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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1950.

KING'S

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SHOWING TODAY

At 2.30, 5.15, 7.20 & 9.30 P.M.

ACADEMY AWARD

WINNER

OF 1949

kiss by kiss...

he was the...

blow by blow...

CHAMPION

Son Parys Chy perronta-

CINEMA WORLD

EDWARD G. ROBINBON and RICHARD CONTE

Collateral Bah!

IVA Drama opening at

KIRK DOUGLAS

in Ring Lardner's

"CHAMPION"

Catering

MARILYN MAXWELL. ARTHUR KENNEDY With PAUL STEWART • BUTS NOMAH - LOLA ALBRIGHT Produced by STANLEY XIAMER Art Babari Beillman Dutsetekby Mac) habsen Breenplay by CusƐ Twoman · Raindred incu Valled Actre

ALSO LATEST PARAMOUNT NEWS — FILM ACADEMY AWARDS MADE IN HOLLYWOOD"..."'U.S. sends B-29's

to Britain". etc., etc.

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"MOTION PICTURE"

SUNDAY MORNING SHOW

ROXY AT 11,30 A.M.

M. G. M. Presents "" A VARIETY PROGRAMME OF

COLORED CARTOONS, etc." ÁT REDUCED PRICES

STAR

Phone 58335

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THE STORY

BROADWAY

AT 12 NOON

A Selected Programine 'of

" TECHNICOLOR

CARTOONS",

from two leading Studios: 20th Century Fox & M-G-M

Bring the Children! Bring your Friends!

April 14th. & 15th.

2.30, 10, 7,20 & 9.30 pm.

OF THE BRIDE WHO KISSED...AND

sletter a

Curing Jurymtyre

KILLED!

Bride of Vengeance

· A Paramount Platice staring PAULETTE

MACDONALD

GODDARD LUND CAREY

KA MITCHELL-LEISEN. jrather them.

16th. G. 17th.

THE SUN COMES UPK

néltek MacDonald

Lloyd 'Nolan and Lan

Roxy, Broadway

Rating ***

An entertaining drama featuring some excollont acting by Edward G. Robinson is now at the The title: Roxy and Broadway Theatres. "House of Strangers.”

The performances of the rest of the stars-Susan Hayward, Richard Conte and Leather Adler- rank high on the list of good reasons for the picture's excellence. They bring vividness and colour to their roles and add much excite- ment to the film.

Outdoor Western

opens soon

A startling verisimilitude resulted from the use of italian, spoken by the supporting players who were recruited from the Italian theatre in New York, and

in scenes by filming the street

the heart of Little Italy in New York.

Robinson

Monetti, DS Cina whose heart is as big as his bank- ing methods are unorthodox has another of his hard-hitting roles. Susan Hayward in the role of

Combining scenic beauty Irene Bennet, a smart, flp young

tense action, Warner woman who lives by her wits, with

"Colorado Territory," Lops her performance in "Smash Bros Up" and gives a bright sheen to starring Joel McCrea and Vir- the the picture while Conte, as Gino's ginia Mayo, arrives at favourlie son, Max, greatly adds Queen's shortly. to his star stature with Kul performance.

power-

Rating: **

Midst the towering buttes and Bickering and jealousy between red rock canyons of Western Gino and his sons flares into Colorado, a studio troupe worked hatred when the father is indict- for more than two months to re- ed for violating the banking laws. cord in its natural

setting the Max is the only son who comes

to the aid of his father and his suspenseful tale of a hunted out- efforts only land him in prison, law. Wes McQueen, who fought around that The love affair between Max and to clear his name Irene is also hectic and furnishes territory during its wildest and a vivid contrast to the interne- most romantle two-gun days. cino struggle that comes close to Joel McCrea, 'one of Holly- Director Mankiewicz effective-wood's star portrayers of Western. ly uses the flash-buck, technique action roles, plays the title role In telling this stark, melodrama of the notorious McQueen whilo

lovely Virginia Mayo, equally la

being a vendetta.

Paget,

the story. His cast of supporting home in drawing room or bath- players is good. Paul Valentine, Efrem Zimbalist,

Debra ng sult, takes the colourful Esther Minciotti, Diana of "Colorado" Carson, Ja Douglas, Tito Vunto and Hope ful and fiery frontier waif, paru Emerson are equally effective,

"House of Strangers," a Twen- tieth Century Fox fim, is, melod- rama from beginning to end.

Adult Alm fare.

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AT 2.30, 5.20, 1.20 ✪ 9,20 P.M.

HUNTED... FEARED... BRANDED!

Jonn

Burt

FONTAINE LANCASTER

KISS BLOOD OFF MY HANDS

NEWTON

Indian who falls in love with McCrea and fights by his side in some of his more rugged battles.

Supporting the stars .are Dorothy Malone who plays the Invely Southern girl newly ar- rived, in the territory to seek a new home with her father, play- Jamoa el by lenry Hull, and Mitchell,

Complete with old Spanish towns, the early days of moonli nights, great prairie and moun tain scenery, as well as plenty of Colorado: two-fisted 'fighting'

EXCELLENT BRITISH FILM DUE

Rating:

To the rugged inhabitants of the mythical Hebridean island of Todday, off the Scot- tish coast, the middle of the war brought a calamity "wor- r-rse.than Hitler-r's bombs": there was no more whisky."

Then a U.S.-bound vessel carrying 50,000 cases of Scotch ran oground of Todday's craggy harbour. All that stood between the parched islanders and a joy- ously illegal salvage job was the bumbling Englishman (Basil Rad- ford) who, as the island's Home, Guard captain, felt constrained to enforce the letter of the law.

Out of this excellent iden, which less skilled hands might have reduced to force, the British moviemakers have spun a tight| little comedy VI pure gold, "Whisky Galore," coming to the Lee Theatre.

Filmed entirely in the Hebrides, where the faces are as roughhewn! as the landscapes, Its comedy is rooted in character-both tional and Individual—and nur- tured gently with ingenuity and unfalling good taste.

no-

What its "Whisky Gatore" above its own high mark of in-} sular drollery, and turns its

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【DAILY AT 2.30, 5,30, .

7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

SHOWING TODAY.

HITTING THE SCREEN WITH THE FORCE

OF A RAGING PHOONECOMES:

CAPTAIN CHINA

A trouble ship, a mutinous

*crew, a dangerous woman.. he can handle 'em all!

Linda Christian, woen hero with her film star husband, Tyrone Power, in Manila, in- due to arrive in Hong Kong today by Philippiés Air Lines. She is travelling by herself.

CLEVER WOMEN MAKE EDUCATIONAL

FILMS

A number of brilliant women have made good in Britain in the production of educational films.

Mary Field, of course, is the classic example, and she has now been joined by others whose work has been winning golden

chuckles inio laughs, is its mas at International Film Festivale tery of the visual gag. The ple- "Circulation of the Blood" was ture moves quietly but surely top of its class at Knocke in Bel- until the islanders make a ren- glum, and

and "Growing Girls" and dezvous with the derelict Scolch. "Digestion were first and second Then, in plcturing their celebra- in the physiology section at

at Venice tion, their efforts to hide the loot In Italy. Winifred Holmes direct- from customs ralders and a chose ed the second, and Beryl Denman to rescue the biggest cache of Lacey the other two. At that whisky, the camera goes on an Gaumont British Instructional inspired spree.

Studios (where Mary Field hos estolished a great tradition) Mrs. Lacey hus as colleagues Margaret Simpson, Felicity Kinross, and Thora James, directing films on geography, history and Biology respectively.

Director Mackendrick has some expert alles: the players, besides Radford, include Wylie Watson, Gordon Jackson and Joan Green-¡ wood.

Territory, directed by Betion For

director Raoul Walsh, is a good show.

NEW GOLDWYN PICTURE FILMED

Samuel Goldwyn has signed John Ridgley to play an important featured role in The, Edge of Doom," which stars Dana An- drews, Farley Granger and Joan Evans.

ARTHUR KENNEDY and KIRK DOUGLAS

A study in character

Fast thriller stars Douglas as pug

Rating:

more than 30 years Ring Lardner's short story, "Champion," has remained a challenge to the screen. It has been numbered among the classice labelled "too difficult to handle. Only recently a producer-Stanley Kramer decid-

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ed to take his courage in his hands and trans- fer this remarkably tough, vital story to the screen, with Kirk Douglas in the title role, Arthur Kennedy in the role of his. crippled brother, Connie, and Marilyn Maxwell, Ruth Roman and Lola Albright as the three women in his life. United Artists is releasing the which is now at the King's

Ridgley, last seen in "Task Force" for Warner Bros., will play the role of police detective Alm Phillips, who is instrumental in tracking down Granger who has murdered a Catholic priest.

"The Edge of Doom" is pic turisation of Leo Brady's novel and is directed by Mark Robson,

Theatre.

starring

JOHN

PAYNE

GAIL

RUSSELL

JEFFREY

LYNN

LON

CHANEY

EDGAR

BERGEN

MICHAEL

O'SHEA

ELLEN CORBY ROBERT ARMSTRONG Directed by Lewis R. Foster

Frodoed by William P. Plog #s William C. Thomas

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OPENS TODAY At 2,30, 5.15, 7.20. G‘9.30 P.M. THIS IS THE DAY THEY WERE 'MARRIED'....... !

A MAN

WITH A PRICE

ON HIS HEAD

AND A WOMAN

WITH A PRICE ON HER KISSES

from WARNER BRUS ..

COLORADO

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But frst to last, "Champion" SHOWING TODAY af 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m.

"Champion" is equally good at In a 'chase creating suspense. sequence, when Midge is belog cornered in an empty arena by camera Tensely emotional and cruelly faceless racketeers the realistic, "Champion" tells the movement in and out of the vast story of Midro - Kelly, handsome shadowy bechiva of tunnels. and ruthless, a king among arcades and alates is expertly

afters and a wrecker of other terrifying. peoples lives, in his unrelenting drive to the tpp. The three is a tough-minded, penetrating women in his life, the men who character study which mades pluck him virtually from the Midge neither an inhuman mon- JOAN CAULFIELD gutter and raise him to fame and ster nor a whining victim of

fortune, ure loft forover with the ciretkostonces. It simply focu ZATO MARRY,

mordid bruises caused by contact with this idol of an adoring 30s a hard glare on his unreflec

tive brutality, his arrogance and y Hollywood, April 13.

pubile. No one who knows him his bursts of self-interested de- The Los Angeles Times" sold escapes uninjured,

[concy, · · Much of its punch comes on Wednesday that thelma je jinde actress Joan Caulfield and pro- Champion' is hard and fast from the sensitive performances ducer-director Mr. Frank Rossat alugging the audience. It Is of Arthur Kennedy and Paul Ste- told a reporter they will marry stunningly, photographed and the wart. Its anal wallop it over to. In the new future, bevisste paca dom Mackens; At its Kirk Douglas, who is out every

Mart best in the drht scenes, corner, Kelly's unattractiv Mr. Hos is a former husband

hich are probably the most pug with bulging assurance and of flis star Jean: Arthur REA BRO

iy ballevable event "crombáda-ronviétion. "clated:Presi

MORE SONGS! MORE GIRLS! MORE FUN!

THAN YOU, HAVE EVER DREAMED OF I ITS THE-MUSIC SMASH OF THE SEASON

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