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MOBSTER
STEVE COCHRAN LITA MILAN
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"I MOBSTER" At 12.15 p.m.
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ROXY: At 12.00 Noon 20th Century-Fox presents In CinemaScope & Color "BOY ON A DOLPHIN" Starring: Allan Ladd
Sophia Loren
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ORIENTAL MAJESTIC
JAUN
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Due to length of Alms. Please note change of times. Zo-day: 2.30, 620, 7.30 & 9.40 Leading Stars in a tempostuous New Love Story with actiool
Deborah Yas
· KERR · BRYNNER' LANATILE LITYAK'Stan at THE JOURNEY ME ́ ́egiche KOSKEY MORITY-X. I. MARTHALI
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LESLIE CARON. LOUIS JOURDAN MAURICE CHEVALIER
Morning Show To-murrOW "MONEY FROM HOME"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1959.
FILMS
EXACTLY 19 years ago
to the day (that is as I am writher thìa) the Pazla were in full cry for Amster- dam. A British Army major and two Dutch patriots are. shipped to Holland. Their. Job? To try and persuade the Amsterdam diamond merchants to hand over their jewels before the Nazis get them."
This is the incident which mokes such an excellent, Olm of "Operation Amsterdam" / (Lee and Aster)
Then packs Interest_be- cause (tylse; it loses out ou the fuel that the producer has seen it as just another war Am whereas it is really a first class Idea for showing human
terest..
in-
_It_is_a_matter..of history..ihat. Amsterdam was faltened by bombers; but few know that
during It alt A destroyer wriggled through the minefield, and that a British officer play- ed the hunter and the hüntel ugainst such a background.
Bra Bartok gives performance as a Dutch sirli Tony Britton, Alexander Knox and Potor Flach are stern Jawed and pn top of Na the job. all the time. doubt the real fasta are popped up a bit, but there is that quick-breathed excite ment all the time, as the patriots just make it with a tow seconds to 'spare.
- Tho producer has tried to ivo us the lot. The patholic refugees: the terror bombings; The stark brutality; and now and again a touching scene such as that in which Malcolm Keen representing The diamond houses, sums up the situation.
An exelting dìm; one more or less true, a reminder of what really happened and happens when war descends upon the innocent.
Hoover, and Gala) MATING GAME”
is about the best laugh the English have given Americans since the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth Rock.
Most British alm fans will know the story under its home
CURRENT & COMING ANTHONY FULLER
by
Pater Finch, Tony Britton, and Alexander Knox, land in Amsterdam, June 1940. with 12 hours to complete their mission. From the film, “Operation Amsterdam.”
Steve Cochran's ascendancy to full membership, which he db tains by bumping off his Arst victim.
So when filming is epmpleted on "Tommy the Toreador," the bull will be returned to the cortijo of Signor Salvador Guardiola, there to spend his days in peace and quiet..
Danny Kaye, Susan Gortion. and Tuesday Weld returned to Hollywood over the weekend from New York where they at
tended the
special reening of Dena Productions' THE FIVE PENNIES for Paramount. Kaye, who stars, plays Red Nichols in this Almusical based on the famed Jazz band leader's life. Miss Cordan and Miss Weld
drinking The hoodlums are champagne and smoking cigars; they have reached the stage when, Tommy Steolo stars with feminine company is desirable. Janet Munro and Sydney James There is no question of, "Shall In "Tummy the Toreador, we join the ladies?" rather dues a George H. Brown production Grant Withers risc
an- in collaboration with Nat "Gentlemen, the Cohen and Stuart Levy for play his daughters. nounce, broads,
release by Associated British- Pathe.
and
A door opens and in come trooping the hard faced, baby talking malis. The gangsters philosophy is tersely explained; "Sometimes you've got to kill to live."
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I suppose the Angry Young Man cult will soon hit Hong- kong hard. We have had few "frightfully force" Imports since the cult caught on in England, but two films will soon put the thing right in our laps.
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First there is the film, the John Osborne "Look Back In Anger:" Richard Burton plays Jiminy Porter, the shiftless rebel, who see-saws between a nagging despairing attitude to life which almost drives his young wife, Mory Ure, to distraction, and J passionate fervour, equally unnerving.
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London TARZAN'S - GREA- TEST ADVENTURE starting Gordon Scott, Sara Shane and Scilla Gobel has finished toot ing at Shepperton Studios. Pro- duced by Syd Weintraub and Harvey Hayalin for Sol Lesser Productions and to be released by Paramount, the picture had four weeks of location shooting four in Nairobi, Africa, and weeks of interiors in England.
Holly-
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Johnston, Rosemary wood stunt woman who usually gets no credit for the hazardous In motion feats she performs pictures and television, gets a chance to play "herself" in Paramount's HELLER WITH A GUN-a tightrope walker who. defies death 30 feet above the streels of 1860 Cheyenne.
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A particular ingrate denounced: "The longer I live; the less I know about people, This the
follows the unwilling killing of a mobster who takes dope. One becomes the when one more uneasy realises that one is witnessing something that rings horribly cleaning carpel true. The business which really covers the vicious practices of Mur- der Incorporated is almost a documentary
an vice; one wonders how it remained so long in business when every one knew so much about 3. The good Influence, for what
"No Trees la The Street, is it is worth, is provided by Lita Milan, Cochran is in love with the second of this kind. This Aim has the Fast End of her, that 13 as for 36 a man who London as Its setting; time Im has to snatch for a gun every mediately bidore the Second To mark her escape fram few minutes, is able to fall in world. War.
Stanley Holloway, anonymity-at least in HELLER Sylvia Syms, Joan Miller, director George Cukor order- Rolvyn Hayes, Liam Redmond, ed the script writer to identify and Herbert Lam, form the first the role as "Rosemary Johnston
-lightrope walker." rate cast for this alm.
le, "The Darling Buds of May", which concerns itself with a zany family on a farm in Keni. "The Mating Game" is the same set-up except the farm is transported to Maryland.
The important thing is, the humour is left where it was; the laugh is an bureaucracy: and the butt of the author's wit is stupidity in high places,
Debbie Reynolds, Tony Rondall, and Paul Douglas, are love. the stars, with Fred Clark and Una Merkel assisting, in taking the rise out of the U.S. Inland Revenue Department.
The main point of the plot is, Paul Douglas has never paid form Income tax; he lives by a
Robert Strauss as a mobster who postpones becoming the number one as long as he can, is likely to earn the fans ap plause as the most convincing actor in a commendable cost.
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Both "Look Back In Anger",
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HELLER WITH A GUN, co- and Sophia Loren
The plot hinges on Stove and "No. Trees In The Street", starring Cpchron being summoned before are Associated British Films, Anthony Quinn, in a Ponti- the Senate Hackets Committee handled by Warner Bros in Giros production In Techni-
In Washington, and in answer longkong,
in the question, "When did you
first become a mobster?" the picture Bashes back to his past
of barter, so lax investigator Tony Ramail is sent by Fred Clark to sort out the fness.
Debbie Reynolda, sa a kind of farm girl sophisticate, Alla the role very well. Many will consider this her best per- On the other side, there is a certain arim humour in hearing Fred Clark maintains his hoodlum invoking the rights standard as one of the best sup of the American Constitution in porting players In Almland protecting his own worthless untversul.
hide,
formance.
Tony Randall has a part made. to measure as the tax investiga- tor who is driven almost mad trying to turnbarter into luxable Droit For Instance; question: "What did you pay for that ice-box?" Paul Douglas; "I dunno. I guess I gave a boor apd an old pump for it."
Question: "How much would you say the pump was worth?" Result: complete And so on.
Admitted it is a gangster film, but never since the thirties when gangland was news, has ↑ film been made which portrays the kings of violence with such ruthless realism,
SCREEN BRIEFS During her stay at Stratford- upon-Avon where she is star ing in the Shakespeare Memor- al Theatre Season, Dame Edith collapse of tax investigator. Evart--soon to be seen on the cea in the Associated Drillsh production "Look Back
It is light-henried alm, just suited to these hot lazy days when something not too deep Anger"has rented a yet full of fun is demanded.
in
for the summer.
Her landlord's name:
cottage
Mr
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Filmed in CinemaScope and Metrocutor, it makes brightw. II. Shakespeare; entertainment from beginning to end..
MOBSTER," Is an good gangster film, reminiscent productions as of such "Starface," of the thirties.
661, unusually
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This 15 the story of Spanish fighting bull who, by a eirange quirk of fate, was destined to Jlyờ, os a film star and not die in the bull ring.
When flin, producer George Brown went to Seville to make properations for Diming "Tomuny. which stora Toreador"
Janet Munro Tommy Steele, Showing at the Roxy and ahi Sidney, James, he had to Broadway, it sels out to tell in find a ferocious bull for certain violent action
erlap sequences in the Alm, including and dialogue, the story of a hood the scenes where Tommy, sala lum's rise to notoriety, and of matador, fights the bull.
the
colour.
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
·
SHOWING
ROXY & BROADWAY: "I Mobster." The life and death et publio enemy number one. An extremely Intelligent expose of the with A rackels, together personal study of the
paychology
of a gangster. exciting, ・ and skij- fully directed.
Vivid,
Steve Cochran: Lita Milan; Robert Straus and Cella Lovsky.
HOOVER
GALA: The Mating Game.". Debbie
• Beynolds Tony Randall: and Paul
Douglas ins A allarfare flm - verion” of (The Darling Buds of May.”
CinemaScope and Metra- olo.
Co-starring Fred
Clark and Una Merkel. LEE & ABTOR: "Operátion
Amsterdam.” -- Givos the story of a daring operation
and
to lake the diamonds of the Amsterdam Jewel morchants' uut of Hitler's reach. Tepse, exciting, with a particularly good performance by Era Bartok. Peter Finch Tony Brilton. STAR & METROPOLE:
turn
ngagement "Trapeze," a film that broke In Houskou. records Probably the greatest film yet made of circus life and Intrigues behind the scenes. nurt Lancaster; Tony Curtis; and Lollobrigida.
The roution
KING'S
PRINCESS: Trap Mainty gangsler yarn, with. mare car journey. Richard Widmark taris and nonwis Ida way through some tough hair-raising -adventures. Also Dee J. Cobb and Ting Louise.
COMING
ROXY & BROADWAY: “SRY,
One for Me Film designed to place every one of the thren, stars in their bexi roles, with Bing Crosby back in parmen's collar. Also, Debbie KHéymaids, aud alohard Wagner.
Scopa and Cálour ··· by Da
his short anzioue carcer George Want to the, cortijo terminated by a volley of lead, ranch at Salvador Chandicia. The outstanding qualities of who for many years has berd this film next a good script with some of the frict bulin in, all A very good dialogue; a fost Spala There ho solected n
') Luxo, moving picture never slowed up particularly fine black bull
HOOVER & GALA: "Blood by padding in action for nation's which, for a week, was filmed
of the Yopire.” Beslo, soke and a beilovablo plot from all angles in the magni0- which screens like an expose, cent bull ring in Beville.
dewisted to shock - and Boarding the latter, I think It Dat hero is the happy ending. really sola-out to "ompare that This amazio bulk) will never be fearful organisation, Murder allowed to participals in a-resi Incorporate
jeung bull, fakt, here is a tradition Speaking of the dialogue, a in Epain, thako nghting, bu
which is deliciously vultowel kako a bula sine for any "yúlgar "lù, when Grant Withers" purpoes namas mover' rätten for
entertains his mob to celebratova, onnubio de foran,
Kone
LÉE & ASTOR: "Floods of Foar Drama of U.S. town flood walern overtaken by laplating crtonnier with the citizens of the doomed, town. Tenge and exciting, with some good acting, por- formsmoos. Howard Kools Zane Horwyssz: nud“Üyeli
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Lee Astor
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PARAMOUNT
FOX CARTOONS PROGRAMME
METROPOLE: At 12.30 p.ma Jeff. MORROW Barbara LAWRENCE in "KRONO S” In CinemaScopa A Fox Picture
STAR: At 12.30 pm, Frederic MARCH Claudette COLBERT
In
"SIGN OF THE CROSS" A Paramount Picturo
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A Romantic Riot on the Screen! Rollicking Laughtots!
Filmed on location in the haystack!
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DEBBIE REYNOLDS
TONY RANDALL PAUL DOUGLAS
"The Mating Game"
*Co-Starting FRED CLARK - in CinemaScope And METROCOLOR
Special Matines At Reduced Admission To-morrow
Gala Theatro at 11.00 .m
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at 12.15 p.m.
Hoover Theatro at 12.00 noon
Walt Disney's
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James Stewart Doris Day. In "THE MAN WHO KNEW.TOO MUCH"
Yoshiko Yamagucht in "MADAME BUTTERFLY"
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