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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30
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Ten Days of Jungle Terror!
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HAYDEN Ten Days to gelara"
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1961.
FILMS
IVAN
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by
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ROYAL
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An Cutstanding Picture!
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IVAN the conqueror
Easimancolor - Totalscout Filled With Passion, 'Hate and Revenge ....
Death!
ED FURY ELAINE STEWART Bella Cortez
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STEWART GRANGER & JANET LRIGH
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***THE SAVAGE INNOCENTS" HANG EDMUND PURDOM ANN ELY
in "KING'S TAIF"
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"O COME LET US ADORE HIM." Nativity scene from MGMs "King of Kings."
WINS IN
LAST ROUND
K.O.
TEN
JUNGLE
JUGGLE
TIEN DAYS TO TULARA (King's & Broadway) Adventure yarn made on a TVAN THE CONQUEROR shoestring which tells a (Queen's -State brief tale of cross, double. Royal) is
Eastman cross, an
and double-double- Colour TotalScope Italian cross. spectacular.
Dealing with the land Jungry tribes of central Asia, reference is made to a certain Great Khan who tries to promote B contest between two of the boys who both want to be chieftains.
Ivan is easily the favourite. and while the contest is not pro- moted under the MarquesE
Rules, ther
Queensberry
nevertheless,
A
JS. Bina
house, and the Great Khan musi have bruken more than even on the promotion.
The fights are quite good, and the championship bout is ex- citing, for the boys use flaming torches instead of boxing gloves. but just as Ivan is poised for the old one-two, some over ex- cited spretator tosses an arrow at him
Well, of course, even in those far off barbaric days. throwing an arrow at the favourite is
Tale has a plane pilot forerd into a crooked deal, and unfolds as he gets himself off the hook. Situations manifestly predict -- able performed by an cast including Sterling Hayden
BULLSHINE
BAFFLES
BRAINS
maited milk in the cafe I have Jean-Paul Belmondo is the memtioned are anything like Jackal. Of ferocious but coward- as articulate as I suggest, this ly counterence, he pads the dim is their advocate.
pavements of Paris, seeking My chic? complaint is that whom he might spotl or betray. people, and critics who should know better, call it "new."
On the other hand, It is new In the sense that it deals a dead-
ly blow to the sentimental cine- ma
He tives in a world of treachery. Where telephones Hing and are never answered; where Gark "are stolen and never sold; where love la merely a five minute sensa- Hon; and in the end, the Jungle betrays him. In all this, Bel- mondo is magulflcent.
On that account, is it any pear- er to the meaning of life than the sentimental cinema was?
What is life, and what is its
The female of the species is purpose? Objectively, we do not know beyond the simple Jean Seberg. St Joan come to functions of living and dying. Judgement, for ridiculous as All else is belief, inspired and she was as the romantic hero- accepted according to the geo- ine, here she is an actress of graphical point at which we distinction as the female, sans conscience, sens morals, sans
were born.
torial thaler?
Is then our modern town of everything. adequate
And what about Jean-luc Go- Lofty architecture and chromium plated comfort merely a sophis- dard, the director? Commencing licated jungle? And is modern life as a minor denizen of the (e. a film critic) he man merely a Saville Row sar- jungle,
edition of the Neander- has in his fashion put right all that was wrong in film making. His candid camera sweeps the highways, creeps into cond class rooms of third class hotels, and gives sermons in dirty
bed-sheets, books In chlyped ash-trays, and philos. phy in public conveniences. Working from the penultimate
In the main, we have to act In good faith. We have to ac- cept credit notes on life; religion teaches us that they will be cashed at a high rate of inter- est later })
But now, with humanity un the beach and millions living in
BOTM
the confident expectation of be- scene of betrayal to death in a ing wiped off the globe in a Paris side street, one faults the communities direction on only one point,
BULL flash our civilised PERATION
bave gunr the
are back to
O'SHINE (Lee & Princess) hav
We
full
A
crack.
circle. which was really lack of cash, the jun- I imagine. For if people This is a Technicolor riot in- gle, and the end is fearful, and street hear a revolver
and see a wounded man limping spired by and ́ ́ ́ ́including death and emptiness is the con-
to his death, surely, at least, they some of the "Carry On clusion.
are curious enough to leuk, series incidents.
But taking this shadow world
Upon such a barren philosophy is this film made. As such it cannot be ignored.
as it is, the mood of the director is shown in the half-lights of his.
11 is cloquent. By its very the sis, it is challenging, for its film. characters are the products of
These pictures which have reckoned a dirty trick. Further enjoyed a certain amount more it has upset the book- success abroad are now having makers who don't know who to the British producers scrotching our scientiae jungles, pay out, so as usual, they just for plots.
welsh
This film which mingles at flavour of distaff bumour with the enlists in slapstick
There is a lot more picture, including
to this male
а
stately Army
pleasure dome, also a maid, and
མ
for its angle. You've seen it all hefore, but
while she is no Abyssinian and maybe you prefer it twopence as far as I could see, does not coloured to penny plain. Donald play a dulcimer, she managed to Sinden and Ron Shiner make get around quite nicely without the most of their plot, while old timers will recall Naunton
one.
raw
My summing up is as follows. Wayne of the old variety days. Ivan is quite a good fighter and Barbara Murray and Carole received a very
deal. Lesley supply the glamour. Amok, a dirty Aghter, had more than a streak of puppy in him. It is far warmer than I thought in central Asia judging from the amount of clothes the girls dance in.
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the "big top" which takes TREATHLESS (A Bout in time to perform for your D. de Souffle) (Roxy & amusement and entertain- Majestic), What is it about ment, some of the most this film which sets it in a spectacular circus acts now class of its own? taking place in Europe.
One can Imagine the modern enfant terrible. sitting in the
In
A truly superb production, and one you must not miss.
NEW FILMS AT A GLANCE
SHOWING
QUEEN'S - ROYAL-STATE: Ivan the Conqueror." East- man Colour and TotalScope spectacular concerning A tead between two savage tribes, feudal subsidiaries of the Great Khan. Ed Fury, Elaine Stewart, and Bella Cortez. KING'S &
rounding the expoits of Bri- tish Army Hfe and loves. Donald Sinden and Barbará
GALA: "Pride
Murray.
HOOVER
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and
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Теп
Days to Tulara," High-Jinks in the South American jungle, involving 2 "Iramel"
pilot qui Els escape from a murder gang. Sterling Hayden LEE & PRINCESS: "Operation Bullshine," Comedy sure
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BOYAL
STATE: On the Double." Zany story in which Dan- ny Kaye impersonates a Bri- tish Officer and becomes
·Involved" in a
Tough antif
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In Eastman Colour, "Enfant. Filmed this picture carries along a Sirtes, "Here'ska) poignant drama iti a kind of macic right on the nose for the
alled best "broken hearted clown"- tradi- equares.
(designed and tiam.
This is Ufe, life as it really is.fedrag Audience, Among the sets
acts which bold And here is the cardinal rule of
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