They meet up in cheeky Miss MacLaine's millinery shop, and there is a hiding in cupboards, behint Purtains, a slipping in and out uf floors,
Anthony Perkins plays the clerk in revolt, and the ever- green rag of poor bay order- ing his lady love à dinner ho cannot
Day for, is worked off with remarkable freshness. Another oid gag revived in ls film is where the picture stops and one of the characters addresses the audience.
Temational Presents "WOODY WOODPECKER TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS" 54•ལཱི}f++lelf=4s To-morrow At 12.30 p.m. James
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Whit Monday At 12.30 p.m. Robert Wagner
Hunter in "THE TRUE STORY OF JESSE JAMES" in CinemaScope and Technicolor
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"KING'S
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WHIT SUNDAY MORNING
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To-morrow At 12.15 p.m. Gary Cooper ⚫ Audrey Hepburn in "LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON”
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Release 15
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FRANK SINATRA
DEAN MARTIN
SHIRLEY MacLAINE
M-G-M presents
A SOL C BIEGEL PRODUCTION
"SOME GAME RUNNING"
Cena desno CAL METAOCOLON
Special Matinoo. To-morrow At Reduced Admission
Gala Theatre
at 11.00 am.
Gala Theatre
at 12.15 p.m.
Hodeur Thbakte at 12:00 noon
UNIVERSAL COLOR CARTOONS
Arc
pro-
Anthony Perkins and Shirley MacLaino. In a sceno from "The Matchmaker.”
However, it's what the fans Pennebaker - Paramount This is your comedy tare this singed in the hillbilly ter- weekend. I enjoyed the alm ritory, where in spite of want. A prise packet with threo chuetion.
prizes. Made In big screen and
* surroundings,
* ** and at times found myself pastoral
Technicolor,
of with plenty at Shirley Booth's moonshine means booze of potion and plenty of shooting.
Earlier, director Brando com- tricks as a matchmaker.
a more doubtful quality than the tons will pour in.
pleted a month-long location in The period decorations
Northern
California, primarily really something, and the cast that obtained in a Wanchai acts with a knowing eye on the bar. main chatees for fun and goines. The musical background is very good, and i was much Intrigued to find the restaurant orchestra playing a selection From the Mikado exactly one year before Arthur Sullivan composed it.
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The bittrb Базо they're togolher, and nothing" can lear 'em apart. That's all right so The story concerns itself with teng as tho Customers don't moonshiner who fights start tearing the cinema apart, ceaseless war against a "take- Revenue gangster and over" men,
He deals with the former, but comes an awfui purter when he tries it on the latter,
The molor chasus are really (6)00M AT THE TOP," hectic, but in spite of a good
K (Roxy and Broad- performance by Robert Mitchum, Paramount-Ponti-Giroal
and his son, come to that, the production which way) has certainly been ac story really never gets any- Vienna in June, claimed "tope" by the where. British public.
the person who
In spite of all the hommars it jins collected, enierges with the credit is direc- tor Jack Clayton, and although of limited experience (he has previously directed only one shurt, which, incidentally won a fra festival award) "Room At The Top," places him in the Carol Reed class.
The merits of this film are the following:
First there is the subject choice. Clayton has dared to trave right out of the sterea- 1yped run of subjects by choos ing a small Yorkshire town as his background.
Laurence Harvey, He takes and gives him the part of a young man who takers a job with the municipal council.
As I see it, Harvey is an in-
verted snob.
The film keeps moving but what it is trying to say is; this hoodlumn is really a good ninn: and his heart beats Bercely for more than whisky fuel,
Well of course, you don't be leve it, and neither does Robert Mitchum in spile of his per- formance.
Co~
in the Monterey arca, пле recently has been filming the Western drama on specially constructed period sets on, the Paramount lot.
* * * George Class and Walter Isabel Jeans, who played Aunt Seltzer are executive producers Allela in the Academy Awards- o! ONE-EYED JACKS, which addition Brando sweeping "Gigi," has been stars, in
leading ladies signed to portray Sophia Loren's and Malden,
in OLYMPIA, unt
the Katy Jurado and Pina Pelilcer.
* * * star's la
Vanguard of Paramount's BAY OF NAPLES troupe is scheduled to leave Hollywood late in May and early June for Rome. Thly Melville Shavelson- Rose produellon will be Juck filmed entirely in Italy with Clark Gable and Sophia Loren leading the cast.
** * *
ONE-EYED JACKS troupe headed by stor-director Marion Brando and producer Frank P. Rosenberg departed for two weeks of location filming in Death Valley, Calif.
PA **
*
* *
Producer Roar, accompanied by his wife, will arrive in Ports Then again, there is a bit of
Scents to be shot in the deseri on May 23 and In Rome on that starry eyed nonsense, the orea comprise the prologue of June 4.” Director Shavelson will patet goodly knight business the Alm Eet according to the leave for Rome on June 4. Woolslenhuline, unit which seems to go down in the Guy Trosper-Carlo Fiore script Charles
Robert Mitchum States,
is in Old Mexico. Kari Mulden, production manager. a guilty CUTI- Ben Johnson, Sam Gilmon and leave suffering from
for Rome on May 19, Duran are among Roland
ort Anderson, uniť selence, although it is not suf- Larry flciently gulity into forcing him principal ployers making the director, leaves for Nome on
location to give up his jols and enjoy a
jount quiet mind.
On the other hand, he is In love with a girl from a honky- tonk, but he refuses to marry
for
the June 12,
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The takes pride in hous, but he on NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
boasting he is common, "work- ing class and proud of it,
Nevertheless, Harvey angered by the bourgeols snob-
own level.
Robert Mitchum tries hard as Luke the runner; Jaques bishness around him. Or is it Aubuchon is good in a vicious What role; but the good girl in a bad dump, Keely Smith, sings in such a way that I respect her major profession the more.
If you
an inferiority complex? ever it is, Harvey is determined to not only get up among the "posh" people, but to tower above them. To "show them."
So there you are, Hls Brat step on the ladder
the like heart-in-the-mouth spills is to go after to success daughter of a local milionaire, and thrills, I can recommend and from then on the film is one "Thunder Road" on that account.
Less adventure.
small
"E" comien" strânge to“ finaglilo tarrid love scenes in Yorkshire town, yes that is what
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Yvonne De Carlo ↳ Rod Camarop in "SALOME, WHERE SHE DANCED”
Clenn Ford Shirley MacLaine In THE SHEEPMAN"
*
BOXY
SHOWING
& BROADWAY: "Hoorn as the Top." The Bellish film thai has won all the awards. Is con~ cerned with the ruthicse ambition of an angry young man in British midland town, Supreme In every way! Simone Signoret (Best notresa —-of-- the........ year) Laurence Harvey} “and Heather Sears.
LEE & ASTOR: "Elo Bravo."
stars teamed in one.
5.$3,000,000 18-4-10--Western Urual Ingredient ambition," and "Harvey is-prós
of money by any pared to kick hell over to get what he wants.
standards, quite sufficient While courting his way to to keep several wolves from farne, ho becomes involved in an several doors. That is the affair with an unhappily married cash sum spent on "Rio
Frenchwoman.
The scenes which illustrate Bravo" (Lee and Astor), this have received mixed notices and one asks why.
in England. SuMelent to say
that the British Film Censors It has everything the Western Teckoned the film earned an X fan demands. We require one Certificate. (Adults only.) hero, doughty, dauntless, and Hongkong audiences have had an expert revalver shot. "Ric a glimpse of Laurence Harvey, Bravo" gives us three, before, but in this Bim they will
We like to see our hero shoot
see him give a most persuasive his way cut of trouble; hrone we and sublie performance as a have three trigger happy
ruthless young man who is angered to success.
Simone Alanores gives a haunt.
A
sharpshooters bissling all over the place, until the screens looks samething like a mixture of the ing performance so the
4th of July and Guy Faix day. happily married Frenchwoman who is victim of the sugTy Ind Alm expert, in young man's ruthicas advances, magazine to which I stabscribe, Heather Scars is the charming may there must be a reason for daughter of the rich man at every film that is made. whom Harvey aims his sights, wrying to think of the reason while Donald Wollt is the for anking "Rio Brave." magnate in a good down-to-
earth performance.
1 om
I pari conclude that this Alm Hermione Baddeley is once is made to inflict a nevere 13- again perfect in one of these foriority upon such TV Alma-as character roles; this time as the "Tone Stangor," blowsy ex-actrees,
This film has all the ununt. Nóne so huge and utterly merits of a Brlish Bim, the masculino sa John Wayne exists finely rendered mali rapporting in anland, mit he more than cowboy parts, plus an unusually good compensates story, and the discovery of a rich roll Ricky Nelson who veča - “hìa - six-shooter Kloe a fine director, Jack Clayton,
butterly not, but in revseriembly accurate na a shot, ford
but made on thoro luxurious' scale. Easy entertainment. John Wayne, Dean Martin, and Ricky (Rock 'n' Rol5) Nelson.
KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Malchuna ker." Thornton Wilder's stage
BLOCESE brought to the screen and given akilini treatment. Illck boy Kocs to town theme, bai done la expert
ROXY
manner. A hundred per ocal comedy all the way. Shirley Booth; Anthony Per- kins: Shirley Markaino; and Paul Ford.
STAR
& METROPOLE:
Filby "Thunder Hoad" melodrama telling of the war among mocnshinery, Revenus-men und pantyteri... Thrilling malor chases; un- no sympathetic types; dared to speak; and thick
deep Bouth: soventa. „Roleri. Mitchum: Gene ́ Barry; and Keely Smith,
HOOVER GALA: "Boma
Came Running.** town drama from the pen of "From Here to Eternity” Jotex. Good acting with beat performance from Shirley MacLaine, Frank Sinatra; Dean Marifn; with Martha
Myes: Arthur Kennedy; and Nancy Galea.
COMING
BROADWAY: "Compulsion." A
VITY film intelligent
omment *caimo upon the
of the century." Uses Betion method for factual report- Ing of the rich playbox murderers, Nathan Leopold and Ribbard Loob, and thete murder för, expertenso · of Hue Bobby Franka Out standing* for
per Weilen
- formance, of Orson
ss the defending lawmill; · and Dean Stockwell H Burosexual
Add whe-fold - a "oden- pulsion” to kill.: Also Brad- ford; Dilbaka.,
·EXE ·A·ASTOR! "Glediget la my Arna.“ Á drama of memory. and guilt,Ă mother Who fünchhal son Hi, War) A Widow keylig ti kah and be tallhful, to a picture; the Riday 'am cowboy Dean Martin VA ATTIVAS DELA ASERBAUTE AINA ? ROAD," is in the film, and for one malty Allyson, Jeff Chandler; and
that John Wayne, had chbeet KINGS rough-house epic from the 4 bucatie. Des and two pea of Robert Mitchum in the ke zemra mumevulinity,
THUNDER ROAD nene mayo
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dialogun In which Brigitte Bardot goes through pacts with many variations
the
themo. old upen
yet in- Kittenish, MXY, triguing in B.B's inimitable fashion. Also Dakili Gelin. STAR & METROPOLE: “Fori Ciuitas Boobe
and Colour by De LAIK. Cavalry vorsus Rod Indiana melodrama. Plót is of sh Indian hating Cavalry Ber- geant who bi holsted on him polard. Ficaty of Own
socalo
· Köifon **With: Iovely backgrounds. Joel McCrom; Forrest Tucker; and BumpRÈS Cabbl
HOOVER & ĠALA: “Night of the Quarter Moon” MGM'«
· CONSTENÉ - upon racial war,
• fkko" in ponducted In Use
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of
Americs, Superbly produced
Kingt. Cole' to prossCILOR .
Lee & Astor
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at 12.30 p.m. KNOCK ON WOOD
ASTOR THEATRE To-morrow at 11.00 a.m, TECHNICOLOR CARTOONS at 12.30 p.m. LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDORED THING
ROX Y & BROADWAY:
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★ Owing to longth of picture please noto change of times: AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
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THE THREE ACADEMY AWARDS
SENSATIONAL' IN EVERY WAY
WINNER ESENT FEMEROM ANYWHERE IN THE WANT.
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A Savage Story of lust and ambition
SIMONE SIGNORET
LAURENCE HARVEY
HEATHER SEARS
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ROOM AT THE TOP
DOMALU, WOLECTABONALD HOUSTIEN HEMMIONE PADDSTER
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SPECIAL PERFORMANCES AT 1200 NOON “LOYOLA, THE SOLDIER SAINT" At Regular Pricca. Spacial Frices for Studenta.
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Special Morning Show on Monday, 18th May At 12:00 Nödli
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