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This is the CHALLENGE!

Commencing

TODAY

AT 2.30, 530, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

and here is the answer of the FBI!

Wherever law and ordar break down the FBI moves in for the counter-attack!"

Here is the story of that counter-attack on The Street With No Name.

Mark Siavone in starred with tchard Whistuark.

who scored a sensation as the laughing killer to Klas of Death. "Llayd Nolan and Darbaso Lowience

Tread the textured casu

Produɛnd with this complete compeintion of the FBI Water Winchell quotes ¦ Edgar Honest as saying

The Suwar With No Name in evan better than

The House On 92nd Street

THE STREET WITH NO NAME

"WILLIAM REHİNLEYE, NAAMLA SAMUELLE, ENGEL

ADDED: LATEST FOX MOVIETONE NEWS. "NEWSREEL HISTORY OF 1949"

(FREE CAR PARK FOR PATRONS) SHOWING TODAY

4 SHOWS AT 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.20 P.M.

ONE OF THE BEST FILMS OF THE YEAR!

LONDON FILMS PRESENT

•

Emlyn Edith Evans Williams "THE LAST DAYS

OF DOLWYN"

Written and directed by Emiyn Wilkams Produced by Amtole de Grunwald

DAME EDITH EVÁNS D.B.E. SELECTED AS THE BEST ACTRESS OF THE WORLD'S SCREEN, 1949, FOR HER WORK IN THIS FILM!

COMING ATTRACTION

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TAKE ANY EASTERN TRAM CAR OB HAPPY VALLEY BUS *Showing Today: 2.30, 5:15, 7.20 & 9,30) P.M. SEE DANNY KAYE AT HIS MERRIEST MADCAP EES

SAMBEL GOLDWYN

VË, PRESENTS

DANNY KAYE VIRGINIA MAYO

SONG IS BORK

TECHNICOLOR

M168 PAI KWANG Prelude to revolt

Historical

drama to the Kings

CINEMA WORLD

Alcott's novel on

the screen

Rating: *

A fine motion picture is be- ing offered this week-end al the Cheen's and Alhambra Theatres with the showing of {M-G-M*s star-studded pic- turisation of "Little Women."

Read by millions, the Lóniša May Alett story of a happy little family has been brought to life in celluloid terms en hanced by Technkolor und 11- -Juminated with curt-warming

portrayals.

Produser-director Mervyn Le Hoy has taken no Uberties with this time-tested story and it is all there on the screen just as 1 is the book We meet the devoted, elt-knit Murch family ...METHIN 1'apa March, high- spirited! Jo. little Beth, Amy, Meg and despotte Aunt March, and we also meet Laurie and his for- bidding other, Professor Bhner, John Baske, ok! Dr. Barnes ny! all the others

The days of limppitiess, momenta

"THE STREET WITH NO NAME"

Drawn plus brain

Exciting documentary

stars Richard Widmark

Rating:

of despair, acts of courage and Just as British film producers are unbeatable in

A story of violence, intrigue and double-cross culminating in the traple emotions of a lover's Macrifice, 13 the Essence

nge Women." "Stange

Great Wall production which opens tomoI TOW at the King's Theatre. The drama is set in the period prior to the generosity, the far-Bung ambl- Instorie revolution of 1020 in tons of the little women, Laul

the beautifu romantic infatuations and dènoue- Peking, and MATH

Los Pal

ments, Jo's determination to be- Kwan metress

It moana even if The xtury i

sparked by thecome a wiler

fu fate from escape of La Chien, which starts being an old muld

which she ultimately suved by off FL manhunt Ted by Colone

Professor Bhaer). Beth's trag Feng involving a young physician Dr laang, who, in collaboration death, Amy's marriage to Laurie the rebel Turves, helps 1. and Megs to John Brooke-all go WITH

In which assistance of his girl to make up e pattern with the

hotti Ju and laughter have friend. "Fragrant Stream.

their share in u denma of youth Colonel Feng is annoyed over

and kive. Fragrant Steam's contempt for attention to her and being bank lendy.

if both expens

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Ji

this exp

Pingrani

and Dickensian prosenting Shakespearian dramas on the screen, so Hollywood may well well pride itself in its adept handling of so-

which colled documentarios,

are gradually odging out Western movies in box-office op- pool,

to

ability Federal 3

agent's The latest of these documwn- tarles to be shown here Fox's handle a gun, and sincere port. "The Street With No Name,rayals of their characters by an

excellent supporting cast. this week-end al which opens

Witmark plays the Every member of the discern- the Roxy and Broadway Theatres

modern Veties helf at ingly-chosen cast fils his and and stars Amorica's intest Bud

Widmark, besides gangster, who has probably don her part like a glove. June Aily-Boy, Richard

a stretch in the armed forces and Stream and her lover Dr. Liaison is perfectly suited to the Mark Stevens and Lloyd Nolun.

know more about organisation The story is little drawn-out role of the tomboyish Jo, who

This man

Widmark, with the that his competent pre-war col- with halogue stretching to the sacrifices her lovely hair in order

a comparative-to extreme to cover

provide Marmee with the high forehead, intense eyes and league did, Al Capone not with-

dominates "The standing. ly simple plot To cinema fans, money to visit their.

wounded creepy laugh. soldier-father, foreign to Chinese fin techni-

on-Street With No Name" us he did who defies con-

His system, as he says himself. quam alit beting. "Strange Wo-vention, loses her beloved Laurio "Road House" and, to a certain

and but enrts up with both husband extensYellow Sky." On the almost foolproof, and it la up

and

strength of his performance alone to Federal agent Mark Stevens Peter Lawford G career. at times even gripping.

intricate system tha' the Roxy tare and the we 'recommend "Fragrant Ax

Stream," Pai

offers a

Lourie, Kwang is of her best, her beauty impetuous

Margaret and charth gracing the screen to O'Brien in n touching tle Both, other credits to its name.

Elizabeth Taylor sparkles as tho Kive colour to the role.

Yen Chun, another of Chinn's radiant Any. Janet Leigh lends the lustful ulet dignity to the part of Meg.

eldest of the girls.

Stars

"

be entertaing

"

Iza

| Colonel Feng the Charles Laughton style. Kung Chiu-hsia,

*1

as the suffering wife of the re- volutionary martyr, Dr. L18 KIVEN B well-balanced perform- atice its a supporting role. The bold disregard for historical ex actitude by the producer is notice- "ଏ able as many times amusing. For instance, in n 1020 setting. the "Strange Woman" rider in 1046 Buick. The Bim, although nat cumpacable to former Great Wall productions such As "Souls of China" or "Forgotten Woman," stull pleasing piece of enter- tainment.

HOLLYWOOD GOSSIP

Tyrone Power has returned to bride. the US. with his new They ind a house first and then Tyrone will read- scripts. He has made two period and costume epies abroad and we think he'd like to wear is British tweeds for a whic,

Ida Lupino, now a director us well as a top actress, and one of the bosses The Fitmakers, the company formed by herself and her husband, does her work at Malibu, drives down the hill past my house every morning on her way to the beach. She finds that she can work without disturbance away from a telophone,

there, Her first production, "Not Want- ed." is a success, and Ida and Co. will take a small fortune out of R. (A small fortune is anything less than $1,000,000.)

aclik portrayal of highly, although the picture has constitutes the FBI, to crack the

Quiz Wiz

Congratulations are due to Mr. Li Kwok (Kenneth) Bin for being the only' all-ostract tha "Lucky contestant In Star" quiz competition in the December leue-of-the tiong

Film Kong

and Theatre Newa. He thus becomes" the< first one to win that popular /$180 magazine's monthly

mèdical. prize. Mr.. £l, a student at the Hong Kong University, atatea ha' has al- wayn bean Interested in movies. His favourite, stars aro Ava Gardner and Tyrone

Power.

Cathay MAJESTIC

*5 SHOWS TODAY •

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*4 SHOWS TODAY:"" At 2.30, 5.00

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"One of the greatest pictures

sonDaman Bunyod

Charlie

Chaplin

The Creat DICTATOR

They are a strong plot-the FBI's fight against the revival of Kangsterism in post-war U.S.-- an interesting demonstration of

Western film starts at the Lee

Rating: ⚫.

Rod Cameron tops the cast of Republic's new saga of the early. West, "Brimstone," coming to the Lee Theatre.

Telling of a murderous chapter In the history of the early Awer- man cattle, country, "Brimstone," filmed in Trucolor, is a picture that will please, most movie fans who like fast action, tough talk and tender romance,

1

Starring Cameron, Adrian Booth and/Walter Brennan, and produced and directed by Joseph Kane, Brimstone", is the story of Pop Courteen and his three fine- gada cons. (They once had; owned the biggest cattle hard in the Oklahoma territory, but with the coming, of small ranchers, and homesteaders, their range was cut up and their fortune dispersert.

Nursing a grudge agalast, the world the Courteens set out to become the most murderous vill aina:ever to ravago the old West.

1

Cameron, a U.S./Mhrshat who disguises himself as z black- hoodeil'night rider in order to ac complish his dim, Inally brings the Courtechs to justice.

enge.

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