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JAMES STEWART AND CULPRITS -----Afurder—was only Academic----

Hitchcock's "Rope"

".

Clever Murder Thriller, Starting

Alsting:

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"Rope," starting today simultaneously at the King's and Lee Theatres, is a thriller in the best Alfred Hitchcock tradition that should please a variety of cinema' audiences—from the intellectuals who enjoy nothing better than a six-syllable word, to the blood-thirsty murder story fan. In "Rope,” however, there is very little blood, but there is more than an ample dose of suspense,

Starring James Stewart, the picture is a highbrow murder story, cleverly presented and excel- fently executed by a comparatively unknown cost. Stewart and Sir Cedric Hardwicke ore the only well known actors, although Forley Gronger was seen in "Enchantment" opposite Evelyn Keyes.

the

suave

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1948.

CINEMA WORLD

Vaudeville MGM's Secret Land"

Makes A Come-Back

Rating: xx

A heretofore untapped facet of the colourful saga of American vaudeville comes to the screen of the Roxy Theatre

this week-end with the open ing of "Give my Regards to Broadway." starring Dan

Dalley, and photographed in Technicolor.

and

Motion pictures have often celebrated the glamourous exelling world that was vaude-

ville in its hey-day. The films have Immortalized such headlin- ets as Lillian Russell, Al Jolson, Joe E. Howard, the Dolly Sisters and others who have helped make show business ke по other business on earth.

the

Thit there was another story

Tells Heroic Story

Of Battle In Arctic

Rating: xxx

Back in the days when Hollywood Boulevard was

a cowpath and some times even today the only requirements for making motion pictures wore, an assortment of horses, six-shooters and Indians,

Scripts

and story plots were strictly spur-of the- moment affairs, with cast, crews, director and intercsted spectators frequently supplying continuity and climax.

English Film Coming To The Lee

Rating: xx

Before

Starring Margaret Lockwood and Griffith Janes with Norman Wooland

Stanley, and Phyllis British picture "Look You Love" opening at the Leo Theatre next week, la; a gay, light-hearted story of rumance and adventure, set against some of the world's most · colourful backgrounds.

Ann decides to take Charles to

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"SUNSET IN THE PACIFIC!-

Ann Markham (Margaret Lock- wood), trusted member of the British Embassy stuff in Rio de Juhlero, meets charming Charles Kent Grifth Jones) when he rescues a dog in a motor accident. Ann'a chief at the Embassy,

Actual Combat Scenes: Mr. Fosser (Maurice Denham) Invasion of South Pacific Islands. makes enquiries which show that Kamikaza Plane Actually Crashing into Aircraft Carrier. Charles Kent is a well known in-

* ALL IN TECHNIÇOLORS! *550 { The Scaret Land." Technicolor sembling and editing this footage ternational crook, wanted by the film released by Metro-Goldwyn was assigned to M-G-M producer police of several countries.

AND LATEST, PARAMOUNT] AND LATEST GAUMONT

NEWS at the KING'S: BRITISH NEWS at the LEE: yet to be told, the one that start-Mayer and week-end attraction O. 0. Dull and film editor Fre-

Queen's and Alhambra derick Y. Smith working in co-England, the only country where "Crippling Dock Strikes," "120 Finals of the Wimbledon ed in that day in 1938 when at the the Palace Theatre rang down Theatres, with narration by Ro-operation with Navy authorities. has по criminal record. Cyclists

The exelting and highly informa- Crossing on

Begin Grueling" Fleet Rendy

Championships, Western Union an Atlantic ner,

for Exerciso, tive commentary

Morehouse Tour De France," "Automatic Camera Records Beauty at the was provided they meel Ashley Captain Harvey S. Halslip, (Norman

Wooland), millionaire Drive in Hamburgers-A La Thames, A Day by the Sea for USN (Ret.) and Commander Wit- motor manufacturer. Ann cul Push Button," Ham C. Park, USNR.

etc., etc.

Disabled -Men, etc., etc. tivates his friendship to ask him

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW What comes out of the astro- for a job for her husband. nomical footage is 70 minutes of arles

accom. entertainment and adventure that (Phyllis Stanley) who gives him of his. Bettina Colby Cast of "The Secret Land," 100 could never have been conceived certain information about Ashley, per cent amateur, are "Men and on a typewriter or filmed дпу

He decides that blackmail is on Ships of the US Navy," the where but on the spot, 4,000 hanit-pleked men who sall-

even casier

to Ashley's including way es with Admiral Richard E. Byrd

has grown "The Secret money. Ashley, who

on condition that he gets out of Series and on his recen, South Pole expedi-Laud include thrilling rescues at fond of Ann agrees to pay Charles Special. Technicolor Adventure Including Ugh. The "heavy" of the film is sea in the killing sub-zero waters. Ann's life. Charles does so and phony Orchestra. ville was only 80 years, but dur

when Mother ing that time it made a forceful Mother impression as can form of entertainment,"

the curtain on its last act, and bert Taylor and Van Heflin, was produced under 1607 "cowpath' death

for vaudeville; prod knell

by or conditions. Yet, the entire film, was sounded.

It is the story ter

Regards To packed with drama, humour and teld in "Give My

nily action, was Almert without screen family Broadway." the story of

and without cinematic of troupers who persist in living play

Ba direction, thousands of miles In the golden era of vaudeville,

from a Hollywood sound stage. vaudevilly never admitting that

are and whose lives in dearl, wrapped up in the dream of the to "bik time" and a return Broadway where they think they belong.

The actual life span of vaude-

Highlights of

Nature herself,

storms who Arctic

meets o former

a purely Ameri-emerges as quite a meanie from Nature out-karloffs Karlon to collects the money, after he has

In the days before sound ple- Impressive is John Dall as; his philosophy, for Dall not only

tures, the ultimate objective for any two-a-day entertainer was domineerint believes that murder is the ex- and

not to wind up together | elusive right reserved for super-

In Hollywood, undergraduate who,

but rather 10 next to

be

to closing men unly, but that the act of with Granger, plans and com-

Paluce bill. For it mits a murder because his pet killing those who serve no log act on the theory

was here that such names as Eva is that

cal purpose in this world should such Kentle

Tanguny, Eddie Foy, Joe Jack. not be performed without sitting pastimes are reserved for a

eremonial rites.

son, Nora Bayes, Anna Held and type of superior men only, of

Gus Edwards triumphed. Being which he und Granger are After Dali and Granger have booked at the Palace on Broad- members by their own choice, ¡ strangled their victim and hil

way, in any spot on the bill, was the dream of thousands of troup-

Stewart plays

the old prep school tencher who Brst injected this exclusive murder philosophy into Dall and Granger. When he accepts an invitation to dine with his former pupils, he has no idea that he is about to he witness to a gruesome climax to

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den the body in a chest, they add a touch of the ghastly by serving a buffet-dinner to the victim's father (Sir Cedric Hard- Typical of these was "Albert wicke), sweetheart (Joan Chan | The Great & Family"daf, dler), unsuccessful rival (Douglas mother, the two girls, and the Dick) and Stewart, off the chest. boy, Ber-portrayed In "Give

My Regards to

to Broadway" Charies Jane Nigh Winninger. Fay Bainter, Tarhan Dailey. Their act was a lively mixture of dancing, sing- ing. juggling and comedy capers, and they actually did get to play at the Palace-not top billing, but still the Palace.

Granger, evidently the weaker- willed of the two supermen, soon realises that murder isn't a ver; lasty appetisen Buy Dall is a hard character whose manner- a punch in the nose. isms invite Ile carries the party along at an eeric pace and, apart from the corpse who isn't in

any condi fion to care,

the only one Thoroughly enjoying himself unt!! he finds out that Stewart's en- storsement of murder was unty academic,

The whole picture is inter- spersed with clever dialogue, and the suspense is heightened by total absence of incidental music: pauses are covered up by back- ground conversation.

of

In shooting "Rope," Hitchcock introduced a novel method photographing they heightens the cinema-goer's interest. There is

not a single cut in the film i was shot on one set, in solid 10- minute reels, and the end of each reel dissolves into the beginning of the next. The result is a smooth flow of action that builds jension all its own and makes "Rope" a vivid and rare motion picture,

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given Ann a divorce.

become a howling maniac; plane crash and thrilling escape

"Look Before You Love," Marine, Coast Guard

Photographers (Army, Navy, on the frozen wastes; and, for carrying its moral in the title, is and Air contrast the ship-board humour a fairly enjoyable show, which Force) shot 500,000 feet of colour of Uncle Sam's sea-dogs.

some may regard as just so much Alm. The gigantic

more make-belleve. It should, "The Secret Land" is a realis-on the contrary, be taken us tie picture, worth your money intimely lesson-by today's world

task of ns-

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The Family - Rehearsed -----

Dad blamed the "ull" in vaudeville on the cinema: took joh as stock clerk in an in- dustrial plant-just "between en- gagements, mind you-and con- fidently held daily rehearsals of Charles Winninger, the family act for the great day, old timer, who completely steals just around the corner, when the show. Fay Bainter is at her vaudeville would come back big- usual best, while the rest of the per than ever before.

that affable

east try their hardest, and suc- weed fairly well in their attempt

Although Dan Daley, is billed to make the picture enjoyable as the star of the show, it is entertainment.

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