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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1949,

SHOWING

TODAY

QUEEN'S

AT 2.30, 5.15

7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

E-COLAIYID MT. 13

FIVE GREAT STARS IN A DARING DRAMA OF LOVE AND ADVENTURE.

CINEMA WORLD

Spell Of The Sea

ROBERY TAYLOR

AVA CARDBER CHARLES LAUGHTOR

Tale Of Romance,

VINCENT PRICE JOHN RODIAK

BRIST

ENSKT Z. LENKATO

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Showing Today: At 2.30, 5.15, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. FOR 5 YEARS RADIO'S TOP FAMILY SHOW! NOW....THE FUNNIEST FAMILY IN FILMS!

You haven't LAUGHED until you've LIVED..

72 LIFE OF RILEY

"RADIO'S

RIOTOUS RILEYS NOW ON THE SCREEN!

WILLIAM BENDIX

An IRTING BRECHER Production RILEY

JAMES GLEASON ROSEMARY DeCAMP-BILL GOODWIN BEULAH BONDI REG RANDALL + RICHARD LONG and "DIGGER O'DELL" written and Durcted by lawing Brecher & UNIVERSAL-İNTERNATIONAL PICTURE

Based on the hit vadio show. "THE LIFE OF RILEY"

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KING OF THE JUNGLE

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DON MCGUIRE (as Congo Bill

FIRST BUN IN COLONY

Due At The Roxy

Rating

A turbulent story of romance and of the fearful spell of the sea on the lives of those who live by it, is told with excitement in "Deep Waters," the new 20th Century-Fox picture which opens at the Roxy Theatre on Sunday, The film brings to screen life Ruth Moore's widely acclaimed best-seller, "Spoonhandle," with Dana Andrews providing an exceptional port- rayal as Hod Stillwell, while Jean Peters is equally outstanding in the role of Sann Free-

man:

ANN BLYTH .Marriage and Widowhood

Wages Of

Sin Are Ann Blyth

is

Rating: **

An exposition of the tenet that the wages of sin can be death

offered by "A Woman's Vengence," starring Charles Boyer, Universal-In- ternational

on Sunday at the King's Theatre.

Director Herry King photo- graphed "Deep Waters" against the natural rugged grandeur of the Maine seacoast, and the pic- ture is suffused with a salty tang and the surge and beauty of the sea that serves to underscore this drama of sharp conflicts.

young

g

who

The Alm concerts itself with the

Hod Stillwell, story of

lobster-fisherman can't be torn from his life at sea, even for the love of Ann who insists he pursue a less dan- gerous means of earning a living. Complications set in with the ap pearance of an orphan boy who Danny, becomes Ann's charge.

the boy, is inevitably attracted by the sea, and-just as inevit- ably-he becomes the symbol of the conflict between Hod and the col Ann.

The drama is swept along in Hod's battle with his instinct for

AVA GARDNER and ROBERT TAYLOR

A New Romantic Team

MGM Melodrama

Showing At Queen's

Rating:

adventure, and in Ann's attempt A brooding atmosphere of mystery and suspense

to meet the challenge of the sea. With their romance and Danny's happinees at stake, the Bilan reaches а stirring climax as powerful as it is truly unusual

:

forms the background for a romance between Robert Taylor and Ava Gardner in "The Bribe," M-G-M drame now at the Queen's Theatre.

Fed Stillwell is one of Dana Laid in a picturesque island fishing village off the

Andrews finest portrayals to

date. Andrews has captured

coast of Central America, with its pivota! characters a U.S. Government agent and a girl whom he suspects of being a member of a. 'gang of swindlers, the film is a tense-

though at times tedious story.

every facet of the rugged char- acter and indomitable

: spirit of the young fisherman, and reflects them in a manner that is bot forceful and convincing, Jean | Peters fulfills the promise she displayed im "Captain From Castile," with а performance

Į that is richly rewarding in every

respect.

Cesar Romero appears as Hod's partner who dreams of quitting the sea and retiring to a farm Dean Stockwell, is the misunder- stood orphan, Danny, while Anne Revere

stern guardian.

appears, as

his

picture opening COMEDY AT

THE 'LEE

Boyer plays an English country gentleman in the Aldous Huxley story, a classic of. contemporary British literature, whose unhappy

Rating: * *

The plot weaves its mystery, wit not only Riby but also each romantic motivations and sur- other are typical Hollywood film price climax into a creditable fare, as is the clima whole, boxese and is lifted Taylee and Miss Gardner forur from the mediocre by the per-on arresting new romantic team, formance of such character ac-and although Miss Gardner has tord as Charles Laughton and more beauty than reting ability. Vincent Price.

she fits the bill perfectly. Laugh- ton and Price are at their usual "bad man's best while John Hodiak is the only one in the film worth scom and pity.

Robert Taylor plays Rigby, yang Government agent assign- ed to find evidence that will track down a gang of swindlers who deal in surplus airplane mo-

(John

the

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"The Bribe" is at times rather (slow-moving, although this should It is be whose honour and not deter thrill-loving fans from integrity are challenged when be seeing the picture. falls desperately in love with Elizabeth (Ava Gardner), enter- tainer in a cheap local cafe. Also involved Laughs and pathos are in-husband are Elizabeth's alcoholic Hodiak), the marriage to a shrewish invalid is termingled in The Latest Laughton)

and swinish Beale (Charles ended by her death in circum-Riley," which tells an honest

and the seemingly stances indicating murder by story of the

respectable, oil man, Carwood tribulations and Vincent Price). Poisons

Tried in old Bailey, central eri-

spirited struggles of an Amer-

The intrigues by which minal court of London, he is con-ican family living in the $60- various swindlers attempt to out- victed by an imposing array of a-week income bracket circumstantial evidence and sen- Riley, a riveter in an aircraft

ing but to bang

plant, brands himself a complete } the indiscretions of his re-failure when he cannot pay his ckless part, including a clandes- house rent When his landlady tine romance with a pretty young decides to sell the house in which shop-girl, are arrayed against the Rileys live, things look black him by an inflexible prosecution. indeed for the riveter's family, Friends and servants turn against Riley's daughter plans to marry him until there remains only the the wealthy and nere-do-wel family physician unconvinced of son of Riley's employer instead his guilt.

of the boy she loves, in order to help her father out of the pre- dicament

Boyer turns in a fascinating study of a man who comes to ac- cept an unjust death as punish- The Riley girl's sacrifice, al- rent not for the crime of which most occurs at a brilliant wed- he is accused but as a retribution ding when Elley's son, Junion, for his life's mistakes.

belps his father cover some Ann Blyth one of the best of skullduggery which saves Miss Hollywood's younger emotional Riley from a bad match, rewards actresses, is seen as Boyer's shop Riley with substantial financial girl sweetheart and later his wife, help and gives him a promotion whose marriage opens with cru- at the plant, saving the home.. shing tragedy with fate pushing her toward simultaneous mother- hood and widowhood

Sir Cedric Hardwicke, as the family doctor who refuses to ac-

cept Boyer's guilt, is magnificent

in a

role.

finely-keyed, undirplayed

Jessica Tandy as the frustrated spinster with the fury of a woman scorned will be remembered for her portrayal of muzizcal revenge on the loose.

The picture was directed and produced by Zoltan Korda from Huxley's screenplay.

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“A THOUSAND &'ONE NIGHT"