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★ NOW SHOWING ✯ AT 2.30, 5.10, 7.30 & 9.45 P.M. ¡Please note change of times) THREE ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS
BURT LENGASTER JEAN SIMMONS
THE STRAIN HAS NEVER KNOWN A
MAN LUCE HIMET
later
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1961.
FILMS
TALMER GANTRY (King's & Broad- way) This film which gives a brilliant inter- pretation of Sinclair Lewis's Elmer Gantry, a
ELMER GANTRY drunken, woman-chasing
evangelist,
comes
to
Hongkong laden with honours,
CURRENT & COMING
by
ANTHONY FULLER
A
LEE-PRINCESS
NOW 5TH WEEK!
TO-DAY AT 2.15, 5.30 & 9.00 P.M. WINNER OF 4 ACADEMY AWARDS!
KIRK DOUGLAS LAURENCE OLIVIER
JEAN SIMMONS CHARLES LAUGHTON
PETER USTINOV
JOHN GAVIN
SPARTACUS
...TONY CURTIS
•LEMATICUM
TECHMIRABIA” ADRES EN PRATSIOO
Best Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Screenplay
Sunday Morning Shows:
KING'S: At 11.30.a.m. INDIAN PICTURE
BROADWAY: At 11.00 a.m. Col. 3 Stooges & Cartoons-
At 12.15 p.m. Extra Performance of "ELMER GANTRY"
STATE ROYAL
784.77-3948
TEL, BO-5700
NOW SHOWING AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
SLGARRY ONEKERI
The Boardzalian prezenta
CARRY ON REGARDLESS
SIDNEY JAMES KENNETH CONNOR CHARLES HAV/TREY · JOAN SIMS KENNETH WILLIAMS BILL OWEN
21Z FRASER TERENCE LONGDON
SPECIALLY ADDED
Winner of the "GOLDEN HARVEST" Trophy for
the Best Documentary Production! "THIS IS HONGKONG"
in Eastman Color
SUNDAY MORNING SHOWS AT REDUCED PRICES
STATE: 12.30 p.m.
ROYAL: 11.00 o.m. 12.30 p.m.
GLENN FORD in "THE WILD MAN"
WARNER'S COLOR CARTOONS PETER CUSHING in "HORRORS OF DRACULA"
KENT SHAW CIRCUIT REMEDIE
HOOVER GALA
TEL.. 72371
TEL 52979
★ SHOWING TO-DAY ✯
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
their heels
M-G-M presents
and
DANIELLE DARRIEUX
MICHEL AUCLAIR
Murder at
45R.PM.
TO-MORROW MORNING SHOWS:
11.00 a.m.
M.G.M. CARTOONS
12.30 p.m. "NAKED MAJA”
11.00 a.m. M.G.M. CARTOONS
12.15 p.m. "IMITATION OF LIFE"
ORIENTAL RITZ
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AT 208, 8.30, 130 a 920 r.M.
GINA'S LATEST HOLLYWOOD HITI NO MAN COULD FORGET HER ... NO WOMAN FORGIVE HERI
JULIE HAD EVERYTHING BUT X GENGE OF CHAME!
GINA
LOLLOBRIGIDA
ANTHONY
FRANCIOSA
CRNEST
BORONINE
*GO MAKED
IN THE WORLD
STAN TAN
Grenaženja and
METROG OF
Sunday Morning Show — "JOHN PAUL JONEI” W-D Picture
la Techatramp & Colour
TEL: SÚFOO
SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.20, 7.30 & 9.40 P.M.
The glamor girl'
who wakes up ↓
- ashamed...
--
ELIZADETH TAYLOR LAURENCE HARVEY LODGE FISHER
BUTTERFIELD
8
To-morrow Morning Show
At 12.08 Noon
"THE RACKET**
Unfortunately, religion 1 subject few people are able to the
without losing Back timers and I H conscious of this as Egit type this review.
a
very
ant
Furthermore, I personally re- member that Sinclair Lewis came in for quite a bit of crilie. im when he launched his novel. And I remember that on re wali parson threatened
elair Lewis that if the alter
h territory, stepped ima
116 The parson) would personally lewt lynching party a string the author u
The name of the parson was Elmer Gantry, Or it should have been.
$10
Lewis characterked Gantry a vicious, hypocritical coundrel. and for m he was damned up and down the States. On the olher hand he
the Nobel Prize won
for Elmer Gantry and four other novels, his great early works, Thu novel, Elmer Gantry al- though I have had to replace it three times, has stood. on my shelves since Lite Thirtee perlups you wouftl like my opinion.
The Film
"And unless you believe one hundred per cent every word between the covers of this dear old book, you are one hundred per cent damned," Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry. Showing at the King's & Broadway. United Artists.
Ilong- The gimmick is the volce ou meanwhile taking time off poverty and despair to
a little sex
The record, and the denouement to show
and kong.
The film won at Manila is surprising, not so much in per- romance by the way,
the 8th Asian Festival and in son as in circumstance. Does fart received i rotund of ap- that make it clear: If not, get will a Opera
along and see it. You will tud sequence which the skids put
I am correct. tander a confident and cocky who is beaten Dana Andrews, to it by an older and more art- ful competitor.
The pictur
The film then takes time to mustrate the muthods of publi- city campaigns. which show how att indifferent and nadlo-
plause from the jury,
It colourful, Showing all
aspects of the Calony's life, has fine spoken commentary, and is in fact, a part of Hongkong we recognise.
M
a wistful longing for a life that to a national figure on an entire This is a
ly phoney reputation.
film
Danielle Darrlex brints re- markable intent to what is real- Mi- ly a good thriller, while chel Auclair is at once charm-
ng and sinister.
A good provolding ture on the piano follows through the thenie; you will like that co
* ✰
A splendidi script. I never thought seript writer would have ticked the novel. By cul- ting out the earlier episodes of Gantry's career which led up to out of the his being thrown church. it arrives at a singa where Elmer is a salesman with of the right man, he built up
cre person, LAN, In the bands MURDER AT 45 RPM (Hoover & Gala).
X7OMAN mystery with a strong touch of The film is well made, and macabre, in which n dead the romantle ashles lend relief
man speaks and ghosts to the ever present rat race theme, but the finale traves point guns, you wondering whether the producer is blaming Andrews for not getting his whiskers in front in the race, or whether the film makers disapprove of the rat race per se rat race.
might have been, and iner than
taste for Bible-thumping. By the way, in case you want to know, the beautiful passage beginning "Love is the only how on life's dark clol.... recited by Lancaster in the film, was taken from the works of Ingersol the freethinker by Sinclair Lewis,
The Aba bighly provocative (as the novel) and bandies the name Jesus about in a nner which is embarrassing to Toth The derou ant the heretic.
That the film has power, fores,
imagination,
and
Lincerity,
which hold you spell-bound to
the end.
Highlights
and it The film is ruthless, expose unmercifully cONTIER
alised religion, yet, it erits the drum-banging. Fanatics! exponents, of these weird reels with a funny sort of sincerity, best expressed, I think, by my- ing that they are the Onc
LOUS vietinis of their ow
rhetoric,
Dana
Andrews gives and performance as a man who will Sterilee everything for an ae count, in which human el
tions and personal obligations
ry nothing compared with an advertising accoum!.
Eddie Alb.et comes through excellently as a stuge who is translated to yecon on paper and TV, but who knows how to kick a friend when he is down, The distaff are represented by Eleanor Parker and Jeanne Craia who while adding a Hitle romance here and there, teach Andrews thst the boy friend female is the more cloudly of the specics.
A god ordinary rt of the The question which must be mill Alm, a limpse at another asked by people who know or ride of business life is not with- sare about the three ringed out its interest, leaving one, elreus form af religion , are with the impression that elva- there such persons as Elmer ing out a sewer k not such a Gantry. Of course there are, ty job after all.
if not of degree, of kind, Men who fasten upon a virtue and exploit it above all others. Such as Gantry as shown by Sinclair Lewis. At a travel- Ting
tried to
salesman who
CA
☆☆
ARRY ON REGARD-
(Royal LESS
&
borrow a match. Elmer roared, Slate). There have
"I don't smoke brother, and
probably been crazier films,
don't believe George but at the moment, I can- Washington did either." not bring one to mind; not even one made by this
If you have the know how. everything is in that quote, and Carry On team.
you will know the type inuned!- uteky. Jerus Grid of thx m.
The film has no plat. Just a sel of heltients loosely kit lo-
They strain at a grat but they gether be having the way east
swallow a esnel"
Burt Lancaster is
elbow-lifting.
the
Klamorous
nil work for a firm called Help- terriles ng Hands, in which they g lecheras, Tantee to do Jny jb That. but spell binding Gantry. In Wand: dving. fe, after seeing the dim a few So we months ago, I was so confident young man take u monkey for Lancaster would win an Oscar a walk through a west end of that the China Mait had the London suburi). Another call- blocks made to accompany
the ed up to "baby sit," only to Qear Award announcement. find the "baby" is thirty years
Jean Simmons is the personi- old or something. Acation of Sharon Falconer, Of course, the nim has to half mystic, half crazy,
the exy have
Helping Handers' holy, female evangelist.
cards mixed up and they all go Arthur Kennedy, is just right out on the wrong jobs, as the sceptical Jin, the report- er. A new character for in the novel, Jim Is Gantry's fellow student; one seeptle in a mid- west Bible College,
The character who out of the pages of meet me A
stepped Lewis to old friend comes
The lineager, the h muur Alunning. the players willing, and the point is this, If you like slapstick, it has never come better; but if you don't like nľapsuck, you will De bored stl.
Old carryoners such as Sid- Connor, from another favourite, "Bab ney James, Kenneth bit," for this im version, in- four-eyed Hawley, and gluin- troduces George Babbit as a ordus Joan Sims lead uite cast. two-timer, and a fine perform- ance by Edward Andrews in the
role,
"ADISON AVENUE
M Roxy & Majestic).
This film
Illustrates the
In the same programme__is **This Is Hongkong,” and after the stuff we have been seeing on the TV which is supposed to be langkong, 1 advise you to get along to the either sho Royal and State, sna see how a film of Hongkong enn be made.
It does not side step the pro-
rat race applied to biems, nor the awfúi poverty Public Relations firms, and that is with us, but it does❘
·Coloninis 'dre The ruthless show what the exposes
doing off their own bat for the taken nicaxures
million or more univiled virit- other companies' accounts, or who have brought their '
10
fich
You might be better at this
kind of tung than I aus, and told to solve although I am
these mysteriou by selecting the least likely person as the mur derer, my difficultly is finden! the least likely person,
However, I have not the liniitest intention of helping you, but merely wish to say that This is a well munde, strongly
rected an.
Two shots stand out in my mind. Ons is where the furious
down a ly driven car winds narrow road at night, and the tres are picked out by the
stand out as headlights and
OF ROME
VY (Astor). This film takes you back to Rome in the days of the Fascist Regime.
It is concerned with Airinna. Gina Lollobrigida a beautiful girl, pure, poor, but honest, and her subsequent
seduction, and hur Best steps along the prim- rose path.
She joins the profession as a wistful adherent, not so much frun a Scase of vocation, and the following secnes depict her adventures with her customers.
AL BL after many trips lợ bed, she meets the man she loves, so she takes herself to church and makes a promise.
Will the keep it? Go and see for yourself.
The Astor is almost making a carnival of these Continental Alms, and white mystifying stumps.
certainly this film The second scene has blonde has had many nice things suid haired chic looking women about it. walking down a street looking At a type of film which is held like our missing heroine. She to portray realism, this is a good is approached, but takes the example. But somehow fe approach for an advance, and seems to have bezume awfully turns her face to the camera sleazy if we are to accept the and reveals the lines of a hag- current vogue of films as being gard prostitute.
typleal and topical.
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
SHOWING
LEE & PRINCESS: "Sparta- cus." Stunning Super Tech. nlrama and Technicolor spectacle, all about a stave who raised др Army to fight against the legions of Rome, Kirk Douglas, Jean SlamoTIS, and Laur. ence Olivier. KING'S & BROADWAY: "EI- mer Gantry." Film version of Sinclair Lewis's proVOCA- tive novel which exposes the pecuniary and needy aspects of hot gospelling. Bart Lan- easter in the title rule lift- ed an Oscar Award as the forthright Eimer Gantry who made religion pay off. Easi- man Colour. Also Jean Sim- mons and Dean Jagger, ROXY & MAJESTIC:
dison Avenue." Another version of the rat-race, this time in the Publie Relations department, proving above
all else that a man will gala the whole world and lusc his soul... quife willingly. Dana Andrews, Eleanor Par- ker.
positions
ROYAL & STATE: "Carry On Regardless." Latest contri- bution by this team of tame tunatles, in which as jub Itunters, they accept such
дл baby-sitting. exercising a monitey and so on. Of course the Jobs are all mixed up. and the pegs round are fitted into holes square. A really crazy laugh that lasts as long as the film. Sidney James, Kenneth Connor, and La Fraser. HOOVER & GALA: "Murder at 45 RPM." French mystery “whodunit" in which a mi- crogroove ramophone re- cord adas muen to the plot with a surprise dénouement. Engibh dialogut.
COMING
LEE & PRINCESS; "Romanoff & Juliet." Peier Ustinov's brillant play made into film. Written on the Romeo and Juliet theme, it shown the happy fate which cort- cluded
of A the exploits couple of red-star croJNÉA lovers, Sandra Dee and John Gavin.
KİNG'S & BROADWAY:
"Vampire and the Ballerina," Kattan flims with English dia- Ingun which sets ouï to make Dracula
Uke ⚫ look
AN amateur. Soone has van- pires preying on a ballet Leómpe foolish enough to fè- Kestab nexe a legendary vatiplie village. Spooks, spoof, and stare'em. Heleno Remy and Walter Brandi, BOXY & MAJESTIC: "Saint- day Night and Sundhof MSEA- Ing. Earthy rondallő hiélo- drama closets following Alan Billioo's best seller.
No
Has a young Miðland' working man livlig only for a Saturday night's booze and women all the time. moralising, acting more than brillant, with atmosphere flawless and detail impec- cable, Albert Finney, Shirley Aano Fleid, and Rachel No- berts ROYAL & STATE: "A Breath of Scandal." A romance of ota
Vienna
Aprayed in Technicolor. The scandal Now Miss Lozen romantic carryings-on with John Gavin, but there is not a word of truth in the gossip. Also Maurice Chevalier and Løbel Jean HOOVER & GALA: "Tho Light In The Forest," Dlatley production Techmfebler, which fells the story of an Indian 107 who found he was
really white. Fem Turket, Wendeli Corey, and Joanne Dru.
in
LEE:
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SUNDAY MORNING SHOWS TO-MORROW (Reduced Prices)
10.30 a.m. COLOUR CARTOONS 12.00 Neon "JUMPING JACK”
PRINCESS: 10.45 a.m. WARNER Colour CARTOONS 12.00 Noon "PILLOW TALK” ·
Astor Theatre
★ GRAND OPENING TO-DAY ✯ AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. TO-NIGHT SHE FINDS A HUSBAND, TO-MORROW SHE WILL LOSE HIM!
GINA LOLLOBRIGIDA
WOMAN
OF ROME
Based on the famous book LA ROMANA by the distinguished author Alberto Moravia
ROXY MAJESTIC
SHOWING TO-DAY
AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 PM: The truth about the "Build-Up Köyi" the things they do to get to tho' tapi
20.
MADISON AVENUE
CLEARER
ANDREWS PARKER
KARM
CRAIN ALBERT
CINEMASCOPE
TOMORROW MORNING SHOW 6 AT REDUCED PRICES
ROXY A 1200 ngàn Dirk BOGARDE in
"CAMBELL'S KINGDOM”
MAJESTIC: At 12,80 þm.
John WAYNE in
"BACK TO BATAAN”