D
KING'S PRINCESS
SHOWING
TO-DAY
WHY IS IT THAT MOTION PICTURES
WHICH DEAL WITH LIFE
AS IT REALLY IS.....
CLIFT
RYAN LOY
MYRNA
EVOLORES
HART
ARE CALLED
SHOCKING!
Lonelyhearts"
- with junkie Cragen, fociere Moroni 33 Katraking MAUREEN STAPLETON
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UNITED ARTISTS
WEEK-END MORNING & MATINEE SHOWS At Reduced Prices
TO-DAY At 12.30 p.m. "United Artists Presents Brigitte Bardot Charles Boyer in "LA PARISIENNE" in Technicolor
To-morrow At 11.00 a.m.
"A PROGRAMME OF WALT DISNEY'S DONALD DUCKS & VARIETY COLOR
CARTOONS"
PLEASE
BOOK
EARLY!
To-morrow At 12.30 p.m. Spencer Tracy • Katharine Hepburn in "DESK SET"
In CinemaScope Color
METROPOLE
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
A
THE CHINA””, MAIL,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1959.
FILMS
GOOD newspaper film. is long overdue, situation That
phaalsed when one · recallm such productions as Tips From Fare” and “Late Star Final «Lonelybearks" (King's and Fringeas) in a plot does not carry the iense drama of the filmas I have mentioned, but on the other hand it covers ground.
new
"Lonelyhearls" is the pseli donym, the property of a newa” paper, a constant featuro of the newspaper by the lm, while "Lonelyhearts" column is edited by a stream Journalista
Outside hell, I would suggest that a newspaper office in the most cynleal place there is.
The reason is not far to work. Your Journalist usually knows what's going on; the reason for that statement or thin; but gen- crally, for only circumstance or another, he cannot write of things they are but as they appear to be or as someone wants them to appear,
Now often, people who amuse themselves by reading down the Kuch columns must ask them- selves two questions. What kind of people parade their pri- vabo lives in print? What kind
sitting in a of person
News paper office answers them?
"Lonelybeats" it to miswer these two questions.
CURRENT & COMING
ANTHONY FULLER
A disiflusioned journalist goes out on the town. Montgomery Clift und Robert Ryan in a scene from "Lonelyhoarts," showing at the King's and Princess.
The table begins when Montgomery Clift is appointed "Lonely bearta,'
days of indation, His problems the chaotic
His the whole characterised by an Is, he be compelence.
insolent gawdy drab, star of a squalid beerhall; and her fatal attraction which lured a world hating grammar-schoolmaster to his destruction,
fanger is, he tries to help one of his enquirera.
the Stapleton is Maureen woman who writes in: a sub urban drab, a liquorish-allsorts of frowy Helen. romantic, a Troy, a back street Cleopatra, She might nood advice from Mr Lonelyhearts, but she certainly knows what to do when she gets it, And so the fifti unrolls
TO-DAY with heightening drums, leading
The Author of "BICYCLE THIEF" and the Director
of "BITTER RICE" Combine to give you a Masterpiece!
"A STUDY OF WOMANHOOD
catalogue of secret dreams"
---Herald Tribune
Rome 11 O'clock
with English Subtitles - Reloased by 20th Century-Fox
SUNDAY SPECIAL MATINEES At Reduced Prices —— M-G-M COLOR CARTOON PROGRAMME Robert Taylor in "BATAAN"
11,00 a.m. 12.30 p.m.
HOOVER GALA
TEL. 3307E
NOW IN THE 3RD WEEK
AT 2.30, 5.00, 7.25 and 9.50°P.M."
(Please note the re-arranged time of performances)'
CARY GRANT
EVA MARIE SAINT
JAMES MASON
Viste Vision - TECHNICOLOR*
The Master
of Suspense tells his «reatest tala!
ALFRED PERCORRIAS NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Special Matinee. At Reduced Admission Tomorrow
Gala Theatre
at 11.00 a..
Gala Theatre
Warner: Brothers COLOR CARTOONS
Gina Lollobrigida » Anthony Quinn'ýn "HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME”
Paramount Films |
to a tremendous climax, and an and that was inevitable
'a
Robert Ryan is the editor,
ms who finds life just what it
Surrounding them were the other characters of this Teuton- Greece drama.
chorus of blower harpies and beer swilling fauna, who mocked and.chanted as the schoolmaster, with fatalistip determination, insisted on seir- destruction
Just បទ Thomas Mona's
It
final humiliation upon
Д the
ended hooliganism or vice. does not alter the nature of world-hater symbolized in grammar-schoolmaster; nor of such a madam as Frohlich (Roca in the fim).
The film deliberately avoids The inevitable. Salvation comes at the last moment, zuddẹn and startling coaver- slon of the degraded school. master. It is the world as we would like it to be. But I am afraid that the world is the old world yet,
The film is out. of character
the
slage of "The Eve Angel.” A fine store runs through the film, bul in particular notice a passage for wood wind as the final credits
the flash upon screen.
Those who come to the alm new will enjoy a good produc tion. And if I have spent too ons pource long in comparing with another, that is inevitable when great themes return in modern dress,
I concede this point if neces sary, that these days of greater left security (material) have behind the disillusionment
16. He leaves moanings to the "Death In Venice," is a study in the classroom and in. the indation, fallure, and abject de philosophers, and runs the world in
decadence
of a cultured
the newspaper way. •Mortgo- author and the fatal attraction mery Clift turns in a fine per- of the beautiful boy, so Hein- formance, authentie and sincere, rich Mann's "The Blue Angei" deendence of with Dolores Hart as the good is a study in
middle class passions and woman in his life.
taboos.
I should enjoy this film, of course, but so will you, I think. It akes the whole world of brittle sentiment, and shows you Just what it is.
"R (Metropole) is
kind
are not
a
beerhall. The students
schoolboys,
but German
Some crowd of young oats from blackboard jungle.
Also, schoolmasters ure but human, and goodness knows what vala imaginings they Nigel Balchin, author of such entertain, and what escapes popular works as "Mine Own' they sock. But I cannot imagine.
down
staff
10
feat, which was the background
of the Arst "The Blue Angel”
FILM
Executioner," and "The Small the headmaster and his BRIEFS
Back Roon," was taken over to sitting Hollywood script.
Everyone seems to like
to watch the to work on the humiliation of a former col
league, in such a honky-look as "The Blue Angel"
I
AM
Quite frankly, I'm pt the
the
asked from time The trouble is, the Angel ja to time to recommend DOME, 11 O'CLOCK" job he has made of it, and quite frankly, I am aware it seems
her own films which I consider out- an conecited to stand upon a subtle no longer wearing
wings She fles on borrowed standing. unusual film, a
of literary thesis; but this must
plumes, feathers borrowed from documentary turned into holt. Either Nigel Balchin has
determined to throw out Mann's the American eagle, May Britt the longer high tragedy.
thesis, or he holds it to be un-
is no seductive charmer....she game, the more reluctant I true of the year 1936.
a brittle little hussy who fam There is
say, "Don't miss could be the third reason. Pre knows the value of every cent this "
In a dollar. sure from the top.
Now I hold it to be true thai
the
world external while changes, human nature doesn't. Increased prosperity has not
Not that the characters in the Alm are in the society register, they are not, they are a crowd of girls who assembled on a rickety staircase in a buliding in Rome, Reason; they were unemployed, and all were ans wering an advertisement which promised a job. They say that the situation was a real one, but it had been worked up into a story which Aashes into the lives of the persons who were assembled job-seeking. Sud- denly the stairyyny collapsed, and one person died of injuries
The pietur, fraught with real sensation and a good deal should of social implication, appeal 19 that section of Hong- kong's clocma 'public who, pre Interested in real cinema.
Even so, the odpoess have spiced it up a bit for general appeal, with mone attractive Women.... the blurb...."canght by the camera in every powe conceivable."
quote
Although the plot is a down- beat, affair, many of the cidents depicted burst with real drama, thereby succeeding in riveling the viewer's attention, whatever mood he is in.
Home, 11 O'clock is m Italian film, with English sub- titles. The film was directed by Guiseppi de Santis, director of "Bitter Rice," while the story in by Cesure ("Bicycle Thick"") Zavatin
<</TIRE BLUE ANGEL,” (Roxy and. Broad- way) has already had and introductory write up from me. Say what you like, there are bound to be comL-] parisons between the Dietrich/Jannlume alna, and this: "version made with May Britt and Curf "Jur. gens leading,
From acie point of view, this modern menüksé loads all the
The file
that. Joebe, vod Stanberg's pro-
to
Curt Jurgens gives a good
Look at "The Diary of Anne
which has performance (ho always does) | Frank,"
scarcely but he achieves a strong and made a week's run in Hong- fairly prolonged scene, in fils) kong. In London, the only way of coping with the crowds wes to show it to separate bouses with advance bookinge; here it has just droppeă 'drád.
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
SHOWING
the
METROPOLE: "Rome, 11 O'Clock." Italian Alm, sub- titled in English. A Lind of mixture documentary th "Bridge of San Lele Roy." A crowd of unemployed gita, erowd rickety-stair- case in Rome, ¦ It collapsen; there is a falál scoldent Whe were they there? What brought them there? The fational part of the Bim deals with that. • Good cineniş for thoughtful. people,
HOOVER & GALA:
"North
by Northwest.” Now In: la Akled weekenă, with no fait off in business. · Old Master Hitchcock AAA WERver of nizhiaiaren is at his věry · best in what seems to be. proving his großfect-run in the Colony. VisisVision and Techlostor. Cary Grant; Eva Marie Baint, and Jamen Mason.
Jux-
ROXY & BROADWAY; "Thie
Blue
Angel Cars gens and May Britt in. a remake of this tim căruia. Story tells of the fascination of a honky tonk singer for a prosaic schoolmaster. Sick production with a flim scrips from Nigel Balchin, Cinema- Scope and colour by De Luxe Retains the Marlene Dietrich song, "Falling in Love Arska.” KING'S & PRINCESS:
"Lonely hearts Newspaper. story which has Montgomery Cift cast as "Lonelyhearts,” magata costumanlal, Trouble is ' he has a conscience, modi Trouble 18, 38(ntroiania it the wrong mansent, Plot worked out with este and
· approached' ai right speed. leading to berrißip clo Also Robert Ryan; Myrna Loy; and Dolores Hart. LEE & ASTOR: Besson of Cantonese Opera extended until October 12.
COMING
METROPOLE: "Around the World in 80 Dayà," "Beturn * booking" of MikeTodit's
grostest platare: Jules. worked into " picture of " gouddersble charinë Dávid: Nirm and a hout sharu, HOOVER GALAS “ANC
comedy which aerobics to
fully
You tell me the reasoni However, if you insist, I would say that If you are interested in International Affairs, end the way things work out as opposed to how they should work out, and providing you have a quick "The ear and
A nubile mind, Mouse that Roared," shouid sult you,
The smallest asuntry in the. world in about to so broke. The only way out of this pre- dieatment is to declare war on Kenerous Ducis Saan, seeing how Ubéral he is to his former enemies.
Unfortunately, King 'Goon Frier Bellery gets the wTORE. Idea and by a fiuke, wins the war. Disaster all round!
Nubile, And Just that touch
of craziness that is so sade.
Scope
Or if your taste is sophistic- then ated romantic comedy, "Ask Any Giri.” This Cinema- Metrocolor effort has Shirley MacLaine left naked to the New York Wolves. A flick, smart, fast moving comedy, with David Niven ading the cast.
* *
life expecially the Laurel And· Hardy MOETELUUN..
"Tiger Bay" coming to the Lee KING'S, & PRINCESS; “The
and Astor. ·I have mentioned House that Bosed? Seeing over and over again. 3 thin. It
· is "believing," and "when" "khp
contains the finest scene I've sti sztallent counley En-Europe
eys on for snany a long time. natloes how generous Sm· "Young Hayley Mills has wit Ameriona aid to her forget messed in crurder, Being a young enranken, she declared war. child, it just dove kol register in Led by Peter Bellack, they the saman of horror. -- make the mistake of their : In fact, after making a nul- Ilves, -for-thele fysio vance of herself stand the tone-
-- succeeds, and the Biates Sments, she rushes off to church thin Lizzia. - Peter Bellary-is-w-where-kw sings in the choir. triple role. Gágu u blá sablie. There is a wedding, and they
are singing the 23rd Püsin, WZet Hayley, who is taking this010,
spots the murderere, mitting -- in
dan, the crgizdan jang Letečkat to' cover the hiatus, and the icens
LEE
TO-NIGHT AT 8.00 P.M.
BIG WAN TIN CANTONESE OPERA presents "THE COLOURED PHOENIX LANTERN"
(燈鸞彩)
(stor
TO NIGHT
AT 8.00 P.M.
SIEN FỤNG MING CANTONESE OPERA presante THE REGENERATION IN THE RED-PLUM CHAMBER"
(IPHERTHEFT)
ROX Y & BROADWAY
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★ Dying to length of picture please note change of timor: AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
THE SCREEN'S MOST ADULT LOOK AT THE WAYS OF LOVE!
OURT JURGENS ·
AND
MAY BRITT
"the
BLUE
ANGEL
COLOR by DE LUKE CINEMASCOPE
FORLOPIGRIS DOUNE
HER CUMMINGS
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LATEST FOX In CinemaScope & Color
TECHNICOLOR "BERNARDINE"
CARTOONS. Starring: Pat BOONE
PROGRAMME
Terry MOORE
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Morning Show Tomorrow 12.30 Brigitte BARDOT in *LA PARISIENNEE”
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