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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1949.
"They'll fetch 2s. 9d. a lb. anywhore."
London Express Service
W
Here
is ONE market for
British films
From Milton Shulman: Toronto
THEN both Hollywood Before the war a British film and London are pre. over here had about on much curlosity value as a Ubangi na- maturely digging the five in a circus. They earned grave of the British film in- about £100 to £150 each and dustry, it is refreshing to were forgotten the moment the discover at least one market cinema lights went out.
Now Brilsh films like Hamlet where the bells are not yet and Red Shoes are discussed
being tolled.
everywhere, and they will carn as mucia as such record-breaking
and
For in Canada British Alms are today more popu- box-office American successes as lar, earning more money and Best Years of Our Lives
Gone With the Wind. gaining more prestige than Both of these pletures should ever in their history.
earn for Britain over £30,000
Not only are they being each in Canadian dollars, and it shown at the small specialized is expected. Unt Quartet and houses which exhibit only foreign Blue Lagoon will net almost as Aims, but there are now 116 much. Odeon cinemas-some of them as luxurious and spacious as any- thing in the West End-which ean compote on even terms with the best cinemas associated with the large American companies.
Because THE GREATEST STORY
of EVE
The Story Life
Filmed with all-Star Hollywood Cast!
with the co-operation of the University of California, West Coast Health & Welfare Organisation.
A Picture that Answer all the Questions About the
TRUE FACTS OF LIFE
Segregated Audiences
(ADULTS ONLY)
THEN
came more long days of talk and ex- planation to IIis first five disciples. In those be- ginning days Jesus took time to get acquainted with the hard, Jogical Andrew; the thoughtful, almost the cynical Nathanael; enger, goodhearted Philip, and the always loyal, but explosive, quick - tempered Peter, They at John must be taught slowly, moulded to work together. before to others could be added The company. And all must understand the begin to deeps of the starting ideas they were soon to hear Him preach. These were some of the best and most tranquil days Jesus and His friend were ever to know.
Through tho cool Aweetness of a May morning Jesus led His band of five men down a high- Galileo. They had rund in
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not far beggars
from Nazareth, and curiosity had gathered when a suddenly; ali and the
and
secke:
them,
around
fell shocked silence
movement ceased unclean mob stood
"So Dark the Night" rooted in fear.
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THE SEA HOUND
DAREDEVIL ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN SILVER
BUSTER GRABBE
as Captain Silver
PANELA BLADE A MA. „RALPH HODGES in Isary.
Rich Merchant
EVER
TOLD
CHAPTER SIX OF FULTON OURSLER'S STORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST
the bed and the sick
man around to the back of the house next door. No crowd there Up A narrow flight of steps they carried their burden to the
roof.
A Gaze of Command THEY wanted
So steady has been the in- crease in the earning power of British films since the end of the war that it is expected this will send Britain yeur Canada
net for our
almost $1,000,000 plctures.
THE
More maturo
HE firm base upon which this interest in British films de pends is the 500,000 members of Canada's armed forces who Required table for the British way of life during the war.
They have brought back with them fond and sentimental reminiscences of England and its people which have awakened a new curiosity about British in- stitutions, customs and hopes,
Batish films have also a special to lower the appeal to the teen-age young-
sick man through the open-sters just finishing secondary Ing in the roof, deposit him in school, Graduating from the front of tho Master, and im-cowboy and bubble-gum class of plore His mercy. ALL very plcture-goers, their 1asté touching, but the rate house- swerved from Gene Autry to holder was ready to order them Laurence Olivier.
has
off the premises when the pate, To them British films are more upturned face of Jesus stop-intelligent and more mature than ped him; that glowing gaze the regular Hollywood product, and in their new-found adult-
was full of command;
hway!"
"Vers well, then! Lower himhood they enthusiastically sup
port films like Hamlet, Great They lowered mattress and Expectations and The Fallen dying man, to the flour.
Jesus Idol
looked down at the unmoving |
But in order maintain end
patient. He then bent bealde increase this interest Britain
the dying stranger, laid ean
hands on icy checks,
and must continue to make an ado
stroked the cataleptic eyes quato quantity of good pletures.
He spoke in a profound hush:
Ench bad im that is cont over
"Be good of heart, son! Your here merely does a disscivico to
the cause of all British films. sins are forgiven you."
A buzzing murmur
through
raced
Tho the audience.
Temple agenta now sat up and
Agonising Fato
Kasped. Hero was something INFORTUNATELY
to report to Jerusalem
Cannda
has had to sit through "Blasphemy?" squeaked one. her share of dull and
con
forgive
"Who God alone? Blasphemy!"
No one
British
pictures. sine but adolescent
Films like Stop Press Girl, The replied as the dread Perfect Woman, Poets Pub, Wo- by death, man in the Hall, Esther Waters charge, punishable
and echoed in the have not only met an agonising pounded room. Jesus was still bending fate at the box-office but they have disillusioned audiences that over the sick man HEALING THE SICK
"What is it," He asked, fac- have come to look forward to a stimulating ing the
men from the Temple, British picture as a stim RICH and powerful magnate A C
The ex-isherman thanks, the blind could see the "that you think in your hearts and refreshing experience, was dying.
Which up to greet him, and with news. suddenly
Since British films are in con- appeared
did not wait, but rushed back to Master's pleased but perspiring Why do you think evil! among them. His breast was de His son lived!
Jesus. Andrew and face. Others were released and in easier to cay: your sins are atant and vigorous competition "Praise God?" At what hour fetch corated with a pendant disk
forgiven you or arise! Take up with Hollywood in this market, Nathannel in their ecstasy cried out: James, blue did he get better?"
Britain cannot afford with watery covered
your bed and walk?" blue
"You Are The Son of God," opals, and "Yesterday at the seventh stood in the doorway as Jesus
He patted the checks of the courage these recently won au- aquamarines, black
passed
in and went directly to
until then... could diences who Through the emeraids,
path hour, the fever left him".
the bed
First Clash and touched they instantly opened for him
At the seventh hour! That, mother-in-law's band. the nobleman strode forward.
the turned away from Him, hosule
hum: bewildered air,
-
was
had told
and John
the Sha
not knowing clashed
T was on His return
pernaum
with the
public
But as the crowd peeked and as the father knew, turned their heads, they obser- exact hour when the carpenter at first, then looked back with a
from Nazareth ved that the stranger's face was pale kis eyes Tials1 words were incredibly humble.
"I have heard," he
yout
is "Your son lives"
cars
u master
under
man
to dis
not move but only feel his Canada sece over 300 pictures Then Jesus whis- ja year, Britain can continue to to Ca- great pain. that Ho Brat pered slowly and deliberately: earn between a million and a
But
may know million and a quarter Canadian
were
the mastor
stant.
that you
"Thanks be to God!"
Pregnant Words
Foot in door. siderations
financial
that
con-
how to account for the faztent authorities. They were agents tha the Son of Man has power dollars annually if she can sup- sins, get ply 10 percent of this requires change in herself. Until then from the Jerusalem Tempte, on earth to forgive
1 say to you, urise! Tako ment she hadn't thought much about sent down to make an official Up!
bud and go to your your
But that means 30 quality plc- Master Stroke began
Jesus She had been sick. report on the wonder-worker.
house,"
tures-not merely 30 hackneyed, without paricy, "strange reporta
Now she was well Strong Jesus had entered a private
Everything seemed to stand second rate imitations of inferior ot of
carpenter
THIS healing was
and enough to get out of bed and home
sat in an upper stroke. It axed the attention minister to all six of them.
for one breathless In-American films. Nazareth. There is a tale of a
room, answering questions from still
They do not all have to be fountain of wine you caused to
Then in sight of all the of the whole region on Jesus,
The of scholars, group By sunset of that same day a of it as He Everybody heard spring up at Cana, And in
here, immovable man began to move. expensive productions like Ham- by the whole town heard about it Tempte agents
speechless man spoke. lot and Red Shoes but they must other tale, which has gone be returned to the metropolis
house of throngs of
Peter was too; they had orders to follow The first sound
was a great at least have the appeal and in- Jake, fore you, of how you read the the
people and the
The narrow streets Him everywhere and miss noth-
anonvulsion of telligence of Passport to Pimlico, mind of a disreputable woman were frantic to see and hear mubbed.
Suddenly, pverhead, they sob of notief,
that shook Such reports Him. At once He was Invite Exfore it and behind, the alleys ing. nt Jacob's well.
his whole Blue Lagoon, The Winslow Boy Struggling up and Whiskey Galore, despairing to make a series of public talks, and the broader highways were all heard a disturbance. Much loy have given mne, &
wasted frame. the of I need help, man, hope.
1 Crowds packed the rectangular choked with sick people. They annoyed, come from Capernaum, my son Capernaum synagogue with its hobbled on crutches and crawl- house dimbed up to the roof, to one elbow, he cried:
he found there was 0 What knres; old
men Is there very ill. Please come illicit Corinthian pilars; they et on their
and four soNTO, words, but were toted on the shoulders of family, a wife 10 His down and heal my son, for he is hung on
their
and old cocked for
women carrying a father, deathly 1.7.
should with
song ut the point of death."
many "Unless you
The sick man's wife pleaded TUTE sick man put his palms on see signs end error.
And sophistry! These cradled in the arms of husbandis
the earthen Coor, forced prompt Britain's desire to show In and who
their with the outraged householder. staggered and merchants wonders, you believe not," Jesus fishermen
to stand up, stood British pictures in Canada, hastened and Her oged husband had caught a himself replied with a testing glance workmen were well Instructed weight; children
moment, and a country that is flooded with at the rich man.
in Moses and the prophets,
in his soothed by mothers and fathers, strange disease; without worn- kwaying for a woeping ing his whole body had lost he then
new American radio, American mags all they
Came clamouring H
and did zincs,
American goods and And
Capernaum Some had
or sen- strength, bent over In there
pains and fevers, power deeds performed
for an intense as he had been bidden: he Hit-American television, British fibns sation except bolls and cancers and leprots internal suffering, They said, ed up his bed and walked out are one of the few mediums left. public still further increased
sores; minds that were like the
to further Canada's understand- llis eyes; this His fame.
stables of wild creatures, full of the wife and the sons, who had of the house.
the sick man. Ca- And Jesus smilingly waved ing and appreciation Peter mother-in-law felt lust and hate and blood first, carried
that no doctor in His hand in farewell to the British way of life. paralysis. More, they knew raced after the man Ho had the future of the alm industry that the old man's death must healed.
The crowds were breaking any drastic curtailment in the soon follow,
up in Jabbering confusion production of British films will That was why, in despera- But the doctors of the law and be bound to jeopardise Britain's in Canada and other None of the weird prescrip
distance here. dled in a corner and put their parts of the Empire Just as she they stik could heads together. Tho Son of is beginning for the first time. another word he turned and tions of the physiclons bad with a solemn face but with a Once arrived,
The human * Man? a not get to Jesus.
From where did Ho even Peler's mother; with outstretched arins #ailer helped
all bright expression,
Aht One of to have her foot firmly wedged the crush around for efflezcites
in the open door. a path for himself through the medicines
against chuckle. especially
the synagogue get that phrase?
The pro-
can Good British films
be too dense; no one, them remembered. Not one was eit had been crowd and ran down the open fever had failed to still the ris youngsters.
Daniel had used the much more than just an asset on- ing fre in the old woman's with boil, or fever, or sptech- idk or well, would give way phot
the dollar side of an interna- Later He entered samo pregnant words. The next day, as the ruler velns.
less mouth. The cripples were for them.
of a friend and sat
tional ledger." was still making his way down When Simon returned home, umerippled, the hunchback now this house
TO BE CONTINUED the sleep roads to Capernaum, his mother-in-law was much had a straight spine, the dumb talking with them in an upper
TOMORROW' and shout Telt ho was inet by servants coming worse; Ater
speak she could
"Lord, come down before my
the father. more "pleaded son dies." breaking into sobs.
Jesus closed man's tears were real, He spoke:
"Go your way! lives."
Your
Softly
in
of movement
of the
seriously, with glaze over They were crippled and hump- pernaum, know how to cure relatives upstairs before they In the current discussions on son the eyes, dryness in the throat, backed and blind, they were Gailee
checks flushed, forehead burn- dumb and tongue-iled.
Dubious Disciples
As the rich man
Inga painful agony of lever.
It was an epidemic illness, that looked up, fever, often prevalent in the there was no doubt, but low country after the first rolos only hope in his face. His eyes of autumn. spoke his gratitude as without
road
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PON them all, one after
It should be remembered that
other Jesus tald firm, cool ilon, they had luffed the sick the agents from Jerusalem hud-position
them, not. man a weary
hands. He blessed
hla room.
So the pilgrims drugged
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