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THE
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12.30 p.m. Elizabeth Taylor, in "RHAPSODY"
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Frank Sinatra. Kim Novak in "MAN WITH THE COLDEN ARM"
12.30 p.m.
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"THE LAST HUNT" - Color
SHAW CIRCUIT-
HOOVER GALA
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GRAND OPENING TO-DAY!
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
The Story That Tore The Vast Timber Country Apart!
ALAN LADD JEANNE GRAIN GILBERT ROLAND
FRANKE AVALON
Om the sorsen for the first time-inch terrific!
"GUNS OF LIMBERLAND"
Borden WARNER DROG. TECHNICOLOR"
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12.30 p.m. Cary Grant Jane Mansfield in
"KISS THEM FOR ME"
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12.30 p.m. June Allyson Elizabeth Taylor
"LITTLE WOMEN"
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THE
AINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1960. FILMS
THE DEVIL'S DIS-
CIPLE," (King's
& Princess). is, of course, a prestige film which wili. form a "must" in the diaries of the U-film fans. But what of.the hoi-polloi?
Show the tugo is not Shaw on the films, but after`a Jot of hamming a hawing. "Pronation" und "Major Bar- bura" proved that Shaw could be made, not only into good highbrow stuff, but stuff whilch. could deny the front stali us tomers.
So then followed "Cleopatra" hustly and expensive fulture;
lately,
"The Doctor's
und
ivino flop. What Ditem" to say about all this?
Well, the trouble is that in producing Shaw, you could,"
re or less, draw a chalk line, and allow your vers to toe t and talk and talk, and talk.
But the thing is, this verbal Pyrotechny is all very well on
121 The stage, but what about Ilms which are principally n visual art?
Was
"The Devil's Disciple" Suw's idea of a melodrama: indeed, as his works were more or less ignored at the time, he thought he'd try his hand at the game of Alling the theatre.
If you look at the play, yuu will see that for two acts he slays on conventional lines, thun he gets tired, and we have Sbaw, the tub-thumper.
CURRENT & COMING by ANTHONY FULLER
In a graveyard, the pastor, Anderson (Burt Lancaster) is taunted by Dick Dudgeon -(Kirk Douglas) who has stolen his father's corpse to annoy the British.
from "The Dovil's Discipla." King's & Princoss. United Artists.
be served after the ring lights ure put out!
Sceno
about iwu.
standard
the locals vintage
for the tough with simple reason they would chopping down a tree or
substitute guns have to hunt high and low to and so doing. find Chaplin that has not for choppers. been used in the collections The trouble is, the many per- which have been made of the mutations and variatione upon Chaplin masterpieces,
1 imagine honours go
The photography is faultless and makes every trick, while touch is colder the macabre than our locul cold storage. But because "The Devil's 50, Roll Up, Roll Up! Here is biggest, Mudiest and Disciple" Is comedy drama, 11. the
the world, 10 lents self the cinema. goriest show The story, as you know, is sat stopping over in Hongkong for Laurel and Hardy. They work ed to a script, a very loose one allowing plenty of room if one or the other thought up a good got
in New Hampshire, and is wait and see. concerned with a minister, a reprobate, and a British Gene- ral, the victim of the usual Whitehall tangle.
The Elm includes all Shaw's targets. The Church, the mill- tary, small talk in a small town, and the early part of the film uses Shaw's vertal missiles to knock down Shaw's opponents,
Lee Astor
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ROX Y & BROADWAY
* SHOWING TO-DAY ★
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. The fastest, funniest film
on the sercont With the greatest comedians the world has known!
over
ROBERT YOUNGSON'S
WHEN COMEDY WAS KING
- CHARLIE CHAPLIN - BUSTER KEATON LAURER and HARY
BARSY LANGDON-BEN TURPIN FATTY ARBUCKLE-WALLAGE BEERY
to
the slosh and sug theme, leave litle to be suich. But what is to be sail is said very well in "Gung of the Timberland."
GLERIA SWANSON-MADEL KERROMANO
20
* DIE KEYSENE CIPS - GRABLE COLIS
ENGAN KEMENT THE SEMETT KÜLA -
ADBEAT
Alan Ladd is back as the swashbuckling taber who
the adds
sentimental ear out. loach to this thick door melodrama,
Ladie's
YOUNGSON
man
opposite number
Crain, and very
int
nice
ROXY: At 12.00 Noon Christine CARERE in
But it is so good. It is just
RUT- 46 ERGEANT
SLEDGE," (Royal & the port of thing that mention
human
Jeanne 100.
The third in the lead is Gil- bert Roland who contributes the
major
items in the slugging and be slugged episodes.
BROADWAY: 5 Shows To-morrow, Extra Performance of "WHEN COMEDY WAS KING" At 12.15 p.m.
"A CERTAIN SMILE” ̈* In CinemaScope & Color
BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m.
FOX TECHNICOLOR
CARTOONS — PROGRAMME
behaviour when court trial in of State) is a
Rage, calm, controlled an: this sentimento: encounter TO-MORROW MORNING SHOW AT REDUCED PRICES the old west fashion, which, someone blows their top.
the flash-back
control is lost, and then... using
an technique, makes in boys iserserk. Then, thinking enough is
teresting and forthright enough, the director, using his
#1 sur- Imagination, substitutes deeds suspense film with for words, and as con- prise twist of the tail.
you are led to a John Ford who directed this elever. rousing knockabout finale absorbing tale has sent his script, which while pleading, to writers after the official U.S. crowds, might cause our local Government files to find out grand laugh. highbrows to look down their what really happened when a post-Civil War Negro Sergeant was held on a rape and murder charge.
sequence,
110305,
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There is Buster Keaton, that to American peculiar genius, wit from Mark Twain or The dead pan stuff, clever, oh so
it's a Try it for yourself.
*
The fights leave nohing to be desired, but of course, they will never be as good as "Shane"
clonate when we list saw the bar brawl.
The forest fire will get you running for an extinguisher, (Hood will try the old nerves a
66UNS OF THE TIM-
T BERLAND"
or with
Taking it all round, here is a straightforward yrum, quite wholesome, in Dentiment which is the character of these films. the
worked suspense is nicely
qualifica while the scenie
Laurence Olivier is master of the role of Burgoyne, the pomp-
This is what comes out of it. ous bide-bound British General, and while words count, it is A magnificent performance by
Strode the accused ver & Gala) takes you into bit. Olivier's l but once deeds Woody are substituted for words, Burt Nogro Sergeant, one in which he the tough and rough wesi,
and Kirk Douglas portrays all the dignity of a sweetened with a song Lancaster
coloured man convinced be
and sprayed 50, come into their ow
Burt Lancaster is cast as the won't gel a fair break from a
white court, yet reftising to allow Technicnior. Douglas preacher and Kirk
The story address itself to up. the bitterness of his position turn handles the role of the scally im from loyalty to his regiment. two Timber posses who get are superly. Richard, and they seen to themselves thoroughly enjoy once the action starts.
Harry Andrews ist Solh amused and amusing as the hot martial. woolly-headed Swindon, whilo Constance Powers is the al- Janelle Scott handles a very imctive witness at the trial and ticklish chore competently as the also gives the romantic slant to immature Judith.
the film.
And come to that, the rest of the cast play out their roles in a competent manner.
The rip-sporting battle scene is very well done and the timing is uxpert,
This is what it seems like. It is as though a batsman had opened his shoulders for a sixer over the sight screen, catches the edge of the bat, and beats slip to mako a lucky four.
*
Jeffrey Hunter takes every trick as the white offieer of an alb-Negro battalion who sets as prisoner's friend at the court-
Billie Burke is there, her own inimitable self as the fussy lighty wife of the Make in charge of the court-martial.
all the the
The Bashback scenes are part of the ovidence. As artioular witness speaks, camera fades out and then takes up the witnesses' story. It is effective and at times Intriguing. as you try to put the bils and pleves together yourself.
In addition to the murder rape pogle, the Alm lakes in such chuses as racial acgregation, and HOR- scores a bull by not trying to CRORS
the theme. very (Lee & verplay Astor) is a "Big Top" Enst: good Bim.
246RCUS OF
man colour horrifle. It tells
the tale of a
brilliant, -661TJHEN
though barmy, plastic sur-
Most
at
COMEDY
WWAS KING." (Roxy
geon who goes into the two- & Broadway) Now by and ring business in order to large, I will go anywhere avoid arrest.
for a good laugh, but apart the turns of this from the Poets' Pub, most send me home grisly circus are recruited from people
reputa crying. It was with pleasure disflared girls whose intions are also slightly damaged then that I accepted an in- At any rate, the surgeon is ablevitation to preview this to lift their faces but unable (bo
doesn't even try)
Lo lift their latest anthology of mirth, reputations,
In this smart and brittle The picture is like the old world, we have forgotten to stuff, "What will happen? Don't laugh. Can you remember the forget to come next weet," but days when you were waiting in 11 takes itsalt very seriously, the foyer for the show to end and indeed sends you on your and your show to begin? way very frightened,
Can you remember the boons. Anton Diftring
is of ghee arid tornadoes of delight, making quite a reputation on and howls of helpless laughter "Chilly Street" plays up to which used to aimont spilt the his role
as the daft plastic theatre apart? surgeon who needs a bit of Laughter scena a lost art,
do we treatment afier (a) Harely
laugh with Q car crowd, it wo laugh at all it la brooring involved in a crash: (b) after he is given at some poor guy,
gozilla
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THE
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TO-MORROW MORNING: SHOW MAN FROM LARAMIE
his own
a going over by
who
Well, this poor mon's which certainly obtaina & de- philosophy is to introduce the Lough of the year. Here is cision over the doctor, Erika Romberg and Yvonne stanius if over it existed. Ro- Montaur look a treat is tights member there was no script, and show plenty of splece as the whole thing was gagged as it went along; Aho result is fun Elinder and Melion.
Jeno Hylton dishes
out the all the way, Innocent Bob stuff Of the (almost) girl in love with the
monator,
In short, the chat is excellent all round.
Imagine Gloria Swanson as a Bennet Giri; Wallace Boery as a stooge; Fatty Arbuckle driyan into shameful routrement; Harry Langdon, Charlie Chase and a The ring scenes are obsolutely host of others who brightonce dazzling with heart stopping the icies of the second trapeze stuff and witnext andmal third decades of this century,
The Charllo „Chaplin turns which tice your minki off
MAEMATON ÁN Not un ty Chealla the gruesota calign waiting to
and
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
SHOWING
ROXY & BROADWAY: "When Comedy Was King." Celluloid anthology of the master clowns and drolls of the great age of comedy Dima From Chaplin to Laurel and Hardy, taking in Buster Keaton and Edgar Kennedy on the way. Simply a mirthquake!
LEE & ASTOR: "Circus aft
Horrors." All about dippy plastic surgeon who entered the circus. business and where and how he ob- falned his turna Macabre But thrilling, with marvel. Jous circus performances to ease the tension, Filmed in Dir. SpectaColor, Anton ing, Erika Remberg, and Yvonne Monlaur.
HOOVER & GALA: "Guns
of the Timberland." Technf color melodrama about a umber bose who scie a very warm reception when he invades
Qounter the farm looking for trees, but he finally settles for romance. Story carthy, cast popular,
a teenage warblèr, and some very reallatio fizisis, Alan Ladd, Jeanne Crain, atid Gilbert Roland.
KING'S & PRINCESS: "The Devil's Disciple." Adventuro comedy drama based upon Bernard Shaw's play covering the conflot be tween British Redcoats and the American Revolu Honaries. Direction erratio but Laurence Olivier brül- liant. Penultimate rolign Lusty and laughable. and settings colourful, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Laurence Olivier. ROYAL & STATE: "Sergeant is a flm Rutledge." This which is as important to the Western drama as "Shano” was 10 years ago. A court- room drama of the old weal with a surprise ending to a story with a colour blas angle. A most intelligent and satisfying film. Warner Bros,
In made
Technicolor. Joffroy Hunter, Constance Towers. Billo Barke; and Woods Birodo,
COMING
ROXY & BROADWAY: "Oscar Wilde." British Court Room melodrama covering the breaking of Wide following his tragio quarrel with the Marquis of Queensberry, Magnificent picture for the U film fan, Hobert Moriny, Phyllis Calvert, and Ralph Richardson.
LEE & ASTOR: "The LeagÚD of Gentlemen," Suspense melodrama about - an ex- army officer who itsaralla. B fow colleagues la exconte
orimo ito perfect
with zilitary exercing, precision. Skilful
Jarning, churno- terisation first class, and the penultimate elimax of the year. Jack Hawkins, Niret Fairick, and Nichard Attenborough.
of
HOOVER & GALA: “Duel in
The Forest," - German Donceening the life "gobinderbanner?' 'the Gar- man Robin, Hood, who ment his lime robbing the rich to
Day
English the poor. dialogue version, with musto Qurt by Bernard Eichhorn. Jurgens and Maria Schell
KING'S & PRINCESS: "Hellér
In Pink Tighix." Tochul
period outdoors describing the fortunes of
30100
a theatrical company wind- ing its way through the wild
welt. and woolly
and Comedy, romance, rough slutt sinevenly blend- cd,
attractive, bus slaging realistio, and colour niocly
Hophia spread. Loren, Anthony Quinn, and Sleva Forrest,
ROYAL & STATE: "RODg Without End.” The mos two beautiful decides based upon the life of Frais Llogh Will roest) "A Song to Remember Muale superb and romanpe exquisite, metilnas authenilo, A possible Academy Awsto for Dirk Bogarde who plays
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To-morrow Spacial Shows
AT 10.45 AM JAMES CRAIG in "GHOST LIVER"
At Roduced Prices
AT 12.30 P.M.
GLEEN FORD in "THE GREEN GLOVE"
+
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SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
Fujiko YAMAMOTO Hitomi NOZOE
Keizo KAWASAKI in
"A WEEK IN HAWAIT*
In DaleiScope & Color
With Superimposed English Sub-titles
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