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KING'S BROADWAY
CUTE AND
TEL: 25313 ·
TEL: 52525
★ NOW SHOWING ★
AT 2.30, 5.15. 7.20
& 9.30 P.M.
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30-
COLUMBIA PICTURES FRE
GINA
& 9.30 P.M.
G
LOLLOBRIGIDA
DALE VITTORIO ROBERTSON DÓSICA
"FAST AND SEXY
1.20
TECHNICOLOR-TECHNIRAMA
TE AND
Sunday Morning Shows:
KING'S At 11.00 a.m. FOX COLOR CARTOONS
At 12.15 p.m. "CARRY ON CONSTABLE"
Storring Leslie Phillips
BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m. FOX COLOR CARTOONS Extra Performance at 12.30 p.m. "FAST AND SEXY".
STATE-ROYAL
TEL:77-3948
TEL:80-5700
NOW SHOWING AT 2.30, 5.30, 7,30 & 9.30 P.M. An Authentic Story Stranger Than Fiction!
THE KILLER SHIP OF A THOUSAND DISGUISES!
VAN
CHARLES
HEFLIN LAUGHTON DEMONGEOT
MAZON PLUNGE
UNDER TEN
FLAGS
DNO DE LAURENTIS
SUNDAY MORNING SHOWS AT REDUCED PRICES STATE: 12.30 p.m. Tony Curtis Colleen Miller in
"THE RAWHIDE. YEARS”
UNIVERSAL COLOR CARTOONS Christine Carere Rossono Brazzi in "A CERTAIN SMILE” Color
ROYAL: 11.00 a.m.
12.30 p.m.
ROXY & MAJESTIC
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ★
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
THE MOTION PICTURE THAT MILLIONS OF PRESLEY FANS HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!
Ou Century-Fox presents
ELVIS
PRESLEY
HIS EVER
FLAMING STAR
CinemaSCOPE COLOR by DE LUXE
MAJESTIC: 5 Shows To-morrow, Extra Performance of "FLAMING STAR" At 12.30 p.m.
ROXY: To-morrow Morning Show At 12.00 Noon Dean MARTIN Jerry LEWIS in "ARTISTS AND MODELS" In VistaVision & Color
ORIENTAL RITZ
TEL: 74907
To-day 2.30, 6.80, 7.30 & 9.30
First Time Showing in Tangkong! THE MOST EXCITING PICTURE OF THE BEABONI, THRILLSI
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House
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USHER
„Cremasconi COLON
"Morning "Show "Tomorrow:19.36"}
FEIND" OF "YEAR"" in Color
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SHOWING TO-DAY 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 G 9.30 P.M.
MITCHUM
LONDON
WONDERFUL COUNTRY
"To-marrow" "Morning Show".
THE NIGHT BEAUTIES”.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1961.
FILMS
*TLAMING
"FLA
STAR"
(Roxy & Majestic) returns Elvis Presley to the screen with a state- ment on the subject of misccgenation, dubbed
with that objectionable term, half-breed.
I must try and have a "Be kind to Eivls," "werk,”
but honcaly forces me to say that in my opinion, had Anthony Per- klas played the White/Indian boy, this would have been a very good film.
Let's face it, and let the pro- ducer face it, Elvis is not an retor. He la an extremely successful 'pop' singer, he has made more money thon Beeth- oven, Schubert, ank Wagner, plus all the rest put together. In fact he makes more out of But attraction one record. that he is, he is not an actor.
Бо This film is very good when he has nothing to
do, But when he is called upon to register that submerged haired for the people who in- Full Dolores Del Rio, he just can't do it. When he is off to wipe out the insults inflicted upon his family. hr locks abou ́ as annoyed as if he had split the soup on his gold plated tuxedo.
And goodness knows what they taught him in the Army, but he carries his rifle, as if it was a miniature guitar, so that every minute I expected him to pick it up and; piny us a Sune on it.
And the top-sergeant has not
CURRENT & COMING:
by
ANTHONY
FULLER
The dountless Elvis stands alono at the door of the homestead and throatons death to any intruder. Scone from "The Flaming Star" showing at the Roxy &
However, the ilun has its moments; an impressive. 10-" yet taken the tremble out of tigious parade, nice little his knees; maybe, as this worth millions of dollars to Elvis, he preferred to go into the glass hours, or the Ameri- can equivalent of it
But I'll say it again. This has all the qualities of a top rate film. Photographed in CinemaSecpe and Colour by De Luxe, it has magnificent scenic qualities.
Steve Forrest gives a convinc- Ing performance. до does Dolores Del Rio as Elvis'e mother, and it is a delight to welcome this star back to the percon.
A
Majestic. 20th Century-Fox.
Aesta sequeness, engaging ro- mance, and a large slapstick farce added on to lie central theme of Tommy the .goliant.
Bernard Cribbins เส
Ent- mense as Paco, the henchman cf Sidney James, the wily promoter,
БЕССПО between the cinema owner and the priest when the former wishes to display a de-
The supporting players are Temmy Stecle, now of the good, and render yeoman's ser- lightfully vulgar posier outside Old Vic, is very good in this vice in keeping the film moving his establishment; and a Fred cockney in Spain force, and adeng all the time.
gives ene number, along with Tho bull fight climax is Kerno-like football match.
Gina Lollobrigida displays Biensy James and Bernard hilarious, the seilings nukentle, sume striking gowns which Cribbins, "Where's the Birdie?" and taken for what it is, enter- will have the distaff Rection witich would pull the house tainment, this is entertainment of the audience writhing will down in most places,
of top order. envy, She does not flaunt
Foes
10
sex over much in spite of the title of the film, on the other hand, she treats the images of the saints wilk striking farmilarity, and blows 'hem kisses when sho church, Dale Robertson plays hard to get, as the rugged village tyne, unimpressed by Anna Brooklyn,
The story is familiar. family where the mother is an Indian, they are pulled two ways. healty to her folk, loyalty to hidr OWI, problem is not celfied, and the Red Indens leze out because they demand the wide open. Vitteria De. Slea, turns in the spaces with their wasteful real job of acting as Don Lati- economy as opposed to the white ging, and holds the Alm 10- man's development.
gether.
☆ ★ ★ light airy neonsequsatia; plɔi,
"FAS
*
With its colour, its action, Its
CAST AND SEXY," this alm will trave. made to (King's & Broadway) order for the majority audience. Is a romantic comedy, made in Italy with English
667 MOMMY THE TOREA- dialogue, superbly photo- MY
DOR" (Lee & Prin graphed in Technirama and Technicolor, with a feather. cess) is made to order for the general run of Hong- brained plot all about રી
local audiences demand. A
glamorous young widow hong, for it has all that the who returns from Brooklyn disarming story which to her native village in
DRITAIN'S "pocket" success with girls, he he a burlesques thebull-ring, comedian, Norman Wis- knack of durning Italy, and sets all hearts a Technicolor, lush settings, dom, uses the Royal Navy wrong place at the wrong time. cheerful music, and Tommy as the background of his and coming too frequently to The film, like so many Con Steele in tinental comedias, secins to get which will endear him
a slapstick role latest film, "The Bulldog the notice of an Infuriated ship's plong very nicely without n
to Breed", recently previewed commander.
flutter,
up in
the
plot, yet one has to admit the the downstairs customers. at the New Victoria Cinema, This results in a series of mid- director's ability to relate the The plcture keeps on the London.
adventures ending up, quite various characters in the Dim move. Tommy Steele, is Tominy, Inveigled Into joining the unintentionally, In an experi- against the background.
Temkins, a young Beltish scu-Navy because of his lack of mental rocket. For furtance, La Lollobrigida man, who cave, a girl-elusing
The grateful Feella takes NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
19 just the local giri made good bullfighter, Parilla from an irate returning to imprez the rustics; husband. she is more American than the Americans, with chewing gun, Tommy to a notorious cafe, and base ball outfits, a forthright from then on, everything goes manner, and a sort of pseudo including Tommy's entry in the blase contempt for all conven- bull-ring as a foreádor. flon, even pulting the parish priest among the also rans.
The film has some lively musical numbers, rollicking
Scone from "Expresso Bonga" which taker the lid off London's Saha, and the seedy side of show business. Laurence Harvey plays the seedy byent, and Our Mixe Sylvia Sims a soubretto who also helps out at a local
strip joint.
SHOWING
KING'S
BROADWAY: "Fast and Sexy," perhaps better known to you under the tilic, "Anna of
marck" RAKA unfolded, Charles Laughton as Ad- miral Russell, and Van Jefun as a German surface raider, skipper, match wils. LEE & PRINCESS. "Tommy the Toreador." Jolly bull- ring hurlesque, which has Tommy Steels as a cockney aramati caught up in ro mauce and Intriguo in
Farce, Smalu.
slapstick, settings Technicolor, · lush
and music. First, ralo enter- tainment. Tommy Blerle, Janel Mubro, and Sidney Jamta.
Brooklyn;" Technirama and Technicolor romantlo conie- dy, which has a glamorous Gina Lollobrigida reinining 1.3 her native village in Italy; and thereby welling all bearis a flutter, from the parish priest's to the bad. cag's. Also Dale Robertson and Vittorio De Sica. ROXY & MAJESTIC: “Flam- ing Star." Elvis Presley in fo role of a white hating Red Indian boy. Colourful romance, made in Cinema- Scopo and Colour by Do Luxe. Also Barbara Eden and Steve Forrest. ROYAL & STATE: "Under Ten Flag." True story about World' War H, IN whicht "Bink the Bis-
COMING
KING'S
2.
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* BROADWAY: "The Night Fighter" story of the Irish Republican Army
katrorials. And ita featuring Robert Mitchum In'a lafe full of action and
BULDONSO.
ROXY & MAJESTIC: “Ex- presso Bongo." Show busi- deal romantic melodrame, adapted from the West End slago success. Tale' aller- nates between coffes bar and mirip-tease Jeing." Frauk characterisation with, catchy * gengs, konkan : illa a vyšloni you effective fimi, Laurehen
ROYAL 4 STATE: “Concrete * Junzio" known by the illo....
of "The: Criminal!« to: kli You who road the "PADÓEK
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HOOVER & GALA: "Where
£be Doya
Bright Are." breezy 7810. of teenage romance sel In Florida'a playground beaches. Pholo- graphed in Metrocolor and CinemaScope. Dolores Hart and George Hamilton.
from home. This la Siantey Baker in his best perforin- ance to now in a stark but polished prison drans, Alio Margit Band and Ham Wandmaker.
LEE & PRINCESS: "Seven " Ways from Sundown," Ogi- door melodrama polaed on battle of wits between
· rookin' Texas Banger and a Terafly, bút bidearing vandfi. Eastman Colour and first rain photography. Audio Murphy," Harfy Bullivan, · nud. Venèlia Stevemmon, -HOOVER'&'UALA) “Ivanhoe,"
· Re-line / of the Bim based apon the classic by Bl Waller Booth. Filmed Mairmonlar... Elizabeth /TARS. For, Bobart Taylor, and Joan *Fonjalns,
LEE-PRINCESS
NOW SHOWING
At 2,30, 5.30, 7.30, & 9.30 p.m.
TOMMY
OREADOR
SMMY STEELE MUNRO
MORNING SHOWS TO-MORROW (Reduced Prices)
LEE:
11. a.m. Color Cartoong
12.30 p.m. "David Copperfield" PRINCESS: 11.00 a.m. 3 Stooges
Cartoons
12.30 p.m. “Gift Of Love"
SHAW CIRCUT
HOOVER.
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GALA
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NOW IN THE SECOND WEEK
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 and 9.30 P.M. Parade of youthful and talented new screen facest
Melro
Goldwyn
It's Boy-GIRLBINGO!!
Mayer presents
| A Gutripe Production
Gala
Where
the
Boys
Are"
In CinemaScope
A and METROCOLOR
To-morrow Special Motince At Reduced Admission 11.00 a.m. Universal Int. COLOR CARTOONS 12.30 p.m. Robert Wagner Dana Wynter in
"IN LOVE AND WAR"
Hoover 11.00a.m. Warner Bros. Color CARTOONS
12.30 p.m. Stewort Granger Grace Kellyi in
"GREEN FIRE
ASTOR
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
DESIRED BY ALL-LOVED BY NONE!
BELINDA LEE
SHE WALKS
BY NIGHT
(THE TRUTH ABOUT ROSEMARIE)
Not Suitable for Children
FIE DOSIÓ SOCIETY
OF HONG KONG
presents
In Association with the Indonesian Consulata General
A GROUP OF 76 PERFORMERS
MUSIC & DANCES ·
of
BALI, WEST & CENTRAL JAVA
KESWICK HALL
(H.K. Technical College, Chatham Rd., Kowloon)
by kind permission of the Principal
THURSDAY 9th
FRIDAY
10th SATURDAY 11th
FEBRUARY ÁT 9 P.M.
THREE DIFFERENT PROGRAMMES
BOOKING: China Engineer Showroom, Alexandra Ardado.
Tel. 35451
BOOKINGS NOW OPEN
Tickets $10, $8, 65 & 63